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MINUTES REGULAR PLANNING COMMISSION METING • JULY 7, 1986 PAGE 2 • s The structures have two exits, one window and will be placed on posts on the SCHOOL School site. Mr. Borg presented three options for the placement of the portables. DISTRICT One option is to place the portables on the blacktop on the northeast side of VARIANCE the school building. Mr. Borg advised that he had discussed the placement on (contd.) the blacktop with the Falcon Heights newly appointed principal who felt that there would be enough blacktop left to accommodate the K-5 program. The other two options would be placing the buildings in front of each other or next to each other on the Northwest side of the school building. Finegan questioned the length of time projected for using these portable classrooms to which Borg replied that it may be one year or more and could not give a definite answer. The 86-87 kindergarten enrollment figures will provide further information. Also in the 87-88 school year, the sixth graders will be moved back into the elementary schools and all the elementary schools will then close to capacity. The Legislature also mandated that the school district provide special education for three year olds. Finegan was concerned that approving the use of portables on a temporary basis might turn in to their being there forever--as a case in point he advised that the University of Minnesota used portables in the 1940's and they are still in use. Daykin asked if plans had been made to provide additional parking as there are present parking problems without the K-5 program to which Borg replied that the School District plans to lease up to 30 parking spaces from the church for staff parking. Duncan preferraithe northwest location as it would not take up playground space and not be as visible. Black preferred the northwest location for the same reasons and Mead agreed that would be the least disrputive location. Duncan moved, seconded by Northrup, to approve the variance request to locate two relocatable (portable) classrooms on the Falcon Heights School site. Finegan moved to amend the motion to limit the use of the relocatable classrooms for a two school year period. The motion was seconded by Daykin and approved unanimously. A vote was then taken on the main motion which was unanimously approved. Mead advised that he was concerned that the Falcon Heights School be used for school use and not used as rental for non-school purposes. Discussion ensued on the location of the portables and the need for a variance. Two options would not need variances. The option of placing the portables next to each other on the northwest side of the building would need a variance as it would then mean placement would cause the structures to be within approximately 32 feet of the west property line. After further discussion Mead moved, seconded by Finegan, to recommend placement of the two relocatable (portable) classrooms on the northwest location on the site plan. Upon a vote being taken, the following voted in favor thereof: Daykin, Mead, Finegan, Grittner, Northrup and Duncan, and the following voted against the same: Black. Motion carried. The Planning Commission then reviewed the variance request from David W. Olson, 2061 West Larpenteur, and the changes made to the location of the building on the property. Council Liaison Hard advised that the Falcon Heights City Council had been adamant about maintaining the setback along Larpenteur, eliminating the handicapped parking proposed in the back of the building and assuring a distinction between city parking and parking for the new building. Hard advised that landswapping provided for the setback as well as provided for consistency in landscaping, lawn mowing and signing. The signing would be VARIANCE REQUEST FROM DAVID W. OLSON, 2061 WEST LARPENTEUR APPROVED