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• MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION P~IEETING r1AY 4, 1987 Chairman Black called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M. Black, Mead, Finegan, Grinner, Duncan, Daykin and Boche. Also present PRESENT was Council Liaison Wallin. ABSENT Nestingen and Northrup. Duncan moved, seconded by Daykin, to approve the April 6, 1987 Planning APRIL 6, Commission Minutes as presented. Motion carried unanimously. 1987 MINUTES Francis Crowley, 1769 Snelling, requested a variance to construct a circle APPROVED drive with two driveways. Mr. Crowley indicated that several years ago he obtained permission for a circle drive at the time of home construction but FRANCIS did not install same for financial reasons. He again contacted the MN CROWLEY, Department of Transportation and furnished an approved copy of an access 1769 driveway or entrance permit granted on April 16, 1987. The reason for the SNELLING request is for movement of cars on the property and safety (backing onto VARIANCE Snelling). No parking will be allowed along Snelling after construction APPROVED completion. Finegan stated that he felt the request was reasonable and did not have a negative affect upon the neighborhood and then moved granting the variance request. The motion was seconded by Boche and approved. • Duncan voted against the motion. Gerald McNabb, 1369 West Idaho, requested a variance to replace the existing VARIANCE garage with a two car garage, such structure to be approximately two feet FOR from the lot line and in line with the neighbor's .garage. The new garage GERALD will lie 24"x 24' in size. The proposed garage fits into the type of garages MCNABB in the area. After a brief discussion, Grittner moved, seconded by Mead, 1369 W. to approve the variance request as proposed. Motion carried unanimously. IDAHO APPROVED Mr. Kaupp, representing SuperAmerica, presented his conditional use request • to completely rebuild the property at 1350 West Larpenteur Avenue. The KAUPP present structure will be dismantled and replaced with a proposed 36' x 68' REPRESENTS building of masonry and brick construction. He presented pictures of other SUPER SuperAmerica stations to give Commission Members an idea of the type of AMERICA construction in other stations. SuperAmerica purchased the site in Pdovember CONDITIONAI and as per the preliminary drawings plans to install two pump islands with USE five pumps per island. There will be one access from Larpenteur and two from REQUEST Hamline. SuperAmerica will be closing the other station on Larpenteur and Fernwood when this building is completed. They propose a 24 hour a day operation. Use of downcast lighting is proposed so not to throw too much light into the neighborhood. Representatives advised that between 800 and 1,000 customers use the two present locations (Larpenteur/Fernwood and County Road B/Lexington). Problems with traffic flow were discussed but Mr. Kaupp felt that traffic would not present any more problems than what is present now. The improvements to upgrade the facility will cost approximately $850,000. There will probably