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MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION MAY 11, 2000 Mr. Zoch was informed that the City Administrator could provide him with this type of information. Mr. Zoch pointed out that the homes were paying taxes. Then the property was vacant for a while and the City was obtaining little tax revenue. Zoch questioned how much the City is ahead as a result of this redevelopment project. Mr. Zoch pointed out that damage is being caused to Condit Street, and asked if he will be assess for repairs to the street. Knudsen indicated that routine street repairs are not assessed. Elaine Zoch reported that last Friday at 4 a.m. the contractor had trucks on Condit Street waking up the neighborhood. This is the second time this has occurred in the past two weeks. Ted Zenner, Quebec Apartments, indicated that the phase I building has been a nice addition to the area. Zenner was concerned about significant changes in drainage on the property given that Quebec Apartments butts up to the phase II property. Remarke reported that the project will be 10 feet away from the shared property line. He noted that the drainage situation should actually improve given there is on-site ponding proposed as well as curbing and storm sewer for the phase II building. Zenner asked about landscaping between the phase II building and the apartments. He noted that there are bedroom on the south side of the Quebec building. Remarke reported that the warehouse portion of the building will face north. There are spruce trees proposed as a buffer between the two buildings. The apartment complex will see the brick wall of the office/warehouse building and the loading dock will not be visible from the apartments. Semi deliveries will occur during normal business hours. Zenner pointed out that there will be a 40-foot separation between one of the driveways for the office/warehouse building and one of the drives for the apartments. Zenner asked if there would be a conflict with traffic patterns for the two uses. He also indicated his concern for screening between the two buildings and asked that in addition to the spruce trees that the City require asix-foot fence be constructed along the property line. The City Planner indicated that the office/warehouse building property is zoned PUD and the apartment building property is zoned R-3. There is a requirement that the loading dock be screened, and the landscaping plan shows 7 spruce trees along the north property line. The Planner recommended increasing the amount of spruce trees, but pointed out that a