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VG~ ~~ 4 2~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ fi~~ 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 (651) 766-4029 /FAX: (651) 766-4045 www, ci.little-canada.mn. us MEMORANDUM TO: Planning Commission Members PROM: Jessica Jagoe, Code Enforcement Officer DATE: June 3, 2009 RE: 3151 Country Drive Outdoor Storage PUD Amendment MAYOR Bill Blesener COUNCIL Riclc Montour John ISeis Michael McGraw Shelly Boss ADMINISTRATOR Joe] R. Hanson Carl Costanzo and Mary Fasching have applied for an amendment to their existing Planned Unit Development (PUD) permit to allow additional outdoor storage in the side and rear yard of 3151 Country Drive. A Conditional Use Permit (CUP) was issued in January 2000 for this property to allow outdoor storage along the north side yard of the property. This permit should have originally been called a PUD Permit given the PUD zoning of the property. Going forward to be consistent with this zoning district, city staff will be calling it a PUD Permit. This change in permit name does not change any prior approvals or imply approval of the current amendment. The property owner has non-conforming outdoor storage in various other areas of the property and that is their reason for seeking the amendment. This property is a corner lot located on a 1.01 acre parcel on the northwest corner of County Drive and Ryan Drive. The property is zoned Planned Unit Development (PUD) with an underlying industrial use. The standards from the I-1, Light Industrial are being used for this parcel to be consistent with the zoning of the neighboring parcels. The past approval for this parcel considered Ryan Drive to be the front yard of the lot. By definition under current city code, Country Drive would actually be the front yal•d of the parcel. To be consistent with the treatment of other parcels along Ryan Drive and how this parcel was treated in the past, city staff is using Ryan Drive as the front yard. By doing so, this allows more flexibility to the property owners on their outdoor storage location. I would like to note that with either scenario, storage would not be allowed in front of the front building line (i.e, storage would not be allowed along Ryan Drive). The use of Ryan Drive as the front yard allows the property owner to have storage along both sides of their principal building. If Country Drive had been used with the principal building location setback so far into that northwest corner essential no storage would be allowed because storage cannot occur in front of the front building line of the principal building. City staff has been working with this property owner since May 2007 to get this site into compliance. The City has issued several citations for maintaining a pubic nuisance and violating permit conditions over the past two years. Several meetings, inspections, and letters have taken place with both property owners detailing for them the violations that exist. Over this time, the property owners have continued to promise they will bring the site into compliance or seek an