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MINUTES City Council September 28, 1988 Proposed Fahey pointed out that there is a lot of vacant property in this ar~ea, Rezonings and the City wants to see this property developing with high-quality (Cont.) developments. Fahey also pointed out that the City has various financing tools available to help developers. Assuming there was no restriction for building coverage in the IP District, Fahey asked if there were any other objections to the rezoning. There was no one present from McKesson, Vincent Brass or Ther•moform to comment on this issue. The City Planner reported that he had a concern with focusing too much on building quality and avoiding site quality. The Planner reported that many industrial parks are attractive because of their landscaping. The Planner reported that the Yorkton Industrial Park has a building cover•age range of about 35%. The Planner pointed out that r~educing the building coverage restriction will change the char~acter of the development the City will get and will cause the area to look different than the campus type industrial park. Blesener suggested that rather than eliminating the restriction, he would prefer to amend it. The Planner pointed out that the I-1 district has no building coverage limitation and buildings can be expanded up to the required setbacks. Fahey pointed out that the Yorkton Industrial Park developed with no building cover•age standards and Larry Lee developed a quality industrial park. Fahey suggested that the Council thirik about this issue. Scalze asked the building coverage percentage for the Yorkton Industr•ial Park. The Planner r~eplied that it was in the 30 to 35% range. Scalze pointed out that when the City rezoned the area east of the freeway to Industrial park, those developers were able to live with the building coverage restriction. Scalze did not believe changing this restriction for the proper•ty west of the freeway was fair. The Planner r•eviewed the development in the IP Distr~ict east of the freeway and pointed out that more factors than the building coverage limitat~on dictated the site coverage these developments have. DeLonais suggested that a higher building coverage percent be adopted so that existing businesses would have the opportunity to expand their businesses, r~ather than having to move out of the City once they outgrow their building. Fahey pointed out that parking requirements will help to dictate building coverage of a site. The Planner also reported that the IP District requires 25% of the site to be retained in landscaped area, and this together with parking Page -4-