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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. 4800 Olson Memorial Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 55422 Telephone: 703.231.2565 Facsimile: 763. 231.2501 plannersi<_"ynacpla nni ng.com MEMORANDUM TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: June 3, 2011 RE: Little Canada — PUD Permit for Outdoor Storage of Construction Materials FILE NO: 758.09 —11.13 Background and Analysis The applicants are seeking a PUD Permit to extend a previous approval for a building expansion and to expand the area and volume of outdoor storage of wood on the site at 3213 Country Drive — the southern -most portion of the Drywall Supply property. In 2010, the City approved an interim use permit to allow these applicants to store limited portion of their products on this site under the'PUD allowances of the code. At the time, the applicants were not a local business, and as such, needed to rely on the flexibility of the PUD ordinance to gain approval. Under that permit, the City approved the requested storage, which consisted of 6 rows of material, approximately 20 feet wide by 100 feet long, separated by 20 foot drive aisles. This resulted in an outdoor storage area approximately 220 feet by 100 feet by 9 feet in height, based on the applicants report that the bundles of their raw material came in packages roughly three feet tall. The applicants are seeking to purchase the subject property and utilize the site as one of their business locations. As such, they would no longer have a conflict with the "non - local" business aspect of the outdoor storage policy. However, they also plan to greatly expand the area where the storage would be located. The proposed site plan shows as many as 14 stacks, most 50 feet in width, ranging from 28 feet long to as much as 150 feet long. Moreover, the proposed height of the stacks would be 14 feet, based on five stacks at the size of their packaged raw material. 12