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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC, 4800 Olson Memorial Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 55422 Telephone: 763.231 .2555 Facsimile: 763.231.2561 planners(a)nacplanning.com MEMORANDUM TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: May 5, 2006 RE: Little Canada — "Horseshoe Driveway" Ordinance Revisions FILE NO: 758.09 - 06.13 Background and Analysis The City recently adopted an amendment to its zoning ordinance providing for a second curb cut access on single family properties that meet a series of conditions. Two of those conditions related to impervious surface and drainage issues on a property. With regard to impervious surface in subparagraph (a), the code institutes a maximum 30% impervious surface requirement, the same standard that currently exists on parcels in the shoreland area. The second requirement (in subparagraph (f)) provides for landscaping or alternative paving to address drainage issues raised by the second access. The item that generated this amendment was a proposed second driveway by the Murphy's on Old County Road B2. With the adoption of the amendment, the property was investigated and it was discovered that the parcel already exceeded the 30% impervious surface capacity. The City Council expressed its intent that the amendment was not intended to require property owners to eliminate existing improvements as a precondition to a second driveway. The attached revisions to this amendment are intended to address this issue. The first revision adds language to the impervious surface standard to the effect that a second driveway with be allowed as long as the driveway does not increase impervious surface beyond the 30% level, or beyond the existing level if it is already more than 30 %. The second revision adds a clause that provides for correction of new or existing drainage issues that either exist on the property, or would be created as a result of the additional driveway.