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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. 5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 555, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Telephone: 952.595.9636 Facsimile: 952.595.9837 planners@nacplanning.com MEMORANDUM TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: February 20, 2004 RE: Little Canada — Family Academy School FILE NO: 758.09 - 04.03 Family Academy School is considering a new location for their school building on the south portion of the Frattalone Excavating property at South Owasso Boulevard and Spruce Street, The site they would be occupying would be approximately 2.2 acres. They have suggested that they are looking for the following components to their school: • 35,000 square feet of building space • Playground space • 250 student capacity (expansion to 400 students) • Day care with 35 capacity. On a 2.2 acre site, it is unclear how the applicant would accommodate this level of use. Assuming some amount of setback (5 to 10 feet) from the adjoining streets and property lines, the 2.2 acres would be about 1.8 acres of usable and area. Just to accommodate staff, we would estimate a parking lot of 25 spaces would be needed. This does not account for school functions that would attract parents to the building, such as parent - teacher conferences or programs. In this case, it would be assumed that more than 100 automobiles would need to find a place to park. The vast majority of this parking would occur on- street, since the size of the site would not appear adequate to hold a parking lot of that size. 6