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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. <br />4500 05eor5 Memarla? Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 55422 <br />Telephone: 763.231.2555 Facsimile: 763.291.2561 ptennerc;ainacplanninq.cam <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Little Canada Planning Commission <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: November 11, 2004 <br />RE: Little Canada — Biagini Office PUD Amendment <br />FILE NO: 758.09 - 04.39 <br />Background and Analysis <br />The applicant is seeking approval of an office building at 2935 Country Drive. This site <br />has been the subject of previous office construction requests, however, none of the <br />previous applications have been finalized. The most recent application involved the <br />expansion of the adjacent office structure onto the subject site. The applicant is now <br />reverting to an application seeking to construct a stand -alone building. <br />The current proposal is similar to one offered in 2001, however, the new proposal is <br />slightly larger. The site plan shows a building of 16,429 square feet, with 75 parking <br />spaces. This parking supply meets the City's requirement of one space per 200 square <br />feet of office space, with the 10% reduction in area allowed by the code. <br />The current site plan eliminates retaining walls along the north side, relying on a steeply <br />sloped side hill toward the adjacent apartment building. The applicant should identify <br />screening of the parking lot from the adjacent residential use as an addition to the <br />landscaping plan. <br />Summary and Recommendation <br />With this change, the application appears to meet each of the requirements for office <br />uses in the PUD zone, as well as the issues raised in previous applications. Planning <br />staff would recommend approval as proposed, <br />Pc: Kathy Glanzer <br />Steve Westerhaus <br />Lee Elfering <br />Greg Schroeder <br />Dick Biagini RIB LLC, 9 Eldora do Drive, Dell wood, MN 55110 <br />