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NIQUItIONIEUI Afl4ZCakTED C.'INiS3U 11ANITf ,, <br />5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 555, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 <br />Telephone: 952.595.9636 Facsimile: 952.595.9837 planners @nacplanning.com <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Little Canada Planning Cornmission <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: July 3, 2002 <br />RE: <br />FILE NO: <br />Little Canada - Village Square - <br />Concept and Development Stage PUD <br />758.09 - 02.27 <br />Background and Analysis <br />Sherman Associates is proposing Concept Stage PUD approval for its mixed use <br />project at the southeast corner of the intersection of Little Canada Road and Rice <br />Street. The applicant is also seeking Development Stage PUD approval for the first <br />building, a combination commercial /senior housing building at the corner. The property <br />is zoned Planned Unit Development (PUD) and is guided for mixed commercial and <br />residential land uses consistent with the Rice Street /Little Canada Road <br />Redevelopment Plan. <br />The mixed use building consists of an underground parking level (totaling 76 spaces), <br />approximately 13,700 square feet of retail space on the first floor facing Rice Street <br />together with ten units of senior housing and common space, 23 units of senior housing <br />on the second, third, and fourth floors - a total of 79 residential units. The site also <br />includes 88 spaces of exterior parking surrounding the south, east, and west sides of <br />the building. <br />The second phase of the project, currently proposed for concept plan approval only, <br />consists of eight two -story townhouse units along Little Canada Road, 41 one -story <br />townhouse units, and two "flat" units at the far south end of the project, east of the <br />existing retail buildings on Rice Street. The townhouses are served by a series of <br />internal private streets. <br />