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NJORITHWE %! 4> QC'litATtk CQ fltti.1rOAROPL, hr'11c, 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: April 9, 2002 RE: Little Canada - Tacheny Office PUD FILE NO: 758.09 - 02.11 Patrick and Daniel Tacheny have submitted revised site plans for their proposed "Town- Office" project at the corner of Rice Street and South Owasso Boulevard. The buildings have been redesigned slightly by locating them along the street frontages, and creating three 3 -unit buildings rather than two 4 -unit buildings. Setbacks have been modified to be ten feet from each street, with the parking area and stormwater pond occupying the interior of the site. These changes reflect comments on the concept plan from staff and the Planning Commission. As now designed, the project will include approximately 6,800 square feet of gross area per building, a total of approximately 20,400 square feet. The buildings are two story buildings all above grade. Planning staff has estimated that approximately two - thirds of the buildings will qualify as net usable area once the offices are finished out. This will result in a total of 13,600 square feet. At one parking space per 200 square feet net, the total parking requirement would be 68 spaces. The site plan shows 69 spaces, consistent with this estimate. However, the trash enclosure occupies two of the spaces that are counted on the site plan. The trash enclosure should be located in a way that does not occupy parking spaces. One of the design changes has been to drop the concept plan's proposed driveway from Rice Street, and access the development from a single driveway on South Owasso. This change will eliminate the need for County approval of a driveway permit The submission is accompanied by a landscape plan that illustrates plantings around each of the buildings (both on the Rice Street exposure and the parking lot access side), as well as common area landscaping at the corner monument sign area and the stormwater pond. The landscaping appears to be well - proportioned for the site and the