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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC, <br />5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 555, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 <br />Telep:)hone: 952.595.96:36 Facsimile: 952.595.9837 plannrsrs(3JnecpLannin9.corn <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Little Canada Planning Commission <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: November 12, 2003 <br />RE: Little Canada — Accessory Building Ordinance Amendments <br />FILE NO: 758.10 - 03. <br />Attached is a draft amendment to the accessory building section of the zoning <br />ordinance. Recently, the City has been addressing issues related to the "connection" of <br />principal and accessory buildings. Potential conflicts have been raised between the <br />Zoning and Building codes. The attached draft is intended to clarify and resolve those <br />conflicts. <br />The amendment does a number of things. First, it adds definitions of accessory and <br />principal buildings and accessory and principal uses that were not clearly defined in the <br />existing text. Second, the amendment adds requirements for single family housing that <br />are commonly applied to conventional housing design, but may have provided <br />"loopholes" for accessory buildings. Finally, the amendment sets out requirements for <br />covered passageways. The existing ordinance states that covered passageways can <br />be used to make accessory buildings an integral part of the principal building, but does <br />not define how such passageways might be constructed. This new section limits these <br />structures to above - ground covered areas of at least six feet in width, twenty feet in <br />length, and places some architectural requirements to match style and building <br />materials to the principal building. <br />pc: Kathy Glanzer <br />Steve Westerhaus <br />Lee Elfering <br />Greg Schroeder <br />2 <br />