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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 @nracplanning.com MEMORANDUM TO: Little Canada Mayor and City Council FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: February 14, 2003 RE: Little Canada — Maverick Electric PUD Rezoning FILE NO: 758.09 — 03.04 Maverick Electric has proposed the rezoning of a parcel currently occupied by Lenfer Transmission at 75 East Little Canada Road. The parcel is now zoned B -3, General Business, and is bounded by Single Family Residential to the north, the railroad and PUD zoning to the west, B -3 commercial across Little Canada Road to the south, and the new Ruff Cuts Pet Grooming business to the east. The purpose of the PUD zoning would be to permit the remodeling of the existing building, and occupancy by Maverick Electric, an electrical contractor. The applicant's business is currently located in Ryan Industrial Park. Under the City's current zoning regulations, the applicant would fit within an Industrial District, or the "B -I", Business Industrial District, in addition to the PUD zoning requested in this case. The applicant has suggested that he has been looking to get out of Ryan Industrial Park due to concerns over the condition of the industrial park, and his intentions to own and upgrade his business image. The proposed business use would include office and storage use of the existing building, following a remodeling of the interior and exterior of the space. The applicant indicates that employees drive their vans to the site in the morning only to pick up work plans and parts, then leave to their job site for the rest of the day. These vans are kept by the employees at their homes, and do not return to the office site in the evening. The site would be altered by removing some of the asphalt paving not necessary for parking area, and the proposed addition of an area to store a trenching machine and trailer, and one additional work van that is used in the event that one of the employees' vans has mechanical problems.