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RMQfTWOte$16 ASS*CIATtO C *tlSU11,1AN1!$,, UIC, <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 Commission <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: August 13, 2001 <br />RE: Little Canada - RJ Marco /Sick Maihak Office/warehouse PUD <br />FILE NO: 758.09 - 01.15 <br />Background and Analysis <br />RJ Marco has applied for a Planned Unit Development permit for an office /warehouse <br />building along Country Drive. The building would be occupied by the Sick Maihak <br />company. The building will be located at the north end of the Country Drive PUD business <br />park area on a site previously proposed for Simon Delivers. <br />The plan submissions include a floor plan that proposes 9,163 square feet of office space <br />and 6,867 square feet of warehouse. The Little Canada zoning ordinance requires parking <br />at a ratio of one space per 200 net square feet of office and one space per 500 net square <br />feet of warehouse. As a result, the parking requirements for this building will be 53 parking <br />spaces. The site plan illustrates a total of 56 spaces. <br />Site circulation would be around the building, utilizing two driveways onto Country Drive. <br />There is no connection to the adjacent parking lot planned. An recessed, angled truck <br />dock on the north side of the building would be the primary loading area. An additional <br />overhead door is located on the north wall, near the northwest corner of the building. The <br />north wall also contains a stairway down from the floor elevation to the recessed grade of <br />the truck dock. This area also includes a fenced -in trash receptacle area. <br />One site planning issue relates to the north boundary line, and screening from the <br />apartment building site. Reviews of previous proposals for this site had required additional <br />plantings to augment the screening effect of the existing vegetation on the apartment <br />property. The current plan shows a retaining wall below the parking lot level, with a four <br />Page 17 <br />