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�A C Northwest Associated Consultants, Inc. C O M M U N I T Y P L A N N I N G • D E S I G N • M A R K E T R E S E A R C H PLANNING REPORT TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Madhulika Singh /Stephen Grittman DATE: 8 December 1995 RE: Little Canada - Donovan PUD FILE NO: 758.09 - 95.21 BACKGROUND On behalf of Donovan Construction, Inc., the Pieper Companies is requesting PUD approval through conditional use permit for the construction of a permanent office building and an interim use of a temporary modular office space at 53 South Owasso Boulevard East. The existing property is zoned 1 -1, Light Industrial and is a non - conforming lot, due to lack of public street frontage. A planned unit development/ conditional use permit is required to revise the site layout to conform to the new addition. Donovan Construction Inc. currently leases an office a 100 South Owasso Boulevard East, and owns an equipment yard located at 53 South Owasso Boulevard East. Donovan is seeking to increase the efficiency of their operations as well as lower their overhead costs by locating their office on the site of the equipment yard. The applicants suggest that the PUD would promote the public welfare by reducing traffic between the current office at 100 South Owasso Boulevard East and the equipment yard at 53 South Owasso Boulevard East. The PUD would also improve safety and security in the area, as there would always be someone at the equipment yard. At this time, Donovan's new parent company (as of 31 December 1994) does not yet have clear and clean title to 53 South Owasso Boulevard East. However, this site was part of the acquisition and it is apparently only a matter of time until the new parent company receives title to the land. It is the parent company's intention to start construction of an Page 13 5775 Wayzata Blvd. • Suite 555 • St. Louis Park, MN 55416 • (612) 595- 9636•Fax. 595 -9837