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• <br />Planning & Zoning Board <br />UDOR Site Plan Review <br />November 13, 2002 <br />Public Services <br />This site is served by both City water and sewer. The existing building is, and the <br />proposed addition will be, sprinkled and meet fire code. <br />Parking/Access /Traffic <br />UDOR is a warehouse -type facility with approximately 2,000 sq.ft. of office space. <br />However, parking requirements for the initial building approved in 1994 were based <br />solely on warehouse use and square footage (1 stall for each 2,000 sq.ft.). The parking <br />calculations made at that time were for 6,000 sq.ft. of warehouse and 6,000 sq.ft. of <br />future warehouse expansion, for a total of 12,000 sq.ft. of warehouse. Thus, 6 parking <br />stalls were required, with 7 stalls actually constructed. As a result, parking for the <br />proposed 3,600 sq.ft. addition has already been provided for. The applicant reports that <br />there are actually eight stalls at the site and that parking is not a problem. The applicant <br />further reports that there are seven employees at the company, with no additional <br />employees proposed. <br />Access to the site is via a shared access driveway off Apollo Drive, which is a County <br />road. As a result, plans have been forwarded to Anoka County for review. <br />• Lighting <br />There is no additional lighting proposed for the addition or site. <br />Landscaping <br />City Code allows impervious site coverage up to 90 %, and the proposed addition is <br />within this requirement. <br />Approval of the initial building in 1994 came with the following requirement: <br />"Following completion of the proposed expansion, plantings will be located to the <br />rear of the property line to provide an appealing view from I -35W." <br />Since this second expansion appears to use the space limits of the site, with no room for <br />further expansion in the future, it is now appropriate to require the landscaping be done. <br />As a result, the applicant has proposed planting 11 trees of various varieties (oak, maple, <br />spruce) in the buffer area between the proposed addition and 35W. <br />Additionally, there is a ponding area on the site, to the southwest of the proposed <br />addition. This should be protected with silt fencing during construction <br />• <br />