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Twin City Fab, Inc. July 12, 2000 page 4 The total requirement is 29 parking spaces. The plan shows 29, with an area provided for 9 more if additional employees are added. Even if 100% of the office area were used, it would add only one parking space, and the proof of parking accommodates that. • Roads, Access, Circulation Passenger vehicles will use the parking in the front of the building. Trucks will proceed to the back of the building to the loading docks. Curb and gutter will surround all parking and drive areas except that the applicant wishes to forego curbs on the back of the truck loading area. The applicant has not presented a justification for this. The City Engineer recommends curb around the entire drive area. A shared driveway provides access to the site. The driveway will be shared by TC Fab and the Marmon Keystone site on the west. The driveway is consistent with the joint powers agreement with Anoka County that covers the number and type of accesses on Apollo Drive. A shared driveway agreement between the two sites will be necessary and staff is recommending that one be submitted for City review as a condition of approval. In reviewing shared driveways, we must consider potential traffic conflicts in the driveway itself. Vehicles leaving the sites come from two directions and mix in the driveway before exiting onto Apollo. For example, a car leaving the TC Fab parking area to go west on Apollo crosses the path of a car leaving the other site and going east on Apollo. The potential problem is reduced as the mixing point is moved farther back from Apollo. Numerous site factors influence the location of the parking drive: the location of the pond in the rear of the site, the area needed for trucks, the resulting building location, and the needed parking. The applicants have moved the parking drive as far back as possible given the constraints. Moving it farther would reduce the ability to expand the building to accommodate growth in the business. • Park Dedication Park dedication will be subject to the City policy of $200 per 1000 sf of commercial building. For TC Fab, with 19,200 sf, the dedication would be $3840. • Outdoor Storage Conditional Use Permit Outdoor storage is allowed as a conditional use in the LI zone per Ordinance 02 -00, adopted this past February. Two sets of fmdings must be made. Findings for All Conditional Use Permits: As stated in Sec. 2 Subd. 2.B.7., the Planning and Zoning Board shall recommend a conditional use permit and the Council shall order the issuance of such permit only if it can make findings that the proposed use at the proposed location: a. Will not be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort, convenience or general welfare of the neighborhood or the City. • • •