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Main Street Village page 11 • However, we do not have landscaped area percentages for each lot, so we will need this data for Lot 1, Block 2. • • The CUP standards for a motor fuel station include several access and circulation requirements. Vehicular access points shall create a minimum of conflict with through traffic movement. The site design must accommodate adequate turning radius and vertical clearance for a semi - trailer truck. As noted above, the access and circulation on the site is still under discussion. This must be resolved. Car Wash: The CUP requirements for a commercial car wash are listed in Section 7, Subd. 3.H.3. To summarize: a. The site will be served by sanitary sewer. b. The architecture is consistent with the surrounding buildings. c. Stacking space must accommodate the number of cars that can be washed in 30 minutes. We will need to ascertain this information. d. Landscaping along residential property is not an issue on this site. e. Screening of stacked cars from residential property is not an issue on this site. f. The site will be paved according to typical City requirements. g. The drainage of the area must meet City requirements, including the AUAR mitigation plan. h. Lighting effects on abutting residential properties is not an issue on this site, but lighting fixtures must meet City requirements. i. Vehicular access to the car wash is through the gas station site. As long as that is resolved, there are no car wash access problems. j. The site is next to an interstate freeway and an interchange with county state aid highway. Car wash noise is not an issue. Outdoor Seating, Lot 2, Block 1 (McDonald's) and Lot 2, Block 2 (retail building): The Zoning Ordinance requires a CUP for "restaurants with accessory outdoor dining facilities" in Section 7, Subd. 3.H.12. The ordinance does not distinguish between outdoor seating areas where full service is provided at the tables and outdoor seating where the patrons purchase food inside and bring it outside and eat. For now, staff included these CUPs in the public hearing notice and recommends discussing the CUP requirements just to ensure the issues are formally considered and addressed. The standards are written to apply to a restaurant on an individual commercial parcel. It is important to remember the purposes of a PUD: "to provide for the grouping of lots or buildings for development as an integrated, coordinated unit as opposed to traditional parcel by parcel, piecemeal, or sporadic approach to development....By allowing deviation from the strict provisions of this Ordinance" a PUD is intended to promote "a desirable and creative environment that might be prevented through the strict application of City zoning and subdivision regulations." In the future, the City may want to specifically exclude outdoor tables without service from the need for a CUP. This is a clarification that should be made in the ordinance, and we can address that when we do some major ordinance revisions in the near future.