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Rezoning, PDO Development Plan Outlot B Apollo Business Park No. 2 April 12, 1999 page 4 S. Traffic generation by the proposed use is within capabilities of streets serving the property. Apollo Drive (CSAH 12) is an A minor arterial and is designed to accommodate industrial traffic in the area. The road and the intersection at Lake Drive are designed to handle the traffic from several industrial/business parks. The change in zoning for this site will not significantly alter the traffic generation of the area. By agreement with Anoka County, the number of accesses to Apollo Drive is limited. The agreement allows four road accesses and driveways no closer than 600 feet from each other on each side of the road. The site shares a driveway access with the clinic. The City Engineer is pursuing an additional driveway for this site, and the Anoka County Highway Dept. has indicated willingness to trade a road access for a driveway access. Staff believes that the fourth road access is not needed. PDO DEVELOPMENT PLAN: COMBINED PRELIMINARY AND FINAL PLAN This PDO differs from others in that in Lino Lakes a PDO typically is used for residential development and parallels the platting process. A preliminary and final development plan normally are required. Because the only reason a PDO is needed on this proposal is that there will be more than one building on a lot, we are combining the preliminary and final PDO development plans into one. Future subdivision of the site will need to undergo a separate subdivision review process. The project has been undergoing change since its beginning. The current proposal is to construct buildings A and B immediately but build only the foundations for buildings C and D. The applicant states that water, sewer, and storm sewer pipes and other utilities must be installed for the entire site all at once. In addition, he states the parking lots for the entire site must be constructed. Because of this, the foundations for all buildings must be constructed now. This poses the possibility of naked foundations for an unknown period of time. This causes a concern because of the visual impact, especially at a location right on the freeway and at the major gateway to the community. There also is the concern of how the foundations alone will fare over a winter. The Planning & Zoning Board was comfortable with this proposal as long as the City has adequate financial guarantees to cover the cost of removing the bare foundations if they are not built in a timely manner. The City can fashion guarantees to ensure the buildings are completed by a specified date.