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L,.,tCE ELMO PLANNING COMMISSI„,� STAFF REPORT Date: July 19, 2006 for the Meeting of July 24, 2006 Applicant: Finn Daniels Architects/United Properties Location: South Side Hudson Blvd. across from Health East Requested Action: Section 520 Site Plan and Shoreland Variance Land Use Plan Guiding: Business Park Existing Zoning: BP Business Park), subject to the Eagle Point PUD Plan Site History and Existing Conditions: The Final Plat of Eagle Point Business Park, creating Outlot C was approved by the City Council in 2000. The site of this application is the southeasterly 2.05 acres of the Eagle Point Business Park 120 acre site. The City had previously approved a PUD Plan encompassing the entire 120 acres of the Eagle Point Business Park, including this site. Exhibits to the PUD Plan documentation provide for allowable uses, lot specifications, master signage and related development standards. Where the PUD does not address a particular development standard, the Business Park and other related City Code standards are applicable. A proposed departure from those standards not already addressed by the PUD Plan should be processed as a PUD Plan Amendment. The site is vacant today. City water and sewer services are both available to the site. Discussion and Analysis The applicants propose development of the site consisting of a 22,200 square foot two story structure and related parking. The proposed structure use is 19,230 square feet "office" and 5,969 square feet "Showroom". This application is the first in the Eagle Point Business Park proposing an "Office/Showroom" use. Negotiation of the allowable PUD uses between the Planning Commission/City Council and United Properties focused not only on setbacks, impervious coverage and related quantitative compliance with Business Park zoning but also on uses not addressed by the Zoning Ordinance, including "Office Showroom". Following extended discussions regarding this use concept that addressed "customer traffic" and trucking concerns, the City Council agreed to allow "Office Showroom" as a Permitted Use in the Eagle Point PUD — subject to several specific design parameters: • Not more than 50% of the floor area of any structure may be "unfinished space" — storage or warehouse. • Truck docks limited to one per 10,000 square feet of non -office floor area. • Any truck delivery area must be screened from street view, using landscaping and building layout. • Outside storage and "industrial noises, odors and emissions" are prohibited — not regulated quantitatively, but prohibited entirely.