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D. Request —Update Storm Water Plan The VBWD called and asked if there were any projects the City would like included in the Budget. The Council suggested they look at proposed projects for Downs Lake and the Old Village area. M/S/P Dunn/DeLapp — to direct the staff to contact the VBWD about the Sunnybrook Lake Outlet Project and ask for the proposed solution be sent to the City. (Motion passed 5-0). The Council suggested a yearly joint meeting with the VBWD to discuss projects in general and their impact on Lake Elmo. 8. PLANNING. LAND USE & ZONING: A. Site Plan —Farmer's Union Co -Op Oil The conditions differ from those recommended by the Planning Commission at its August 9th meeting. The variances approved by the Planning Commission involving signage of the site have been appealed and the Council will hear the appeal at the September 7" Council meeting. M/S/P DeLapp/Dunn — to request the applicant comply with 85% of the exterior surfacing of structures being brick, stone or equivalent as required by the Code. (Motion passed 3-2:Armstrong, Siedow:This is typical construction for gas stations. Council member Armstrong also noted that Farmer's Union should not look for the City to provide a water source other than their well.) M/S/P Siedow/Armstrong — to approve the site plan of Farmers Union Co -Op Oil for a 4,800 square foot structure at Manning Avenue and State Highway 5, modified as follows: 1. Modification of the site plan to provide at least 23 off street parking spaces not including parking at the pump islands. The site plan shall show the location and design of 23 off street parking spaces, but only the 10 spaces depicted on the site plan adjacent to the store need be constructed. The remaining 13 spaces shall be considered "Proof of Parking" and need only be constructed following a City determination that a need for additional off street parking is observed. 2. Modification of the site plan to comply with building setbacks for the canopies. 3. Modification of the site plan in a manner that will result in at least 85% of the exterior surfacing of structures being compliant with the Highway Business Zone exterior surfacing standards. Due to variance appeal scheduled for September 7th, no action taken on signage. (Motion passed 5-0). B. Site Plan Amendment — Creative Office Gardens (Steve Ethan) At its August 91" meeting, the Planning Commission recommended denial of a site plan amendment proposed by the applicant. The amendment proposed is to substitute wood shingles for the previously approved and Code compliance stone exterior surfacing over a portion of the structure's exterior walls. The Planning Commission vote to deny was 7-2 (Lipman, Helwig). Planner Dillerud reported it appears that the GB zoning district standards require a specific finding of "equivalency" for any exterior materials used other than stone, glass, or brick. He could not locate any such "equivalency" finding or objection to by the Commission or Council regarding the wood shingles approved for the majority of this structure and now proposed for the balance of the structure, except by implication with the original approvals of the site plan. There are no amendments to the GB standards for exterior resurfacing that may have postdated the original site plan approval. The standards were the same when the original site plan was reviewed in 1997 as they are now. Steve Ethan asked for a site plan amendment to substitute wood shingles for stone exterior surfacing on the front of the Creative Office Gardens structure. LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 17, 1999