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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-11-91 PZMLAKE ELMO PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 11, 1991 7:30 P.M. WORKSHOP MEETING CONVENES 1. HIGHWAY ORDINANCE: MUSA/BUSINESS PARK/OFFICE PARK As s u &nrY-EO 8 4) 1,0 4),U JOIR) JVITTSA Business District (A) Purpose DRAFT i0-g->?-9/ The purpose of the MUSA Business Park District is to establish a comprehensive planned framework for development along I-94. The City has determined that it is in the best interest of the City and the region to responsibly manage growth in this district. It is the intent of the city that this district promotes a high quality of business design and development that produces a positive visual image and minimizes adverse impacts from traffic congestion, noise, odor, glare and similar problems. Specific development goals within the district include the following: 1) To stininlate local economic development within the MUSA area, while minimizing the demands of additional City services. 2) To permit occupancies of a more intense use than are possible outside the MUSA. 3) To provide users with an attractive working environment that is unique in the eastern Metropolitan Area with immediate access to Interstate 1-94. 4) To provide adequate space for off-street parking of automobiles and, where appropriate, off street loading and unloading of trucks. 5) To allow development that would be in accordance with the capacity of regional and local road systems. 6) To protect the natural environment in accordance with City Ordinances. (B) permitted Uses 1) Offices for administrative, executive, management and professional functions. 2) Clinics, medical offices 3) Financial Institutions, such as banks. 4) Business and professional schools (C) Conditional Uses 1) Medical, dental and research laboratories. 2) Business service uses normally associated with office developments (photocopy shops, travel agencies etc„) and containing limited retail activity. 3) Health clubs, such as tennis, raquetball,aerobics, weightlifting, swimming and weight loss clinics. 4) Restaurants and cafeterias incorporated within a principal structure and oriented predominantly towards serving the needs of employees of the surrounding area, but excluding drive -up and exterior walk-up facilities. 5) Limited retail sales clearly accessory to the permitted principal use of the land, for example: the compounding dispensing or sale of drugs, prescription items, patient or proprietary medicine, sick room supplies, prosthetic devices or items related to any of the foregoing when conducted in a building occupied primarily by medical, dental, osteopathic, chiropractic or optometric offices. 6) Recording studios. 7) Theatres (excluding drive-ins). 8) Full service restaurants where food is served to a customer and consumed while seated at a counter or table. 9) Hotels and motels incorporating a full service restaurant and with rooms only accessible through interior corridors. NOTE: It is the main intent that these hotels be limited in total number, be part of a main business complex, and not form the sole function of the development.. 10) Licensed day-care centers and pre-school facilities. 11) Transmission facilities for tele-conferencing, which are not free standing and which do not extend more than twenty feet above the building to which they are attached. 12) Conference Centers 13) Veterinary clinics with no crematoria, outdoor kennels, or storage. 14) "Other uses, similar to those permitted in this section, as determined by the city. Draft (revised 10-28-91) MUSA BUSINESS DISTRICT (A) PURPOSE: The purpose of the MUSA Business Park District is to establish a comprehensive planned framework for development along I-94. The City has determined that it is in the best interest of the City and the region to responsibly manage growth in this district. It is the intent of this district to promote a high quality of business design and development that produces a positive visual image and minimizes adverse impacts from traffic congestion, noise, odor, glare, and similar problems. Specific development goals within the district include the following: 1) To protect the natural environment, in accordance with City Ordinances. 2) To provide adequate space for off-street parking of automobiles and, where appropriate, off-street loading of -trucks. 3) To allow development that is consistent with the capacity of regional and local road systems. 4) To stimulate local economic development within the MUSA area, while minimizing the demands of additional City Services. 5) To permit occupancies of a more intense use than are possible outside the MUSA. 6) To provide users with an attractive working environment that is unique in the eastern Metropolitan Area with immediate access to I-94. B. PERMITTED USES 1) Offices for administrative, executive, professional, and management functions. 2) Clinics, medical offices. 3) Financial institutions such as banks 4) Business and professional schools, private trade schools. Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 2 C. CONDITIONAL USES 1) Medical, dental, and research Laboratories. 2) Business service uses normally associated with office developments (photocopy and printing shops, travel agencies, etc.) and containing limited retail activity. 3) Health clubs, such as, tennis, racquetball, aerobics, weight lifting, swimming, weight loss clinics. 4) Conference centers. 5) Veterinary clinics with no crematorium, outdoor kennels or storage. 6) Restaurants and cafeterias incorporated within a principal structure and oriented predominantly towards serving the needs of employees of the surrounding area, but excluding drive -up and exterior walk-up facilities. 7) Limited retail sales clearly accessory to the permitted principal use of the land, for example: the compounding,dispensing or sale of drugs, prescription items, patient or proprietary medicine, sick room supplies, prosthetic devices or items relating to any of the foregoing when conducted in the building occupied primarily by medical, dental, osteopathic, chiropractic or optometric offices. 8) Recording Studios. 9) Licensed daycare centers and preschool facilities. 10) Theaters (excluding drive-ins). 11) Full service restaurants where food is served to a customer and consumed while seated at a counter or table. 12) Hotels and motels incorporating a full service restaurant and with rooms accessible only through interior corridors to be subordinate to a main business complex. 13) Transmission facilities for tele-conferencing, which are not fee -standing and which do not extend more than:20 feet above the building to which they are attached. 14) Other uses similar to those permitted by this section, as determined by the City. 15) Private hospitals, sanitariums, and rest homes. Greenhouses, vineyards, nurseries, with retail sales. r Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 3 D. PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES Opinion 1: Permitted accessory uses shall include required off-street parking, loading areas and signs as regulated in this ordinance. Only accessory structures which are clearly incidental and subordinate to the business will be permitted. Opinion 2: Permitted accessory uses shall include required off-street parking, loading areas and signs as regulated in this ordinance. Only accessory structures which are clearly incidental and subordinate to the business will be permitted. Opinion 3: Only accessory structures which are clearly incidental and subordinate to the business will be permitted. Opinion 4: Accessory Uses - Within the OFC District, the following is permitted provided -they are subordinate to and associated with a permitted use: 1) Receive -only satellite dish antennas to permit teleconferencing. 2) Landscaped buffers, wildlife areas, internal picnicking areas, and walking -jogging trails accessible to City residents. 3) Internal privately owned and maintained roads between buildings within a single platted lot. 4) Other uses customarily associated with but subordinate to a permitted use, as determined by the City. E. MINIMUM DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS On.l Op.2 Op.3 1. Lot Area 1 Acre 3.0 Acres 3.5 Acres 2. Minimum Lot Width 200 feet 200 feet 300 feet 3. Minimum Lot Depth 200 feet 300 feet 400 feet 4. Building Setback from property lines: a. Front 50 feet 50 feet 100 feet b. Side 30 feet 25 feet 50 feet c. Side (street) 30 feet 50 feet 100 feet d. Rear 30 feet 50 feet 50 feet e. Any line adjacent to a residential zone 100 feet 100 feet 150 feet Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 4 5. Parking setback from property lines: a. Front b. Side c. Side (street) d. Rear e. any line adjacent to a residential zone 6. Maximum Building Height: 7. Maximum Lot Coverage by all structures: 30 feet 25 feet 50 feet 10 feet 25 feet 50 feet 30 feet 25 feet 50 feet 10 feet 25 feet 50 feet 75 feet 50 feet 100 feet 35 feet 60 feet 35 feet 40% 25% 35% 8. Maximum area to be covered by buildings, parking lots, driveways and other hard surfaces: 75% 40% 75% 9. Minimum Building Floor Size: 4,000 sf F. SPECIAL DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS Opinion 1: Due to the high visibility of the Business Park District, the following architectural, parking, landscaping, screening, signage, lighting, traffic, and maintenance standards shall be in addition to other existing standards: Opinion 2: Due to the high visibility of the I-94 General Business District zone, the following architectural, parking, landscaping, lighting and glare standards, shall be in addition to other existing standards in the zoning code relating to the same: Opinion 3: All related City Ordinances will apply. Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 5 Opinion 1: 1. Minimum Architectural Standards: It is not the intent of the City to restrict design freedom unduly when reviewing project architecture in connection with a site and building plan. However, it is in the best interest of the City to promote high standards of architectural design. New building proposals shall include architectural plans prepared by a registered architect and shall show, without limitation the following: a) elevations of all sides of the buildings, b) type and color of exterior building materials, c) typical general floor plans, d) dimensions of all structures, e) location of trash containers and of heating, cooling and ventilation equipment and systems, f) description of unique architectural features specific to the particular request. Opinion 2: 1. Minimum -Architectural Standards: It is in the best interest of the City to promote high standards of architectural design. a) New building proposals shall include architectural plans prepared by registered architect and shall show, without limitation the following: 1) elevations of all sides of the buildings, 2) type and color of exterior building materials, 3) typical general floor plans, 4) dimensions of all structures, 5) location of trash containers, heating, cooling and ventilation equipment and systems, 6) description of unique architectural features specific to the particular request. Opinion 4: 1. Minimum Architectural Standards: 1) It is no the intent of the City to restrict design freedom unduly when reviewing project architectural design and compatibility with surrounding structures and neighborhoods. Architectural plans shall be prepared by a registered architect and show the following: a) Site plans showing all proposed setbacks, impervious surfaces, and landscaping. b) Elevations of all sides of structures. c) Type and color of exterior materials. d) Floor plans. e) Dimensions of all structures. f) The location of trash and recycling containers and heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment. g) Proposed user identification. Opinion 1: (exterior) All materials and their colors shall be approved by the City and shall be one or more of the following: Exterior: a) Brick - shall be of a size, type, texture, color, and placement as shall be approved by the City prior to construction or alteration. b) Stone - shall have a weathered face or shall be polished, fluted, or broken face as shall be approved by the City prior to construction or alteration. Concrete Masonry - shall bethose generally described as "Customized Architectural Concrete Masonry Units" or shall be broken face brick -type units with marble aggregate, in either case as shall be approved by the City prior to construction or alteration. All concrete masonry units shall be coated with a coating approved by the City and there shall be no exposed concrete block on the exterior on any building unless approved by the City prior to construction or alteration, d) Concrete - may be poured in place, tilt -up, or precast, and shall be finished in Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 6 stone, textured, or coated in a manner as shall be approved by the City prior to construction or alteration. ( All coating shall be approved by the City and shall have a minimum life expectancy of ten (10) years, e) Metal Siding - shall be used only in combination with one of the above materials and upon the specific approval of the City prior to construction or alteration. Only siding of the self weathering type of with a long life (10 year minimum) finish will be considered. f) Glass - shall be of the type, panel sizes, and color specifically approved by the City prior to construction or alteration. Canopies: No canopies with visible wall hangers shall be permitted. Design of canopies shall be in keeping with the design of the building approved by the City prior to construction or alteration. Roof Mounted Equipment: Roof mounted equipment shall be located and painted or screened as may be required by the City, to minimize visibility from the street or surrounding buildings. Loading Docks: No loading dock shall be permitted to face any street unless a screening plan therefor is approved as part of final plan approval by the City. Each establishment shall provide adequate loading space within a building or in side yard, in such a way that all storage, standing and maneuvering of trucks shall be off the public right-of-way. No portion of a parking or loading space, including maneuvering • areas, except the necessary drives, shall be located closer than 30 feet from public street right-of-way. Refuse: All exterior trash/recycling storage areas shall be fully enclosed with material compatible with the principal structure. Opinion 2: (exterior) b) The exterior surfaces of all buildings shall be faced with brick, stone, glass or equivalent. the City may at its sole discretion allow architecturally enhanced block or concrete panels. c) No building shall be constructed with a main exterior surface of sheet aluminum, steel, corrugated aluminum, or similar products. Metal like materials are only acceptable as trim. No structural metal roofs incorporating visible metal exteriors are permitted. d) No accessory building shall exceed the height of a principal building. All rooftop or ground mounted mechanical equipment and exterior trash storage areas shall be enclosed with materials compatible with the principal structure. Opinion 4: All exterior equipment and trash and recycling storage areas and dock areas shall be surrounded with materials used in the principal structure. Low profile, self-contained HVAC units which blend in with the building architecture are exempt from the screening requirement. Underground utilities shall be provided for all structures. Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 7 2. PARKING: Opinion 1: Each building site shall be provided with such off street automobile parking as may be approved by the City. No parking shall be permitted on any street, driveway, or any place other than in approved parking spaces. Construction - all drives and parking lots shall be constructed with concrete or blacktop, and with concrete curb and gutters. Where appropriate, sidewalks may be required. Ratio - Unless otherwise approved by the City, parking shall be provided as follows: a) The minimum ratio of one permanently -paved off-street automobile parking space for each 2000 square feet of warehouse building area, and for each 500 square feet of manufacturing building area, and for each 250 feet of office building area. b) The minimum ratio of one permanently -paved off-street automobile parking space for every two employees, whichever ratio shall result in the greater number of parking spaces. Screening - All parking area shall be screened from the public view ina manner approved by the City prior to the construction or alteration of any building or building site. Location - Unless otherwise approved by the City prior to construction or alteration, parking will not be permitted within 30 feet of the front property lines (those facing any dedicated street) of the building site, nor within 10 feet of its• side property lines, not within 10 feet of its rear property line. Opinion 2: a) All drives and parking Lots shall be constructed with concrete or blacktop, and with concrete curb and gutters. Where appropriate, sidewalks may be required. b) Parking lot landscape areas, including landscape islands shall be reasonably distributed throughout the parking lot area so as to break up expanses of paved areas. 3. LANDSCAPING: Opinion 1: All open spaces shall be dustproofed, surfaced, landscaped, rockscaped, or devoted to lawns. Not less than two-thirds of the required building setback area shall be devoted solely to lawns, trees, shrubs and walkways of the design approved by the City. Where areas abut residential districts, a buffer area of a minimum depth of 75 feet will be required. Such a buffer area shall be completely constructed and approved by the City prior to all final City inspections for construction of site. Prior to the issuance of a building permit or commencement of any improvements on site, the owner shall provide the City with a financial security of a minimum of 24 months approved by the City Attorney, to assure construction of the buffer area and site landscaping. Opinion 2: All yard area shall either be landscaped green areas or open and left in a natural state. Yards to be landscaped shall be landscaped attractively with lawn, trees and shrubs in accordance with a plan prepared by a landscape architect. Areas left in a natural state shall be kept free of letter, debris and noxious weeds. Draft (revised 10-28-91) page 8 Yards adjoining any residential zone shall contain a buffer area consisting of berming, landscaping and/or fencing for the purpose of screening noise, sight, sound and glare. A reasonable attempt shall be made to preserve as many existing trees as is practical and to incorporate them into the site plan. Where areas abut residential districts, a buffer area of a minimum depth of 100 feet will be required. Such a buffer area shall be completely constructed and approved by the City prior to all final City inspections for construction on site. Prior to the issuance of a building permit or commencement of any improvements on site, the owner shall provide the City with a financial security for a minimum of 24 months, approved by the City Attorney, to assure construction of the buffer area. 4. SIGNAGE: All signs shall be of a design and material approved by the City. Unless otherwise approved by the City, all signs must be attached to a building, parallel to and contiguous with, its walls, and not projecting above its roof line. No signs of flashing or moving character shall be installed on any building wall, door, or window and no sign shall be painted on any building wall, door, or window. 5. CITY SERVICES IMPACT FEE: All businesses will be assessed an annual impact fee for City services in accordance with the additional demand they would bring. (The guaging of the fee and wording of this should be developed with consultation with City Staff and City Attorney). 6. LIGHTING: Opinion 1: Plans for new developments shall include a lighting plan denoting the location, type and height of lighting fixtures and the illumination patterns shown on a site plan. Glare whether direct or reflected, such as from floodlights or high temperature processes, and as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be visible at any property line. The source of lights shall be hooded and controlled. Bare incandescent light bulbs shall not be permitted in view of adjacent property or public right-of-way. Opinion 2: Plans for new developments shall include a lighting plan denoting the location, type and height of lighting fixtures and the illumination patterns shown on a site plan. Glare whether direct or reflected, such as from floodlights or high temperature processes, and as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be visible at any property line. 7. TRAFFIC: No use shall be allowed unless the property owner provides a road plan acceptable to the City, which shall demonstrate, at a minimum, that the proposed use and resulting traffic will not adversely affect the then existing traffic of the City. All private roads must comply with existing City Ordinance, with construction and maintenance being the sole responsibility of the property owner. 1991 PLANNING COMMISSION WORK PLAN The Job of the Planning Commission is to review all applications in accordance to the Comprehensive Plan, comment and make recommendations to the City Council. Meet with the County and and adjacent community planners to discuss common issues on an "as -needed" basis. 1.AAA Highway Ordinances: a. MUSA/Business Park/Office Park Ordinance. b. Limited Business Ordinance. 2. AA Update Ordinances to relate to the Comp. Plan in conjunction with a recodification consultant. :J 3. AA Public Facilities (PF) Ordinance. 4. A Consider local responses to State of MN proposed revisions to Shoreland Management regulations. 5. A Future Road Plan (ties in with road design). 6. A Sign Ordinance. 7. A Standards for holding ponds (also for MUSA). 8. A Fill Ordinance. 9. A Driveway Ordinance. 10. A Lighting Standards 11. B Retention of wildlife habitat and wetland areas - adequacy of wetland overlay district. 12. B Economic Development Committee. 13. B City wide Landscape standards. 14. B Definition of garage and storage accessory structures for " different lot sizes up to 20 acres. 15. B Conditions or possible restrictions on residential subdivisions where large accessory structures exist. 16. B Review sideyard setbacks relative to lot size.