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,.: .- .. <br />�; <br />Mounds View Animal Hospital Dev. Review <br />August 15, 2001 <br />Page 2 <br />Dimensional ReQUirements <br />Building Setbacks: <br />Front (Co. Hwy. 10): <br />Front (Eastwood}: <br />Side (NW): <br />Parking Lot Setbacks: <br />Front (Co. Rd. I.): <br />Front (Eastwood}: <br />Side {NW): <br />Required <br />30 feet <br />30 feet <br />20 feet <br />12 feet* <br />5 feet* <br />5 feet <br />Proposed: <br />57 feet <br />35 feet <br />20 feet <br />12 feet <br />5.5 feet <br />5.5 feet <br />Compliance <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />" These requirements are as allowetl by Resolution 665-01, a resolution approving a variance for reduced <br />parking lot setbacks. <br />Parkin <br />According the City Code, Section 1121.13, animal hospitals require three (3} spaces plus <br />one (1 } space for each one hundred seventy five (175} square feet of floor area. The <br />applicant's proposed facility would be 5,086 gross square feet, and 4,317 square feet of <br />usable space, which is typically useci for calculating parking spaces. This calculation <br />eliminates the width of exterior walls and mechanical areas within the structure. The <br />required parking, based on usable square feet, is twenty=seven {27} spaces. As shown on <br />the site plan, twenty-seven (27) spaces would be provided. <br />Access <br />As shown on the site plan, two {2) access points to the site are proposed. One is located <br />on Eastwood Road and the other on County Highway 10. At a previous Planning <br />Commission hearing, residents indicated that the additional traffic entering and exiting the <br />site on Eas#wood Road would negatively affect the neighborhood. Their desire was to <br />eliminate the access point on Eastwood Road and only allow access from County Highway <br />10. The applicants have addressed this issue by indicating that a mi�imal amount of <br />appointments can be made at one time, thus limiting the amount of traffic to the site at a <br />given time. <br />Staff feels that the access point on Eastwood Road is important since the access point on <br />County Highway 10 would only allow right-inl right-out traffic. The Eastwood Road entrance <br />would ailow customers to use the traffic light at County Road i for safe access to and from <br />the site. The only concern staff has iu e� f�omeone to fhefo he wh ch may e cour�age c�ut <br />to each other. There is a straight ro <br />through traffic from Eastwood Road to County Highway 10. A more indirect route through <br />the parking lot may discourage cut-through traffic or at least minimize the speed of this type <br />of traffic. <br />