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of Mounds View Staff <br />Item No: 613 <br />Meeting ®ate: March 7, 2012 <br />Type of Business: Action <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Proposed Code Amendment — Chapter 1121.09 <br />Introduction: <br />After the discussion about driveways and parking areas in July, the Planning Commission <br />approved an addition into the zoning code regarding accessing parking areas that are <br />separate from the driveway. Staff has revisited the language, and reworded and expanded <br />on it. Staff has prepared a new resolution for the Commission to review and take action on. <br />Discussion: <br />Staff requests that the Planning Commission review the updated language. Based on the <br />discussion at the January 18, 2012, Planning Commission meeting, and the Commissions <br />concern with the readability of Section 7, staff has added "subsection a" for the new <br />additional language. <br />The change is indicated in the resolution by deleting the strlc n language and adding the <br />underlined text. <br />Previously approved language: If any parking area detached from the driveway is <br />utilized for frequently used vehicles, it shall be serviced by an improved driveway that <br />connects to, and is accessed only by, the primary driveway. <br />Updated language suggestion: All areas used regularly for the parking of a vehicle or <br />vehicles shall be serviced by an improved driveway adjoining to the property's primary <br />driveway. Access to separate parking areas shall be achieved only from the property's <br />approved curb cut opening at the street. Regularly accessing parking areas by other <br />means or locations shall be prohibited. <br />Recommendation: <br />The Planning Commission should review the updated zoning code amendment and <br />recommend changes or act on attached Resolution 956-12. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Heidi Heller <br />Planning Associate <br />