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Item No. 9A Staff Report No. Meeting Date: February 22, 1999 Type of Business: PH & CB WK: Work Session;PH:Public Hearing; CA:Consent Agenda;CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor& City Council From: James Ericson, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing and Consideration of Resolution no. 5312 Regarding a Conditional Use Permit for an Over-sized Garage Located at 8100 Long Lake Road, Requested by Richard Maki. Date of Report: February 18, 1999 Background: 8100 Long Lake Road is located at the northwest corner of Long Lake and Sherwood Roads. The property is approximately 13,700 square feet. The house and existing detached garage are set back toward the back of the lot and take access from Long Lake Road. The house, at 576 square feet, is presently larger than the existing two-stall garage,which is approximately 400 square feet. The applicant would like to expand the size of the garage by an additional 580 square feet to accommodate vintage and collector-type vehicles that are currently being stored outside. A Conditional Use Permit is required in this case due to the size of the proposed garage. Discussion: The size of the garage after the proposed expansion would be 980 square feet, which is significantly larger than the house. This type of"imbalance"has been discussed at previous meetings of the Planning Commission and City Council, with the general consensus being that a proportional relationship should be maintained between a house and garage. Even so, the City recently approved a similar request for an oversized garage located at 2185 Pinewood Drive--also a corner lot. In that case, however, the proposed garage was 53 percent larger than the house. In this case,the proposed garage at 8100 Long Lake Road would be 70 percent larger than the house. Dimensional Criteria All of the dimensional criteria associated with this request--setbacks, spacing between buildings, width of proposed garage, numbers of access point--satisfy the requirements as stated in Chapter 1104 of the Zoning Code. The back of the proposed addition maintains the currently-existing setback. The requirement that the combined area of accessory buildings shall not exceed twenty percent of the rear yard does not apply in this case, as there effectively is no backyard on this property due to the depth at which the home has been constructed on the lot.