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City of Mounds View Staff Report April 6, 1998. Page 5 • m. A natural screen shall be erected and maintained along all property lines separating the site from any residential district. The screening shall include landscaping (trees, shrubs, grass, etc.) in compliance with Section 1103.08 of the Zoning Code. The applicant is showing such a natural screen on the landscape plan. The City Forester has reviewed the landscaping plans and the natural screen and finds it acceptable. This requirement is met. Other Issues: Access: The plans show only one access onto Highway 10. The driveway from the old Citgo site onto Highway 10 will be closed per MnDOT requirement in the attached letter to the City dated 3/5/98. There will be two curb-cuts servicing the property onto County Road I. The applicant will need to obtain permits and/or written permission from MnDOT and Ramsey County if any work is to be done in either jurisdiction's right of way. Landscaping: The applicant is proposing an extensive landscaping screen along County Road I along with various plantings in front of the proposed building expansion and in a parking island on the former Citgo site. In addition, plantings will be added behind the existing building. The planting screen along County Road I will consist primarily of six-foot Black Hills Spruce with • Goldflame Spirea and a Hackberry tree. Other plantings on the site will consist of Amur Maple clumps, Red Splendor Crab, and more Goldflame Spirea. The City Forester has reviewed the plant species and finds them acceptable. The City has retained the services of the Hoisington Koegler group to study the Highway 10 corridor and offer suggestions as to implementing a • common landscape or design theme along the corridor. While recommendations are not yet formulated, the City would request that Saturn allow for the installation or incorporation of design elements from the approved corridor theme into a portion of the 30-foot Highway 10 setback. Utilities: All of the utilities for the building expansion will be accessed through the existing building. No additional external lines or connections will need to be made. The Director of Public Works, Mike Ulrich, has reviewed the plans and has determined that the addition of a car wash at this location will not adversely affect the capacity or pressure of the current system. Lighting: The lighting plan submitted by the applicant conforms for the most part to City Code, as indicated in Item H of the CUP requirements, with one exception. The Code requires that footcandle readings be given to the centerline of any adjoining street. While the readings extend far beyond where a centerline would be along County Road H2, the centerline is not marked. Staff calculated that the footcandle readings would exceed Code requirements at the centerline of County Road H2 at the northwest corner of the lot and would require that the applicant resubmit the lighting plan using reduced-wattage bulbs in this location in order to lower the footcandle readings to a point below 1.0 at the centerline. In addition, where the second driveway had been 40 shown on Highway 10, an additional light assembly has been added with no change to the footcandle readings. The photometrics should be recalculated to account for the additional light assembly. Refer to the lighting attachment to this report for a visual explanation.