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Y City of Mounds View Staff Report Planning Case No. 472-97; Spot's Quick Lube,Inc. • April 8, 1997 Page 2 along Spring Lake Road, approximately 170 feet from the intersection of Highway 10 and Spring Lake Road. The areas shown for drives and parking will have new paving installed. The remaining non-impervious surface will be sodded and landscaped according to their landscape plan, which has been reviewed and approved by the City Forester and the Planning Commission. The existing fence on the site will be removed and replaced with a 6-foot wooden fence located as shown on the site plan. Lighting The applicant has specified two types of lighting on the site: 20 foot poles with two 400 watt luminaires and seven 175 watt wall pack lights. The photometrics for this lighting configuration complies with the City's lighting requirements. A condition has been included in the resolution which would require that the pole lights be turned off when the business is closed. Signage The signage proposed is noted on the plan. It includes one twenty-foot pylon sign along Highway 10 with 48 square feet of internally illuminated signage. (The maximum signage for pylon signs is 340 square feet at a height not to exceed 35 feet.) There is also an entrance sign, and two small directional signs proposed, each sign being six square feet in size at a maximum height of two 4110 feet. The height limit of two feet is important for the entrance sign so it does not obscure motorists' vision as they exit the site. There will be four signs on the building: the company name on both the front and rear sides (10.5 square feet each), and enter and exit signs (4.5 square feet each). This amounts to 30 square feet of signage on the building, which is within the 100 square-foot limit imposed by the Code. Drainage The applicant will be installing two catch basins on the site to help route water to the Highway 10 drainage ditch. The amount of drainage runoff is expected to decrease since, under the applicant's plan, impervious surface will be decreased and landscaped areas will be increased. MnDOT is requiring the applicant to provide them with existing and proposed drainage calculations to verify that drainage volumes will not be increasing. The applicant will need to obtain a permit from MnDOT before doing any work in their right-of-way. Staff sent a copy of the site and drainage plans to MnDOT for their review, to which they have responded favorably. Spring Lake Road Reconstruction Spring Lake Road is scheduled for reconstruction and widening in 1998. The applicant will need to dedicate to the City a permanent 10 foot roadway easement along the east property line. A copy of the executed Roadway Easement accomplishing this has been included for the Council's reference. Comprehensive Plan • This property is designated as low density residential in the Comprehensive Plan. It is currently zoned for a commercial use and has been used commercially for the past 30 plus years, although it has been vacant the last two years. Minnesota State law gives precedence to zoning when there is