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Item No: 7C Meeting Date: Jan 23, 2006 Type of Business: CB Administrator Review : ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Consider Request to Utilize the Community Center Parking Lot for Proof of Parking Associated with the Belting Office Building Introduction: On October 10, 2005, the City Council approved Resolution 6633 which approved a single story, 8,300 square foot office development for Dr. Greg Belting. Dr. Belting would relocate his practice from Silverview Plaza to his new building and then market the excess space to other area professionals. Regardless of the end users, the space would need to be utilized primarily as “Office” per the PUD allowances for this site. Discussion: The resolution of approval identified a number of conditions relating to the project which would need to be satisfied before construction could proceed. One such provision—share parking—has proven difficult to overcome at this point, prompting Dr. Belting to return to the Council for reconsideration: 1. The applicant shall execute a cross access, joint parking and maintenance agreement with the owner of the Walgreens site and provide a copy of said document to the City for its records. The owner of the Walgreens site and Walgreens are presently not consenting to any shared parking arrangements for the site which leaves Dr. Belting in the position to seek authorization from the City Council to waive the provision of the seven stalls the site is deficient or to seek approval to utilize the Community Center parking lot as the location of the seven missing stalls. The typical parking requirements for an office type use are 8 stalls plus one stall per every 175 square feet of leased office space. For an office building with a gross area of 8300 square feet, 55 parking stalls would need to be provided. Because the City calculates parking needs on a net basis, factoring out bathrooms, mechanical areas, entryways, stairwells and other similar areas, the number of required stalls at the Belting building decreases to 50. The site plans indicate provision of 43 stalls; the remaining seven stalls were to be available on the adjacent Walgreens site. In reality, the 43 stalls provided for the building would likely be adequate to meet the expected demands. Dr. Belting requests that the Council consider three options relating to his parking dilemma: 1. Waive the requirement to provide the additional 7 stalls 2. Allow proof of parking on the Community Center parking lot 3. Amend the PUD to require only 43 stalls for the 8,300 square foot building