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Mounds View City Council January 23, 2006 Regular Meeting Page 10 for Dr. Greg Belting. Mr. Ericson explained that the building is located in between Mounds 1 View Community Center and Walgreens. 2 3 Director Ericson explained that there is a provision in the resolution of approval that requires the 4 Beltings to execute a cross access, joint parking and maintenance agreement with the adjoining 5 Walgreens site. Director Ericson stated that Walgreens is not willing to consent to such an 6 agreement at this time. He also stated that the local management of the Walgreens store said that 7 overflow parking is not a big deal; however, this has not been obtained by writing. 8 9 Director Ericson noted that the Belting building is seven stalls short on parking. Based on the 10 square footage of the building and parking requirements, the building requires 50 parking stalls 11 and there are currently 43 stalls. He is asking the Council for consideration as to where the seven 12 additional stalls can be located. 13 14 Director Ericson stated that the Council considers three options relating to the parking dilemma. 15 He explained that the first option is to allow parking in seven stalls in the Community Center 16 parking lot. Director Erickson explained that there is adequate parking at the Community Center, 17 but he is not sure the Community Center wants to start to obligate or parcel off parking spots. He 18 stated that the Beltings have indicated they will likely never need the stalls, and if they do, they 19 would park as far away from the Community Center as possible. 20 21 Director Ericson explained that the second option is to waive the requirement to provide the 22 additional seven stalls. He stated that this it not typically done and it opens the door for 23 precedent for other entities to ask for the same type of consideration in the future. 24 25 Director Erickson stated that the third option is for the applicants to apply for a variance process 26 with the Planning Commission. He stated there may be some hardship in this option as the 27 development was approved with the vision of joint parking and recognition that there would be 28 some overflow parking for either site. 29 30 Director Ericson stated that the Beltings are asking for relief and it is his personal opinion that 31 the building will never need the seven stalls. He stated that he hesitates for the City Council to 32 waive the requirement for the seven stalls. He stated the PUD process was created and intended 33 to allow for flexibility. He stated it allows for joint planning and looking at development on a 34 more comprehensive basis and that is why the parcel on the site was developed for interplay with 35 two uses. 36 37 Director Ericson stated that joint parking was intended in the development agreement, but it 38 cannot be documented in writing because the Walgreens owners do not agree. 39 40 Director Ericson stated that the Beltings would like some consideration from City Council 41 regarding this issue. He explained that the alternative to not being able to park in the Community 42 Center lot would be either to have a waiver of the additional seven stalls or an amendment to the 43 PUD. He added that if these alternatives cannot be achieved, the Beltings would have to cut off 44