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Item No: 7A Meeting Date: July 22, 2002 Type of Business: PH & CB City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing and Consideration of a request to Remove Lot 2, Block 1, Anthony Properties Addition, from the Theater Planned Unit Development (PUD) Agreement. Date of Report: July 17, 2002 Background: Rob and Tony Jacob, owners of the Jake’s Sports Café (Formerly Donatelles an d Knotty Pine) have entered into an agreement to purchase the unimproved office parcel adjacent to Jakes to expand their parking lot. Jake’s currently does not satisfy the City’s parking requirements for a bar / restaurant of its size and as evidence of t hat, often Jake’s parking overflows onto the theater parking lot and onto County Road H2 right of way. Further exacerbating an already difficult parking situation is the City’s planned reconstruction of County Road H2, which will cause an additional loss of at least 13 parking stalls and will force the Jacobs to reconstruct the existing parking lot as a result. The proposed purchase of the adjacent lot will allow Jake’s to expand their parking lot, thereby complying with the City’s parking requirements an d eliminating the overflow parking on the theater’s lot. Discussion: The theater development was approved by the City Council on May 11, 1998. The PUD document indicates that the parcel in question, Lot 2, Block 1, be developed as a single - story, 11,000 square foot office building (similar to the office building constructed on the adjoining lot to the east currently leased to the Mounds View School District.) As indicated above, the Jacobs are now in control of the lot and desire to incorporate the lo t into the Jakes site to provide additional parking for the business. While parking is an identified allowed use within the theater PUD, because the lot would not longer be associated with the theater development (and would have no direct access to the th eater development) staff would recommend that the lot be removed from the theater PUD and Developers Agreement to facilitate its incorporation into the Jake’s development. Ramifications: Removing this parcel from the theater PUD and developers agreemen t would provide for the ability to utilize the property in a fashion not originally contemplated when the theater PUD was drafted. The implications of this action are that the provisions of the PUD would no longer apply to this parcel, that the Zoning Cod e would apply as if there were no PUD. The issues that need to be discussed and addressed relating to this proposal are