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Mounds View Planning Commission September 6, 2000 Regular Meeting Page 7 MOTION/SECOND: Miller/Stevenson to approve Resolution 632-00, a Resolution Denying the Variance Request of Jim and Judy Trapp to Construct a Gazebo one foot from the North Property Line of 8018 Sunnyside Road. Ayes – 6 Nays - 0 Motion carried. 7. Planning Case No. VR00-007 Property Involved: 7664 Greenfield Avenue Discussion and Consideration of Resolution No. 633-00, a Resolution Approving a Parking Lot Setback Variance Applicant: Tony Mezzenga Tony Mezzenga, the applicant representing the property owner Ernest Gustafson, was present. Planner Ericson gave the Staff report as follows: Tony Mezzenga, representing the property owner Ernest Gustafson, is requesting approval of a variance to construct a small, split-level office building on the undeveloped lot at the southwest corner of County Road I and Greenfield Avenue. The variance is requested for reduced parking lot and building setbacks. This 13,068 square-foot property is zoned B-3, Highway Business. The size of the lot, however, does present practical difficulties in terms of what can be developed, which has left the lot up to this point unimproved. County Road I is the second-most traveled roadway in the City. 1997 traffic counts show as many as 8,700 vehicles use this part of County Road I on a daily basis and projections are such that the volume is expected to increase as development progresses east of Interstate 35W. This lot borders commercial property to the west (Tom Thumb and a Laundromat), high density residential to the east, and low density residential to the south and north. The proposed office use is consistent with the B-3 zoning designation and is a less intensive use which would fit well into the predominately residential surroundings. Planner Ericson advised that Staff has met with Mr. Mezzenga and Mr. Gustafson on numerous occasions in an effort to draft a site plan that could be developed for the property. The size of the lot and the extent of the setback requirements however are impediments toward that goal. He presented the required setbacks in a B-3 district, noting the applicant has submitted a site plan for a 3,480 square-foot split-level office building with 2,975 square feet of usable office space. For that much area, the Code requires provision of 20 parking stalls. To construct a building of that size and a parking lot to accommodate 20 vehicles, variances would need to be approved to reduce the side and rear building setbacks from 20 feet to 10 feet and to reduce the parking lot setbacks from 30 feet and 20 feet to 4 feet and 15 feet.