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Item No: 10 A Meeting Date: February 26, 2001 Type of Business: CB WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Discussion and Consideration of Resolution 5527, a Resolution Approving a Development Review for an Office Building at 7664 Greenfield Avenue, Planning Case DE00-002 Date of Report: February 21, 2001 Background: Tony Mezzenga, who is under contract to purchase the property at 7664 Greenfield Avenue, is requesting approval of a Development Review to construct a one and a half story office building with a 2,000 square-foot footprint on the property. The site plan is consistent with the setback and parking area variance that was approved by the Planning Commission on September 13, 2000. The resolution is attached for Council reference. This 13,068 square-foot property is zoned B-3, Highway Business. The size of the lot and corner-lot setbacks present practical difficulties in terms of what can be developed, which was the basis for the variance approved for the lot in 2000. 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 would fit well into the predominately residential surroundings and is consistent with the B-3 zoning designation. Discussion: At the Council meeting on February 12, 2001, there was much discussion regarding the screening issue. The property owner to the south, Herb Zwirn, has expressed a strong desire that his property, or more specifically, his backyard, be screened from the office building. Because Mr. Zwirn and Mr. Mezzenga had not worked out the details of this arrangement, the Council chose to table action. While staff believes a workable solution is on the table for consideration, as of the writing of this report, the two parties had still not come to an agreement. Mr. Zwirn would like an eight-foot tall privacy fence, yet does not want to part with his own chain link fence, which is set in a continuous decorative concrete edging that runs the perimeter of his backyard. Mr. Mezzenga suggested that a six-foot tall wood privacy fence could be fitted over the poles so as to not disturb the concrete edging, with additional supports located on Mr. Mezzenga’s property. The fence, which would begin even with the back of Mr. Zwirn’s house, would terminate at the southwest corner of Mezzenga’s property. A short section of fence would connect Mezzenga’s building to the