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Item No: 10 C Meeting Date: May 22, 2000 Type of Business: PH & 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, Planner Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing, Discussion and Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit for an Oversized Garage at 2832 Woodale Drive Date of Report: May 17, 2000 Background: The applicant, Thomas Stampfle, is requesting approval of a conditional use permit to construct a 1,248 square-foot garage on his property located at 2832 Woodale Drive. The heavily wooded 37,000 square-foot lot is well maintained and improved with an older, one and a half story cape cod and a small two-car garage attached to the home by a breezeway. The existing garage will be demolished to make room for the proposed garage, which would be built in the same location attached to the breezeway in the side yard. There is a small 10 x 10 shed on the property, hidden in the woods. Discussion: Section 1106.4, Subdivision 6, lists the specific conditional use permit requirements for garages larger than 952 square feet. These requirements, such as setbacks and maximum square-footage would be met with this proposal. The setbacks for an accessory structure are five feet; the applicant is proposing to reconstruct the garage 10 feet from the side property line and 70 feet from the street. The Code sets an upper limit of accessory storage space on a property at 1,400 square feet. With the proposed garage and the shed in the woods, there would be 1,348 square feet of accessory buildings on this lot, fifty-two square feet less than the maximum allowed. According to Section 1125.01, Subd. 3, of the Zoning Code, the City Council is to consider eight general conditional use permit requirements in addition to the advice and recommendation of the Planning Commission. These general criteria with responses are as follows: 1. The use will not create an excessive burden on existing parks, schools, streets and other public facilities and utilities which serve or are proposed to serve the area. It is not expected that the oversized garage would have any impact on existing parks, schools, streets and other public facilities and utilities which serve this area. 2. The use will be sufficiently compatible or separated by distance or screening from adjacent residentially zoned or used land so that existing homes will not be depreciated in value and there will be no deterrence to development of vacant land. In addition to a privacy fence alongside the existing garage, this lot is heavily wooded which acts as a natural buffer and screen between the proposed garage and neighboring properties. It is not expected that the proposed garage would detrimentally impact either the subject