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Item No: 10 D <br />Meeting Date: May 22, 2000 <br />Type of Business: PH & CB <br />WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; <br />CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor & City Council <br />From: James Ericson, Planner <br />Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing, Discussion and Consideration of a <br />Conditional Use Permit for Outdoor Storage at 4749 <br />Old Highway 8 <br />Date of Report: May 18, 2000 <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The applicant, ASC Properties, LLC., represented by Bruce Hasselbring, is requesting <br />approval of a conditional use permit to allow for a 1,920 square-foot outdoor chain- <br />link fenced enclosure in which to store materials used by the building’s tenant, Ace <br />Supply Company. The Zoning Code allows for outdoor storage in an industrial <br />district, but only through a conditional use permit. The 1.97 acre lot bordering the <br />City of New Brighton is improved with a two-story, 38,000 square-foot office- <br />warehouse building. The Planning Commission recently approved a side-yard <br />setback variance for the applicant when ASC took ownership of the property earlier <br />this year. The outdoor storage is desired to alleviate the inherent difficulties of <br />maneuvering 10 and 15-foot sections of PVC pipe inside the building. <br /> <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />While outdoor storage in an industrial district is conditionally permitted, there are no <br />specific conditions attached to this accessory use. According to Section 1125.01, <br />Subd. 3, of the Zoning Code, the City Council is to consider eight general conditional <br />use permit requirements in addition to the advice and recommendation of the <br />Planning Commission. These general criteria with responses are as follows: <br /> <br />1. The use will not create an excessive burden on existing parks, schools, streets and <br />other public facilities and utilities which serve or are proposed to serve the area. <br /> <br /> It is not expected that the enclosed, outdoor storage area would have any impact <br />on existing parks, schools, streets and other public facilities and utilities which <br />serve this area. <br /> <br />2. The use will be sufficiently compatible or separated by distance or screening from <br />adjacent residentially zoned or used land so that existing homes will not be <br />depreciated in value and there will be no deterrence to development of vacant <br />land. <br /> <br />There are no adjacent or nearby residential properties, nor are there any