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<br />Item No: 6A <br />Meeting Date: May 1, 2013 <br />Type of Business: Planning Case <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit for Outdoor Sales and <br />Display at 2701 County Road 10; Planning Case CU2011-001 <br /> <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />The applicant, Clair Martin with Northwood Industries, is requesting approval of a conditional use <br />permit to have outdoor sales and displays on the property located at 2701 County Road 10. This <br />is the site of the former Hostess Bakery Outlet store. Northwood Industries is based in Hayward, <br />Wisconsin, and manufactures and sells lawn furniture, gazebos, accessory buildings and small <br />cabins. They want to open a store in the Twin Cities metro area and are proposing to use an <br />asphalt area on the southeast side of the parking lot for outdoor sales to display gazebos and <br />sheds. This property is zoned B-3, Highway Business, and the City Code allows outdoor sales as <br />a conditional use in B-3 districts. <br /> <br />City Code Requirements: <br /> <br />Section 1114.04 (Conditional Uses in the B-3 zoning district) <br /> <br />Subd. 5: Open or outdoor service, sale and rental as a principal or accessory use and including <br />sales in or from motorized vehicles, trailers or wagons for a period greater than ten (10) days. <br /> <br /> a. Outside services, sales and equipment rental connected with the principal use is limited <br />to thirty percent (30%) of the gross floor area of the principal use. <br /> <br /> b. Outside sales areas are fenced or screened from view of neighboring identical uses or <br />an abutting R District in compliance with subdivisions 1103.08(l) through (5) of this Title. <br /> <br /> c. All lighting shall be hooded and so directed that the light source shall not be visible from <br />the public right of way or from neighboring residences and shall be in compliance with <br />sections 1103.08 and 1103.09 of this Title. <br /> <br /> d. Sales area is grassed or surfaced to control dust. <br /> <br /> e. The open or outdoor service, sale or rental use does not take up parking space as <br />required for conformity of this Title. <br /> <br /> f. The provisions of subdivision 1125.01(1)e of this Title are considered and satisfactorily <br />met.