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Item No: 5A Meeting Date: September 6, 2013 Type of Business: Public Hearing City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Variance request to allow reduced parking lot setbacks at Tires N’ More, 2832 County Road 10; Planning Case VR2013-008 Introduction: The applicant, Naoufel Soussi, owner of Tires N’ More at 2832 County Road 10, will be installing a new parking lot with curbing, and is requesting variances for reduced parking lot setbacks on three sides of the property. The previous owners of the building had originally intended to redevelop the property along with the CVS development and was working with Velmeir (the CVS developer) on improving the parking lot and sharing the County Road 10 driveway access . The applicant’s rear parking lot was removed by Velmeir in anticipation of reconstruction that would be done with CVS’s parking lot. The previous owner did not sign off on the plans, so Velmeir did not complete the 2832 County Road 10 building’s parking lot and it remains uncompleted. Discussion: Mr. Soussi purchased the property at 2832 County Road 10 and is using the existing building that was built in 1965. This property does not have its own access to County Road 10 and must share access driveways with the adjoining properties. There are driveway and parking easements in place with both the Simon’s building at 2840 County Road 10 and the CVS Pharmacy property at 2800 County Road 10. The Tires N’ More building is not sitting parallel to County Road 10, so because of this and the angle of the front property line, the front parking lot is small and not safe to have more than one vehicle maneuvering in the front parking lot at a time. Instead, the applicant primarily uses the CVS County Road 10 driveway for access to his business. The building currently has asphalt only in the front and along the west side of the building, and both of these areas are paved up to the property line. The applicant has requested a 5 foot setback for the front parking lot, which would match the 5 foot parking lot setbacks at CVS (they were granted variances for reduced parking lot setbacks). When Velmeir installed the CVS parking lot, they also paved and installed curb in the easement area on the southeast side of the Tires N’ More property that CVS is using. Mr. Soussi will be leaving this curb as is. The required and requested parking lot setbacks for this property are: Required Requested Front: 30 feet 5 feet West: 20 feet* 0 feet (for about half of the lot, then it will be 20 feet). East: 5 feet 0 feet Rear: 5 feet Will meet 5 foot setback requirement *Commercial parking lot setback requirements are larger when abutting residential properties