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Mounds View Planning Commission April 15, 2009 Regular Meeting Page 2 ________________________________________________________________________ 5. Planning Cases A. Planning Cases CU2009-001 and VR2009-002 – Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit for Outdoor Seasonal Sales at Robert’s Sports Bar (2400 County Road H2) Community Development Director Roberts stated Robert’s Sports Bar, located at 2400 County Road H2 applied for a Conditional Use Permit for Outdoor Seasonal Sales. He stated the Planning Commission heard this issue at the April 1, 2009 meeting and had several questions regarding security, traffic control and vendors. There was much discussion about the proposal and the Planning Commission tabled the issue, with the intent that the matter be brought back before the Commission at the next meeting Director Roberts provided an overview of the proposed parking from the April 1, 2009 meeting. He indicated the City Code only allows for 30 percent of the building square footage to be available for outside sales. He stated that amounted to 20 parking spaces. The applicant was proposing to use 98 spaces for outside seasonal sales, which would result in the need for a variance. Director Roberts stated for a variance there are seven criteria listed in the City Code that must be met. He stated this outside sales area would be a large increase from the amount allowed by the City Code but he believes the City Code was not necessarily written for this type of outside sales. Director Roberts indicated at the last meeting the Planning Commission compromised with general support for having 50 percent of the parking for vendors and 50 percent of the parking for customers. This equates to approximately 80 spaces for each. He stated the applicant has provided a new plan that has 81 spaces on the east side of the building for the use of outside sales leaving 87 spaces for employee and customer parking. Director Roberts stated the Planning Commission has two requests to review tonight; the conditional use permit and the variance request. He stated if the conditional use permit is approved, the variance request should be addressed with the square footage needing to be filled in on the resolution. He stated these issues are scheduled for a public hearing with the City Council at their next meeting on April 27, 2009. Chair Stevenson stated he did not see the documentation about the concerns that were addressed at the previous Planning Commission meeting in the packet. He stated it would be difficult for the Planning Commission to act on the issue without the answers to the information that was requested at the last meeting such as security, traffic and parking. Director Roberts stated that Mr. Halverson did not provide documentation because he is more comfortable giving a verbal explanation than giving something in writing. Chair Stevenson indicated the Planning Commission has not received an adequate response to the Commission’s concerns from the previous meeting. Commissioner Lang stated that the Planning Commission is no further along with this request than they were at the last meeting.