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Item No: 5A Meeting Date: April 18, 2007 Type of Business: Action City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Development Review for an additional building at Central Sandblasting, 2299 County Road H; Planning Case DE2007-002 Introduction: Central Sandblasting, represented by Matt Herbst, located at 2299 County Road H, is requesting a development review for a new approximately 11,000 square foot building to be built on the west side of their property. This expansion would increase the total building square footage by approximately 60 percent. Central Sandblasting and Herbst & Sons Construction Company both operate at this site and are owned and operated by the Herbst family. This expansion would help the company continue to be competitive in their market and be able to handle more projects at one time. Discussion: The Central Sandblasting property is 2.87 acres and zoned I-1, Industrial. They do abrasive blasting and specialize in the application of protective coatings and industrial coatings for structural steel. They have been in business since 1967, and in the same Mounds View location since 1973. They currently have about 25 employees, and plan to add another five to six employees with this expansion. The new building would be the same steel construction as their current building. They have recently been working to clean up the yard space and will continue to do so in preparation for construction. Parking According to the City’s parking code requirements, a manufacturing facility would be required to provide parking according to the following schedule: At least eight spaces plus one space for each two employees on each shift based on maximum planned employment or, at a minimum, at least eight spaces plus one space for each five hundred square feet of floor space. The current building size requires 45 parking spaces, and with the expansion, this number would increase to 67 spaces. The property is almost entirely either a gravel or asphalt surface, which allows an ample amount of available parking space. There are only a few designated parking spaces in the front of the current building, and the rest of the yard area is surfaced primarily with gravel. Most employees park inside the fenced yard area facing County Road H. The new building will have some additional asphalt around it, with several additional designated parking spaces in the front. Staff is confident that the site can support the building expansion in regards to parking, since parking is available almost anywhere on the site.