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Item No: 5A Meeting Date: February 15, 2006 Type of Business: Action City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Plan Review for a C.G. Hill building expansion; Planning Case DE2006-001 Introduction: Applicant and property owner Tim Hill is requesting a plan review for a proposed 16,150 square foot building addition to be added onto the east side of his existing building. This expansion would increase the building size by approximately 50 percent. C.G Hill has been located in Mounds View since 1994 and is a growing company. This expansion would help the company continue to be competitive in their market along with being able to add a new assembly line to their facility. Discussion: The C.G. Hill property is zoned Planned Unit Development (PUD) with allowed uses that include commercial and industrial. C.G. Hill is a custom equipment manufacturing company that currently has 48 employees. Their building was constructed in 1994 and at that time, future expansion plans for the building were included on the drawings. The expansion that is being proposed at this time is exactly what was on the original building plans. Parking. There are presently 79 parking stalls on the site with space available to add 11 more for a total of 90 possible spaces. The current amount of spaces has been more than enough to serve the employees and a few daily visitors. In fact, the back one to two rows in the parking lot are always empty. The PUD process provides some flexibility in determining what the actual parking space count should be. 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. At maximum expansion, this would result in the need to provide a total of 103 parking stalls when based on total square footage for the building. The building size without the addition requires 71 parking spaces. The added space to the building is needed for large assembly line equipment, not employees. C.G. Hill plans to only hire about four additional employees after the addition is completed. Staff is confident that the site can support the building expansion without increasing the number of parking spaces.