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Item No: 5B Meeting Date: Feb 15, 2006 Type of Business: CB Administrator Review: ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Consider Possible Amendment to the Walgreens PUD Relating to Parking Requirements Associated with the Belting Office Building Introduction: On October 10, 2005, the City Council approved Resolution 6633 which approved a single story, 8,300 square foot office development for Dr. Greg Belting. Dr. Belting is planning to relocate his chiropractic business from Silverview Plaza to his new building and then market the excess space to other area professionals. Regardless of the end users, the space would need to be utilized primarily as “Office” per the PUD allowances for this site. Discussion: The resolution of approval identified a number of conditions relating to the project which would need to be satisfied before construction could proceed. One such provision—shared parking—has proven difficult to overcome at this point, prompting Dr. Belting to return to the Council for reconsideration: 1. The applicant shall execute a cross access, joint parking and maintenance agreement with the owner of the Walgreens site and provide a copy of said document to the City for its records. The owner of the Walgreens site and Walgreens management are not presently consenting to any shared parking arrangements for the site which leaves Dr. Belting in the position to seek reconsideration from the City as the specific number of stalls provided on his site. A strict interpretation of the Code would require there to be 50 parking stalls on the lot—the adopted site plan only provides 43 stalls, seven stalls less than required. Dr. Belting asked the City Council to consider a Limited Use Agreement whereby the seven stalls could be shown on the Community Center parking lot, however the Council was not willing to lease or otherwise obligate stalls for off-site use. The Council however suggested that the PUD could be reconsidered to address parking requirements in that document where such flexibility is allowed. The parking requirements for an office type use in Mounds View are 8 stalls plus one stall per every 175 square feet of leased office space. After factoring out bathrooms, mechanical areas, entryways, stairwells and other “commons” areas, the number of required stalls at the Belting building decreases to 50. Dr. Belting asserts that the 43 stalls provided for the building would be more than adequate to meet the expected demands.