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Item No: 5B <br />Meeting Date: May 17, 2006 <br />Type of Business: Commission Business <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit for an <br />Oversized Garage at 5308 St. Stephen Street; <br />Planning Case No. CU2006-004 <br /> <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />The applicant, Mark McKay, is requesting approval of a conditional use permit to construct an <br />oversized garage on his property at 5308 St. Stephen Street. The current garage will be <br />demolished and a new larger attached garage would be constructed. The current garage <br />size is 24’x22’ (528 square feet). The applicant would like to build a new garage that would <br />be the same width but would be 46 feet deep. <br /> <br />The plot plan submitted indicate a garage area in excess of what is allowed without a <br />conditional use permit. Accessory buildings, attached or detached, are limited to 952 square <br />feet. Anything beyond 952 square feet must go through a conditional use permit application <br />process. The garage proposed for 5308 St. Stephen Street would be 1,104 square feet. The <br />applicant indicates that he would like the extra depth in order to park a third vehicle in the <br />garage and for storage. The applicant’s lot is not wide enough to add another garage stall on <br />the side. <br /> <br /> <br />Requirements: <br /> <br />Section 1106.03, Subd. 1: This part of the Code limits the height of an accessory building, <br />the number of accessory buildings and the backyard coverage ratio of accessory buildings. <br />A Conditional Use Permit (CUP) is required for garages exceeding 952 square feet. <br /> <br />Section 1106.04, Subd. 6: This part of the Code enumerates the conditions for garages <br />exceeding 952 square feet, which are that the garage be permanent, be uniform in <br />appearance with the home, not exceed 35 feet in width, and not exceed 1,800 square feet of <br />total accessory building area on the lot. <br />Section 1125.01, Subd. 1: The Planning Commission is required to review the possible <br />adverse effects of the requested conditional use. <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />The request for a Conditional Use Permit to construct the 1,104 square foot garage satisfies <br />the requirements as stated in Section 1106.03 and 1106.04, Subdivision 6 of the Mounds <br />View Zoning Code. All setback and dimensional requirements would be satisfied with this <br />request. With the garage addition, the backyard coverage ratio would be 10.6%.