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Item No: 5E Meeting Date: June 7, 2006 Type of Business: Action City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate tor Express building 6-002 troduction: roperty owner Midwest Motor Express is requesting a development review for a roposed 10,500 square foot building addition to be added onto the east side of the existing ion: otor Express property is zoned Industrial with motor freight terminals being allowed s a conditional use. With the expansion, they expect to hire about 8 -10 new employees: 4 or 5 the site also includes a 3-bay repair garage on the est side of the building. Midwest Motor Express would like to add a 70’ x 150’ expansion (to the mprehensive Plan esignates the current and future land use specifically as “heavy industrial.” Item Title/Subject: Development Review for Midwest Mo expansion; Planning Case DE200 In Applicant and p p building at 2169 Mustang Drive. Midwest Motor Express is a transportation service company that currently has about 80 employees. This expansion would increase the building size by approximately 50 percent. Midwest Motor Express 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. They provide direct trucking services to 13 states in the Midwest and western United States. Discuss The Midwest M a drivers, a couple of dock workers and a couple of office personnel. The building was constructed in 1974 as a trucking terminal, and was expanded once in 1994 by 3,500 square feet along with surfacing approximately 90,000 square feet. The building is currently 19,000 square feet and w north end of their building. They would also be expanding their parking area at the north end of the lot. This building expansion would be for warehouse space and an additional 24 dock doors (12 on each side of the building). They are not expanding the building in anticipation of additional business, but want to be able to perform their dock operations in a more efficient and productive manner. They do not anticipate additional truck traffic after the expansion. This property is zoned Industrial and is just over eight acres in size. The Co d Parking: According to the City’s parking code requirements, this facility would be required to rovide parking according to the following schedule: At least eight spaces plus one space for each p 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.