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Mounds View Planning Commission June 21, 2006 <br />Regular Meeting Page 10 <br />________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />LandCor has finally found a tenant that would lease the entire building but they require a garage <br />space. Since the PUD also states that parking on the site is only allowed during business hours, <br />any tenant that had company vehicles would not be able to leave them outside at the building <br />over night. <br /> <br />Ms. Heller commented that it appears amending the PUD to allow for an accessory building <br />would have no adverse impacts and would be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Staff <br />supports the amendment to allow for one attached garage on the site. The site drawings propose <br />that the garage will extend about 30 feet from the front of the building. This is due to the <br />wetlands in the back of the property. The garage is the size they need to support the company <br />that will occupy it. It is 25 feet wide and 80 feet long on the side attached to the building. The <br />square footage is 1,864 feet. <br /> <br />Chair Stevenson noted the square footage does not appear in the staff report or on the resolution. <br /> <br />Ms. Heller stated that she did not know the size at the time. She only received the information on <br />Friday. <br /> <br />Chair Stevenson asked about the loading area reference. Ms. Heller deferred to LandCor to <br />address the question. <br /> <br />Mr. John Brickley, LandCor, indicated that the proposed tenant regularly receives deliveries of <br />large cylinders of sign materials, up to 24 feet long, that are then cut on the laser machines. The <br />loading area is actually a scissor lift that comes out of the ground to pull materials off the <br />delivery trucks. The company also does vehicle signage wrapping and the length and width of <br />the garage enables vehicles up to a semi truck size to pull all the way into the garage. The garage <br />is necessary for working on the vehicles all year round. This is a significant part of the business. <br />This building has not leased, as they would have liked. They plan to build the garage to have the <br />same look and feel as the current building. The docking door on the front of the building will be <br />the only thing identifying it as a garage. The rest of the garagee will have the same look and feel <br />as the rest of the building so that it will not look like a garage. They are taking the extra steps to <br />keep it looking like a professional office building. <br /> <br />Commissioner Hegland asked what the business does. Mr. Brickley said advertising signage and <br />graphics is the business that will occupy the building. <br /> <br />Mr. Bob Fields, Mounds View Offices, LandCor, is the owner of the property and the retail <br />building adjacent to the movie theater. He stated they tried developing the property many years <br />ago working with Louise O’Neil. Mrs. O’Neil passed away recently and they will be buying it <br />from her estate in about 12 months. It is currently under ground lease. They have had difficulty <br />attracting a serious client for that building. Many people have approached him for the building, <br />but he was unable to accommodate their ownership requirements. This particular business is <br />willing to lease for a number of years and then purchase it after the Louise O’Neil estate is <br />settled. He reiterated that materials would be used to match up with the building that is currently