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<br />Item No: 5 <br />Meeting Date: February 16, 2005 <br />Type of Business: Public Hearing <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Kristin Prososki, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing and Consideration of a Variance to Allow <br />for a Reduced Number of Covered Parking Spaces at <br />Greenfield Estates Located at 2370 County Road I and <br />7521-7661 Greenfield Avenue; Planning Case VR2005- <br />002 <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />The applicant, Alan Menning, representing The Tycon Companies, is proposing to demolish <br />the existing garages and construct new garages at Greenfield Estates located at 2370 <br />County Road I and 7521 – 7661 Greenfield Avenue. The proposal includes demolishing the <br />existing 126 individually divided garage stalls and constructing 78 new garage stalls in a <br />drive through style. The Zoning Code requires one covered parking space per unit. <br />Greenfield Estates has 125 units and would be required to have 125 covered parking <br />spaces. The applicant is requesting a variance from this requirement that would allow them <br />to have 78 covered parking spaces, which is 47 less than the required amount. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Parking requirements are addressed in Section 1121.13 of the Zoning Code. The Code <br />requires that multiple-family dwellings provide one and one half uncovered parking spaces <br />and one covered space per unit. Greenfield Estates has a total of 125 units. The applicant <br />is requesting to be allowed to reduce the number of covered parking spaces to 78 and <br />provide 247 uncovered parking spaces. The table below shows the existing and proposed <br />number of parking stalls, as well as the code requirements. <br /> <br /> <br /> Code Requirement Existing Parking Proposed Parking <br />Covered Parking 125 126 78 <br />Uncovered Parking 188 160 247 <br />Total 313 286 325 <br /> <br /> <br />The existing parking is currently non-conforming, as it provides a total of 286 parking spaces, <br />which is 27 spaces short of the 313 required spaces. The proposed parking would provide <br />12 more spaces than the total number of required spaces, however it would provide 47 <br />spaces less than the requirement for covered parking. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />