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Item No: 5C Meeting Date: Aug 3, 2005 Type of Business: Public Hearing City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Jim Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Review and Discussion of the Medtronic General Concept PUD Plan, 8290 Coral Sea Street. Planning Case PD2005-002 Introduction: On June 27, 2005, the Mounds View City Council and Economic Development Authority (EDA) authorized an agreement with Medtronic Inc. to redevelop the bridges of Mounds View golf course. The approved project would entail a phased development process with the first phase encompassing approximately 820,000 square feet of office space and related ancillary uses. On July 11, 2005, the City Council adopted Ordinance 760, an ordinance approving the transfer of land from the City of Mounds View to the Mounds View EDA and then subsequently to Medtronic. PUD Intent: The purpose of the Planned Unit Development (PUD) process is to provide for the grouping of land parcels for development as an integrated, coordinated unit as opposed to traditional parcel by parcel, piecemeal, sporadic and unplanned approach to development. The PUD process is intended to introduce flexibility of site design and architecture for the conservation of land and open space through clustering of buildings and activities through conditional use provisions. It is further intended that planned unit developments are to be characterized by central management, integrated planning and architecture, joint or common use of parking, maintenance of open space and other similar facilities and a harmonious selection and efficient distribution of uses. Given the visibility and prominence of the bridges site, a PUD will ensure that the site is developed to be architecturally noteworthy and context sensitive from an environmental standpoint. Discussion: Julie Snow Architects, a Minneapolis-based architectural firm hired to perform the site design work, has submitted a general concept plan site rendition to give the Planning Commission an opportunity to review the plan prior to the formal recommendation which is scheduled to occur at the August 3, 2005 public hearing. The plan shows the anticipated full build-out of the site which would involve four buildings connected by a low-level (one or two stories) atrium or common open assembly area. The first two buildings are proposed to be a maximum eight stories tall with approximately 50,000 square feet of space on each level. (At such a height, the FAA would need to issue a revised letter allowing for the building height.) The trade-off of having taller buildings is that more green space is preserved on the site. The only changes to the site plan as presented at the July 20 meeting is the clarification to the parking stalls and the realignment of the judicial stream that cross the property.