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Item No: 05A Meeting Date: Jan 06, 2021 Type of Business: Planning Case Planning Case: PA2020-001 City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Planning Commission From: Jon Sevald, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Resolution 1128-21, Recommending approval of an Amendment to the PUD Narrative for the O’Neil Property, 2430 Mounds View Boulevard Introduction: Anthony Properties, owner of the movie theater, is requesting an amendment to the Planned Unit Development (PUD) Narrative, to allow a drive-thru restaurant as an Allowed Use. The owners are working with a developer, Java Group, to subdivide part of the theater’s parking lot for development of a drive-thru coffee shop. Discussion: The theater development was approved in 1998 as a Planned Unit Development (PUD). PUD’s are intended to result in a higher standard of development, in return for concessions on other requirements. The PUD Narrative lists specific uses for each lot. Allowable Uses include sit-down restaurants, and specifically excludes fast-food restaurants and bars with less than 60% of its revenue from food sales (Moe’s is not part of this PUD). New Vision Theater closed1 in March 2020 due to the COVID Pandemic, and filed bankruptcy in July. The theater owner; Anthony Properties (AP Mounds View LP), has been in negotiations with another operator to assume the theater’s lease. The theater industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, thus, there is no time-table as to if or when Mounds View’s theater will re-open. Prior to New Vision’s bankruptcy, New Vision intended to remodel the theater to include stadium style seating, which would reduce the seating capacity and parking needs by 50%. Assuming that a new theater operator will pursue a similar renovation plan, this frees up a portion of the parking lot for other uses, such as a drive- thru coffee shop. Planning Case History: Res/Ord Approved Description Res 5104 May 12, 1997 Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan map, from Medium Density Residential to Mixed Use PUD for commercial uses Res 5119 May 12, 1997 General Concept Plan for Commercial development Ord 598 May 27, 1997 Rezoning from B-1 and B-2 to Planned Unit Development for Commercial Uses on the O’Neil Property, 2430 Highway 10, and Amending the City’s Official Zoning Map Res 5226 May 11, 1998 Approving a PUD Development Stage Plan for Commercial Uses Res 5229 Apr 27, 1998 Approving a Wetland Buffer Permit Res 5230 Apr 27, 1998 Approving Access Plan, including access to Highway 10 Res 5286 Dec 14, 1998 Preliminary Plat of Anthony Properties Addition Res 5296 Dec 28, 1998 Final Plat of Anthony Properties Addition Res 5339 Jun 14, 1999 Accepting the Public Improvements at the Theater Project 1 Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-04, Providing for Temporary Closure of Bars, Restaurants, and other places of Public Accommodation (1)(d): Theaters, cinemas, indoor and outdoor performance venues, and museums shall close; March 17, 2020 through March 27, 2020. Subsequent Executive Orders have extended the closure of theaters through January 10, 2021.