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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-01-2008PROCEEDINGS OF THE MOUNDS VIEW PLANNING COMMISSION CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA Regular Meeting October 1, 2008 Mounds View City Hall 2401 Highway 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 1. Call to Order The meeting was called to order by Chair Stevenson at 7:00 p.m. October 1, 2008. 2. Roll Call Members Present: Chair Stevenson; Commissioners, Gunn, Lang; Meehlhause, Miller and Walsh-Kaczmarek Absent and Excused: Commissioner Cramblit Also Present: Community Development Director Roberts and Planning Associate Heller Index to Minutes Page MA2008-001 Consider a Revised Preliminary Plat for the Mermaid 2 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update 3 3. Approval of Minutes August 20, 2008 MOTION/SECOND: Commissioner Gunn/Commissioner Miller. To approve the Minutes of the August 20, 2008 regular Planning Commission meeting as slightly amended. Ayes — 6 Nays — 0 Motion carried. Mounds View Planning Commission Regular Meeting 4. Citizens Requests and Comments on Items Not on the Agenda None. 5. Planning Cases October 1, 2008 Page 2 A. MA2008-001 Consider a Revised Preliminary Plat for the Mermaid Planning Associate Heller reported the applicants, Charlie and Dan Hall, have applied for a major subdivision to create a new 1.4 acre parcel from their existing 9.36 acre site. The Planning Commission recommended approval of both the preliminary plat and the PUD Amendment and the requests were scheduled for City Council action on September 22, 2008. The applicant then submitted a revised preliminary plat on September 22, 2008 and the City Council tabled the requests in order for the revised plat to be reviewed by staff and the Planning Commission. Planning Associate Heller stated the revised plat shows three lots instead of two lots. The owners wanted to add a third lot in order to create separate lots for the Mermaid Entertainment Center and the Americl m Hotel, along with the same 1.4 acre parcel for the retail site. She indicated that since the new plat is a substantial change from the previous plat, staff wants the Planning Commission to review and act on the new plat. Chair Stevenson asked if there were any issues with having the lot line run through the building. Planning Associate Heller stated there could be issues with the fire code. Currently the code states that there cannot be any openings between the hotel and banquet center since the new property line would run between them. She indicated that the applicant could appeal this matter to the State Fire Marshal. Chair Stevenson stated the Planning Commission addressed parking at the September 3, 2008 meeting. Commissioner Miller asked if the plat change affects the parking. Planning Associate Heller stated there are currently cross easement agreements for shared parking and access for the entire lot, and these agreements would be amended to address the third parcel. Commissioner Walsh-Kaczmarck asked if the parking adds or takes away from the proposed development. Planning Associate Heller stated this does not impact the parking and lot 2 will remain the same size. Commissioner Walsh-Kaczmarek indicated last week she noticed the front lot was completely full and wondered if staff thought the parking would be an issue. Mounds View Planning Commission Regular Meeting October 1, 2008 Page 3 Planning Associate Heller stated the lot may have been full because of the overlap of an event and the park and ride. The park and ride has 43 spots in the front lot but the lot behind the Mermaid could have been empty. Commissioner Walsh-Kaczmarek asked if the park and ride was going to be eliminated. Planning Associate Heller stated that neither staff nor the Planning Commission has required that the park and ride be removed at this point, although the City Council could make that recommendation. Staff noted that businesses would only hurt their own operations by not having sufficient parking. Planning Associate Heller stated the resolution before the Planning Commission tonight is for the revised preliminary plat only. MOTION/SECOND: Commissioner Gunn/Commissioner Lang. To approve Resolution 895- 08, a Resolution Recommending Approval of a Revised Preliminary Plat for The Mermaid, 2200 County Highway 10 as Amended; Mounds View Planning Case MA2008-001 Ayes —6 Nays — 0 Motion carried. 6. Other Planning Activity A. 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update Community Development Director Roberts stated since the last meeting there was a mailing to the Planning Commission with updated documents and information for the comprehensive plan. He stated there were no new documents in this packet. He stated the City is waiting on the transportation and public facilities chapters that are being reviewed by the City Engineering consultant. Chair Stevenson indicated he has gone through the new plan thoroughly and asked that the page numbering be similar to the numbering system of the city code. He stated he has studied the maps and indicated they are great. He questioned the existing land use map and the missing designation of developable residential lots. He suggested a different color or hash marks to assist in designating the developable lots. Community Development Director Roberts stated the future land use map should remain the same. He suggested creating another map and having the whole map white except for the developable lots and making them a different color or hash marks. He asked if the map should be just residential or both residential and commercial. Chair Stevenson stated the commercial and industrial lots are well designated on the existing maps. Commissioner Walsh-Kaczmarek questioned the natural features on the new map compared to the old map. She noticed a few of the natural resources were missing or smaller on the new map. Mounds View Planning Commission Regular Meeting October 1, 2008 Page 4 She asked if Mounds View has lost the wetlands due to the aquifers or development or have they dried up. Planning Associate Heller stated that the water designation on this map is not necessarily accurate. She indicated the maps were created by more than one person in a GIS program and instructed the Planning Commission to use the wetland map for accurate designations. Commissioner Walsh-I{aczmarek stated a prospective developer would need to be told that they should refer to the Wetland map. Commissioner Miller stated that there are several blue spots with lines through them and the new maps have the same blue spots and are coded Institutional. Planning Associate Heller stated Institutional designation is property owned by the city. Community Development Director Roberts stated that once the last two chapters are available, the Planning Commissioner will receive a full copy of the revised Comprehensive Plan. He reiterated to the Planning Commission to call him if there are any comments or questions about the plan update. Commissioner Lang stated he had a question regarding the Economic Development section about Fiscal Disparities. He stated the flow of the chapter was very smooth, but then this portion is stuck in the middle. Community Development Director Roberts stated fiscal disparities are a pooling of property tax revenue and intended to keep the suburbs from competing with each other for commercial and industrial businesses. There is a formula and then the monies are distributed among the cities. He stated that information could be moved to a different place in the section. Commissioner Meehlhause suggested that it could be moved to the part of the section referring to the five largest employers in Mounds View. He stated the staff has done a tremendous job with the new Comprehensive Plan. The flow of the new document is much better than the old plan. Commissioner Gunn asked about the Mounds View toolbox and there is no definition for it. Community Development Director Roberts stated that he could define it or just remove it from the plan. 7. Next Planning Commission Meeting: A. October 15, 2008 B. November 5, 2008 Mounds View Planning Commission Regular Meeting 8. Adjournment to Agenda Session October 1, 2008 Page 5 There being no further business before the Planning Commission, Chair Stevenson adjourned the meeting at 7:50 p.m. (The meeting immediately adjourned to the Agenda Session) z ly sub ' Ken Roberts Community Development Director Transcribed by: Barbara Suciu TimeSaver Off Site Secretarial, Inc.