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25 DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP City of St. Anthony Planning Commission August 2,2000 Page 2 permissible, since hardship is being created by reducing the size of the lot and reasonable use is being made of the property in its present condition. We next discussed with him the possibility of amending the zoning ordinance so as to require less parking for this type of property. Mr. Solie has compiled information regarding parking requirements in other cities and this will be provided to you. It shows a comparison of the St. Anthony requirement to the Cities of Arden Hills, Roseville, Minneapolis, New Brighton and Fridley. The current St. Anthony ordinance is Section 1650.05, Subd. 1(e)(7) which provides as follows: = (7) Light industrial, manufacturing, testing and research uses must have one space for every employee on the largest shift or one parking space for every 350 square feet of floor area, whichever is greater. • Mr. Solie is requesting that the requirement be changed to one parking space for every 1,000 square feet of building floor area. I would recommend that the ordinance be changed to eliminate any reference to the number of employees. It is not a good practice to have a parking requirement that changes`with the number of employees in the building. This raises uncertainty as to what the parking requirement is at any given point in time, and it also creates an almost impossible situation for enforcement. Based upon the information provided by Mr. Solie, it does appear that one space per 350 square feet of floor area is rather conservative. Arden Hills, Roseville and Minneapolis each provide for one space for each 1,000 square feet, New Brighton is at 350 square feet and Fridley is at 400 square feet. If you amend the ordinance as requested, I would suggest that paragraph 7 be revised to read as follows: (7) Light industrial, manufacturing, testing and research uses must have one space for every 1,000 square feet of building floor area. The animal clinic intends to purchase some land from the railroad to add to their property, but this will not be included in the new plat. I believe that the animal clinic will be requesting that all of its property be rezoned to commercial. It apparently is not clear what the zoning of their property is now, but the parcel they intend to purchase from Village North is zoned industrial. • I believe all of the Village North property is zoned industrial and will remain industrial.