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46. • ATTACHMENT TO PETITION FOR AMENDMENT TO ZONING ORDINANCE Paragraph 1650.05 of the St. Anthony Zoning Ordinance. provides that in a Light Industrial zoning district, on-site parking be provided at the rate of one parking space for each 350 square feet of gross floor area or one parking space for each employee on the largest shift, which-ever is greater. Our company, Village North LLP, owns the Industrial Custom Products building at 2801 37`h avenue N.E. and is applying separately, with the Apache Animal Clinic to replat the land owned by each of these parties to provide for the sale and redevelopment of land to the east and the west of the blacktop parking lot at the 2801 site. Village North currently leases approximately 58000 square feet of land _ from CP Rail to provide adjacent parking to the building. The land remaining with 2801, along with the leased land, provides sufficient on-site parking to meet zoning requirements as currently stated, after separation of the land as described in the re- platting application. Should the railroad unexpectedly fail to renew our lease on its expiration on December 31, 2002, we will be unable to meet the zoning requirements without the separated land. The railroad land is available for-purchase now and maybe available for purchase if the lease is terminated, but the, economics of purchase are very unfavorable. For background, a memo is attached describing the railroad position. Our company feels that the current zoning requirement does not reflect the actual parking requirements of the present or any foreseeable future use of the building and further, that the Zoning Ordinance is significantly more restrictive than similar parking requirements in adjacent communities. We have researched parking requirements for similar zoning classifications in several surrounding communities and the results are summarized in the attached table. Complete copies of the ordinance are available for review. As the table shows, St. Anthony, along with New Brighton, has'the most restrictive requirement. The current use of the 2801 building is for plastic fabrication, which is a low- density operation with large machines and heavy material and finished product storage. The tenant, in an attached letter, has stated that he will not require more than 70 parking spaces for his operations. Because of the nature of the St. Anthony market, the nature of the subject property and the nature of the local labor market, it is unlikely that the subject property, will ever be used for any high density manufacturing purpose and that even at its highest density use, there would ever be • 200 plus employees at the site.