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City of St. Anthony - Commissions Page 3 of 9 8.1 Silver Lake/Apache Medical Building, 4001 Stinson Boulevard, Planned Unit Development(PUD)Amendment for Housing Condominiums/Medical Office Plan. Perry Thorvig, Consultant Planner, provided the Commission with an overview for the Apache Medical Center Building Renovation and Expansion Plans. He reviewed the proposal stating that the plans include the addition of two new buildings as well as restoring the existing structure. The intent is for the first floor to remain medical office buildings and associated business, with the residential housing units occupying the remaining three levels. He stated that the project is aimed at a younger market than the Hunt/Pratt project noting that the units would be a bit smaller, 1000- 1100 square feet. He indicated that the prices would also be a bit lower than the Hunt/Pratt project noting that they have not yet determined exact amounts for the unit styles. He clarified that number of projected units for the existing building will convert to 33 units, not 89, with 12,000 square feet remaining for commercial use on the first floor. Mr. Thorvig stated that plan includes a consistent exterior architectural appearance and parking for the buildings. The parking will include underground parking that would span the space between the two new buildings and provide a connection from the new buildings to the existing building. He clarified that the proposed parking spaces would be 85 not 140 for underground parking and 97 not 100 for surface parking. He stated that the developer plans to return with a formal application to amend the existing planned unit development. He reviewed the site plans with the Commission noting that a storm water retention pond would be installed but not tied to the major retention system. Commissioner Tillman asked for clarification of the process when a PUD is adjacent to another. She asked if the design standards and the Silver Lake Village PUD would carry forward with the property. Mr. Thorvig confirmed that the existing PUD design standards would be carried forward and reviewed the process with the Commission. Commissioner Young stated that typically parking requirements for condominiums requires two spaces per unit and asked if this request has different parking requirements from the recommended standard. Mr. Thorvig stated that they are pretty close in meeting the recommended standard and reviewed their calculations with the Commission. Jim Waters, Quest Development, clarified the proposed plan for parking stating that they intend to have at least one covered parking space per unit and one additional parking space per unit on the surface. There would be some overlap with the medical office use and residential use. He reviewed the building access points noting that clients for the medical businesses would continue to access from the same front entrance that is currently used. The plan is to build the proposed 89 units, 24 and 32 units respectively, in phases over period of time. He reviewed a project study with the Commission explaining that the information from the study was used to determine how to move forward in building and marketing the units. He explained that it is not their desire to place too many units into market at one time. Mr. Waters explained that this project is an adaptation of a previous ____ http://www_ci.saint-anthony.mn.us/moxie/eovernment/PCag mn/pcminutes1116.shtml 12/17/2004