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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes • September 24, 1996 Page 4 1 request for a proposed Municipal Liquor Store,Lot 5, Block 1, Silver Lake Center 2 (Apache Plaza). 3 Bergstrom reported Ste. Marie Company has applied for a rear yard variance of 18 feet, 6 4 inches from the required setback of the west lot line of the Tires Plus site for an addition 5 they are planning to build. The City Ordinance requires that commercial buildings have a 6 rear yard setback of 20 feet. Bergstrom noted the proposed Municipal Liquor Store will 7 contain 8,300 square feet. The proposal includes 54 parking stalls, with City Code 8 requiring 50 parking stalls. 9 The variance is being requested because the construction of the addition is limited on the 10 site due to an interior driveway that runs parallel to the west property line and Silver Lake 11 Road that runs parallel to the site on the east. Because Silver Lake Road is designated as 12 a county road, the proposed addition is subject to county road setback requirements, 13 thereby limiting expansion to the east. 14 Also, City Ordinance restricts expansion in this direction because the proposed addition 15 must have a setback of 35 feet or a distance equal to the average of the front yard depths 16 of the two adjacent properties. The adjacent properties currently would include Taco Bell, Tires Plus and First Bank. Pushing the addition toward Silver Lake Road would 41 encroach into the county setback and exceed the average of the front yard depths of the 19 adjacent lots. 20 At the Concept Review,the Planning Commission asked what was driving the orientation 21 of the building. It was noted that a 60 foot cooler was necessary for the success of the 22 store and was part of the reason the building was oriented in this way. It was also noted 23 that 8,000 square feet was an average size of this type of liquor store. 24 Bergstrom reported there had been some discussion at the Planning Commission meeting 25 in regard to the drainage on this proposal. Mr. Douglas Jones, 2505 Silver Lane had 26 inquired how this drainage will fit into the Master Storm Plan. Mr. Bruce Miller, 27 Westwood Engineering, who drafted the entire Master Storm Plan, had been present at 28 the meeting and had explained the drainage. Some of the drainage on the site will be 29 routed through a grit chamber and the rest of the drainage on the site will eventually be 30 routed to the two ponds to the south of First Bank. Bergstrom explained the Planning 31 Commission has in the past and continues to feel,that storm water drainage is the 32 regulatory domain of the Rice Creek Watershed District. The Commission does not 33 attach conditions of drainage on conditional use permits or variances but defers those 34 decisions to the Rice Creek Watershed District. Mayor Ranallo noted two letters have been received since the Planning Commission meeting. One from Ste. Marie Company and one from Opus. In response to the concerns 37 expressed at the meeting, both companies have written to "express our commitment to