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-5- • 1 The Chair Pro Tem indicated the issue would be addressed again at the Commission 's '2 February 19th meeting, at which the Manager had indicated he would have Mr. Hamer- 3 present to personally explain his inspections of the property. 4 5 At 8:50 P.M. , Chair Pro Tem Franzese opened the hearing to consider the proposal 6 initiated by the City for the rezoning and preliminary .plan review for the Walbon 7 property from R-1 , single family residential to R-3, multi-family residential which 8 would allow the construction of 32 townhauses on the property where industries 9- Ancompatible to the residential character of the rest of the neighborhood are now 10 conducted. 11 12 The notice had -been- sent to all property owners of record within 350 feet of the 13 subject property and been published in the .January-,2nd Bulletin -and a special meet- 14 ing with the proposed developer and the neighbors had been field December 29, 1984. 15 No one present reported- failure to receive the notice of the January 15th hearing 16 or objected to its content. 17 18 Mr. Childs, in his .January 11th memorandum; had given the staff report on the 19 proposed Redevelopment/Tax Increment Plan and Redevelopers Agreement which had 20 been included in the agenda packet, inc'luding,,staff recommendation that the plan 21 and selection of Brighton Development Corporation be accepted by the Commission. 22 23 He told the Commissioners the Council and-H.R.A. had both given preliminary approval 24 to the proposal at their January 8th meetings and the H .R.A. had referred it to the 25 Commission, School -District and. County for their input and recommendations. 26 The Manager said the idea of having the project developed under a Planned Unit 27 Development had -been abandoned when it became clear the variances which would be 28 necessary to. push the development closer to Old Highway 8 and away from the resi- 29 dences to the"west and to provide four more units than the Ordinance allows for 30 R-3 zoning, could be handled better through variances, especially since less than 31 three acres would seem to be too small for a P.U.D. Mr. Childs confirmed that the 32 proposed project would result in a use for the property which would conform to the 33 City's Comprehensive Plan for that area. He then introduced Peter Carlsen and 34 Sylvia Frank of Carlsen & Frank .A.rchitects, 482 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul , who 35 presented the preliminary plans developed by Brighton Development after their 36 meeting with the affected neighbors. 37 38 Mr. Carlsen indicated .Brigh.ton 's plans are to develop 32 townhouse units which 39 would be broken down into clusters of .six and four units arranged on the site so 40 the massing would break down into smaller units. Each of the buildings would be 41 composed of. two or three bedroom units, as the market dictates in the future and the 42 architect indicated the exact mi.x was not definite at that stage. Each unit would 43 have .its own one stall garage and'.a parking stall in front of the garage which 44 Brighton Development had found to be highly marketable in their other projects. 45 Mr. Carlsen said the project would be staged over a period' -of a year or so and 46 would be built in three separate phases,- with the first to include the six units 47 near. Old Highway 8, one of wh:ich, woul.d serve as a model . The second three buildings 48 would be constructed in the middle of the *site and the final phase would be to 49 build two buildings across the rear of the property. 50 51 The architect said the fire lane had not been planned off 33rd Avenue N.E. because • 52 of neighbor concern about increased traffic on that street. This would leave a 53 double access off Old Highway 8, Mr. Carlsen said. 54 55 Each of the units are planned to be approximately 1 ,100 to 1 ,200 square feet in area 56 and would be designed for a two story split entry on the front and what would appear