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r ' Planning Commission Meeting Minutes October 15, 2002 Page 2 expansion plans for 3015 37' Avenue Northeast. The final submitted site plan shows 2 demolition of four existing buildings and construction of a new 40,000 square feet 3 building. Notification has been sent to the property owners within 350 feet of the 4 proposed development. Mr. Murlowski of Belair Excavating is representing Business 5 Data Record Services for two variance requests: 1) A building height variance of 9 feet 6 for a proposed 44 feet building height; and 2) A side yard variance request of 35 feet 7 (along Macalester Drive) for a proposed 5 feet side yard adjacent to a street. 8 9 Ms. Hall advised that Mr. Murlowski met with the Planning Commission on August 20 10 for a concept review of preliminary site plans. The applicants are now submitting their 11 final plans and are asking for two variances. First, a variance for building height of 44 12 feet is proposed. According to City ordinance, maximum building height in a Light 13 Industrial zoning district is 35 feet, which makes this a variance request of 9 feet. 14 15 Ms. Hall indicated Fire Chief Joel Hewitt has reviewed the proposed plans and stated the 16 height will be all right because of the mutual aid agreement. A good example of what this 17 height will look like is at another nearby Business Data Record Services site at 200 Old 18 Highway 8 in New Brighton. That building stands 42 feet in height. The second 19 variance request is for the side yard setback. The side yard is considered Macalester 20 Drive. The applicants are requesting a side yard setback of 5 feet. City ordinance states a 21 side yard adjacent to a street must be at least 40 feet, which makes this a variance request of 35 feet. Although the proposed side yard setback won't make the building stick out any more than the existing building, it would be on the curb line. Public Works Director 24 Jay Hartman has reviewed the existing an proposed setbacks and said for snow removal 25 there will still be plenty of room in the right-of-way to stock pile snow. Still, he noted, 26 this is a substantial variance request. 27 28 Ms. Hall explained that per the applicants, the existing side yard setback at Macalester 29 Drive is 5 feet at the south building and 30 feet at the north building. The existing front 30 yard setback at 37`h (County Road D) is 20 feet, the existing side yard at the Xcel 31 substation varies from 2 feet to 0 feet. Finally, the existing rear yard setback at the 32 railroad varies from 3 feet to 1 foot, 6 inches. The property and easement lines are 50 feet 33 from the railroad centerline. 34 35 Ms. Hall stated the city engineer reviewed and approved the drainage plans. The runoff 36 from the site will go to a new water retention pond shown on the site plan. 37 38 Ms. Hall noted that parking is adequate at the site, per City ordinance, because this is a 39 warehousing facility which requires the facility must have at least one space per 40 employee on the largest shift plus one parking space per company vehicle. There are 40 41 parking stalls shown on the site plan, which will be enough spots for employees per Mr. 42 Murlowski. 43 Mr. Murlowski, the applicant,reviewed his request with the Commission. He stated his 16 organization has done several improvements to this site in the past. Mr. Murlowski 46 distributed pictures of a building that is similar to what he is proposing for the Business 47 Dad Record Service Expansion. He then introduced Jim White as the project architect.