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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes November 15, 2011 Page 4 1 the new addition will connect to the building behind it. She stated if it does connect, it adds 2 more to their concerns because of the run-off. She indicated she could not find the letter from 3 Mr. Hubmer which indicated that a holding tank would be added in the parking lot of the existing 4 Autumn Woods apartments so that run-off would not come onto Lowry Avenue and down the 5 hill into various homeowner's driveways. She asked if that holding tank is included in the plans. 6 7 Mr. Bronk replied that there is nothing planned to be added to the existing Autumn Woods 8 property. 9 10 Ms. Meyer asked if there was a way for the City to address the run-off at the existing Autumn 11 Woods property. 12 13 Ms. Beverly Tombarge, 2609 Lowry Ave. NE, appeared before the Planning Commission and 14 stated she has lived on her property for 82 years and felt that the proposed development was 15 pushing them out because Autumn Woods is controlling a big portion of this area. She 16 questioned who would want to live on her property and expressed concern she will not be able to 17 sell her property. She stated the development is planned on a little bit of land and they will be 18 surrounded by a four story building and it is not fair and she is not happy about this. 19 20 Ms. Mary Ward, 2200 block of Wilson Street, Minneapolis,appeared before the Planning 21 Commission and asked if the building will in fact be four stories because it appears that one story 22 is below grade. She asked about the final roof height as compared to the existing Autumn 23 Woods property. She also asked about the proposed parking on Kenzie Terrace and whether it 24 means that Kenzie Terrace will go down to one lane in that area or whether an additional lane 25 will be added. 26 27 Chair Jensen explained that Kenzie Terrace will be widened to create 13 parking stalls similar to 28 what was done on Silver Lake Road. He noted that the travel lanes on Kenzie will not be 29 diminished and the sidewalk would be moved. He stated that the County needs to approve this 30 and will be handled at a future time with a permit from the County to allow that improvement. 31 32 Chair Jensen closed the public hearing at 7:52 p.m. 33 34 Mr. Bronk explained that the existing three buildings of Autumn Woods have underground 35 parking and 59 surface parking stalls available; seven of the 59 parking stalls will be lost due to 36 the new construction. He indicated there will be a total of 82 parking spaces available which 37 exceeds the requirements of the City Ordinance. 38 39 Chair Jensen requested additional information about the proposed drainage on the site. He also 40 asked if the plans are compliant with MWMO regulations. 41 42 Mr. Nelson reviewed the drawings and showed the areas where water will be collected and 43 treated before flowing into the City's storm water system. He indicated that the drainage going 44 toward Lowry has not changed and water will never get to the adjacent residential areas. 45