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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes December 15, 2020 Page 2 Chair Westrick reviewed how the public hearing will proceed this evening. This item will 1 come before Council on January 12, 2021. 2 3 Chairperson Westrick opened the public hearing at 7:05 p.m. 4 5 City Planner Grittman reviewed the request for Conditional Use Permit for a car wash located 6 at 2701 Kenzie Terrace. 7 8 Mr. Tom Archambault, owner of Boulevard Auto Works, 2801 Kenzie Terrace, addressed the 9 Commission. 10 11 Mr. John Grotkin, RJ Ryan Construction was at the meeting to answer questions. 12 13 Commissioner Neumann asked if this is the site where there used to be a pig farm with some 14 concerns of toxicity being in the ground. She wondered why the business owner being born 15 and raised in St. Anthony and St. Anthony being so wonderful chose to move his family out 16 and live somewhere else but does business in the City. 17 18 Mr. Tom Archambault explained as it pertains to a pig farm being on that location, they would 19 have to look into site records and history. He noted a Phase One Environmental Investigation 20 has been done and is complete. Boring of the soil with samples taken has been done as well. 21 To his knowledge there are no contaminates there and there does not appear to be any history. 22 He stated to answer the second question, the most honest answer is that in 2015, right after he 23 bought the business, his wife was expecting their second child. They were residents of 24 Columbia Heights because that was an area they could afford to live for the previous ten 25 years. His wife was also born and raised in St. Anthony. When looking to move into a larger 26 home, they looked at houses in St. Anthony but were not able to find any that they could 27 afford. They ended up moving to the neighboring community of Shoreview and have found a 28 nice neighborhood there, similar to what can be found in St. Anthony, to raise their family. 29 He stated the people of St. Anthony have done a wonderful job of creating a great place to live 30 that is very desirable, but his family was not able to afford it. 31 32 Commissioner Socha explained her question had to do with the City Planner’s 33 recommendation for a canopy. She did not love that recommendation because it seems like it 34 will add more visual to look at but aesthetically, sometimes less is more. She asked how 35 noisy are the vacuum stalls that are planned to be installed and what are the owner’s thoughts 36 on a canopy. She thought maybe there could be a requirement added to the number of 37 maximum decibels for noise and the canopy requirement could then be dropped. 38 39 Mr. Tom Archambault explained he did not have the exact decibel rating for the vacuum 40 cleaners themselves. There are decibel ratings available for the blowers that would be used 41 for drying the vehicles and those ratings are at: 10 feet away from the blowers is 90 decibel, 42 20 feet away it goes down to 86 decibels, 50 feet away the decibel is 79 and at 100 feet away 43 the decibel rating is 75. By comparison, if they were to look at what 75 decibel is equivalent 44 to, 75 decibels is equivalent to a vacuum cleaner. He would suspect that 75 decibels would be 45 the proper range, but he could get further information from their equipment provider. 46 2