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MEMORANDUM <br />To:St. Anthony Village Planning Commission <br />From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner <br />Date:Planning Commission Meeting – June 20, 2023 <br />GC Project No.140.01 – 23.01 <br />Request:Request for a Conditional Use Permit for additions to a Car Wash Facility <br />in a PUD, Planned Unit Development District <br />Property Address:3801 Stinson Boulevard <br />Property PID:31-30-23-33-0004 <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />The Applicants are seeking a Conditional Use Permit to modify and add vacuum facilities to an <br />existing car wash at the above address. The North Star Car Wash is an automatic car wash <br />building, with a few individual vacuum stations in a portion of the parking area near the exit <br />from the wash building. Traffic enters the site – primarily from 38th Street NE, enters the car <br />wash building at its east side, proceeds through the wash to the exit on the west side, and then <br />may park to the south at individual vacuum locations near that exit. Traffic can exit the site <br />back to 38th Street NE, or there is a shared access point to the 3803 parcel to the north. <br />The applicant’s plans show the replacement of these individual vacuum sites with a common <br />vacuum system all along the parking area on the south side of the building. What is currently <br />an open parking area (adequate for approximately 10 parked vehicles) would be converted to 8 <br />vacuum stations. These stations would be fed from an equipment area at the east end of the <br />row of “parking” spaces. The plan drawing shows the equipment in an island area, but no curb <br />or island currently exists in that space. It appears that the project would plan to add that island <br />area. <br />STAFF RECOMMENDATION <br />Staff has reviewed the project for land use compliance with the intent and policies of the City’s <br />Comprehensive Plan, and for zoning consistency with the Commercial District as a baseline. In <br />summary, the Comprehensive Plan supports mixed uses in this area, and Commercial uses are <br />part of that mix. The proposed application would, with appropriate conditions, facilitate that <br />purpose for the subject property. However, there are conditions that staff has recommended <br />to mitigate potential noise and light impacts from the new vacuum facilities, and with attention <br />to the need to replace a portion of the parking lost to the vacuum spaces.