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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 28, 2006 Page 5 1 Mr. Mornson asked if the units would be leased. Mr. Thompson replied no, there would be four 2 individual owners. He added they could lease their space, but the end user is the same. Lots 1 to 3 4 would be occupied with the association owning the rest. Mr. Morrison replied he. is not sure he 4 agrees with Mr. Thompson regarding the platting and suggested the City attorney review this. 5 6 Mayor Faust stated if divided by four, each units square footage would be 1 610• therefore it q g > 7 would be sold as four units with over 3,200 square feet of office space. Mr. Thompson replied 8 the building footprint is 6,441 square feet. 9 10 Mayor Faust stated once the building becomes condominiums and are sold it is unknown who is 11 moving into it. The amount of traffic is also unknown. He asked about a landscape plan. Mr. 12 Mornson replied it was submitted to City staff this week. 13 14 Councilmember Horst stated he is not too concerned with the small number ofarkin spaces, p g 15 but he is concerned on how to get control of the property regarding usage. He added it is an 16 important pieced property and he would like assurance of the plan being submitted. He . p g . 17 suggested Council table the resolution until they have this assurance. Mr. Mornson replied they 18 can do a development agreement, but it is typically not done. for a variance request. 19 20 Mayor Faust stated tabling the resolution would,go beyond the. 60 days, which it would then 21 default and give the applicant the opportunity to move forward. He suggested they look at 22 hardship, noting he believes all three criteria need to be met. He added there is no way of 23 knowing what is going to happen to the units when they sell in the future. He is not sure they 24 come close to fulfilling all three hardship requirements. 25 26 Councilm.ember Stille asked if this could be put to reasonable use with no variance. He would 27 like to see a plan that tries to accommodate City code. He suggested downsizing the proposed 28 building. 29 30 Mr. Thompson asked if the plan would have met the square footage requirement for parking. 31 would he be attending this Council meeting. Mr. Mornson replied yes, this is the first time 32 hearing of four separate ownership condominiums. 33 34 Mr. Thompson stated there ares specific uses for commercialproperty,and asked if Council is p 35 trying to narrow down the types of uses. Mayor Faust replied no, the issue at hand is to approve 36 or deny the variance. 37 38 Motion by Councilmember Stille, seconded by Councilmember Thuesen, to deny Resolution 06- 39 032, re: parking variance -for an office building next to Tires Plus. 40 41 Councilmember Horst stated he is assuming staff will provide the applicant with options. Mr. 42 Mornson replied a meeting will be set up to go over various options. He added he will request 43 the City attorney be involved. 44 45 Councilmember Thuesen stated he agrees with the other members that there are too many 46 unanswered questions, for example, lease versus rental, is the criteria meet, and economicg ain. 47 5