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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPL MINUTES 07171979 Meeting Sheet IIIIII VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII IIII IIII 105998 Box: 36 Folder: PL MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1979 Document: PL MINUTES 07171979 - h CITY OF ST. ANTHONY PLANNING BOARD MINUTES July 17 , 1979 The meeting was called to order at 7 : 35 p.m. by Chairman Pro Tem Rymarchick. Present for roll call : Bjorklund, Rymarchick , Sopcinski and Bowerman. Absent: Marks and Jones . Also present : Jim Fornell , City Manager Ron Berg, Administrative Assistant The following corrections were made to the minutes of the Board meeting held June 19 , 19'79 : Page 1, last naragr?ph: Sui,stitute "east" for "south" in the twelfth line. Page 4 , paragraph 4 : The description of the proposed duplex should read "The building with garage will be 45 . 5 feet wide . " Page 5, paragraph 2 : Substitute "platted" for "plotted out" in the seventh line. • Page 7, paragraphs 6 and 7 : Correct spelling is "Walbon" . Motion by Mr. Bowerman and seconded by Mr. Sopci-nski to approve the minutes for the June 19 , 1979 Board meeting as corrected. Motion carried unanimously. Mr . Bowerman will represent the Board at the next Council meeting July 24 . An on-site inspection has convinced staff the Walbon property remains in conforming non-conformance" , Mr . Berg advised the Board in his July 13 memorandum; and the Manager said in a conversation he had with the owner, Mr. Walbon had insisted on "his right to maintain a business within the parameters of his property" . Since a contracting business is still being conducted from the premises , Mr. Fornell said he doesn' t know what can be done about the broken down vehicles on the site and there are only a few species of noxious weeds classi- fied by the state for forced removal, so it is difficult to do much regarding those on the Walbon property. Mr. Bowerman suggested that, in the face of lack of neighbor complaint, the matter be dropped unless there is an opportunity for a trade off for the City to vacate the road easement across the triangular lot the Walbons own at 33rd Avenue N.E. and Old Highway 8 to make it buildable, in return for their • cleaning up this property. -2- Mr. Jones arrived at 7 : 50 p.m. David Guckenberg and Paul Gray of North Central Food Systems, 3001 Metro Drive, appeared to discuss their request for a preliminary concept review of the proposal to build a Hardee ' s Restaurant on the vacant lot between the auto body shop and the Legion Club on Kenzie Terrace. Mr. Berg had advised in his July 12 memorandum that the proposal would require a rezoning from R-1 to C as well as a conditional use permit for the drive through facility . Mr. Guckenberg showed the preliminary site , landscaping and parking plans for the proposal and disputed there would be any problems with either parking or traffic congestion if the traffic flow were directed as proposed . The screening of the site from the adjoining residential should be a vast improvement over the exis- ting conditions on that lot now and he answered questions about the economic viability of the Kenzie area by telling the Board his firm would never plan a restaurant there unless market studies indicated it would be a success . He and Mr. Gray were certain signage could be modified to conform to the City ordinance and concluded the project would be abandoned if they didn 't get the go-ahead from the Board or strong neighborhood resistance were demonstrated. Because it appeared a restaurant might not fit into the comprehen- sive planning for the area being developed, the Board expressed their reluctance to encourage the proposal . Mr. Gray then said • he doubted his company would pursue the matter further. An application (later withdrawn) for a sit down restaurant further south on Kenzie Terrace had prompted the July 11 memorandum from the Administrative Assistant recommending an ordinance amendment which would close the loop hole in the parking requirements of the existing ordinance which "would have allowed a grossly inadequate parking area" if the request had been continued. Since sit down restaurants are not specifically addressed in the ordinance, the facility could have been built with only one parking space per 300 squar,a feet of building area as any other commercial building. He felt this type of facility should have the same parking restric- tions; as are specified for fast food and take-out restaurants . Motion by Mr . Jones and seconded by Mr. Rymarchick to make the additions suggested by Mr. Berg to the existing provisions of Section 12 , Subdivision 9 , Number 12 C (13) , parking regulations , as well as the definition of a sit down restaurant which is to be inserted in Section 2 , Rules and Definitions . Before voting on the motion, Mr. Bjorklund gave the example of underuse of parking provided for the Poppin Fresh Restaurant, which is an exceptionally successful restaurant, as the basis for his belief the proposed parking requirements would not be real- istic. Mr. Bowerman agreed, suggesting the question be researched further through the restaurant associations . + _ v -3- � The motion was defeated unanimously and the following made instead: Motion by Mr. Bjorklund and seconded by Mr. Bowerman to request further staff study of parking requirements for sit down restaur- ants through the restaurant industry. Motion carried unanimously . i The meeting was recessed from 8 :45 p.m. to 8 : 55 p.m. when Mr. Fornell announced the joint work session, July 23, of the Council , Planning Board, and District #282 , which will include a tour of the Park View building to consider its continued use for city hall facilities and , time permitting, a possible tour of the old city hall . Draft copies of the Comprehensive Plan and Map, prepared by B .R.W. , Inc . , were distributed and the first of two work sessions tentatively set for 7 p.m. , July 31 , for an overview of the entire plan by the developer and a discussion which will be limited to the first two segments of the Plan. Mr . Fornell told the Board the Metropolitan Wastewater Control Commission had indicated to him the comprehensive sewer plan, which had been developed in 1976 , could be updated and submitted in conjunction with the Comprehensive Plan. Staff agreed to notify all Board members of the work session and publicity for the Plan will be sought through the media for informing the residents well in advance of the hearings . • Ron Berg' s July 9 assessment of the Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan and its possible efect on St. Anthony will be placed again on the agenda of the next Board meeting, thereby providing more time to digest and formulate a response to Minneapolis. Motion by Mr. Sopcinski and seconded by Mr. Bjorklund to adjourn the meeting at 9 : 15 p.m. Motion carried unanimously. Respectfully submitted, Helen Crowe pjr •