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Agenda Number E.1 <br />CITY OF HUGO COMMUNITY <br />DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT <br />PLANNING AND ZONING <br />APPLICATION STAFF REPORT <br />TO: Hugo Planning Commission <br />FROM: Rachel Juba, Community Development Director <br />SUBJECT: Oertel Architects, LTD, on behalf of the Hugo Public Works Department. <br />Proposed Public Works Facility to be Located at Irish Avenue Park - 14420 Irish <br />Avenue North <br />DATE: June 16, 2020, for the Planning Commission Meeting of June 25, 2020 <br />ZONING: Agricultural (AG) <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Agricultural (AG) <br />1. DESCRIPTION OF REQUEST: <br />The City of Hugo is proposing to construct an approximately 60,600 square foot Public Works <br />Facility on the south side of Irish Avenue Park located off of 1401h Street North (CSAH 8). The <br />Irish Avenue Park property is approximately 125 acres in size, however the site that the Public <br />Works Facility will be on is approximately 40 acres, with the building and site improvements <br />taking up approximately 10 acres. The area includes space for an approximately 45,000 square <br />foot expansion of the building in the future. <br />The Public Works Facility is considered a public service building and is allowed in the zoning <br />district as a permitted use. The facility will include a salt storage building, material storage <br />building, and outdoor storage of gravel, dirt, and rocks. There will be a fence around the <br />perimeter of the site and landscaping. <br />2. BACKGROUND: <br />Irish Avenue Park is a former gravel pit, asphalt production plant, and rock crushing facility. This <br />was a private business. There were several complaints from the neighboring properties because <br />of the impacts of the use related to noise and traffic. There were also guidelines the business <br />needed to comply with that were not being followed, including the restoration of the mined areas <br />to their natural state by 2004. The adjacent neighborhoods wanted to see the site restored. <br />The City held a neighborhood meeting in 2007 to discuss the issues related to the property and <br />the possible re -use of the property. There were a few options stated at the meeting that included <br />development of the site in 10 acre lots and the possibility of the property to become a community <br />