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'1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I ! I I I Motion by Commissioner Johnson, seconded by Commissioner Kociscak, to recommend that the City Council approve the proposed site plan for a multi-tenant office building contingent upon compliance with City staff review letter dated May 25, 2001. ~ Motion Carried. Voting Yes: Chairperson Nixt, Commissioners Johnson, Kociscak, Reeves, and Watson. Voting No: None. Case #11: Request for a Conditional Use Permit to Operate a Processing Facility; Case of St. Paul Terminals, Inc. and Metal Chairperson Nixt closed the 'regular portion of the Planning in order to call the public hearing to order. 10:48 p.m. Public Hearing Chairperson Nixt called the public hearing to order at Presentation Community Development Director Frol/k.'§tat~:~hat in 1989, permit to Daniel Karst to operate an of the terms of the permit is that reassi: Council approval. Mr. Karst submitted a requ~ issued a conditional use Basalt St. NW. One someone else would require 8,2001, requesting that the permit be reassigned to St, Paul Terminal reviewed Mr. Karst's file and because of a sigrfificant history of vio[at/~4ns:i~ff'~he premises, the Council's preference was o revoke rather than reassign the pe~t. Staff ~a~,~irected to initiate proceedings to consider revocation of Mr. K~St;'k' permit ;~'~ St. Paul inals was advised to apply for a new conditional use pe~Ti,~i :that woul¢~ad'~[~!i;tkS:,.~9o~?bf their proposed operations on the site. Accordingly, the citY'~hS:recei, Va~;~z~P Sm St. Paul Terminals to operate a recycling and metal processing fa~J;~,~:!:i:~050 Basalt j~et. In 1999, St paul Terminals entere ' 'e ' ,~.,~:~: ,;,..},~. . .,,.~,~-~:~ . . - d Into a ~ ase/purcnase .op, la'on with 'Dan,Karst for the famhty and commenced mana~ng the facility. Since"their sii~if~ere has been a sign/ficant amount of site clean up that has o~c~ed and recent r~':O~S from'~ga County Environmental services indicate that the site is ir~90~pliance with envii*~ental r~ulations. As of a couple of weeks ago, St. Paul Term/nals ceaSed?:~e intake of all ms'er/als at the site until there is a decision bY the City re~arding their applicati0r~ for a conditi~r~hl use permit. The scope of the facility proposed includes a redemp~ib~/?and procesS~; center for ferrous and non-ferrous metals; melt furnaces for the aluminum; >:Pr~eess< )~'ff:"recycle vehicles, including the disassembly of bodies, engines, transmissions;:'~eia~?s~i}es of saleable timbers fi.om abandoned railway. Mr. Jeff schott, Jr. of St. Paul Terminals w0Qld be mana~ng the Ramsey facility. He has submitted a 2 sheet site plan for Lots 1 and 2. The site plan identifies the various processing areas with_in the building and the yard. Part of the clean up activities conducted by St. Paul Terminals including replacing a deteriorated chain link fence with a steel fence that provides 100% opacity. That steel fence currently extends from about the middle of the building to the berm on the east side of the Planning Commission/June 5, 2001 Page 25 of 30