Agenda - Council - 09/28/1999 - Laserfiche WebLink

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The driveway and off-street parking areas will be paved and finished with B-612 curbing. The plat for Guy Addition provided two accesses to Hwy. #10 for the 4 lots. According to the plat of Guy Addition, the Zitzloffproperty is supposed to access Hwy. #10 via a 30 foot easement in the southwest comer of the adjacent lot to the east (Lot 3). The site plan shows expanding that existing 30 foot driveway into a 50 foot w/de access in an area where no access rights exist (the southeast comer of Lot 2). The plan has been forwarded to Mn/DOT for comment and no written response has been received to date. In a telephone conversation on September 22, Mn/DOT Staff indicated that they will be recommending that the approved access in the southwest comer of Lot 2 be relocated slightly to the west to line up with the HWY. #10 median crossing. This relocation of the legal access will require the cooperation of Mn/DOT and property owners in Guy Addition and can be initiated by Mr. Zitzloff at any time. A more comprehensive response is expected from Mn/DOT in writing in the near future. No screening is required because the adjacent parcels are also zoned commercial. The site plan provides the required 20 foot wide landscaped area parallel to HWY. #10 and at Staff's request, an additional 20 feet has been preserved for a possible future service road. Staff recommended and the Applicant agreed to add a couple more trees to the plan. Modifications should be made to the landscape plan accordingly. The facility will be served by municipal sewer and water. Because of pre-existing stormwater problems in the area, this development will require stormwater improvements. The Planning Commission recommended that a comprehensive stormwater plan from the Ramsey/Anoka boundary to Sun_fish Lake Blvd. be taken into consideration when determining what is necessary to facilitate Mr. Zitzloff's project.: The site plan proposes a storm sewer beneath the raikoad tracks into the City's regional stormwater pond to service Business,Park 95. This storm sewer is consistent with Staff plans for servicing the drainage area south of[he railroad trae~' Ed:north of Hwy. #10. The capacity of this pipe, however, is not specified within the site plan. ~'t~':'~'e'present time, only the Zitzloff and Parabody properties have expressed interest in the installation of storm sewer. The questions which need to be addressed are whether a pipe larger than that needed to service the Zitzloff property should be installed beneath the raikoad tracks, and how the crossing should be financed. It is Staff's recommendation that the City negotiate an agreement in which: (a) Zitzloff and Parabody agree to pay the cost of a storm sewer railroad crossing sufficient to handle their respective runoff capacities; (b) storm sewer be extended within a proper width drainage easement dedicated to the City over the Zitzloff and Parabody properties along the northerly border of both properties; (c) the City would pay for the oversizing of storm sewer beyond the Zitzloff and Parabody properties. (The cost of such oversizing is estimated to be approximately $30,000.00). The 'shoebox' parking lot lights meet City Code but the 'prism' wall mounted lights do not; the Lighting Plan will have to be modified accordingly and is subject to the approval of the City Engineer. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I