Agenda - Planning Commission - 11/02/1998

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CASE REQUEST FOR SITE PLAN REVIEW; CASE OF NORTH COUNTRY CONCRETE, INC. By: Sylvia Frolik, Zoning Administrator Background: The City of Ramsey has received a request for site plan review and approval from Karl Virkus of North Country Concrete. The plan proposes to construct an office/warehouse building on Lot 4, Block 1, Gateway North Industrial Park. The following items are enclosed: a) Site location map b) Site plan c) City Staff Review Letter dated October 30, 1998 Observations: The office/warehouse use is consistent With the permitted uses in the Business Warehouse District. The site is approximately 1.9 acres in size and the building will be 6,528 square feet in size. This converts to a lot coverage of 23% which is in compliance with City Code. The exterior walls of the building are proposed to be a combination of brick and stucco. The building will not exceed the 35 foot height restriction. The plan shows one access onto 143rd Avenue N.W. and two accesses onto Jaspar Street N.W. Code states that loading doors should be located on the rear wall of buildings; the Council has deviated from that requirement in the past. The proposed building will have 3 overhead doors on the front wall and 3 on the rear wall. The level of activity anticipated at the overhead doors on the front wall is not known. The driveways and customer/employee parking areas are proposed to be surfaced with bituminous and finished with concrete curbing; however, the site plan must be modified to specify B-612 concrete curbing. The plan proposes 23 off-street parking spaces and staff cannot confirm that this number is sufficient because the number of employees is not noted on the site plan. The applicant is proposing that the 30,000 square foot staging area on the south side of the building be surfaced with crushed concrete because their track equipment will destroy a bituminous surface. The City permitted AEC to surface their staging area with a gravel surface. Waste storage areas will be provided for inside the staging area. The site plan 'needs to be modified to specify the construction materials used on the waste storage containment area. The Landscape Plans complies with the 20 foot wide landscape area requirement along 143rd Avenue and Jaspar Street. The applicant is also proposing to screen the staging area on the south side of the building from the public road and adjacent properties. The landscape plan needs to be modified to include the species, number, and size of plantings proposed.