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Review Lct~ Site Plan - Vance Bros. Dec~mlx~ 28, 1995 Page 2 of 2 Off Street Parking - Number of Spaces: The applicant has indicated that the peak season staff consists of six (6) employees. The facility currently has 5 off-street parking spaces and an additional 12 are proposed. The site plan is in compliance with Code reqtfimments for nmber of off-street parking spaces. Off Street Parking and Drives - Desi~: City Code requires all driveways, off-street parking and travelled areas of a site to be surfaced with bituminous or concrete and finished with B-612 concrete curbing. The fee title owner failed to pave the driveway and existing off-street parking area under a previous development permit for an expansion. It is Staffs understanding that the new managers of the site, Vance Brothers, will bring the site up to code with respect to paving. Although the site plan does not identify curbing, Staff has received a verbal commitment from the Vance Brothers that curbing will be installed around the perimeter of all bituminous from the front of the buildings to Azurite Street. No curbing is proposed around the perimeter of bituminous on the east side of the buildings. The City has previously waived the requirement for curbing to the rear of buildings in this heavy industrial district. The site plan will have to be modified to i~ the amount of curbing approved by the Planning Commission and the City Council. ~ A grading plan was preparexl in December, 1992, for this property. The existing topography fails several feet from the dirt roadway toward the east. Aside from the small knoll along the roadway in front of the building, the remaining property is generally flat. Storm runoff generated by the paved access will need to be handled on site with detention ponds. The drainage plan calls for draining roughly the northern 150 feet of the site northward to a shallow detention pond to be located in the northeastern comer of the property. This pond was to be constructed with the expansion in 1993, but was not. A second pond is proposed to be constructed in the southeastern comer of the property to handle storm runoff from the remainder of the site. It is recommended that the north and south detention ponds be constructed to hold volumes of 4,900 cubic feet and 7,600 cubic feet respectively. This would provide sufficient holding capacity to drain a two inch storm. Sufficient sized areas are available to accommodate three feet deep basins with these capacities. SPOIl from the ponding areas could be u~ to create landscaping berm areas around the perimeter of the site or raise the proposed building pads as additional protection against flooding. · .~.l~t~l:~g~ City Code requires all waste storage areas to be I00% screened. Thc site plan identifies an indoor waste storage area which is in compliance with City Code. The Planning Commission will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 2, 1996, at the Ramsey Municipal Center, 15153 Nowthen Blvd. N.W., to review the proposed site plan. A copy of the case cover sheet is enclosed. You, or your representative, should be present at the meeting to answer any questions that may arise. lgyou have any questions, please call us at 427-1410. Respectfully, CITY OF RAMSEY Sylvia Fro~ik Zoning Administrator Steve Jankowski City Engineer 139 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I