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CASE REQUEST FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL; CASE OF CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. By: Zoning Administrator Sylvia Frolik Background: Casey's General Stores, Inc. has submitted a site plan for the development of a 2,720 square foot convemence store on Lot 1, Block 4, Sunfish Square. The following items are enclosed for your haformation: a) b) c) d) e) f) Site location map Site plan iLetter from Anoka County dated August 27, 1996 City Staff review letter dated August 30, 1996 Draft Planning Commission meeting minutes dated September 3, 1996 ~Proposed development perm2t Notification: Site Plans are nq>t required to be subjected to public hearings2 However, it was thofight that this proposal needed a reszoning from B-1 to B-2 in order to accommodate gas sales~ The public hearing Was advertised and Staff attempted to notify all residents in Sunfish Square of the proposal t*or a convenience store and the need for a rezoning. (As it turns out, the City zoning map!is in error and the parcel is already zoned B-2, so the rezoning process did not go forward beyond the public hearing; but the neighborhood should be aware of the project by vkme of the hearing notice that was sent out.) Observations: The facility is pr°~Posed to have one access from Industry Avenue and one access from Sunfish Lake Blv~t. The access on Sunfish Lake Blvd. has been aligned with the access to Ramsey Athletic Club on the west side of Sunfish Lake Blvd. Anoka County recommends no access onto Coj)nty Road #116. The City Engineer recommends retaining it in the plan but relocating it to 1he eastern property line to minimize interference with a future right turn lane on #116. Theaccess onto #116 will also be necessary to accommodate delivery of gas and merchandise by tractor-trailers as these 'vehicles are too large to enter the property, make their deliveries, turn around and exit at the same acces, s point. The exterior finish on the building is proposed to be brick. The project also meets City Code requirements-for lot coverage, setbacks, design and number of off-street parking spaces and driveways, screened waste enclosure, lighting, landscaping and screening. The site plan does need to be modified to identify handicap parking spaces and handicap ctzrb cuts at locations, where the curbing intersects the bituminous path along Sunfish Lake Blvd. and Industry .Avenue. The City Engineer has also requested more detail on the Grading and Drainage Plan; there will have to be a detention pond behind the store or a storm pipe placed to existing detention ponds on the adjacent outlot. The Planning Commission reviewed the site. plan on September 3.