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CASE REQUEST FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL FOR SAUCIER; CASE OF CORPORATE REAL ESTATE AND COPPER SALES By: Zoning Administrator Sylvia Frolik Background: ~ Corporate Real Estate has been retained by Copper Sales to prepare a site plan for the Saucier office/manufactt~ring facility to be constructed in Business Park 95 2nd Addition on the south side of McKinley Street. Saucier manufactures large metal containers such as dumpsters. The following items ~e enclosed for your information: a) b) c) Site location map Site plan Copy of Business Park 95 Covenants The site plan h'as been reviewed for compliance with City Code standards and has received approval from the City of Ramsey Planning Commission and City Council contingent upon approval from tl/e Business Park 95 Review Board. Observations: The proposed facility is 30,400 square feet in size with a possible future addition proposed at 15,200 square ftet. The following is a critique of the site plan as it pertains to Section 2 of the Business Park 95 Covenants: An office/manuthcturing use with some screened outside storage is a permitted use. The exterior finish on the building is proposed to be painted concrete block with a pre-finished metal panel application to the top 1/3 of the structure, which is in accordance with the covenants. The total square footage of the proposed structure and the future addition to it does not exceed the 35% lot coveraggrestriction established in the covenants and City Code. The covenants restricts the aggregate im.~pervious surface (buildings and pavement) of the lot to 85% of the lot area. The area of the building and paved surfaces totals approximately 72,000 square feet, which is equal to 39% of the lot. Outdoor waste st, orage areas are required to be screened. The site plan proposes a concrete block enclosure with Wood gates. The covenants requires locating outside storage yards and equipment in inconspicuous, screened areas of the site.; The outside storage yard and oxygen tank is proposed to be located on the east side of the structure in a location that is the most distant from the McKinley Street entrance to the facility. The apPJicant has also proposed to establish a tree screen of 6 foot spruce trees north of the storage yard.! Consideration should be given to extending the proposed screen further east to initiate some scrdening for that area identified as 'future yard' on the site plan. The covenants requires all parking, loading, unloading and maneuvering areas to meet City Code requirements. City Code requires all of these areas, including outside storage yards, to be paved and finished with B-612 concrete curbing. The site plan proposes to pave all of these areas and curb any pavemei~t installed west of a line drawn north and south through the parcel at the location of the west building wall. The Planning Commission and City Council approved the Applicant's request to waive the requirement for curbing all pavement on the south side of the building because of its proximity to the railroad tracks and power line rather than a corporate neighbor and on the east side because:it is a future expansion area.