Agenda - Planning Commission - 01/02/1996

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Review Letter Site Plan - Vanc6 Bros. December 28, 19~5 Page 2 of 2 Off Street Parki~e - Number of Soaees: The applicant has indicated that the peak season staff consists of six ~) employees. T-he facility currently has 5 off-street parking spaces and an additional 12 ar~proposed. The site plan is in compliance with Code requirements for number of off-street parkin~ spaces. Off Street Park:in travelled areas ¢ concrete curbing area under a pre~ new managers oI Although the site Vance Brothers ~ g and Drives - Design: City Code requires all driveways, off-street parking and ,f a site to be surfaced with bituminous or concrete and finished with B-612 The fee title owner failed to pave the driveway and existing off-street parking fious development permit for an expansion. It is Staff's understanding that the 'the site, Vance Brothers, will bring the site up to code with respect to paving. plan does not identify curbing, Staff has received a verbal commitment from the aat curbing will be installed around the perimeter of all bituminous from the front of the buildings ~o Azuritc Street. No curbing is proposed around the perimeter of bimmlnous on the east side of ~e buildings. The City has previously waived the requirement for curbing to the rear of buildings ~ this heavy industrial district The site plan will have to be modified to identify the amount of ctt~rbing approved by the Planning Commission and the City Council. D_rgilll~g~ A ~ading plan was prepared in December, 1992, for this property. The existing topography falls[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 thelpaved access will need to be handled on site with detention ponds. The drainage plan calls for dr~ining roughly the northern 150 feet of the site northward to a shallow detention pond to be locatbd in the northeastern corner 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 co, er of the property to handle storm runoff from the remainder of the site. It is recommended tlgtt 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 capac~,ties.. Spoil from .the ponding areas could be utilized to create landscaping berm areas around theipenmeter of the sate or raise the proposed building pads as additional protection against flooding, i Waste Storaee: !City Code requires all waste storage areas to be 100% screened. The site plan identifies an had ~r~or waste storage area which is in compliance with City Code. The Planning C~mmission will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 2, 1996, at the Ramsey Municiflal Center, 15153 Nowthen Blvd. N.W., to review the proposed site plan. A copy of the case cove~ sheet is enclosed. You, or your representative, should be present at the meeting to answer any qubsfions that may arise. If you have any questions, please call us at 427-1410. Respectfully, crrv oF UA S ¥ Sylvia Frot/k Zoning Adminis ~t~ator Steve Jankowski City Engineer 2'7