Agenda - Planning Commission - 08/06/1996

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Site Plan Review: RSP Architects August 1, 1996 Page 2 of 3 Waste Storage: City Code requires dumpsters to be either stored indoors or in a completely screened enclosure outdoors. The site plan should be modified to identify the proposal for waste storage. Off Street Parking and Driveways - Design: The Site Plan identifies driveways, off-street parking areas and loading areas that are proposed to be surfaced with bituminous and finished with B-612 curbing in accordance with City Code, with a couple of exceptions. The west end of the parking area to the west of the main entrance is proposed to be finished with a bituminous curb. Staff recommends approval of this temporary bituminous curb in lieu of the proposed future expansion of this parking area to the west. Curbing is also proposed to ~ terminated at the point where the service drive would intersect with the future extens; ~n of I43rd Avenue east of Jaspar Street. There is also a gravel drive that proposes to wrap around the southeast comer of the building. It is Staff's understanding that the sole purpose of this gravel drive is to accommodate moving machinery and equipment into the building. Rather than require removal of this drive following occupancy of the building, Staff is recommending that it remain as is to serve as a fire lane for emergency vehicles. Off Street Parking - Spaces Required: City Code requires I parking space for each employee on the maximum working shift, which in this case is 246. The site plan proposes to provide 277 off-street parking spaces. Loading Dock: In accordance with City Code, all regularly used loading areas are :located on the rear or south wall of the structure. As with the gravel drive, it is Staffs mnderstancling that. the two overhead doors on the east wall will be used to accommodate :moving equipment and machinery into the building and will not be used regularly ithereafter. Drainage and Grading: A Drainage and Grading Plan prepared by Sunde Engineering and dated July 19, 1996 has been submitted. This plan. proposes the discharge of storm water from the property at three locations. The northern portion of the building i(approximately 40,000 square feet) plus the northern parking areas will discharge into the ~storm water system being constructed within the right-of-way of Sunwood Drive. This !:storm sewer will be increased in size to handle this discharge. Storm water will be discharged into a detention and sedimentation basin prior to overflowing into Wetland i#117W. The remaining 188,000 square feet of manufacturing space as well as the z: southern truck dock area will discharge to a detention pond which will be constructed in the southwest comer of the site. The discharge from the pond will flow into a large regional i pond which is immediately to the west. The regional pond in turn has an overflow into the detention pond east of the public works site. This pond is planned to be expanded and to have an outlet which will discharge into storm sewer being placed along with the expansion of McKinley Street, and which will ultimately discharge to the Mississippi River.