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Case # REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN REVIEW OF TOWN CENTER 3aD ADDITION, NORTHWEST RETAIL BUILDING; CASE OF RAMDANCE LLC By: Sylvia Frolik, Community Development Director tq Background: Ramdance LLC has submitted a site plan for the development of a retail building on the northwest quadrant of Outlot I, Ramsey Town Center, proposed to be replatted as Ramsey Town Center 3rd Addition. The first phase of the development of Ramsey Town Center 3ra Additioh, Lot 1, includes the grocery store, a comer retail building at the intersection of Sunwood Drive and Zeolite Street, and a third retail building in the northwest comer of the site. The site plan for each of these 3 structures are being processed as separate cases. The following items are enclosed fbr your infm~ation: a) b) c) d) e) Site location map Proposed plat Proposed site plan and landscape plan for N.W. Retail Building Proposed building elevations (refer to color exhibits contained in agenda packet) City Staff Review Letter dated July 22, 2004 Observations: The site is zoned TC-2 and retail uses are a permitted use. The applicants are proposing to construct an l 1,000 square foot retail store in the northwest quadrant of the site. City Code states that there shall not be more than one main building on a lot. There are ultimately 4 structures planned for Lot 1. The Planning Commission advised the applicants to apply fbr a variance; the request is scheduled for the August 5 Board of Adjustment. The TC-2 District establishes a .5 floor area ratio. Lot 1 is 391,410 square feet in area; the minimum floor area ratio is 195,705; the total area of all buildings planned for Lot 1 is 93,207 square feet. The plan is 102,498 square feet deficient of the .5 ratio. The intent of the TC-2 District is to accommodate large scale retail buildings that will most certainly require greater amounts of surface parking. The Planning Commission recommended that the applicant apply fbr a variance to the floor area ratio requirements for Lot 1, generally. The request for variance is scheduled for the August 5 Board of Adjustment. The maximum front yard setback in the TC-2 district is 0-15 feet. The northwest retail store is appropriately placed at and parallel with the Sunwood Drive fight-of-way. A total of 428 parking spaces would be required for the uses ultimately proposed for Lots 1 and 2; the site plan is showing 451 spaces.