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CASE # <br /> <br />REQUEST FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO ESTABLISH WAREHOUSE <br />OPERATIONS AS AN ACCESSORY USE TO AN OFFICE BUILDING IN THE B-3 <br />HIGHWAY BUSINESS DISTRICT; CASE OF JERRY THELL CONSTRUCTION <br />By: Anita Rasmussen, City Planner <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The City has received an application for a conditional use permit from Jerry Thell Construction <br />to establish an accessory warehouse use to a proposed office building in the B-3 Highway <br />Business District. The following items are enclosed for your information: <br /> <br />a) <br />b) <br />c) <br />d) <br /> <br />Site location map <br />Preliminary site plan, floor plan, and building ele'Cations <br />Proposed findings of fact <br />Proposed conditional use pe.rmit <br /> <br />Notification: <br /> <br />State law requires notification to properties within 350 feet of the boundaries of the subject <br />property. Staff attempted to notify properties within 500 feet of the request for conditional use <br />permit. <br /> <br />Observations: <br /> <br />The applicant is proposing to construct an office building for potentially 3 tenants. He is also <br />requesting the ability to increase the size of the building to allow for indoor storage of company <br />vehicles, equipment and supplies. This constitutes a warehouse use which is not a generally <br />permitted use in the B-3 Highway Business District. <br /> <br />The building size proposed (12,000 square feet) is in compliance with the 35% lot coverage <br />restriction in the B-3 Business District. The location of the building meets all required building <br />setbacks. However, the property proposes to have an off-street parking area directly abutting the <br />existing residential district to the south. City Code requires a 40 foot landscaped area between <br />businesses and abutting residential districts. <br /> <br />The exterior walls as proposed in the Site Plan submittals are a combination of burnished <br />concrete block, rock face block, utility block, face brick and smooth concrete block. The plan <br />also proposes a flat roof. According to code, flat roofs on non-residential structures may be <br />prohibited when such construction is deemed by the City to be incompatible with surround <br />residential development. Since the property borders a residential development and there are two <br />existing business along Riverdale Drive with pitched roofs, staff feels the proposed flat roof is <br />incompatible with the surrounding area. <br /> <br /> <br />