Agenda - Council - 04/25/2006 - Laserfiche WebLink

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· The City approved numerous residential subdivisions within the Ramsey Town Center with 665 new residential units approved in the last two years. · Additional projects expected to begin construction in the upcoming year include the Asissi Restaurant and Night Club, a 50,000 square foot office/retail building, a senior housing project and additional retail/commercial buildings. · The City was awarded $1.40 million $$ for provision of express bus service to Minneapolis and expansion of the park and ride facility. 2.1 Overview & Background The site area is characterized as "main street" Ramsey Town Center. Located directly adjacent to the Municipal Parking Ramp, numerous shops and multi-story housing, the City Center Park and a potential furore Noffiastar Commuter Rail stop, this location can be described as the cultural and entertainment center of the area. The cinema's proposed street-fi-om orientation allows for sidewalks immediately next to the entire fagade of thebuilding, easy access by car, pedestrians, transit or local area bus shuttles in the near furore. 2.2 Preliminary Plans/General Expectations The City believes that the Project has unique transportation, visibility and market characteristics especially attractive to a cinema developer. The locational proximity to the Ramsey Town Center Project, future commuter rail, a new Mississippi River bridge crossing and a fully upgraded TH 10 are all aspects of a well positioned property suitable for redevelopment. INSERT CINEMA STATISTICS IN THE AREA 3. Development, Infrastructure and Land Use Planning 3.1 Roads, Utifities and Zoning . -_ The City and RTC, LLC have completed all necessary utility and street infrastructure to service the Project site. The Ramsey Municipal Parking Ramp is under construction and is scheduled for completion by July 2006. The proposed cinema will require Preliminary and Final Plat and Site Plan approvals and will need a Conditional Use Permit in the TC-1 zoning district. 3.2 Access and Parking ~ The Concept Plans (Exhibit X) indicates that the theater will have direct pedestrian and vehicular access fi-om Sunwood Drive. Access to parking will be on the easterly side of the building adjacent to a new stair tower from the Municipal Parking Garage - hopefully directly into the proposed cinema building. Current city parking ordinance requires .25 stalls per seat or approximately 750 stalls. The Municipal Parking Garage will have approximately 350 to 500 stalls available evenings and weekends (all day) for potential use by a cinema. There is a proposed 238 car surface parking facility directly south and west of the cinema that will have cross-easements for cinema use and 200 future parking structure stalls will be available for use on evenings and weekends. All streets (not all streets - there will not be parking on Sunwood in front of cinema/retail)within the Ramsey Town Center have parallel parking and would be available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Ramsey Town Center Cinema - Request for Proposals 3 ofll -346-