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CC Regular Session 7.1. Meeting Date: 06/ 13/2023 By: Todd Larson, Community Development Information Title: CorTrust Bank - Rezoning and Plat at the northeast corner of Sunwood Drive and Zeolite Street NW. Purpose/Background: The applicant, CorTrust Bank, has been working with the City's Economic Development staff on the purchase of a 1.24-acre site at the northeast corner of Sunwood Drive and Zeolite Street NW for the construction of a new bank branch. The site will be subdivided from the existing 11.72-acre parcel. The site is zoned COR-2a. The proposed bank will have two drive-thru lanes. The COR-2a district limits uses to one drive-thru lane, so a re -zoning to the COR-2b district, where two drive-thru lanes are allowed, is proposed. A Site Plan Review is required for the site. The Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the project at its meeting on May 25. The City Council will consider this project over two meetings --the first will be the preliminary plat and the introduction of the rezoning ordinance. The second meeting will consist of the adoption of the rezoning ordinance, final plat, the site plan review, cross -access and maintenance agreement, and development agreement. Though the site plan needs the second reading of the rezoning ordinance approved, the Council can review and provide feedback on the site plan. Notification: Properties within 700 feet of the existing parcel were mailed public hearing notices. A public hearing notice was published in the May 12, 2023, Anoka Union Hearld Newspaper. A notice of land use application sign was placed at the northeast corner of Sunwood Drive and Zeolite Street. Observations/Alternatives: Building Design The one-story brick building will have several large windows on the prominent entryway at the southeast corner of the building. Several other windows will be located on the south, east, and west sides of the building. A drive-thru canopy is located on the north side of the building. The canopy is integrated into the hip roof of the building. The entryway in the southeast portion of the building will have architectural metal panels, brick, and glass with the upper portion being spandrel glass. COR-2 has a requirement that the building has at least 40 percent of the lot frontage. The lot has 173.50 feet of frontage along Sunwood Drive. The building will have 60 feet of frontage (34.6 percent). A decorative screen wall, similar to other walls along Sunwood Drive, will be 28 feet in width screening the parking lot drive aisle. Between the building and the screen wall, 50.7 percent of the lot will have a hardscape frontage. An discrepancy in the plans was discovered late in the review cycle. The architectural plans show two drive-thru lanes under the canopy and one outside of the canopy while the civil plans show only one lane under the canopy. Since COR use restrictions limit this to two, the plans will need to be updated showing only two lanes. An ATM lane is considered a drive-thru lane since the activities and effects of the ATM and a traditional teller lane are essentially the same. Access and Parking Vehicular access to the site, initially, will be from Zeolite Street along the north side of the site via a shared access drive directly across from the approved location for the Home2Sutes driveway. This access drive is being set up