Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/25/2024

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commercial developments of this nature in Ramsey have similar percentages. There will be two driveways into the site, each spaced at least 150 feet from the centerlines of Pearson Street and Snowy Owl Street, across Riverdale Drive from the site. This spacing will help facilitate safer traffic patterns into and out of the Subject Property. The west building is designed to have the main retail entrance at its southeast corner, adjacent to the customer parking and close to the west driveway. The climate -controlled self -storage portion of the west building will have a separate entrance and loading area along the east side of the building. This building will be three stories tall, with a maximum roof height of 38.25 feet and a top -of -parapet height of 42.25 feet. The east building is designed for U-Haul's U-Box storage, which consists of pod -like storage containers stacked inside the building. This building will have its main entrance facing westward, adjacent to customer parking stalls. There will also be a loading dock along the south side of the building. This building will technically be one story tall, although the clearance height will be taller to accommodate the stacking of the U-box units. This building will have a maximum roof height of 45 feet and a top -of -parapet height of 47.5 feet. The five garage -style buildings along the north side of the site will each have twenty garage doors (ten on each long side), resulting in 100 garage -style storage units. These buildings are not proposed to be climate -controlled, and there will be no dedicated parking stalls for any of these five buildings. However, there will be 30-foot-wide drive aisles between each of these buildings to allow for customers to drive up to their respective storage unit to load and unload items. Lastly, the check -in canopy is proposed to be located in the center of the site, just north of a 200-foot-long staging area for rental trucks and trailers. This canopy is intended to be the "landing spot" for customers looking to return rental equipment. The canopy will be built for drive -through operations, and will have a clearance height of 14 feet, which will accommodate all of U-Haul's rental trucks and trailers. Each of these buildings will be 10 feet tall. Architecture and Building Elevations The west and east buildings are both designed to consist primarily of insulated metal panels (Metl-Span Santa Fe) with a stucco appearance. Accent materials include lyrical articulated accent fins (in orange, lime green, and teal), dark -brown walnut lap siding, tilt -up concrete, and metal trim. The west building will also have storefront windows on the second and third floors at all four corners of the building, as well as a storefront window design on the first floor at the southeast corner of the building, surrounding the retail showroom. The garage doors on the west and east buildings will consist of ultra -grain walnut material, whereas the garage doors on the north storage buildings will be orange metal, similar to the company's branding. Staff has requested more information on the building materials for the garage -style storage buildings along the north side of the lot. Staff has also requested a percentage breakdown of each of the materials to be used on each building, as it appears that metal will comprise more than 30 percent of each building facade, which is allowed by City Code. Additionally, Staff has requested that the Applicant provide a written justification for using more metal, as required in City Code Section 106-580. This written justification is intended to aid the Planning Commission and City Council in deciding whether the architectural metal panels meet the intent of the City's Zoning Code as listed in the "other" category. Signage The west building is proposed to have the following signage: • A large 171.5-square-foot corrugated metal sign that reads "Your Storage Place", to be located in the center of the east facade; • Four 45-square-foot illuminated cabinet signs with the U-Haul logo, to be located along the top of all four building facades; • Three 68-square-foot channelized letter signs that read "Drive -In Self -Storage", to be located on the north, south, and east building facades; • One 50-square-foot channelized letter sign that reads "Moving Supplies", to be located in the upper -left corner of the east facade;