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REQUEST FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL; CASE OF PECK PROPERTIES By: Sylvia Frolik, Zoning Administrator CAS # Z Background: On March 17, 1998, the Architectural Review Board reviewed the proposed site plan for Peck Properties. There was not a quorum of board members present at the time and the City Attorney has advised that official action to approve the site plan be taken at this time by the Board. The Business Park 95 has received a request for site plan review and approval from Peck Properties. The plan proposes to construct a 61,700 square foot multi-tenant office and warehouse facility on Lot 2, Block 1, in the Business Park 95 7th Addition. The anchor tenant would be Peck Construction. Observations: The site will receive public access from the northerly extension of Radium Street off of McKinley Street N.W. The facility proposes two accesses onto Radium Street. The proposed development does not exceed the 35% building coverage or 85% impervious surface area restrictions of City Code and the Business Park 95 Covenants. The structure meets all of the setback requirements, will be constructed entirely of concrete masonry units, and has loading docks located on the rear wall. All maneuvering areas on the site will be surfaced with bituminous and finished with B-612 concrete curbing. The waste storage area and above ground fuel storage tank are also enclosed in a concrete masonry structure in accordance with City Code and the Covenants. There is an outside storage area noted in the northeast comer of the site, which is permitted under the Covenants. This storage area will be screened with a 10 foot high concrete masonry enclosure which is set back 15 feet off the property line. Last March, Staff had recommended that landscaping be used to soften the impact of this concrete enclosure. Staff also recommended that some landscaping be added to the east property line to screen dock activity from Anoka Enterprise Park to the east. Since that time, Mr. Peck submitted a modified Landscape Plan dated March 13, 1998 that provides additional landscaping around the concrete storage enclosure and along the common property line with the City of Anoka. Staff at Anoka and Ramsey have agreed that industrial development on both sides of the common border between the two communities should attempt to maintain a 20 foot setback. For the most part, this can be achieved on the east property line of the Peck site, except for that northeast comer in which outside storage is proposed. The buffer in that area must decrease to a width of 15 feet in order to provide a sufficient amount of maneuvering area for truck traffic. In accordance with City Code, a 20 foot wide green space is provided along the public street, Radium Street N.W.