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Consensus of the Council was to table action temporarily to allow the City Attorney, the Community Development Director, the Zoning Administrator and the applicant's husband to confer about the hours of operation. Case #3: Request for Site Plan Approval; Case of North Country Concrete, Inc. Zoning Administrator Frolik noted that Mr. Karl Virkus is present. He is proposing to build his facility on Lot 4, Block 1, Gateway North Industrial Park. The office/warehouse use is consistent with the permitted uses in the Business Warehouse District. The site is approximately 1.9 acres in size and the building will be 6,592 square feet in size. The exterior walls are proposed to be a combination of brick and stucco. The building will not exceed the 35-foot height restriction. Ms. Frolik explained that the plan shows one access onto 143rd Avenue and two accesses onto Jaspar Street. Code states that loading doors should be located on the rear wall of buildings; the Council has deviated from the requirement in the past. The proposed building will have three overhead doors on the front wall and three on the rear wall. The level of activity anticipated at the overhead doors on the front wall is proposed to be minimal. Ms. Frolik continued that the driveways and customer/employee parking areas will be surfaced with bituminous and finished with B-612 concrete curbing. The plan indicates a maximum of 14 employees on the site at any given time; 23 parking spaces are proposed. The applicant is proposing that the 43,000s square foot staging area on the south side of the building be surfaced with crushed concrete because their track equipment will destroy a bituminous surface. She noted that the City permitted Anoka Electric to surface their staging area with a gravel surface. A waste storage enclosure is provided inside the staging area and will be constructed of brick and stucco with a wood gate to match the principal building. She explained that the Landscape Plan complies with the 20-foot wide landscape area requirement along 143ra Avenue and Jaspar Street. The applicant is also proposing to screen the staging area on the south side of the building from the public road and adjacent properties with the use of spruce trees and shrubs. It was verified by Mr. Virkus that the equipment that may destroy the bituminous would be loaded and also that he is aware that 143rd may be torn up for construction. Motion by Councilmember Haas Steffen and seconded by Councilmember Beyer to approve the site plan for North Country Concrete contingent upon the applicant entering into a development agreement with the City. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Haas Steffen, Beyer, Beahen and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Case #4: Agreement for Loan of Minnesota Investment Fund; Vision-East Lens, Inc. Community Development Director Sherman stated that part of the financing package for Vision-Ease included a state loan of $200,000 from the Minnesota Investment Fund. Funding through this program is directed from the State of Minnesota through the City. City Council/December 15, 1998 Page 5 of 13