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<br />Councilmember Dehen asked if there will be the ability for the residents to look down and see <br />the maintenance equipment. <br /> <br />Mr. Klain replied the area will be enclosed. He stated a buffer has been created to the actual <br />development with the back of the building. There are two loading docks on the south portion to <br />take deliveries. They have lowered the pitch of the roof on the back of the building to try to <br />bring the building scale down to more of a house level. They will be planting up to three <br />different types of evergreens and he is fine with Mr. Lindberg's suggestion with the berming. <br />The maintenance area has a 10 foot garage door for the four-foot high dock; it is large enough to <br />fit two dumpsters and clearance to get around. <br /> <br />Councilmember Dehen questioned if all the maintenance and landscaping equipment will be <br />inside the garage door. <br /> <br />Mr. Klain replied yes, everything has been enclosed and there is nothing sitting outside to the <br />residential area. One thing they had done from the beginning based on the Council' swork <br />session discussion was to try to create an area to come through from the residential area. Mr. <br />Lindberg was concerned with the view of the homes to the building; they have now eliminated <br />windows and evergreens are included as a buffer. The request of the Planning Commission was <br />not to get rid of all the windows. With the revised plan the neighbors will not be able to see into <br />the building. There is still a common area included outside with tables. <br /> <br />Councilmember Dehen questioned why there cannot be a shared access with the bank. <br /> <br />Mr. Lindberg replied 15 drawings were done to try to work out the shared access. There is no <br />way for a 400 car shopping center to egress out of the site without blocking the entrance to the <br />bank. They continued their discussions with the bank and combined the parking lots with two <br />accesses. The bank and Hack Real Estate are very in favor of this plan. There will be cross <br />easements involved. <br /> <br />Community Development Director Trudgeon stated the bank has indicated the same concerns <br />regarding blocked traffic and support of the cross parking lot accesses. <br /> <br />Mr. Trent Hasset stated they moved to the community about one year ago. His wife is the <br />manager of the Caribou Coffee located by Cobom's. There are a lot of vacancies there and he <br />imagines there will be difficulty filling these vacancies. He worries strongly about the <br />commercial coming in directly across the street from his wife's business. He is also concerned <br />about property values. There is a building that looks just like this on Highway 169 in Champlin <br />that completely hides the houses there except for the roofs. He questioned if this will impact <br />Ramsey with open vacancies. He stated the two big issues are property values and the pirating of <br />customer base. He also wants to be sure there is not commercial traffic on the residential roads <br />that could result in a kid getting hurt and the need to redo the roads. He asked whether research <br />has been done on the impact on property values from this type of development. <br /> <br />Associate Planner Geisler indicated real estate values is not something staff typically looks at in <br />a standard review. There were some concerns raised about that at the Planning Commission <br /> <br />City Council / April 24, 2007 <br />Page 11 of 38 <br />