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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning Commission Meeting Planning Commission Meeting Synopsis June 6, 2002 Page 1 of 18 ~ ~ ~--~..._._-- ~'!k!!t~;:,ti'~;/Jlr'!li::~::~I, J..'ut,:, - " Jd. 'u;t. . ,& ,,' .f" !~..'~. ..,.. .... 'fl'." -~ .,- ......... - , ~ Planning Commission Synopsis June 6, 2002 CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Knutson caned the Planning Commission Meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. on June 6, 2002 in the City Council Chambers of the Bloomington Municipal Building. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Knutson, Schneider, Lewis, Peper, Sathre (arrived @ 6:01 p.m.), Spencer (arriv( 6:06 p.m.) COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Iacovo STAFF PRESENT: Hawbaker, Pease, Markegard, Hase ITEM 1 6:00 p.m. CASE: 10541A-02 APPLICANT: City of Bloomington LOCATION: 1700 West 98th Street REQUEST: Conditional use permit and final site plan and building plans for a public safety radio APPEARING FOR THE APPLICANT: No one. SPEAKING FROM THE PUBLIC: No one. DISCUSSION BY THE COMMISSION: Pease presented the staff report recommending approval of a conditional use permit and final site and building plans for a public safety radio tower at 1700 West 98th Street subject to four conditions and five Code requirements. He added there is a minor change in the site plan with the moving of the fuel tank location. ACTIONS OF THE COMMISSION: M/Lewis, S/Schneider: Having reviewed the Findings in Section 19.22(3)(A), (B), (e), (D), (E), and (F) and Section 19.40.12(d)(1), (2), (3), (4), and (5), in Case 10541A-02 to recommend approval ofa conditional use permit and final site and building plans for a public safety radio tower at 1700 West 98th Street subject to four conditions and five Code requirements. Motion carried 5 - O. CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMISSION: 1. The plans submitted for permit approval shall clearly state and show the height of the tower as not exceeding 170 feet (including antennas and any other appurtenant equipment), accurate site plan with dimensions of the lease area, setbacks and equipment; 2. Site plans and building plans for the other co-users of the facility must be submitted and may be administratively approved; 3. Any security lighting for the base of the tower and lease area shall be shown on submitted plans and shal be as approved by the Planning Manager; http://www.ci.bloomington.mn. us/meetings/pc/ synopsis/2002/060602pcs.htm 4/28/2006 Planning Commission Meeting Synopsis June 6, 2002 Page 7 of 18 does with his. Peper asked if the pool is vinyl. Curtis confirmed. Peper asked if there are rules regarding the drainage for pools. Hawbaker stated the pool cannot drain into the storm sewer. ACTIONS OF THE COMMISSION: M/Sathre, S/Lewis: Having reviewed Case 10588A-02, recommend that Condition #7 of Case 98368-91 be amended to read as follows: 7) Provide a 50-foot rear yard setback for all principal and accessory buildings on all lots abutting reserved right- way for West Old Shakopee Road. Motion carried 6 - O. M/Sathre, S/Schneider: Having reviewed the Findings in Section 2.98.01 (b)(3)(A),(B),(C) and (0), in Case 10588B-02 to recommend approval of the requested variance to reduce the rear yard setback from 30 feet to 20 feet for a pool in the rear yard at 8320 West 109th Street subject to three conditions. Motion carried 6 - o. CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMISSION: 1. The pool or the retaining wall will not encroach on the drainage and utility easements of record; 2. The proposed fence location be approved by the City Engineer; and 3. Grading, drainage, utility and erosion control plans be approved by the City Engineer. **** ITEM 7 7:16 p.m. CASE: 10587 A-02 APPLICANT: Robert Nelsen LOCA TION: 7301 Bush Lake Road REQUEST: Variance to reduce the rear yard setback from 30 feet to 25 feet for a swimming pool APPEARING FOR THE APPLICANT: No one. SPEAKING FROM THE PUBLIC: No one. DISCUSSION BY THE COMMISSION: Pease stated the applicant has withdrawn this application based on the fact that a complying location on the site was chosen instead of the area requiring a variance. **** ITEM 8 7:17 p.m. CASE: 6015A-02 ~ APPLICANT: Interstate Companies, Inc. LOCATION: 2501 & 2601 East 80th Street REQUEST: Conditional use permit to construct a hotel, including office space APPEARING FOR THE APPLICANT: http://www.ci. bloomington.mn. us/meetings/pc/synopsis/2002/060602pcs.htm 4/28/2006 Planning Commission Meeting Synopsis June 6, 2002 Page 8 of 18 Lee Henderson, 420 North 5th Street, #864, Minneapolis SPEAKING FROM THE PUBLIC: No one. DISCUSSION BY THE COMMISSION: The following is a verbatim account of the discussion on Case 6015A-02. Knutson: "Item number 8 this evening is Case number 6015A-02. The applicant being Interstate Companies, Inc at 2501 and 2601 East 80th Street, requesting a conditional use permit to construct a hotel including office space May we have the staff report?" )k.. Hawbaker: ''Yes, Mr. Chairman. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit for a 380 room hotel which includes a 350 seat restaurant, 2400 square feet of ballroom and a meeting room space. Building height is proposed in the narrative as 145 feet. The total area of the two parcel is about 6.37 acres. The proposed total parking would be 850 spaces, 150 surface parking spaces and 700 spaces in a five level parking ramp. The broe general concept plans have been submitted including a site and landscape plan, the hotel view from across Eas1 80th Street, ground floor plan, mezzanine floor plan, basement floor plan and typical floor plans on levels three through fifteen and a typical room layout. The building would be located in the center of the site with the parking structure located in the southwest portion of the property. According to the site and landscape plan, there would four access points to East 80th Street. The site plan and landscape plan show two retention pond areas, grading and drainage, utility plans have not yet been submitted. The proposed project, basically a full service hotel, is located within the Airport South area about, approximately south of their runway protection zone and within the proposed State Safety Zone A that are being considered for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport runwa 1735, now under construction by the reconvened MSP Airport Zoning Board. The properties involved in the request are zoned 1-1, Limited Industrial Park and have a current comprehensive land use plan designation of Employment Oriented Mixed Use. The request for the conditional use permit would establish, if approved by the City Council, hotel use for the property. The applicant was advised at the Development Review Committee of February 12,2002 and a correspondence dated February 6,22, March.22 and 25 that the hotel use is not consistent with the current comprehensive plan land use designation of Employment Oriented Mixed Use and th; a comprehensive plan amendment to that classification that permits the hotel development would be needed. Additionally, the plans accompanying the application are very broad and generic and an initial staff review would indicate that the hotel development as proposed by the applicant would need four variances. Three for setbacks and one for a major reduction of the parking requirement. The current comprehensive plan land use guide, the Comprehensive Plan 2000, notes that for the Airport South area the previous land use guide plan designations a carried forward and applied to the area. The current land use designation is Employment Oriented Mixed Use, which also the designation contained in the Airport South District Plan~ The current land use designation of the Comprehensive Plan is Employment Oriented Mixed Use, that designation is described as follows in the Airport South District Plan. Quote, liThe Employment Oriented Mixed Use area is intended to be the primary employmer base in the Airport South District. Offices and uses accessory to offices will be the principle uses. Us~s serving tl needs of employees, such as auto maintenance and servicing should be encouraged, provided they are integratl as part of a larger development". In the Airport South area, an appropriate land use designation for a hotel according to the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Guide Plan and the Airport South District Plan would be the Service Oriented Mixed Use designation, which specifically provides for hotel land use and is described as folio", in the Airport South District Plan. The Service Oriented Mixed Use area is primarily intended to provide services travelers. Hotels and restaurants are the most important uses in these areas, however, offices and uses accessc to hotels and restaurants are appropriate. Other service uses such as service stations are appropriate when the) are an accessory use to an integrated development. http://www.ci. bloomington.mn. us/meetings/pc/synopsis/2002/060602pcs.htm 4/28/2006 Planning Commission Meeting Synopsis June 6, 2002 Page 9 of 18 The applicant states in the narrative that the Fairfield Inn conditional use permit request, the property directly we of the subject property, that the City Attorney concluded that there was no conflict between a motel project and tl comprehensive plan, this is incorrect. The City Attorney noted that a conflict between the use and the Comprehensive Plan, but based on the state law at that time, advised that the zoning superceded the Comprehensive Plan. The City Council approved the Fairfield Inn conditional use permit in 1993. In 1995, state law was changed making the Comprehensive Plan controlling if a conflict existed with the zoning. The City Attorney's position on this matter is included in the March 25, 2002 letter to Mr. Henderson from the City Attorne~ David Ornstein. The proposed land use plan is in conflict, or the proposed use is in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Guide Plan and the Airport South District Plan Land Use designation. A hotel is not an appropriate conditional use for the subject properties. The Staff can not affirm the two conditional use permit findings in Section 19.40.11 (b}(1) that the proposed use is not in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan an in Section 19.40.11(b)(2) that the proposed land use is not in conflict with an adopted district plan for the City. Therefore, Mr. Chairman, in Case 6015A-02, the Staff recommends denial of a conditional use permit for a hotel based on the inability to make the findings stated. That concludes the Staff report. II Knutson: "Thank you, Mr. Hawbaker. Are there questions of Staff? Seeing none, is the applicant present and would they like to be heard on this item? Again, if you could kindly sign in and state your name for those observil on cable at home." r Henderson: "Good evening, my name is Lee Henderson and I am an attorney in Minneapolis representing Gorde * and Penny Galarneau and Interstate Companies, Inc., who are the property owners and the user of the property do have a short letter that I have prepared today in response to the staff report which I Just gotten, if I could provide that to the members of the Board. You have with the letter, an aerial photograph that will give a view of where this particular property is. And I don't know if you can see it on the screen or not, but it's the last page of your letter as well. And the two properties are adjacent to each other are outlined in a yellow marker right there on East 80th Street. You see the Fairfield Inn a: the property immediately to the west, the Mall of America is a block to the south and the existing Grand Hotel is right across the street, Sheraton Hotel is a block up to the north and the Exellnn, I believe, is right here, so therE are several hotels right in the immediate area. We are coming not seeking final building permit approval to build the hotel, we are coming seeking only the issuance of a conditional use permit under the .Code so that over the course of the next year we can finalize the building plans and come back with something to build. We have provided a generic description of what we contemplate for the hotel and then we'll supplement that with the details. Mr. Nestingen, the architect who has designed the basic layout, is here if there are specific questions with respect to that. It is our intention in the cour of the final project plans to deal with all of the proposed variances that have been raised and we think we can satisfy all those in the final building design and layout. Now the real issue is, can we get our conditional use pern for this property and that is a argument or an issue that relates to part what was done in 1993 and in 'part looking at the particular zoning code as it exists today. Interstate is a large business, operates 22 buildings in eight states, this property happens to be their corporate j. headquarters and their largest branch. It IS a h~a Industnal application r they have a Detroit Diesel d istributorsl1 an a arner ranspo rue Ing re ngera Ion IS n u ors 'p, 0 o W IC opera e out 0 this property. They ha\J Deen tnere Tor ~5 years and were probaolY tnere before anything else was tnere to tne south. I hey have operate in this location for a long time. With the development of the Mall of America and its success, they began to realiz that running diesel engines, large trucks and- buses in and out of this facility is probably not the best use for this J( property in the long haul and that over time it probably should be something that would accommodate or compliment the Mall of America. And they began some thought processes about what that should be and http://www.ci.bloomington.mn. us/meetings/pc/ synopsis/2002/060602pcs.htm 4/28/2006 Metropolitan Airports Commission Page 1 of75 This is the html version of the file http://mspairport.com/mac/public meetings/Full Commission/Fc/Agenda/FC Goo 9 I e automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. 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CONSENT ITEMS (Consent Items can be brought down to Discussion) Approval of Minutes a - R~scheduled Regular - September 27, 2004 Lease Actions -- . .. -- ~ . . .... http://72.14.203.1 04/search ?q=cache:Rk4 _ w6E- EtIJ :mspairportcom/mac/public _meetings... 4/29/2006 SA3 Interstate Companies, Inc. Gordon D. Galarneau, Jr. and Penny Sue Galarneau Vs. Carol Molnau, Lieutenant Governor and Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Transportation and Minnesota Department of Transportation At the Committee meeting, Thomas Anderson, General Counsel, notified the Committee that Interstate Companies has filed a lawsuit against MnDOT challenging the Commissioner of Transportation's approval of the MSP Joint Airport Zoning Board Ordinance. This was an informational item only and no Commission action was requested. Human Resources and Affirmative Action Committee Dl DBE Consessions Update Commissioner Boivin, Chair of the Human Resources and Affirmative Committee, reported a meeting was held on September 27. Staff presented to the Committee a memorandum which indicated an increase in DBE participation in the area of ethnic businesses and a decrease in the area of woman-owned businesses. This was an informational item and no Commission action was requested. D2 2003 - 2004 TGB Report Quarterly and year-end summary reports to the Minnesota Department of Administration for TGB activity were submitted. TOB participation for fiscal year 2003 through 2004 is as follows: Construction - 2.3%; Supplies - 2.30/0; and Consultants - 4.60/0. Total TGB participation for the year was 3% of total dollars expended. This was an informational item and no Commission action was requested. D3 2005 Employee Insurance Renewals At the Committee meeting, Bill Hoyt, Insurance Risk Manager, presented the proposed insurance renewal rates for 2005 dental, long-term disability, basic life insurance/accidental death and disability (AD&D), prescription drug and medical plans and discussed cost-saving initiatives. COMMISSIONER BOIVIN MOVED AND COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS SECONDED APPROVAL OF THE 2005 EMPLOYEE INSURANCE RENEWALS AS PRESENTED. The motion carried on the following roll call vote: Ayes, thirteen: Commissioners Berman, Boivin, Foley, Houle, Landy, Long, Mars, McCauley, McGee, McKasy, Rehkamp, Williams, and Chair Tigwell Nays, none Absent, two: Commissioners Lanners and Warner Page 11 of 56 Page 13 Commission Meeting September 27, 2004 Page 10 D4 HR Policy: Retiree Health Insurance Staff presented for Committee consideration a proposal to amend Human Resources Policy 9- 06-05: Employee Retirement Insurance. The amendment will discontinue funding of retiree health insurance for employees hired on or after October 1, 2004. The recommendation to amend the policy is based on data collected from a staff study. COMMISSIONER BOIVIN MOVED AND COMMISSIONE~ WILLIAMS SECONDED