HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-01-20 TPC Ltr To Applicant Following Materials Review 3601 Thurston Avenue N, Suite 100
Anoka, MN 55303
Phone: 763.231.5840
Facsimile: 763.42 7.0520
TPC@PIanningCo.corn
January 20, 2016
Ernest Swanson
1885 Newberry Avenue North
Stillwater, Minnesota 55082
RE: Oak Park Heights — Pizza Ranch — Conditional Use Permit for a
Restaurant, and Design Guidelines/Site Plan Review — Morning Dove
Avenue
FILE NO: 236.02 — 15.11
Dear Mr. Swanson:
The City is in receipt of your application materials submitted on January 13, 2016 for the
construction of Pizza Ranch restaurant at Morning Dove Avenue in Oak Park Heights.
The application consists of a request for a Conditional Use Permit for a restaurant and
Design Guidelines/Site Plan review. With this letter we are notifying you that the
application is not complete. The City will deem it complete with receipt of the following
items by January 27, 2016:
1. Please provide mailing labels for properties within 500 feet of the exterior
boundaries of the property.
2. Include the lot line created for the Range 082 Indoor Shooting on the preliminary
plat.
3. Indicate and provide the easements to be vacated and provide an ownership and
encumbrance report for the property.
4. Provide drainage calculations for the proposed development and include a
drainage area map.
5. Staff discussed the addition of brick and stone on the north elevation in
conformance with the Design Guidelines. The plans should be revised to reflect
a consistent design in that it will be visible from the Highway 5.
6. The electronic message board sign must be in compliance with Section
401.15.G.10.a. of the Zoning Ordinance. The changeable copy portion of the
sign shall not occupy more than 35 percent of the actual copy and graphic area
of the sign.
Ernest Swanson
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7. We should discuss sidewalk connections from your building to 58th Street. That
will be a topic for discussion at our meeting next week.
8. Provide a percentage of glass transparency for the east and south elevations.
We would invite you and your representatives to a staff meeting on January 27, 2016 at
10:30 AM at City Hall to discuss these issues and address any questions you may have.
If all of the application materials are submitted as requested, the Planning Commission
would consider the application at a meeting scheduled for February 11, 2016 at 7:00
PM in the City Hall Council chambers.
Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 15.99, Sub. 3(f), the City of Oak Park Heights is
herewith extending the period of time for agency/city review of the application for an
additional 60 day period (for a total of 120 days from the date of a complete application)
inasmuch as the City has determined that additional research and study by the City staff
relative to the complexity of the project as proposed will be required.
Please contact me with any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
Scott ke4aecle
Scott D. Richards, AICP — City Planning Consultant to the City of Oak Park Heights
The Planning Company LLC
c: Joey Wendinger, I+S Group
Eric Johnson
Julie Hultman
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