HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-08-17 TPC Ltr to Applicant Re Materials Review TPC3601 Thurston Avenue N, Suite 100
Anoka, MN 55303
Phone: 763.231.5840
Facsimile: 763.427.0520
TPC@PlanningCo.com
August 17, 2022
Eric Bjelland
Midwest Retail Ventures
1660 South Highway 100
Suite 210
St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416
RE: Oak Park Heights - Stillwater Crossings, Sodie's Cigar — Site Plan/Design
Guidelines Review - 5946 Osgood Avenue North
FILE NO: 236.02 — 22.09
Dear Mr. Bjelland:
The City is in receipt of your application materials submitted on August 15, 2022, for a
building expansion at Stillwater Crossings at 5946 Osgood Avenue North, Oak Park
Heights. 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 August 24, 2022:
1. Please provide mailing labels from Washington County for properties within 500
feet of the exterior boundaries of the property.
2. Please provide a new Development Application. The type of request is Site
Plan/Design Guidelines Review. Provide a name of the correct legal entity that
owns Sodie's Cigar with the owner's signature on a revised Development
Application, as well as your signature as the owner of Stillwater Crossings on the
Development Application.
3. Provide a narrative explaining the request for the building addition and the use of
the space.
4. If there are no color elevations of the proposed addition, please provide pictures
of the existing elevations that are to match.
We would invite you and your representatives to a staff meeting on August 24, 2022,
10:30 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 September 8, 2022, at 6:00
pm in the City Hall Council chambers.
Eric Bjelland
August 17, 2022
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 at 952.221.0547 or scott(a�planningco.com with any questions you
may have.
Sincerely,
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Scott D. Richards, City Planning Consultant to the City of Oak Park Heights
The Planning Company LLC
c: The Bainey Group, Inc., Sodie's Cigars, Eric Johnson, Julie Hultman
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