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Julie Hultman
From: Eric Bjelland 11111.1111111111101111111111111111
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2023 3:35 PM
To: Julie Hultman;T L
Cc: Eric Johnson; Eric Bjelland
Subject: RE: OPH City Ord Amendment -03-09-23 Public Hearing Re Off Street Parking, Loading
& Landscaping
Julie: Thanks for sending it. I took a quick review and with very large areas, (ie WMT, Kohl's etc), they do have a "sea of
parking" and modifying the zoning to encourage limiting some of the heat generated is an interesting concept. Please
note the following suggestions, operations:
1) Adding water to the islands is a challenge. An owner will either need to provide a water truck(shortage of
drivers) or trench water lines through the asphalt. Both are very expensive.
2) The definition for parking should not be 25 stalls but rather areas of 100+stalls that are contiguous with
North/South and East/West parking stacked together. This address the problem, ie the heat from a sea of
asphalt, but does not penalize smaller centers, like SWC, that has over 25 stalls but are wrapped around the
building.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 9th
Questions—please email me.
GP: ERBN
Eric R. Bjelland
Midwest Retail Ventures LLC
CMB 284
1210 Broadway Street. Suite 240
Alexandria, MN 56308
612-419-1485
eric@midwestretailventures.com
www.midwestretailventures.com
From:Julie Hultman<jhultman@cityofoakparkheights.com>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2023 1:12 PM
To: Eric Bjellan
Cc: Eric Johnson <eajohnson@cityofoakparkheights.com>
Subject: OPH City Ord Amendment-03-09-23 Public Hearing Re Off Street Parking, Loading& Landscaping
Hi Eric&Tony-
Per our conversations,the Oak Park Heights Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing on March 6, 2023 at 6
p.m. to discuss amendment to City Zoning Ordinance 401.15.F as it relates to Off Street Parking, Loading and Landscape
Requirements. The Notice of Public hearing is attached.
The intent of the amendment is to reduce the impact of urban heat islands in parking lots through methods described in
the attached memo from the February Planning Commission meeting, which discusses/mentions the handouts they had
for their initial conversation on the subject, at their January 12th meeting. For your reference, I have provided the
dropbox link to that meeting packetas the enclosure volume was large.
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dropbox.com/s/lkn8ttdiin7nqmh/01-12-
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Hope you can make the meeting.
Have Super Weekend!
�c' Julie Hultman I Building Official
Planning&Code Enforcement