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Oak Park Heights
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To: City Administrator
From: Public works [director, Jay Johnson, PE
CC: City Engineer, city Planner
Date: 04/29/03
Fie: McKean square Change to 12 Unit Brownstone
When stacking out the 12 unit Brownstone Flats located on the south end of McKean
Square it was discovered that if the building were twisted 90 degrees, fewer trees would
be impacted.
Figure 1 one is a copy of a section of the site plan showing building and the surveyors
locations of the trees. On the plan all trees are shown with the same computer drawn
size. In reality some of these trees were mature oaks were much larger and more
impacted by the building. To reduce the impact on the oaks have redesigned the
building by reducing the total number of bedrooms and turning the building
approximately 90 degrees as shown on Figure 2. The engineers are going to field verify
that the change will reduce the impact of the building before their final decision is made.
The change increases the setback of the building from the public street, it does not
change the total number of units within the development, there is no change to the
architectural design of building, there is no change to traffic pattern or storm water flow.
The change will cause a minor change in the location of the sewer and water laterals
servicing the building which have not been installed.
Based on my initial discussion with The City Planner I informed the Architect that the six
parking stalls in the public right of way would not be allowed. We then discussed the
issue of at the Staff meeting where the general impression of staff was that the change
may be an improvement to the site plan but and that it should be forwarded to council
through the Friday notes or other means. With receiving any objects we should
consider the change as minor not requiring any formal action by the City.
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