HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010-11-17 TPC Ltr to Applicant TP 3601 Thurston Avenue N, Suite 100
Anoka, MN 55303
Phone: 763.231 5840
Facsimile: 763,427.0520
TPC @PianningCa.corn
November 17, 2010
Jeff Kaurez
AutoZone Inc.
123 South Front Street, 3 Floor
Memphis, TN 38103
RE: Oak Park Heights — AutoZone — 13613 60 Street North
FILE NO: 236.02 — 10.06
Dear Mr. Kaurez:
The City is in receipt of your application materials submitted on November 9, 2010 for
an AutoZone store at 13613 60 Street North in Oak Park Heights. The application
consists of requests for site plan /Design Guidelines 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 November 24, 2010:
1. Provide the signature of the owner of the property if not AutoZone.
2. Provide an electronic file of the application materials and plans.
3. Provide a narrative describing the project and background information on
AutoZone.
4. A trail should be added to the site plan along 60 Street North with a connection
to the sidewalk at the front of the store.
5. The Design Guidelines recommend the use of monument signs as opposed to
pylon signs. Please provide an alternative plan for a monument sign.
6. Provide a sample of the brick color.
7. A building materials board will be required for review by the Planning
Commission and City Council at their respective meetings.
Jeff Kaurez
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8. The lighting plan will need to be revised such that the height of the ground
mounted light fixtures not exceeds a total of 25 feet from ground level to the top
of the fixture.
9. Provide a location for a bike rack.
10. Calculate the percentage of glass transparency of the facade facing 60
Street.
11. The City Arborist will provide comments on the landscape plan that will be sent to
you separately.
Staff reviewed the application materials at a meeting on November 17, 2010. We would
invite you and your representatives to a staff meeting on December 1, 2010 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 December 16, 2010 at 7:00 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 D. Richards, AICP
The Planning Company LLC
c: Eric Johnson
Julie Hultman
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