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ARCHITECTS.ENGINEERS• PLANNERS LAND SURVEYORS•SCIENTISTS
August 5,2013
Mr. Scott D. Richards,AICP
City Planning Consultant
City of Oak Park Heights
c/o The Planning Company, LLC
3601 Thurston Avenue North, Suite 100
Anoka, MN 55303
RE: Plan Review Response for Oak Park Heights- Pizza Ranch - Rezoning from 0,Open
Space to B-2, General Business Zoning District;Conditional Use Permit for Drive
Through; Parking Requirement Variance;and Design Guidelines/Site Plan Review-
13045 601th Street North
Dear Mr. Richards:
Thank you for your plan review letter dated July 24, 2013.We have prepared the following
information to address your review comments as well as the review comments provided by OPH
Arborist Kathy Widin via email on July 17,2013. Please note that for your convenience each
review item is restated below along with our corresponding response.
July 24, 2013 Review Comment Responses
1.Staff discussed the addition of brick and stone on the north elevation in conformance with the
Design Guidelines.The plans should reflect that the same materials be used on the entirety of the
east and west facades also.
Engineer's Response: The elevations have been revised in the submittal information.
2. Provide more information on the drive up window operations.Is there an order board or are all
orders taken by phone or through your web site?Will the stacking distance as indicated on the
plans be adequate?
Engineer's Response:Please see the attached Letter from Pizza Ranch, Inc. which addresses this
comment.
3. Provide location and specifications for any building wall lighting.Also, identify how the
monument sign is to be lit.
Engineer's Response: The monument sign has been revised to a 20-foot tall,pole-mounted,pylon
sign that is internally lit by fluorescent lamps. The building lighting locations and cutsheets are
provided within the attached revised submittal.
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4.Identify a potential location of a trail connection from the front to rear of the site on the plans.
Engineer's Response:In accordance with City comments, the proposed trail connection is shown on
the plans within the attached revised submittal.
5. Provide a percentage of glass transparency on the elevation facing 60th Street North.
Engineer's Response: The glass transparency the elevation is noted on the attached elevation in the
revised submittal packet.
6.Chris Long,the City Engineer, had questions related to the water and sewer connections as well
as the addition of the storm water pending on the east side of the site.
Please contact him at 651 .604.4808.
Engineer's Response:
• Water and sewer connections have been updated with in the attached revised submital per
the City Engineer comments.
• The desired location of the recreational trail encroaches upon the available space for storm
water treatment and volume reduction, as the site generally flows from northwest to
southeast.
• Based on the already limited amount of available storm water treatment area, we are
investigated a number of options to meet storm water requirements. These include any or a
combination of the following:
o Hydrodynamic control device
o Underground storage
o Bioretention
o Dry ponds
• We have a meeting with the Brown's Creek Watershed district on Thursday morning to
discuss the site and the current design. The desired outcome is to use information from
the meeting to submit the necessary permit materials to BCWD by the August 12,2013
deadline for the September 9,2013 Regular Board Meeting.
July 17, 2013 Review Comment Responses
1. No response required.
2. No response required.
3. Plant species are appropriate for this area and most plants would be considered "low
maintenance" and not subject to serious insect and disease problems,with the following
exception:
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a. There are a lot of"Como Park Shrub" roses(20) in the plan and these will probably be
susceptible to injury from the Japanese beetle. I would encourage more diversity in the flowering
shrubs listed for the project.
Engineer's Response:More diversity within the varieties of specified flowering shrubs has been
considered and implemented in the attached revised submittal.
4. In several areas on the plan there are large shade trees specified to be planted in small median
areas in the parking lot, especially on the south end of the building. These trees will be stressed
in sites where there is not enough rooting area. Ornamental trees, such as flowering crabapple
and Japanese tree lilac are better suited to sites where rooting area will be constricted.
Engineer's Response:Ornamental trees better suited to the limited rooting area available have been
specified in lieu of the previously specified large shade trees. This change is reflected in the attached
revised submittal.
5. No response required.
Please contact me at 507-387-6651 with any questions or requests for further information.
Sincerely,
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Joey Wendinger
Project Manager
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CC: Kathy Widin, OPH Arborist
Ernie Swanson
Attachment: Revised Submittal Information
Plan Review Response for Oak Park Heights-Pizza Ranch-13045 601th Street North
August 5,2013
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