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Ordinance 452• CITY OF CHANHASSEN CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO.452 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE CHANHASSEN CITY CODE ZONING The purpose of this code amendment to Chapter 20, Zoning, of the Chanhassen City Code is to add driveway expansions and patios to the list of required structures for a zoning permit, allow exceptions to the faga& requirements for expansions to existing buildings or based on design and use of the building, add minimum design standards for driveway expansions, and to clarify the square footage of monument signs in the IOP district along the State Highway corridors. A printed copy of Ordinance No. 452 is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at the office of the City Manager/Clerk. PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 9`h day of July, 2007, by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen. • (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on July 19, 2007) 0 • CITY OF CHANHASSEN CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO.452 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20 ZONING CHANHASSEN CITY CODE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA ORDAINS: Section 1. Section 20-91 (a) of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended to read as follows: A Zoning Permit shall be required for the construction of structures which do not require building permit to determine compliance with zoning requirements such as setback, site coverage, structure height, etc.: Agricultural buildings. Decks less than 30 inches above the ground and not attached to the principal structure. 0 Driveway Expansions. One-story detached accessory structures, used as tool or storage sheds, playhouses, and similar uses, less than 120 square feet in building area. Patios. Permanent fences less than six feet in height. Sport courts. Section 2. Section 20-1068 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended to read as follows: Facade transparency. Fifty percent of the first floor facade that is viewed by the public shall be designed to include transparent windows and/or doors to minimize expanses of blank walls. (Reflective glass is not permitted.) If the building is a one-story design and the first floor elevation exceeds 12 feet, then only the first 12 feet in building height shall be included in calculating the facade area. The remaining 50 percent of the first floor facade that is viewed by the public shall be designed • to include any or all of the following: • Landscape materials (plant material, vertical trellis with vines, planter boxes, etc.) • Architectural detailing and articulation that provides texture on the facade and/or parking structure openings. For buildings with a use or function that does not readily allow windows, e.g., cooler or freezer areas, mechanical rooms, security areas, storage areas or warehouse or manufacturing space in • commercial or industrial buildings, the fenestration standards may be reduced. However, the architecture detailing must be provided by the use of upper level windows, the use of spandrel glass or architectural detailing which provides arches, patterning, recesses and shadowing that provide aesthetic interest. Architectural detailing may include such things as change in materials, change in color, and other significant visual relief provided in a manner or at intervals in keeping with the size, mass, and scale of the wall. Architectural detailing may include arcades, arches, bosses, buttresses, clerestories, colonnades, columns, corbeling, loggias, pilasters, portals, quoins, silos, tiling and towers. Additional architectural elements may include the use of awnings, canopies, embrasures, lunettes, plant boxes, recesses and shutters. For buildings that were built prior to September 24, 2001, the city will encourage the use of transparent windows or doors as part of any building expansion. However provided the expansion, at a minimum, maintains the existing patterns and details of the existing building architecture, the proposed expansion would not be required to meet the 50 percent transparency requirement. Section 3. Section 20-1122 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended to read as follows: Access and driveways. 2 • The purpose of this section is to provide minimum design criteria, setback and slope standards for vehicular use. The intent is to reduce interference with drainage and utility easements by providing setback standards; reduce erosion by requiring a hard surface for all driveways; to limit the number of driveway access points to public streets and to direct drainage toward the street via establishment of minimum driveway slope standards. Parking and loading spaces shall have proper access from a public right-of-way. The number and width of access drives shall be located to minimize traffic congestion and abnormal traffic hazard. All driveways shall meet the following criteria: a. Driveways shall be setback at least ten feet from the side property lines. Beginning 20 feet from the front property line, driveways may be setback a minimum of five feet from the side property line. Encroachment in to a side yard drainage and utility easement must be reviewed and approved by the city and may require an encroachment agreement. b. Driveway grades shall be a minimum of one-half of one percent and a maximum grade of ten percent at any point in the driveway. c. Within the right-of-way driveways should access city streets at 90 degrees. d. In areas located within the Metropolitan Urban Services Area (MUSA) as identified on the comprehensive plan, driveways shall be surfaced with bituminous, concrete or other hard surface material, as approved by the city engineer. In areas outside the MUSA, driveways shall be • surfaced from the intersection of the road through the right-of-way portion of the driveway with bituminous, concrete or other hard surface material, as approved by the city engineer. e. On corner lots, the minimum corner clearance from the roadway right-of-way line shall be at least 30 feet to the edge of the driveway. f. For A-2, PUD-R for single-family detached houses, RR, RSF, R-4 and RLM for single-family detached residential uses, the width of the driveway access shall not exceed 24 feet at the right- of-way line. No portion of the right-of-way may be paved except that portion used for the driveway. Inside the property line of the site, the maximum driveway width shall not exceed 50 feet. The minimum driveway width shall not be less than ten feet. g. For all other uses, the width of the driveway access shall not exceed 36 feet in width measured at the roadway right-of-way line. No portion of the right-of-way may be paved except that portion used for the driveway. h. Driveway setbacks may be reduced subject to approval by the city engineer and the following criteria: 1. The driveway will not interfere with any existing drainage swale or easement in which a utility is contained; and 2. Shall require an easement encroachment agreement from the engineering department; and 0 • 3. The driveway must be designed to maintain storm water drainage runoff on the property to ensure that it will not cause runoff onto adjacent properties; and 4. Snow storage may not be placed on adjacent properties. i. Accessory driveways shall be maintained as natural grass or be constructed of bituminous, concrete, or paver surface. j. One driveway access is allowed from a single residential lot to the street. k. A turnaround is required on a driveway entering onto a state highway, county road or collector roadway as designated in the comprehensive plan, and onto city streets where this is deemed necessary by the city engineer, based on traffic counts, sight distances, street grades, or other relevant factors. If the engineer requires a turnaround, this requirement will be stated on the building permit. 1. Separate driveways serving utility facilities are permitted. Section 4. Section 20-1304 (1) of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended to read as follows: Industrial Office Park Signs. • (1) Pylon business signs. Pylon signs are permitted on parcels that abut State Highway corridors only. One pylon or one ground low profile industrial office park identification sign shall be permitted. A pylon sign shall not exceed 80 square feet on a State Highway in sign area and shall not exceed 20 feet in height. Such sign shall be located at least ten feet from any property line. (2) Ground low profile business signs. One ground low profile business sign shall be permitted per site for each frontage. Such sign shall not exceed 64 square feet, except on a State Highway, in display area nor be greater than eight feet in height. Such sign shall be located at least ten feet from any property line. Section 5. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and publication. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 9ch day of July, 2007, by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen, Minnesota / z Z'\ - Ji I — - odd Gerhardt, City Manager Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor 41 (Summary Ordinance Published in the Chanhassen Villager on July 19, 2007) CITY OF CHANHASSEN GARSTD HENNEPIN COMINNESOTA SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 452 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE CHANHASSEN CITY CODE ZONING The purpose of this code amendment to Chapter 20, Zoning, of the Chanhassen City Code is to add driveway expansions and patios to the list of required structures for a zoning permit, allow exceptions to the faVade requirements for expansions to existing buildings or based on design and use of the building, add minimum design standards for driveway expansions, and to clarify the square footage of monument signs in the IOP district along the State Highway corridors. A printed copy of Ordinance No. 452 is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at the office of the City Manager/Clerk. PASSED, ADOPTED, AN APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 9t' day of July, 2007, by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen. (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on Thursday, July 19, 2007; No. 4913) Affidavit of Publication Southwest Newspapers State of Minnesota) )SS. County of Carver ) Laurie A. Hartmann, being duly sworn, on oath says that she is the publisher or the authorized agent of the publisher of the newspapers known as the Chaska Herald and the Chanhassen Vil- lager and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (A) These newspapers have complied with the requirements constituting qualification as a legal newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331 A.02, 331 A.07, and other applicable laws, as amended. (B) The printed public notice that is attached to this Affidavit and identified as No.� was published on the date or dates and in the newspaper stated in the attached Notice and said Notice is hereby incorporated as part of this Affidavit. Said notice was cut from the columns of the newspaper specified. Printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the kind and size of type used in the composition and publication of the Notice: abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz Subscribed and sworn before me on q Lev this 11 day ofLZ/gf, 2007 Notary Public r B Laurie A. Hartmann GWEN M. 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