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.
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(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on July 19, 2007)
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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odd Gerhardt, City Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
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(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)
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