Ordinance 507CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.507
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20
ZONING
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 20-5 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Identification of arterial and collector streets.
For purposes of this chapter, the following are identified as arterial and collector streets:
Arterial Streets:
County Road 14 (Pioneer Trail)
County Road 17 (Powers Boulevard)
County Road 17 (Audubon Road south of Lyman Boulevard)
County Road 18 (Lyman Boulevard; west of Trunk Highway 101)
County Road 19 (Galpin Boulevard south of Trunk Highway 5)
County Road 61 (Flying Cloud Drive)
Dell Road (Highway 5 south to corporate city limits)
Trunk Highway 5
Trunk Highway 7
Trunk Highway 41
Trunk Highway 101
U.S. Highway 212
Collector Streets:
82°d Street
Audubon Road (north of Lyman Boulevard)
Bluff Creek Boulevard
Bluff Creek Drive
Century Boulevard (from West 78th St. to 82nd St.)
Coulter Boulevard
County Road 117 (Galpin Boulevard north of Trunk Highway 5)
Dell Road (Trunk Highway 5 north to corporate city limits)
Great Plains Boulevard (West 781h Street to Grandview Road)
Kerber Boulevard
Lake Drive
Lake Drive East
Lake Drive West
Lake Lucy Road
Longacres Drive
Lyman Boulevard (east of Trunk Highway 101)
Market Boulevard
Minnewashta Parkway
Park Road
Pleasant View Road
West 78th Street (Trunk Highway 41 to Trunk Highway 101)
Section 2. Section 20-1119 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Computing requirements.
In computing the number of parking spaces required, the following shall govern:
(1) "Floor space" means the gross floor area of the specific use as defined by article II.
(2) Where fractional spaces result, each fraction of one-half or more shall constitute another
space.
(3) Parking standards for uses not specifically mentioned in this division shall be determined by
the city. The factors to be considered in such determination shall include size of building,
type of use, number of employees, expected volume and turnover of customer traffic and
expected frequency and number of delivery or service vehicles.
Section 3. Section 20-1122 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Access and driveways.
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:
(1) Driveways shall be setback at least ten feet from the side property lines, except on lots
that access off of a cul-de-sac "bubble", neck or flag lot where the lot frontage may
prohibit meeting the side yard setback requirement. Beginning 20 feet from the front
property line, driveways may be setback a minimum of five feet from the side property
line or the distance of the existing drainage and utility easement on the particular lot or
parcel. Encroachment into a side yard drainage and utility easement must be reviewed
and approved by the city and may require an encroachment agreement.
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(2) 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.
(3) Within the right-of-way driveways should access city streets at 90 degrees.
(4) 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.
(5) 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.
(6) 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.
(7) 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.
(8) Driveway setbacks may be reduced subject to approval by the city engineer and the
following criteria:
a. The driveway will not interfere with any existing drainage swale or easement in
which a utility is contained;
b. Shall require an easement encroachment agreement from the engineering department;
c. The driveway must be designed to maintain stormwater drainage runoff on the
property to ensure that it will not cause runoff onto adjacent properties;
d. Snow storage may not be placed on adjacent properties; and
e. Lot frontage on lots that access off of a cul-de-sac "bubble", neck or flag lot do not
permit adequate driveway access width or side yard setback.
(9) Accessory driveways shall be maintained as natural grass or be constructed of
bituminous, concrete, or paver surface.
(10) One driveway access is allowed from a single residential lot to the street.
(11) 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.
(12) Separate driveways serving utility facilities are permitted.
(13) All driveways must be constructed in accordance with current construction
requirements/details. A driveway permit is required when any alteration is made to a
driveway in the public right of way. A zoning permit may be required for any other
driveway work not in the public right-of-way along with other requirements to determine
if the improvement will meet zoning ordinance requirements of the particular lot or
parcel.
Section 4. 20-1255 (2) b. is hereby amended to read as follows:
(2) Directional signs
b. Permanent off -premise signs shall be allowed only in situations where access is
confusing and traffic safety could be jeopardized or traffic could be inappropriately
routed through residential streets. The size of the sign shall be no larger than what is
needed to effectively view the sign from the roadway and shall be approved by the
city council. Temporary off -premise signs are prohibited, unless otherwise specified
in this chapter.
Section 5. Section 20-1255 is hereby amended to add subsection (13) to read as follows:
(13) Corporate flags are limited to one per business.
Section 6. Section 20-1267 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended
to add subsection 2 to read as follows:
Uniformity of construction, design, etc.
All permanent signs shall be designed and constructed in a uniform manner and, to the extent
possible, as an integral part of the building's architecture. Multi -tenant commercial and
industrial buildings shall have uniform signage. When buildings or developments are
presented for site plan review, proposed signs for the development shall be presented
concurrently for staff review. All planned centers and multi -tenant buildings shall submit a
comprehensive sign plan for approval by the Planning Commission and City Council.
All wall signage shall use individual dimension letters, at least one-half inch deep. Company
symbols, display messages (not greater than 6 inches tall), pictorial presentations,
illustrations, or decorations (anything other than wording) and less than 20 percent of the
total sign display area are exempt from the individual dimension letter requirement.
b. Wall signs shall be backlit if a wall sign is illuminated, and be architecturally compatible
with the building and other signage if in a multi -tenant building.
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c. Company logos shall not occupy more than 30 percent of the sign display area and are
exempt from the individual dimension letter requirement.
2. All permanent monument or pylon signs shall be designed and constructed in a uniform
manner and, to the extent possible, as an integral part of the building's architecture.
Multitenant commercial and industrial buildings shall have uniform signage. When buildings
or developments are presented for site plan review, proposed signs for the development shall
be presented concurrently for staff review. All planned centers and multi -tenant buildings
shall submit a comprehensive sign plan for approval by the Planning Commission and City
Council.
a. All center, development name or an individual tenant building signage on a monument or
pylon sign shall use individual dimension letters, at least one-half inch deep.
b. Registered trademarks, company symbols, display messages (less than 6 inches tall),
pictorial presentations, illustrations, or decorations (anything other than wording) and less
than 20 percent of the total sign display area are exempt from the individual dimension
letter requirement.
c. In multi -tenant buildings, tenant panels may be used and shall be exempt from the
individual dimension letter requirement.
d. Company logos shall not occupy more than 30 percent of the sign display area and are
exempt from the individual dimension letter requirement.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and publication.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 28"' day of June, 2010, by the City Council of the City of
Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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To Gerhardt, Ci y anager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on July 8, 2010)
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CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN
COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 507
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
CHAPTER 20
ZONING
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CHANHASSEN,
MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 20-5 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Identification of arterial and
collector streets.
For purposes of this chapter,
the following are identified as
arterial and collector streets:
Arterial Streets:
County Road 14 (Pioneer Trail)
County Road 17 (Powers
Boulevard)
County Road 17 (Audubon Road
south of Lyman Boulevard)
County Road 18 (Lyman
Boulevard, west of Trunk Highway
101)
County Road 19 (Galpin
Boulevard south ofTrunk-Highway.
5)
County Road 61 (Flying Cloud
Drive)
Dell Road (Highway 5 south to
corporate city limits)
Trunk Highway 5
Trunk Highway 7
Trunk Highway 41
Trunk Highway 101
Trunk U.S. Highway 212
Collector Streets:
82nd Street
Audubon Road (north ofLyman
Boulevard)
Bluff Creek Boulevard
Bluff Creek Drive
Century Boulevard (from West
78th St. to 82nd St.)
Coulter Boulevard
County Road 117 (Galpin
Boulevard north of Trunk.. H ighway.
5)
Dell Road (Trunk Highway 5
north to corporate city limits)
Great Plains Boulevard (West
78th Street to Grandview Road)
Kerber Boulevard
Lake Drive
Lake Drive East
Lake Drive West
Lake Lucy Road
Longacres Drive
Lyman Boulevard (east of
Trunk Highway 101)
Market Boulevard
Minnewashta Parkway
Park Road
Pleasant View Road
West 78th Street (Trunk
Highway 41 to Trunk Highway 101)
Section 2. Section 20-1119 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Computing requirements.
In computing the number of
parking spaces required, the
following shall govern.
(1) "Floor space" means the
gross floor area of the specific use as
defined by article II.
(2) Where fractional spaces
result, the parking spaees required
,.i.a be
a .ed to be the neNt
largest whole numbe each fraction
of one-half or more shall constitute
another space.
(3) Parking standards for uses
not specifically mentioned in this
division shall be determined by the
city. The factors to be considered in
such determination shall include
size of building, type of use, number
of employees, expected volume and
turnover of customer traffic and
expected frequency and number of
delivery or service vehicles.
Section 3. Section 20-1122 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Affidavit of Publication
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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 331A.02, 331A.07, and other applicable laws, as
amended.
(B) The printed public notice that is attached to this Affidavit and identified as No. Z ; .
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:
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Laurie A. Hartmann
Subscribed and swom before me on
this day of 2010
a JYMME J. BARK
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L All permanent signs shall be
Access and driveways.
designed and constructed in a
The purpose of this section is to
uniform manner and, to the extent
provide minimum design criteria,
a. The driveway will not
possible, as an integral part of the
setback and slope standards for
interfere with any existing drainage
building's architecture. Multi -
vehicular use. The intent is to
swale or easement in which a utility
tenant commercial and industrial
reduce interference with drainage
is contained;
buildings shall have uniform
and utility easements by providing
b. Shall require an
signage. When buildings or
setback standards; reduce erosion
easement encroachment agreement
developments are presented for site
by requiring a hard surface for all
from the engineering department;
plan review, proposed signs for the
driveways; to limit the number of
C. The driveway must be
development shall be presented
driveway access points to public
designed to maintain stormwater
concurrently for staff review All
streets and to direct drainage
drainage runoff on the property to
planned centers and multi -tenant
toward the street via establishment
ensure that it will not cause runoff
buildings shall submit a
of minimum driveway slope
onto adjacent properties; and
comprehensive sign plan for
standards. Parking and loading
d. Snow storage may not be
approval by the Planning
spaces shall have proper access from
placed on adjacent properties. ; and
Commission and City Council.
a public right-of-way. The number
e. Lot frontage on lots that
(}) a. All wall
and width of access drives shall be
access off of a cul-de-sac "bubble",
signage shall use individual
located to minimize traffic
neck or flag lot do not permit
dimension letters, at least one-half
congestion and abnormal traffic
adequate driveway access width or
inch deep Company symbols,
hazard. All driveways shall meet
side yard setback.
display messages (not greater than
the following criteria.
(9) Accessory driveways shall
6 inches tall), pictorial
(1) Driveways shall be setback
be maintained as natural grass or
presentations, illustrations, or
at least ten feet from the side
be constructed of bituminous,
decorations (anything other than
property lines., except on lots that
concrete, or paver surface.
wording) and less than 20 percent of
access off of a cul-de-sac "bubble",
(10) One driveway access is
the total sign display area are
neck or flag lot where the lot
allowed from a single residential lot
exempt from the individual
frontage may prohibit meeting the
to the street.
dimension letter requirement.
side yard setback requirement.
(11) A turnaround is required
(2) b Wall signs
Beginning 20 feet from the front
on a driveway entering onto a state
shall be backlit if a wall sign is
property line, driveways may be
highway, county road or collector
illuminated, and be architecturally
setback a minimum offive feet from
roadway as designated in the
compatible with the building and
the side property line or the distance
comprehensive plan, and onto city
other signage if in a multi -tenant
of the existing drainage and utility
streets where this is deemed
building.
easement on the particular lot or
necessary by the city engineer,
(3) c. Companylogos
parcel. Encroachment into a side
based on traffic counts, sight
shall not occupy more than 30
yard drainage and utility easement
distances, street grades, or other
percent of the sign display area and
must be reviewed and approved by
relevant factors. If the engineer
are exempt from the individual
the city and may require an
requires a turnaround, this
dimension letter requirement.
encroachment agreement.
requirement will be stated on the
2. All permanent monument or
(2) Driveway grades shall be a
building permit.
pylon signs shall be designed and
minimum of one-half of one percent
(12) Separate driveways serving
constructed in a uniform manner
and a maximum grade often percent
utility facilities are permitted.
and, to the extent possible, as an
at any point in the driveway
(13) All driveways must be
integral part of the building's
(3) Within the right-of-way
constructed in accordance with
architecture. Multitenant
driveways should access city streets
current construction
commercial and industrial
at 90 degrees.
requirements/details. A driveway
buildings shall have uniform
(4) In areas located within the
permit is required when any
signage. When buildings or
Metropolitan Urban Services Area
alteration is made to a driveway in
developments are presented for site
(MUSA) as identified on the
the public right of way. A zoning
plan review, proposed signs for the
comprehensive plan, driveways
permit may be required for any
development shall be presented
shall be surfaced with bituminous,
other driveway work not in the
concurrently for staff review. All
concrete or other hard surface
public right-of-way along with other
planned centers and multi -tenant
material, as approved by the city
requirements to determine if the
buildings shall submit a
engineer. In areas outside the
improvement will meet zoning
comprehensive sign plan for
MUSA, driveways shall be surfaced
ordinance requirements of the
approval by the Planning
from the intersection of the road
particular lot or parcel.
Commission and City Council.
through the right-of-way portion of
Section 4. 20-1255 (2) b. is hereby
a. All center, development name
the driveway with bituminous,
amended to read as follows:
or an individual tenant building
concrete or other hard surface
(2) Directional signs
signage on a monument or pylon
material, as approved by the city
b. Permanent off -premise
sign shall use individual dimension
engineer.
signs shall be allowed only in
letters, at least one-half inch deep.
(5) On cornerlots, the minimum
situations where access is confusing
b. Registered trademarks,
corner clearance from the roadway
and traffic safety could be
company symbols, display messages
right-of-way line shall be at least 30
jeopardized or traffic could be
(less than 6 inches tali), pictorial
feet to the edge of the driveway.
inappropriately routed through
presentations, illustrations, or
(6) For A-2, PUD-R for single-
residential streets. The size of the
decorations (anything other than
family detached houses, RR, RSF,
sign shall be no larger than what is
wording) and less than 20 percent of
RA and RLM for single-family
needed to effectively view the sign
the total sign display area are
detached residential uses, thewidth
from the roadway and shall be
exempt from the individual
of the driveway access shall not
approved by the city council.
dimension letter requirement.
exceed 24 feet at the right-of-way
Temporary off premise signs are
c. In multi -tenant buildings,
line. No portion of the right-of-way
prohibited, unless otherwise
tenant panels may be used and shall
may be paved except that portion
specified in this chapter.
be exempt from the individual
used for the driveway Inside the
Section 5. Section 20-1255 is
dimension letter requirement.
property line of the site, the
hereby amended to add subsection
d. Company logos shall not
maximum driveway width shallnot
(13) to read as follows:
occupy more than 30 percent of the
exceed 50 feet. The minimum
(13) Corporate flags are
sign display area and are exempt
driveway width shall not be less
limited to one per business.
from the individual dimension
than ten feet.
Section 6. Section 20-1267 of the
letter requirement.
(7) For all other uses, the width
City Code, City of Chanhassen,
Section 7. This ordinance shall
of the driveway access shall not
Minnesota, is hereby amended to
be effective immediately upon its
exceed 36 feet in width measured at
add subsection 2 to read as follows:
passage and publication.
the roadway right-of-way line. No
Uniformity of construction,
PASSED AND ADOPTED this
portion of the right-of-way may be
design, etc.
28th day of June, 2010, by the City
paved except that portion used for
Council of the City of Chanhassen,
the driveway
Minnesota.
(8) Driveway setbacks may be
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
reduced subject to approval by the
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
city engineer and the following
(Published in the Chanhassen
criteria:
Villager on Thursday, July 8, 2010;
No. 4392)