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2. Chanhassen Entertainment Center: Site Plan Review.I CITY OF CHANHASSEN PC DATE: 1/3/96 CC DATE: 1/22/96 CASE #: 95 -21 SPR BY: Al- Jaff:v STAFF REPORT PROPOSAL: 1) Site Plan Review to remodel the existing Chanhassen Bowl/Filly's and a portion of the Frontier building into an Entertainment Center 2) A variance to allow Wall Projecting Signs, Sand Blasted Signs, and Non - Street Frontage Signs 3) Vacation of a portion of Pauly Drive. H ' Z a IJ a � �a 0 iW 1 `n LOCATION: North of the railroad tracks and Pauly Drive, east of Market Boulevard and South of West 78th Street APPLICANT: Lotus Realty Services, Inc. Bloomberg Companies & Dan and Stephen Dahlin P. O. Box 235 P.O. Box 730, Chanhassen, MN 55317 and Chanhassen, MN 55317 296 N. Pascal, St. Paul 55075, respectively PRESENT ZONING: BG, General Business District and CBD, Central Business District ACREAGE: Approximately 6.3 acres DENSITY: N/A ADJACENT ZONING AND LAND USE: N - CBD, Filly's and Country Suites Hotel S - BG, Western Railroad, American Community Bank, and Pauly E - CBD, Frontier Center W - PUD, Market Square WATER AND SEWER: Available to the site. PHYSICAL CHARACTER.: A level parcel with an existing building, parking lot, and bus shelter. 2000 LAND USE PLAN: - Commercial y � T oil ARE 7fu dam 0 AID /_ . r I t imp IM 1 on` ms fril i I�IIIIi oil An ! �. L 111 k� .46 I Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 Page 2 ' On January 3, 1996, the Planning Commission reviewed and approved this application unanimously. Since then, some minor changes have taken place and the staff report has been amended accordingly. All changes will appear in bold letters. PROPOSAL /SUMMARY The plans for this proposal have been in development for several years. The applicant is requesting to remodel the Bowling Alley/Filly's building and the Frontier Building into an Entertainment Center which will include six movie theaters, Pauly's Sports Bar and Restaurant, the bowling alley, some retail stores and restaurants. The site includes several lots that will need to be replatted. Staff will explain the subdivision aspect of this application in further detail in the staff report. The current request is for the remodeling of the existing building and adding entrances, board walks and ' parking space only. Site access is provided via existing Pauly Drive and a curb cut on Market Boulevard. intemal Lt somewhat inere GempliGated situation. The- proposed par-king lot configuration poses some problems. Staff is re-rop-m-meending a redesign of the parking area as outlined in this report. ' pr ep a red b ueisington T Keg Group) Internal circulation of the parking lot has been redesigned since the Planning Commission meeting. Currently, Southwest Metro Transit has ' a parking easement over the southwest section of the Entertainment Complex Parking Lot. This is the only Park and Ride location in the city. One of the major concerns that Ms. Diane Harberts, Southwest Metro Transit Director, had with this proposal is the proposed ' landscape islands. From a public transit standpoint, it is best to keep parking lots devoid of vegetation, mainly for safety reasons. Landscape islands also constitute physical barriers for individuals using park and ride lots. Staff explained that eliminating the landscape islands was not an option, however, we agreed to a redesign of the landscape islands in a manner that would accommodate turning movement for Southwest Metro Transit Buses. The redesign has been completed and is shown on the plans dated January 16, 1996. To provide for additional parking spaces and a more controlled interior traffic circulation, the applicant requested the vacation of a portion of Pauly Drive lying east of the park and ' ride facility. Staff is recommending approval of this vacation. The applicant will be required to provide a legal description of the proposed vacation for staff's review and approval. Vacation of the right -of -way will be contingent upon the applicant entering into a site plan ' agreement with the city. ' The site plan is well developed, however, in some respects it does not meet all current standards. The bowling alley building is located in a General Business District. It is an existing building with existing parking which exceeds the hard surface limit and the parking setbacks. With this proposal, Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 ' Page 3 the applicant is attempting to increase the green space on the site by adding landscape islands to the parking lot. ' The building architecture incorporates the old town theme. It attempts to reflect some architectural ' features or use of materials from surrounding buildings while maintaining its own identity. The roof line on the theater section of the building is similar to that which will be used on the Applebee's building. The shape of the louvers on the Country Suites Hotel is similar to the ' awnings used on the restaurant. The brick will match the Applebee's and Tires Plus exterior materials. The clock tower reflects the theme in downtown, and the use of textured painting will reflect some of Americana Community Bank's design. The type of architecture and materials used is a better quality than the existing building. The massive existing wall/building will be broken into five building facades. A board walk will be incorporated along the building which will give the appearance of a shorter building. New doors and windows will be introduced to the facade, in ' some cases, giving the impression of a second story. The applicant has failed to show any proposed designs or renovations of the northwest elevation of , the building. Staff strongly recommends this elevation be incorporated into the overall development of the site. of the ordinance. There are five existing ' The site landscaping meets the requirements g trees located east of the bus shelter. Due to reconfiguration of the access points into the site, four of the five , trees are being lost. Staff recommends these trees be replanted in the bus shelter vicinity. Signage on this building will require a variance. The current sign ordinance is intended for modern ' buildings and does not permit signs requested by the applicant such as directory and projecting signs. These types of signs are a common part of an old town theme and would enhance and compliment the architecture of the building. A sign covenant has been developed for this building ' and will be incorporated into the conditions of approval of the site plan. A replat of the parcels on which the building occupies is required. It is a fairly straight forward , process which will result in moving existing property lines. The subdivision request has not been filed with this application. Approval of the site plan request will be contingent on replatting the property. ' The Frontier building is separated from the bowling alley building by an alley. It is located in the Central Business District. The parking lot located south of the Frontier building has not been 1 improved. Remodeling the Frontier building will be the second phase of the entertainment center development, however; paving the parking area located south of the Frontier building is proposed ' to be completed with the entertainment complex development. I� ' Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 Page 4 ' Based upon the foregoing, staff is recommending that the Planning Commission approve the site plan, sign variance, and right -of -way vacation requests for this proposal with appropriate conditions. ' BACKGROUND ' On August 3, 1994, the Planning Commission reviewed a conceptual proposal from Lotus Realty for the Entertainment Center. They found the proposal interesting but had concerns about the style of architecture. They recommended that the city hire a consultant to review the proposed ' facade design and application to the building. The Planning Commission felt the proposed uses were compatible with the downtown area. The City Council reviewed the concept on August 22, 1994, and concurred with the recommendation of the Planning Commission. Over the past three weeks, numerous staff members had in -depth discussions regarding this proposal. Several meetings with the applicants have taken place to incorporate some recommendations we found suitable for this type of development. ' This area was studied in the Chanhassen Vision 2002, which was completed in the summer of 1994. This area was identified as one of the building blocks for the Downtown area. The study states "The Dinner Theater is the cornerstone of an entertainment center. This proposed ' entertainment center will mix uses to include theaters, restaurants, commercial recreation, hotels and related uses. The entertainment uses will be concentrated, allowing visitors to park once and shop twice in a common parking area and move to the various destinations on foot. Its emphasis on ' nighttime activities will extend the downtown's daytime vitality into the evening hours." This proposal will implement the findings of the Vision 2002 proposed uses. ' SITE PLAN REVIEW General Site Plan/Architecture The applicant is proposing to redevelop the existing bowling alley/Filly's building into an ' entertainment center. The bowling alley /restaurant will have an area of 40,000 square feet and the theaters will have an area of 20,000 square feet. The site is located north of the railroad tracks and Pauly Drive, east of Market Boulevard and south of West 78th Street and Country Suites Hotel. Access is gained off of two curb cuts on Pauly Drive, and via Market Boulevard. Parking is located to the west and south of the existing building. Additional parking will be added south of the Frontier building. The parking area is an existing feature that does- not meet the ordinance requirements regarding minimizing views of parking lots. Entertainment Center , January 3, 1996 Page 5 , However, the applicant is improving the situation by adding landscape islands. The architecture of the building attempts to reflect the old town theme while incorporating some elements from , existing buildings. The roof line on the theater section of the building reflects angles found on the Applebee's building. The shape of the louvers on the Country Suites Hotel is reflected on the awnings used on the restaurant. The brick will match the Applebee's and Tires Plus exterior , materials, the clock tower reflects the theme in downtown, and the use of textured painting will reflect some of Americana Community Bank's design. The massive existing wall will be broken ' into five building facades. A board walk will be incorporated along the building which will give the appearance of a shorter building. New doors and windows will be introduced to the facade, in some cases, giving the impression of a second story. New entryways into the theaters and ' restaurant are proposed. Currently, trash dumpsters are located along the south elevation of the existing building, creating an ' eyesore. The applicant is relocating one trash enclosure to the west of the building and a second location east of the building. They are being screened by masonry walls using the same materials as the buildings. The entire complex will utilize two trash collection locations. ' Staff is generally satisfied with the architecture of the buildings and note that the applicant has worked extensively to modify this project. The architecture style of the building has been revised ' extensively since it first appeared in a concept form. The site on which this building is situated is a highly visible one and which is highly likely to , become one of the most important intersections in the Chanhassen CBD. Staff appreciates the fact that the building is being renovated to reflect an entertainment theme. Setting an architectural standard for this building is difficult in part due to its location. The site plan approval requires , architectural consistency with the surrounding area. However, at the same time, this site is essentially the transition point from the shopping center site into architectural styles found elsewhere in the CBD and General Business District. Therefore, staff believes that the architect's ' intent to combine the style of the old town theme, along with other downtown buildings such as the Country Hospitality Suites, Americana Community Bank, and Applebee's, is a sound one. ' Landscaping Landscape area requirements for the Chanhassen Entertainment Center is 15,49€ 16,057 square feet based on a vehicular use area of 193 , 701 200,715 square feet. The applicant is providing 16,77 12,608 square feet which consists of perimeter green area and parking lot peninsulas and ' islands. Six43 -twe Sixty -four trees are required within the parking lot area and applicant has provided 77 73. As mentioned earlier, this is an existing parking lot with no landscape islands. However, the southeasterly parking area is new and should meet the minimum , requirements of the landscape ordinance. To meet this requirement, the applicant must ' Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 ' Page 6 provide a landscaped island every 6,000 square feet of vehicular use area. Hence, three ' additional islands are required. (See Attachment #8 for locations.) The applicant's landscaping plan contains a mix of 6 species of trees, 4 5 overstory and-2-1 ' ornamental. The species list includes sugar maple, hackberry green ash, America linde a niaple, and japanese- tr°ee. Wae Summit ash, Greenspire linden, Imperial locust, and ' Shadblow serviceberry. For island parking lot conditions, green ash, hackberry and linden are the best selections due to their tolerance for difficult planting sites. Sugar maple is sensitive to compaction, soil conditions, and heat and would be best used along the perimeters of the site where green area is at a maximum and hard surface a minimum. The ornamentals would also be appropriate in perimeter or peninsula plantings. ^ ppliez nt has not specified species planting Lighting ' Parking lot lighting locations have not been shown on the plans. However, light fixture designs are shown on pages 5 and 6 of the attached site plans. Only shielded fixtures are allowed and the ' applicant shall demonstrate that there is no more than 0.5' candles of light at the property line. A parking lot lighting plan should be provided to staff for review and approval. ' Signage ' Staff worked closely with the applicant in developing a sign criteria for this complex. The majority of the requested signage is not permitted by ordinance. However, this proposed signage will only enhance the architecture of the building. Numerous staff members visited different old towns and ' searched historic preservation books. The criteria that is proposed is consistent with other old towns with the exception of neon illuminated signs and the sign band on the clock tower building on the second floor. Typically, the second story in old town functions as apartments. Hence, there ' are no signs on the second floor. Buildings which carried a sign on the second floor identified the name of the building and year built only. ' Sign variances include the following: APPLICABLE REGULATIONS Section 20 -1267. 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... Signage shall use individual dimensional letters and logos, be back lit if a wall sign is illuminated, and be architecturally compatible with the building and other signage if in a multi- , Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 ' Page 7 tenant building. Company symbols, display messages, pictorial presentations, illustrations, or ' decorations shall not occupy more than fifteen (15) percent of the sign display area. Section 20- 1259(3) Prohibited sign. "Projecting signs are prohibited, not including awning or I canopies as defined in this chapter." Section 20 -1302. Neighborhood business, fringe business, and office and institutional districts. , Wall business signs. One (1) wall business signs shall be permitted on the street frontage for each business occupant within a building, ANALYSIS ' Staff recommends approval of the variances as outlined in the sign criteria. The hardship in this ' case is the type of the design chosen for this building as well as the location of the building. The type of signs permitted by ordinance will provide the applicant with an opportunity to advertise the name or service provided. However, it will not be an integral part of the building architecture. City ' code requires individual dimensional letters for wall signs. The building has a street frontage on Market Boulevard and Pauly Drive only. There is a ' commercial space along the easterly edge of the property. If the letter of the ordinance was followed, the commercial space along the east elevation would not be permitted any signage. This , will deprive the tenant located in this section of the building an opportunity to advertise their name and identify their entrance. Staff is of the opinion that signage should be permitted along the east elevation. ' The intent of the sign ordinance is to establish standards which permit businesses a reasonable and equitable opportunity to advertise their name and service while promoting public safety and , enhancing the image of the community. In addition, the ordinance provides standards to ensure that signage is an integral component of the building's architecture. Granting variances for projecting and sandblasted signage will only enhance the image of the building. Staff is supporting the ' variance for the type of sign only. Compliance of the area requirements is mandated. FINDINGS ' The Planning Commission shall not recommend and the City Council shall not grant a variance unless they find the following facts: ' a. That the literal enforcement of this chapter would cause undue hardship. Undue hardship ' means that the property cannot be put to reasonable use because of its size, physical surroundings, shape or topography. Reasonable use includes a use made by a majority of comparable property within 500 feet of it. The intent of this provision is not to allow a ' Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 Page 8 proliferation of variances, but to recognize that there are pre- existing standards in this ' neighborhood. Variances that blend with these pre- existing standards without departing downward from them meet this criteria. Finding: Granting the variance will enhance the image of the building and allow signage to become an integral part of the architecture. The variance does not increase the sign area. ' b. The conditions upon which a petition for a variance is based are not applicable, generally, to other property within the same zoning classification. ' Finding: The conditions upon which the variance is based are not applicable to other properties with the BH, Business Highway District. The type of architecture is driving the ' request. C. The purpose of the variation is not based upon a desire to increase the value or income ' potential of the parcel of land. Finding: The purpose of the variation does not appear to be based upon a desire to increase ' the value of the parcel, but rather architectural compatibility. ' d. The alleged difficulty or hardship is not a self - created hardship. Finding: The alleged hardship is not a self - created hardship, again, it is to match architecture and "style of the era." e. The granting of the variance will not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to ' other land or improvements in the neighborhood in which the parcel is located. Finding: The variance should not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to other ' land or improvements. Steps will be taken to insure that the appropriate size and type of fasteners are used to attach wall and projecting signs to the building. f. The proposed variation will not impair an adequate supply of light and air to adjacent property or substantially increase the congestion of the public streets or increases the danger of fire or endanger the public safety or substantially diminish or impair property values within the neighborhood. Finding: The proposed variation will not significantly impair light and air to adjacent property. Granting the variance will not increase congestion of public streets or endanger public safety. Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 Page 9 ' Based on the findings presented in the staff report, staff recommends approval of the variance. Staff is recommending these variances be approved. ' The following is the sign criteria which includes variances: ' Signage Plan and Restrictions Type A - Neon Illuminated , 1. The location of letters and logos shall be restricted to the approved building sign bands as , indicated on Exhibit A. The letters and logos shall be restricted to 30 inches in height and must be lighted. All individual letters and logos comprising each sign shall have a minimum depth of five inches and shall be constructed with a translucent facing over neon ' tube illumination. (Elevation drawing to be attached upon approval.) 2. All individual dimensional letters and logos comprising each sign shall be back lit with , neon tube illumination. Letter styles shall reflect the period style of the facades and /or corporate logos. At the cinema marquee and restaurant sign bands, lettering on a "Plexiglas" face shall be permitted and at the cinema marquee temporary individual letters and numbers may be used to display current and /or coming attractions, ratings and show times and dates. ' 3. Tenant neon illuminated signage shall consist of store identification only. Copy is restricted to the tenant's proper name and major product or service offered. Corporate , logos, emblems and similar identifying devices are permitted provided they are confined within the signage band and do not occupy more than 15% of the sign area. Type B - Sandblasted Wood, Tenant Identification ' 1. The letters and logos shall be restricted to the approved building sign bands as indicated I on Exhibit A. Projecting signs may not exceed 4' in height and 3 feet in width. 2. All wooden signs shall be sandblasted and letters shall be an integral part of the ' building's architecture. 3. Signage shall consist of store identification only. Copy is restricted to the tenant's proper ' name and major product or service offered and such minimal messages such as date of establishment of business. Corporate logos, emblems and similar identifying devices are permitted provided they are confined within the signage band or within the projecting sign and do not occupy more than fifteen (15) percent of the sign display area. C! [ Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 Page 10 I 4. Projecting signs shall be stationary, may be lighted by spotlight and must use one of the three frame designs set forth on Exhibit A. 5. Projecting signs shall be limited to one per tenant and my not exceed 12 square feet. The maximum number of projecting signs may not exceed 6 signs for the entire building. ' Type C - Menu Signs 1. Shall be located at eye level adjacent to tenant entries as indicated on Exhibit A and shall not exceed 4 feet in height. 2. Shall be used only to convey daily specials, menus and offerings and shall be wood framed chalkboard and /or electronic board with temporary handwritten lettering. No paper construction or messages will be permitted. 3. Menu signs shall be limited to one per tenant and may not exceed 8 square feet. Type D - Posters The cinema shall be permitted framed poster displays for current and /or coming attractions at the ' south elevation only. Type E - Building Directory One building directory shall be permitted at the sign band indicated on Exhibit A at the "Bank Building" location. The directory sign shall not exceed 12 square feet. ' Utilities The site is serviced by municipal utilities. The storm sewer in Pauly Drive has been designed to convey runoff from this site to the downtown storm water treatment pond (west of Market Boulevard). The existing /proposed parking lots appear to be deficient of the necessary catch ' basins to convey stormwater runoff from the site. The applicant's engineer will need to design a storm drainage plan to accommodate runoff from a 10 -year, 24 -hour storm event. This most ' likely will require additional catch basins on the site. In addition, the applicant's engineer will need to submit detailed storm drainage calculations and drainage area maps for staff to review and approve. The City has sanitary sewer and water lines that intersect the site from east to west just south of the entertainment complex. According to the plans, the remodeling in the southwest corner of ' the complex will encroach upon the City's drainage and utility easement and will actually build Entertainment Center , January 3, 1996 Page 11 the structure over existing sewer and water lines. This part of the plan needs to be redesigned to avoid conflict with the City's utility lines. The water line may be relocated by the applicant to ' avoid the conflict. Another option would be to encase or sleeve the water and sewer lines which fall underneath the structure similar to what occurred in Market Square. A new , drainage and utility easement would need to be dedicated to the City as a result of this relocation. In conjunction with the parking lot improvements, existing gate valves, manholes, and catch ' basins will require adjustment by the applicant's contractor. The City's Utility Department will -- require inspections of these adjustments as they occur. The applicant's contractor will need to contact the City's Utility Department for the appropriate inspections. , Site Grading The site is generally uniform draining from north to south at approximately a 3% slope. Only minor regrading of the site is proposed with the parking lot reconfiguration. In conjunction with the parking lot improvements, the existing Southwest Metro Bus pickup /drop off zone will be ' impacted. The existing westerly driveway entrance off of Pauly Drive is proposed to be modified. shifted westerly approximately 18 feet. This results in losing four out of the five existi +r -vs i the b zone and bri pavement area. Staff believes this intersection still needs to be looked at. Staff has prepared an attachment ( #8) which improves the intersection geometrics and maintains the southerly bus turnaround drive aisle. ' Erosion control measures such as protection around catch basins, rock construction entrances, and silt fencing needs to be incorporated into the site /grading plan. The applicant's engineer will ' need to prepare an erosion control management plan in accordance with the City's Best Management Practice Handbook. ' Access The site is accessed from Market Boulevard and Pauly Drive. There are two existing driveways off of Pauly Drive and one from Market Boulevard. Pauly Drive is a city street with a 50 -foot wide right -of -way which is not shown on the site plan. The street for the most part deadends at ' the easterly curbcut to the entertainment complex. However, there is a gravel surface which serves as an access road to the dinner theater and scene building, and Great Plains Boulevard. Staff recommends that a dri a is 1.A The applicant has incorporated into the parking lot ' design to maintain access to the east to the dinner theater and Great Plains Boulevard. Cross access easements and maintenance agreement for parking should be prepared by the applicant for each business to access the site and utilize the parking lots. The applicant should also ' incorporate a turnaround at the end of Pauly Drive or enter into an agreement with the City allowing the city snowplows to turn around within the parking lot facility. 1 Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 Page 12 The existing casterly curb cut on Pauly Drive is proposed to be modified significantly. Plans propose a 150 foot wide access opening from Pauly Drive whieh will or-eate confusion and a 36 fe--P-t in width. This may result in a less of seine par-king stalls. 1 have attaGhed a cepy of park4ng lot configuration prepared by the Noisington Keegler Group, !nG. that depicts staff-s reconu en a+ior.s for access points off o V f Pa Drive f revie a •d ti b 1. + V l 1 appheant. ' According to City Code Section 20 -1118, a drive aisle between two rows of parking shall be a minimum of 26 feet wide. Some of the drive aisles do not meet this due to the limited space available. req uirement and Neely t o he revised aGGer - d in g ly. Staff also is concerned about turning radiuses and drive aisle widths for emergency vehicles. The applicant's engineer /site planner will may need to increase radiuses and /or drive aisle widths to accommodate these types of vehicles. This also may result in loss of parking stalls. Staff recommends that the main drive ' aisles be 28 feet wide with 20 -foot wide radiuses at the intersections. The parking lot layout has been revised as a result of a meeting with the applicant and staff. To provide for additional parking spaces and drive aisles, the applicant requested the vacation of a portion of Pauly Drive lying east of the Park and Ride facility. Staff is in support of this vacation request. The applicant will be required to provide a legal description of the proposed vacation for staffs review and approval. Vacation of Pauly Drive shall be contingent upon the applicant entering into a site plan agreement with the city. Upon review of the revised parking lot layout, staff is relatively comfortable with the new design ° except for two small revisions (see Attachment 41). The first involves the westerly access off Pauly Drive. Staff has revised the intersection to accommodate bus turning movements and ordering flow of traffic through the intersection. The second change involves moving an island to improve the traffic flow. Both of these changes results in losing a total of 4 parking stalls. Traffic control will also be an issue. The applicant should prepare a traffic signage plan for staff to review and approve prior to issuance of a building permit. ' Since this proposal will involve adjustments to public infrastructures, i.e. utility lines, city streets, boulevard trees, etc., staff recommends the applicant enter into a site plan agreement with the City and supply a financial security in the form of a letter of credit or cash escrow to ' guarantee compliance with conditions of approval and restoration to city boulevards and utilities adjustments. Entertainment Center , January 3, 1996 Page 13 Miscellaneous It appears the site plan will involve adjustment of prop lines thro the site, however, no I pp p J p p Y g preliminary plat was submitted with the proposal. Staff is wondering how the property lines will ' eventually end up on the site and we request that staff have the opportunity to require the necessary drainage and utility easement or street right -of -way based on the subdivision proposal. Building Code Issues ' Background: I The building proposed to be included in this project was formerly a manufacturing /warehouse facility. The west 3/5 of the building was redeveloped into the present bowling alley /nightclub in 1985. An examination of Inspection Division records reveals that a limited plan review was performed by an independent consultant at the time of the redevelopment. Analysis ' Wall and opening protection The Uniform Building Code (UBC) prohibits openings in walls less than five feet from a property line and requires protected openings in walls less than 20 feet from a property line. The center line of an adjoining public way (as defined in UBC 1001.2) may be used in calculating these setback requirements. The purpose of these requirements is to protect adjoining property. These requirements will adversely affect the proposed development unless the property is replatted. No openings would be permitted in the east wall of the entertainment complex along the east ' property line of Lot 3, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall. Dedicating the alley between the proposed entertainment complex and the Frontier Building as a public way would eliminate the opening problem along the east wall. Similarly, no openings would be permitted along the south wall of the ' complex where the wall is parallel to the property line of Lot 2, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall. Combining Lot 2, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall with Lot 3, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall would eliminate the opening problem on the south wall. 1 Structural investigation Portions of the existing buildin g for which there are no structural records and which will be I redeveloped as part of this project will need to be evaluated by a structural engineer. Portions of the building may have been damaged or become deteriorated over the years. Additionally, it is not known if the original design and construction met the requirements of the building code in effect at I �1 I_i I I n Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 Page 14 the time of its construction. With the much higher anticipated occupant load involved in the proposed new use, it is paramount the integrity of the building be confirmed. Disabled parking Disabled parking is required to be placed as near as practicable to accessible entrances as possible. In this case, three or four of the disabled parking spaces shown at the southwest corner of the building should be relocated to the southeast corner. PLANNING COMMISSION UPDATE On January 3, 1996, the Planning Commission reviewed and approved this application unanimously. The major issue of concern was from Southwest Metro Transit. Previous plans showed some impacts on the parking and bus shelter area. The Planning Commission recommended staff and the applicant work with Southwest Metro Transit to minimize impact. This meeting took place on January 9, 1996. All the concerns were addressed and resolved. Revised plans have been submitted. These plans accommodate turning movements for buses and parking area with landscape islands that lend itself to public transit parking. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends the City Council adopt the following motion: Site Plan Review "The City Council approves the Site Plan for the Entertainment Complex ( #95 -21 SPR) as shown on the site plan dated December 12, 1995, revised January 16, 1996, with the following conditions: The existing four trees located east of the existing bus shelter shall be relocated within the bus shelter area. Three landscape islands shall be added to the southeasterly portion of the parking lot. RMUMEM 1 , 01 MINN. N-10 i. ~11 MINIM worm PLANNING COMMISSION UPDATE On January 3, 1996, the Planning Commission reviewed and approved this application unanimously. The major issue of concern was from Southwest Metro Transit. Previous plans showed some impacts on the parking and bus shelter area. The Planning Commission recommended staff and the applicant work with Southwest Metro Transit to minimize impact. This meeting took place on January 9, 1996. All the concerns were addressed and resolved. Revised plans have been submitted. These plans accommodate turning movements for buses and parking area with landscape islands that lend itself to public transit parking. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends the City Council adopt the following motion: Site Plan Review "The City Council approves the Site Plan for the Entertainment Complex ( #95 -21 SPR) as shown on the site plan dated December 12, 1995, revised January 16, 1996, with the following conditions: The existing four trees located east of the existing bus shelter shall be relocated within the bus shelter area. Three landscape islands shall be added to the southeasterly portion of the parking lot. Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 Page 15 2. The applicant shall incorporate a sidewalk along Pauly Drive with the landscaping. Landscaping other than the city's boulevard trees shall be prohibited within the city's right - of -way or trail easement area. Any /all damaged sidewalk as a result of construction activities on the site shall be replaced in kind by the applicant. t 3. All existing and proposed roof top equipment shall be screened from views, specifically ' from Highway 5. 4. The applicant must obtain a sign permit prior to erecting any signage on site. 5. Window signage shall comply with the sign ordinance and the staff and applicant shall work together to define what constitutes real window space to be used in the ' calculations. 6. The following sign criteria is adopted as part of the site plan which includes variances: Signage Plan and Restrictions Neon Illuminated a. The location of letters and logos shall be restricted to the approved building sign bands as indicated on Exhibit A. The letters and logos shall be restricted to 30 inches in height and must be back lit if illuminated. All individual letters and logos comprising each sign shall have a minimum depth of five inches and shall be ' constructed with a translucent facing over neon tube illumination. (Elevation drawing to be attached upon approval.) ' b. All individual dimensional letters and logos comprising each sign shall be back lit with neon tube illumination. Letter styles shall reflect the period style of the facades and /or corporate logos. At the cinema marquee and restaurant sign bands, , lettering on a "Plexiglas" face shall be permitted and at the cinema marquee temporary individual letters and numbers may be used to display current and /or coming attractions, ratings and show times and dates. C. Tenant neon illuminated signage shall consist of store identification only. Copy is , restricted to the tenant's proper name and major product or service offered. Corporate logos, emblems and similar identifying devices are permitted provided they are confined within the signage band and do not occupy more than 15% of ' the sign area. �7 1 J 1 Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 Page 16 Sandblasted Wood, Tenant Identification a. The letters and logos shall be restricted to the approved building sign bands as indicated on Exhibit A. Projecting signs may not exceed 4' in height and 3 feet in width. b. All wooden signs shall be sandblasted and letters shall be an integral part of the building's architecture. C. Signage shall consist of store identification only. Copy is restricted to the tenant's proper name and major product or service offered and such minimal messages such as date of establishment of business. Corporate logos, emblems and similar identifying devices are permitted provided they are confined within the signage band or within the projecting sign and do not occupy more than fifteen (15) percent of the sign display area. d. Projecting signs shall be stationary, may be lighted by spotlight and must use one of the three frame designs set forth on Exhibit A. e. Projecting signs shall be limited to one per tenant and my not exceed 12 square feet. The maximum number of projecting signs may not exceed 6 signs for the entire building. Menu Signs a. Shall be located at eye level adjacent to tenant entries as indicated on Exhibit A and shall not exceed 4 feet in height. b. Shall be used only to convey daily specials, menus and offerings and shall be wood framed chalkboard and /or electronic board with temporary handwritten lettering. No paper construction or messages will be permitted. C. Menu signs shall be limited to one per tenant and may not exceed 8 square feet. Posters a. The cinema shall be permitted framed poster displays for current and /or coming attractions at the south elevation only. Entertainment Center , January 3, 1996 Page 17 Building Directory a. One building directory shall be permitted at the sign band indicated on Exhibit A at the "Bank Building" location. The directory sign shall not exceed 12 square feet. I 7. Cross access easements and maintenance agreements need to be provided over the parking I lot and driveways. 8. Building Official conditions: 1 a. Amend site plan review application to include replatting with the object of removing critical property lines, or redraw plans to comply with code requirements I for opening protection. b. Have a qualified engineer perform a structural evaluation of the subject building. This should be done prior to building permit issuance. C. Revise plans to relocate disabled parking spaces closer to other building entrances. This should be done prior to building permit issuance. 9. Fire Marshal conditions: ' a. "No Parking Fire Lane" will be established by the Fire Marshal. Contact Fire , Marshal for exact details and comply with Policy #06 -1991. Copy enclosed. b. A remote fire department sprinkler connection must be relocated to the south side I of the building. Contact Fire Marshal for exact location. C. Maintain a ten foot clear space around new or existing fire hydrants. ' d. Submit radius turn dimensions to City Engineering and Fire Marshal for approval. 10. The northwest elevation shall be remodeled as part of this proposal. 11. The applicant's engineer shall submit to the City for review and approval a storm , drainage management plan. The plan shall also include detailed stormwater calculations and area drainage maps for a 10 -year storm event. The applicant shall redesign the site plans to avoid conflict with the City's 12. pp g �� 's P Y sanitary sewer and water lines. The applicant also has the option to relocate the City ' i Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 Page 18 ' utility lines or to encase /sleeve the sewer and water lines. The applicant will be required then to dedicate to the City the appropriate drainage and utility easements for lines relocated. All utility construction shall be in accordance with the latest edition of ' the City's Standard Specifications and Detail Plates. Since most of these improvements _ will be considered private, separate building permits will be required through the City's Public Safety Department for all storm sewer and utility lines. ' 13. The applicant and /or contractor will be responsible for adjustment of all existing gate valves, manholes, and catch basins on the site. The City's Utility Department will require ' inspection of these adjustments. 14. The applicant will need to develop a sediment and erosion control plan in accordance with the City's Best Management Practice Handbook and the Surface Water Management Plan requirements for new development. The plans shall be submitted to the City for review and approval. Type I erosion control fence and rock construction entrances shall be employed and maintained at all access points until streets have been paved with a bituminous surface. Catch basins shall be protected with silt fence and /or hay bales until ' the parking lot has been paved with a bituminous surface. 15. All disturbed areas as a result of construction shall be restored with sod and/or landscaping materials within two weeks of completion of the parking lot. 16. The applicant shall enter into a site plan agreement with the City and provide the - necessary financial security in the form of a letter of credit or cash escrow to guarantee compliance with the conditions of approval and to guarantee restoration of city boulevards and adjustments to the City's infrastructures. 17. The applicant shall redesign the site plan parking lot configuration to include the following items: a. Staffs rendering labeled as Attachment #8 of the staff report. ' µ Cho th Git 50 firm+ r ight of a a P au l y D b. incorporate a dr-ive aisle aGGess to the cast eut to the dinner theatentOr-eat Plains 13oulevafd7 ' n Redesign the eas ur-b t a ma width of 36 f� + id . �c Redesign vu.��viz7� Entertainment Center January 3, 1996 Page 19 b. d: P rov id e n + rnore a for n'+ y sne "! oni inm ont µt the, end of Pauly P riye er Enter into an agreement with the City allowing city snowplows to utilize the parking lot facility. • r�rr� ee��r: c. € The applicant shall prepare a traffic control plan for City staff to review and approve prior to issuance of a building permit. 18. The applicant shall report to the City Engineer the location of any drain tile found during construction and abandon or reconnect all tiles as directed by the City Engineer. 19. The applicant shall apply for and obtain all the necessary permits of the regulatory agencies such as health dept., watershed district and MPCA. 20. In conjunction with the subdivision process, the City reserves the right to require the necessary drainage and utility easements or street right -of -way based on the subdivision proposal." STREET VACATION The City Council approves the vacation of a portion of Pauly Drive as shown in plans dated January 16, 1996 with the following conditions: 1. The applicant shall provide a legal description of the portion of Pauly Drive right -of -way proposed to be vacated for review and approval. 2. Approval of this vacation is contingent upon the applicant entering into a site plan agreement with the City." ATTACHMENTS 1. Planning Commission minutes dated January 3, 1996. 2. Project Narrative. 3. Report from Fred Hoisington dated March 22, 1995. 4. Memo from Steve Kirchman, dated December 20, 1995. 5. Memo from Mark Littfin dated December 8, 1995. 6. City Council minutes dated August 22, 1995. ' Entertainment Center ' January 3, 1996 Page 20 ' 7. Memo from Dave Hempel, Assistant City Engineer. 8. Revised parking lot layout dated January 18, 1996. 9. Planning Commission minutes dated January 3, 1996 ' 10. Plans received December 12, 1995 and January 16, 1996. LOTUS REALTY SERVICES December 4, 1995 TO: Sharmin Al -Jaff FROM: Vernelle Clayton RE: Entertainment Complex Enclosed herewith is our application for Site Plan approval for the redevelopment of the area we have been calling the Entertainment Complex. Along with the application and fee, we are submitting the following: Existing Site Survey, Site and Drainage Plan, Landscape Plan, Streetscape Plan, Exterior Elevations with Signage Plan and a Topographical Survey prepared by Otto Associates Land Surveyors which in addition to the topographical data also incorporates existing utilities, grading and catch basins. No construction is anticipated on the existing parking lot except for the addition of the landscaping islands. As we have discussed, the project is somewhat different from most submissions for Site Plan Approval in that there is basically no new construction and the buildings are already sited. You and several members of the Planning Commission as well as the Council Members are familiar with this project in that we presented it to you on an informal basis several months ago. Since that time we have also presented it to the HRA and a new TIF District has been created for the area which includes the Entertainment Complex. Having completed the creation of the TIF District and having completed further arrangements with key tenants, we are now proceeding with the formal approval process. Assuming approval early in 1996, we anticipate construction to begin first with the interior portions as early as February, followed by the exterior improvements. 551 WEST 78TH STREET ■ P.O. BOX 235 ■ CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA 55317 ■ (612) 934 -4538 ■ FAX (612) 934 -5472 NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX I Existing Use and Ownership ' There are three buildings involved in the project. They are commonly known as the Bowling Alley Building, the City Building and the Frontier Building. ' The Bowling Alley Building is owned by Dan and Steve Dahlin and existing uses include: Bowling Alley of 24 lanes, Filly's nightclub, the Backstretch bar, game area and meeting rooms. t Both the City Building and the Frontier Building are Bloomberg properties. Both are currently used as warehouse storage. Only the lower portion of the Frontier Building is included in this ' redevelopment project. This is the portion of the building which was originally constructed for use as a lumber yard. The portions of the Frontier Building which house Maytag, Millies and the upstairs offices are not included in this project. Therefore, throughout this narrative all references ' to the Frontier Building are intended to refer only to the lower level. I Post - redevelopment Proposed Uses and Ownership: Bowling Alley Building The Bowling Alley will be refurbished and modernized with the latest in computerized scoring but ' will remain at 24 lanes. The Bowling Alley may also include a drop off day care area for bowlers. A video game area will be retained in the same general area as the current video game area. ' Pauly's, will renovate and expand the existing Filly's nightclub to an area of approximately 8600 square feet for use as an upscale family restaurant with a sports bar image. Pauly's has been in operation in Chanhassen for something like 60 years and is now managed by a third generation ' family member, Russ Pauly. There will be a new retail area of approximately 4375 square feet located in the area just east of the south entrance in the location which currently is primarily the meeting room space. City Building This building will initially house a 5 to 6- screen movie theater with expansion available for two or three additional screens. The expansion space will initially be used as service retail. The theater will be owned by Copeland - Mithun Group, and will be their fourth theater complex. Frontier Building This area may be redeveloped as a separate phase (within the next 12 months). Of the approximately 20,000 square feet of space included in the lower level, approximately half may be adapted to retail use. The ownership of the Bowling Alley and Frontier Buildings will remain the same. The City Building will be under the ownership of an entity to be formed consisting of the Copeland- Mithun Group and a Bloomberg entity. Exterior Physical Improvements: The exterior improvements contemplated for this project include new facades, a streetscape, creation of additional parking lot area, landscaping, lighting and signage. A limited amount of new construction will occur at the theater entrance. During our informal meetings we presented elevation drawings for a new facade and for an elevated streetscape /walkway. In response to the suggestions during and following these earlier meetings, we have somewhat simplified the facade elevations, we have incorporated some more pedestrian- friendly aspects within the parking lot and we have created signage and lighting plans consistent with the overall theme. Facades: The new facades and streetscape are the most exciting parts of the project and together create the character of the complex. They will reflect a Minnesota small -town downtown environment which will set the theme and tone for the complex and which will fill a void in an otherwise pleasant view of Chanhassen's downtown from Highway 5 and particularly from the Market Boulevard approach to downtown. The building facade material will be primarily brick and stucco. Samples of the materials to be used will be available at the Public Hearing. The use of the materials will be based on a replication of an architecture that utilized skilled artisans for the stone and brick work, the cornices and columns, and which was attentive to the public's need for scale, both monumental and human.. 1 �I h i Ll ' The facades on the Bowling and City Buildings will include a "Restaurant Building ", a "Prairie Building", a Bank Building", a Clock Tower Building and a Theater Building". The facade for the Frontier Building is a more generic "General Store" building, which may be adapted ' to a variety of potential users' needs. The facades will be added to the existing building walls. The exterior walls are ' load - bearing and will not be removed. All doors shown on the facades will be working doors and the location of the existing primary entrance to the building at the south will not be changed. The windows in the "Restaurant" building will be cut into the existing walls as will the windows for ' the "Clock Tower Building" at the first floor level. The facades will wrap around the buildings on the west to the edge of the "Restaurant Building" and at the east approximately to the point where the streetscape reaches grade level. The balance of the east elevation has been designed as an alleyscape. To assist in orienting the "new" buildings to the interior uses, the following may be helpful: Both the Restaurant Building and the Prairie Building are located at the exterior of the ' Pauly's restaurant. The Restaurant Building is more fanciful and invites the public in for fun. The existing exterior elevation changes at the point of the west edge of the Prairie ' Building, providing an opportunity for a change in design in order to avoid an awkward front. The Prairie style is a classic and endearing style of architecture of the period, which was brought to prominence by Frank Lloyd Wright. ' The Bank Building is actually the front of the main entrance to the south and will have a large wooden door reminiscent of the older'solid and dependable' bank buildings. ' Adjacent to that is the "Clock Tower Building" which will extend to the east end of the building which is under the ownership of the Dahlins. This is the designated retail area ' and is presented as a two -story retail building, typical of the small towns. The shop fronts are glass and the entries can be recessed. The Theater Building encompasses the entire City Building southern elevation. The use of stucco and the specific design elements selected for this 'Building' recreates the more formal theater - going/opera house atmosphere. The design of the Frontier Building torefront is more that of a General Store not t exclusively defined, but taking advantage of the potential for a variety of retail use. Here ' the construction of the building can accommodate a fair amount of glass at the front, but the arched existing roof dictates that the facade must be quite a bit higher at the ' midsection than is necessary at the edges. The facade reflects the way that small towns were built, one building at a time, each with its own architecture and design, carefully and often masterfully crafted. Each had its own style and unique character, but together they provided the warmth and charm of our historic , downtowns. The varied rooftop heights of these buildings allowed us to break up the monotonous mass of the existing tilt up concrete buildings. ' The colors we have chosen will blend with the existing downtown palate, while at the same time preserving a separate look for each building, utilizing the neutral creams and 'original' cream -greys for the stucco and various shades of red brick commonly used for the , buildings. Compatible shades of red and green will be used as accent colors and the authentic dark green shade will be used for the railings along the streetscape. ' Streetscape: We are hopeful that the streetscape across the front of the "new" buildings will encourage ' pedestrian use of the area. The streetscape will feature a clock tower, ramps for the handicapped, outdoor game tables, dining areas, trees and landscaping. The height of the streetscape at the ' south elevation will of necessity be approximately four feet and will end at grade level as the walkway wraps around the two ends of the buildings. Lighting will encourage extended hours of usage of the area and will help to provide security. Trees and landscaping will not only enhance , the appearance, but the trees will also provide needed shade for comfortable summertime use. While the above narrative describes the Bowling and City Building streetscape, there will be an at -grade sidewalk at the front of the Frontier Building which, though simpler, will echo the above ' description. Landscaping:. ' Trees and landscaping will be added to the existing parking lot at the west and south of the Bowling Alley and City Building. A pedestrian walkway has been added from Market Blvd. ' to the end of the elevated walkway and new islands have been added throughout the existing parking lot. The landscaping plan shows a relatively open area in front of the building so that the facade, walkway and clock tower can be visible as vehicles leave Highway 5 to enter Downtown. ' Instead of trees in some islands, lower growing shrubs have been incorporated and the trees have been used in other areas of the project, including the elevated walkway. However, in order to meet the required number of trees there is a density in some other areas of the project which is of ' concern to us in preserving the visibility of the project from the street and we believe the project would benefit from a relaxation of the minimum number of overstory trees. ' Trash enclosures will be provided as indicated on the plans and will be constructed of materials compatible with the streetscape. There are no ground HVAC units. We believe that the , rooftop units will be screened by the facades which extend from 2+ feet to -5 feet at various points. If any are not suitably screened in this fashion, additional screening at the units will be constructed, using materials and colors to coordinate with the facade. ' Parkins: , L J 1 A new parking lot will be created south of the Frontier Building to accommodate the additional need for parking and we believe that the parking shown on the proposed parking lot layout will be adequate for the anticipated uses. A parking study was undertaken in March by the Hoisington - Koegler Group. The study assumed the availability of 521 stalls within an area slightly larger than the area portrayed on our Parking Lot Plan. Our plan indicates 515 stalls. The primary uses anticipated in the Hoisington study have not changed. There are some exceptions, however, including the following: A 300 -seat conference center to the north of the subject property has subsequently been reduced to a planned 125 seats. At the time of the Hoisington study, we anticipated approximately 6732 square feet of new retail and a game area of 3200 square feet. The currently anticipated retail area in the Bowling Building is approximately 4375 square feet, although there will be a temporary service /office area along the alley of approximately 2400 square feet (included in the original retail square footage). The game area is approximately 1250 square feet less a 150 square foot bowling center office, rather than 3200 square feet.. Sig The signage has been designed for compatibility with the facade design as well as with today's tenants' needs. There are basically two types of signs planned for the project. The first type is primarily an architectural element and specifically relates to the pedestrian traffic. The second more closely fits the City's current standard sign criteria. They include lighted tenant signs on the sign bands at the midsection and the marquee -type signs which will be at the two outer corners of the project, to serve the cinema marquee for its listing of currently showing movies and, to balance the project, for the restaurant at the other end. Sign bands and examples of sign locations have been depicted on the building elevation drawings submitted. The architectural element based signs are primarily sandblasted wooden signs attached either directly to the building face or hung perpendicularly at tenant locations. Those attached directly to the building will be located at eye level adjacent to entries. The perpendicular locations will be spaced intermittently along the facade as a building design feature. They will be attached by a rigid frame and tenants will be given the opportunity to choose from three frame styles. These signs will not extend below a height of 8' and it is our intent that they will be lighted by spotlights. There will also be two areas on the Theater Building facade for use in displaying coming attractions. We recognize that we will need a variances for some of the signage both as to materials and as to installation. We are hopeful that granting variances in this instance will be perceived to be an opportunity to begin to set some standards for all instances where a village /new urban look is being achieved as the trends start to move away from the more dated look of the 80's and 90's. At the same time, the needs of tenants within the central areas of the project for visibility from vehicular traffic along Market Boulevard and Highway 5 have to be incorporated. Signage to meet those needs will be located in the sign bands above the "Bank Building" and the "Clock Tower Building ". We anticipate that these signs will qualify under the existing Sign Ordinance. These sign bands are 4'X 14' and 3' X 22' feet respectively, allowing 36" and 30" letter heights. , Sign covenants will be prepared to reflect the approved sign plan. Conclusion: , We are pleased that we have been able to find a viable, exciting and realistic solution to a , development opportunity for an underutilized area that has existed in this area of downtown for several years. During the time which has elapsed since our introduction of the concept, we have received many comments which indicate there is a great deal of enthusiastic support for the look of the project as well as for the uses it will bring to our downtown. The proposal we have set forth is a small example of the new urbanism which has recently ' become a household word among architects and developers as they try to articulate residents' desire for community. Steve Berg, writing in the Minneapolis Star Tribune last Sunday said "If ' there is a commonly held longing in America, it is for the restoration of trust, harmony and togetherness that we imagine we once had but somehow lost, an elusive something that social thinkers call community. " This statement was the lead -in for his article on Celebration, a ' community being developed in Orlando by Disney Co. where "the idea is to re- create the cozy, small town of the American past..." On a very small scale, that is what we are attempting to create here. Its style is compatible ' with surrounding buildings and its feel will be reflected in the Villages on the Ponds when it is completed, both of which will be visible from the same points of travel along Highway 5. ' L -1 1 HoisiVon Koegler Group Inc. ' Todd Gerhardt Assistant City Manager City of Chanhassen ' 690 Coulter Drive Chanhassen, MN 55317 1 H 1< 1 Re: Entertainment Block Parking Study and Plan Dear Todd: March 22, 1995 RECEIVED i, r : CITY OF CHANHASSEN Per your request, we have recalculated the parking supply and demand for the entertainment block to reflect the Chanhassen Entertainment/Retail Complex including movie theaters totaling 1,100 seats. We used information that was compiled via an occupancy survey completed in September 1993 for the Wednesday and Friday computations. We also did some spot checking on Saturday, February 25, 1995. The Dinner Theater was not part of our September 14, 1993 demand analysis which primarily focused on hotel expansion. We translated the occupancy study into generation rates and adjusted them to reflect a December condition. The reason we picked December as the peak demand month is because the Dinner Theater is the predominant use and it peaks during November and December. On the other hand, movie theaters operate at their lowest levels during these months. This study is based on a number of assumptions: 1. Pauly's will occupy part of the entertainment complex and continue to operate as a night club, ' having significant demand well into the evening. 2. New retail associated with the entertainment complex will remain open until 9:00 P.M. Existing retail fronting on West 78th Street will remain open only until 6:00 P.M., as at present. 3. The proposed new conference center will occasionally be used for outside activities. This simply means that it will not be used exclusively by hotel patrons. 4. There will be no bowling leagues on Saturday evening (there are none now). 5. Only 10,000 square feet of the lower Frontier Building will be developed for future retail purposes. We have assigned no occupancy value to the remainder of that level. Land Use /Environmental ■ Planning/Design 7300 Metro Boulevard /Suite 525 ■ Minneapolis, Minnesota 55439 ■ (612) 835 -9960 ■ Fax: (612) 835 -3160 Mr. Todd Gerhardt ' March 22, 1995 Page 2 , 6. While we have used an acceptable generation rate for the cinema in December, which is , relatively low, there will be a greater demand than illustrated, attributable to multiple screens and doubling up as some patrons wait for those to depart an earlier show. These will be relatively short and could stress the parking supply temporarily. ' The total parking supply, according to our proposed plan, will be 1,210 spaces. Peak demand will occur after 9:00 P.M. on a Saturday night in December. At full development of the entertainment ' block, there will be a Saturday evening deficiency of approximately 100 parking spaces. One can assume that the parking supply could be taxed on every Saturday night in November and December, beginning during the 6 -9 P.M. period. This, of course, assumes that both banquet facilities will be , utilized by non -hotel and non - theater patrons. When these are not occupied, or are less than fully occupied, or are occupied by patrons of the host facilities, there will be no deficiency. The problem will be one of distribution. While the Dinner Theater will have a total supply of 420 parking spaces, it will have a demand during the peak demand period of 643 spaces, or a deficiency ' of 223. Dinner Theater patrons will simply use the frontier center to the extent that parking is available. The hotel/conference center, when operating at capacity, will also have a fairly significant deficiency. At the same time, the bowling center will have a surplus. It is our opinion that there is sufficient parking available, albeit the distribution is poor, in the entertainment block to accommodate the proposed uses. This does not mean that the parking will not occasionally be exceeded during the months of November and December. Parking lots are not generally sized to accommodate the absolute peak demand. Parking is available in the Clinic lot to satisfy excess demand. It will be essential that cross easements be provided to allow for the maximum ' sharing of parking throughout the block. If you have questions, please give me a call. I Sincerely, 7' 6 Fred oisington, AICP ' Vice President FLH:mhn ' Chanhassen \95 -1 Merhardt.1tr 1 1 L l �i CHANHASSEN SOUTH SIDE PEAK PARKING GENERATION RATES OBSERVED ADJUSTED 2) WED FR SAT WED RRI SAT BOWLING CENTERILANE 5.25 2.92 3.00 5.25 3.00 3.00 CINEMA 1) 0.25 0.30 0.30 0.13 0.20 0.20 HOTEL COMPLEX/ROOM 0.42 0.29 0.50 0.42 0.29 0.50 FRONTIER RETAIUOFFICE/1000 SF 3.33 3.17 2.17 4.20 4.00 2.90 DINNERTHEATER/SEAT 0.16 0.32 0.451 0.23 0.46 0.56 WEDNESDAYAND FRIDAY COUNTS IN SEPTEMBER REPRESENT 70%OF DECEMBER PEAK SATURDAY COUNTS IN FEBRUARY REPRESENT 80% OF DECEMBER PEAK 1) BASED ON UU SHARED PARKING AS MODIFIED 2) FOR DECEMBER � I Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. 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O O O co O V) N co O O t0 N N r tD to M r et O r C9 co N O tO O N O O N r O O O �I LU cc Q _ CC L � m _ ° ; o m 7 E •. m ��,11J11 = LU ♦ .Z C� C r C r. m C m IrxaZ xo cc cc F3 co CD F LJ U C C. 7 O m ID O Y C O C . O T N N T n i i D �3 0 a vs c Y L a a w [UW f �WILII.iI1.111.LL -� 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Y Q SNIVId 1VRIJ f '; , �;1'', it .' I i %'� ,`'�, \•� i �- I � - 1 n 1 o, ' I I O L L PF I 1 ` ' a �1 • i _ ` _ �:�,�' °•r -_ --- - �" =.c.� ._ �2.' -� 1 , i Z Q W W a C/) a LL Cl) in r 0 = V cl U � d F � CITY`OF CHANHASSEN The building proposed to be included in this r west 3/5 of the building was redeveloped into of Inspection Division records reveals that consultant at the time of the redevelopment., _,' MEMORANDUM TO: Sharmin Al -Jaff, Planner II V a \ � FROM: Steve A. Kirchman, Building Official DATE: December 20, 1995 SUBJECT: 95 -21 SPR (Chanhassen Entertainment Center, Lotus Realty) I was asked to review the site plan proposal stamped` "CITY OF CHANHASSEN, RECEIVED, DEC 04 1995 CHANHASSEN PLANNING DEPT. " for the above referenced project. Background: Analysis: Wall and opening five feet from a pr line. The center li these setback reaui 690 COULTER DRIVE • P.O. BOX 147 • CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA 55317 (612) 937 -1900 • FAX (612) 937 -5739 ;et was formerly a manufacturing/warehouse facility. The present bowling alley /nitghtclub in 1985. An examination limited plan review was performed by an independent ion. The Uniform Building Code (UBC) prohibits openings in walls less than ine and requires protected openings in walls less than 20 feet from a property adjoining public way (as defined in UB,C 1001.2) may be used in calculating The',purpose,of these requirements is It 'protect adjoining property. These requirements will adversely affect the proposed development unless the property is replatted. No openings would be permitted in the :east wall of the entertainment complex along"!the east property line of Lot 3, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall. Dedicatingthe alley between the'proposed entertainment complex and the Frontier Building as a public way would eliminate the opening problem along the east wall. Similarly, no openings would be permitted along the southyall of the complex where the wall is parallel to the property line of Lot 2, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall ;Combining Lot 2, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall with Lot 3, Block 1, Chanhassen Mall would eliminate the opening problem on the south wall. Structural investigation. Portions of the existing building for which their are no structural records and which will be redeveloped as part of this project will need to be evaluated by a structural engineer. Portions of the building may have been damaged or become deteriorated over the years. Additionally, it is 1 1 Sharmin Al -Jaff December 20,1995 ' Page 2 not known if the original design and construction met the requirements of the building code in effect at the time of its construction. With the much higher anticipated occupant load involved in the proposed new use, ' it is paramount the integrity of the building be confirmed. Disabled parking. Disabled parking is required to be placed as near as practicable to accessible entrances as possible. In this case, three or four of the disabled parking spaces shown at the southwest corner of the building should be relocated to the southeast comer. ' Frontier building, building connection. The extent of work being done on the frontier building and the nature of the connection between the frontier building and the proposed entertainment center is not clear from the submitted documents. Due to property line setbacks, type of construction requirements, and ' mixed occupancy requirements, it's not possible to comments on aspects of the site plan involving these elements. I would like to request that you relay to the developers and designers my desire to meet with them as early as possible to discuss commercial building permit requirements. Recommendations: 1. Amend site plan review application to include replatting with the object of removing critical ' property lines, or redraw plans to comply with code requirements for opening protection. 2. Have a qualified engineer perform a structural evaluation of the subject building. This should be done prior to building permit issuance. ' 3. Revise plans to relocate disabled parking spaces closer to other building entrances. This should be done prior to building permit issuance. 4. Clarify extent of proposed alterations to the frontier building. This should be done prior to site plan ' approval. 5, Clarify the nature of the crosshatched area between the proposed entertainment complex and the frontier building. This should be done prior to site plan approval. r I g.NsafetyNsak1memosNplan\entctan1 CITY OF CHANHASSEN 690 COULTER DRIVE • P.O. BOX 147 • CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA 55317 (612) 937 -1900 • FAX (612) 937 -5739 i MEMORANDUM TO: Sharmin Al -Jaff, Planner II FROM: Mark Littfin, Fire Marshal DATE: December 8, 1995 SUBJ: Chanhassen Entertainment Center Market Blvd. & West 78th Street Planning Case #95 -21 Site Plan I have reviewed the site plan for the above p Department/Fire Prevention Division, I have requirements. The site plan review is based additional plans or changes are submitted, tb ML:cd r to comply with the Chanhassen Fire fire code or city ordinance /policy le information submitted at this time. As -ode or policy items will be addressed. L i City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 Councilman Wing: But if I have a problem with a change, it's trunk/trailer /auto /sporting goods/boat sales /rental. That means we could have used car lots down there. Mayor Chmiel: Yes. Councilman Senn: Yes, that's what it means. Councilman Wing: Well I don't like that at all. Councilman Senn: Well we raised that last time Dick and. Councilman Wing: Did you bring that one up? Councilman Senn: Yes. I brought up all of these. I didn't like really a lot of any of them. Mayor Chmiel: Actually there's never been a successful auto portion down there. It's all been closed so there aren't any there now. Councilwoman Dockendorf. I'd more to table item 1(b) because I don't have a brain right now. Councilman Wing: And I agree. I think we want to think this out starting now. Mayor Chmiel: Let's bring it back to Council. A motion to table. Councilman Senn: So moved. Councilman Wing: Second. And not on the Consent Agenda. We want to. Councilman Senn: It was on the consent agenda. Councilman Wing: We want it moved off the consent agenda, right? Councilman Senn: I already moved it off. Now we're just tabling it. Kate Aanenson: Next time you want it off. Councilman Senn: Oh, next time off. Yeah, and I'd really be interested in hearing the neighbors comments on the subject. Councilwoman Dockendorf moved, Councilman Wing seconded to table action on the City Code Amendment to the BF, Business Fringe District by Adding Additional Permitted and Conditional Uses, Final Reading. All voted in favor and the motion carried. Mayor Chmiel: We'll have it back on the agenda but as you can see, you've got the consensus of where we're coming from with it. Brad, you're on. CONTINUATION OF ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX CONCEPT REVIEW. 47 City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 Brad Johnson: ...back in 1984. The fast time around was one of the fast Council meeting I ever went to here. I sat here and wondered what was going on. ' Councilman Mason: And you still do, right? Brad Johnson: Yeah. This evening we'll go through this fairly quickly. Back in, basically we have a proposal ' that we presented to the HRA which was the proper place to see what their interest was in completing the redevelopment of the downtown area. We have assembled the various owners which down there is basically a fellow by the name of Bloomberg that owns part of it. The city is involved indirectly with some parking lots and stuff down there. And a fellow by the name of Dan Dahlin owns the bowling alley. He didn't want to own the bowling alley but he currently owns the bowling alley. We've tried 3 or 4 different times to accomplish something down there. Primarily on the public side. We had one referendum. A couple runs at referendums you know trying to figure out what we could do down in that area. And so where we are at the present time is ' we think that we have some private uses that might make the thing work. We'll probably need some assistance by recreating a new district down there that does qualify as a redevelopment district, which means you can redo the district. It's a real redevelopment under the classical type of thing under the HRA regulations. So this ' evening Truman Howell, who's n architect working with us is back with us currently. Vernelle Clayton is working on the project and also Russ Pauly is here. It gives us an opportunity to relocate Pauly's and actually create a whole new restaurant type and maybe, I don't think Russ you've talked too much at these meetings so you can kind of explain what he's trying to accomplish. We're just trying to set the stage. We understand the , process of the HRA is sort of run it up the flagpole in an informal discussion and ... planning point of view. We do have some needs. The building will be changed here in the near future. We have a movie theater that would like to move into the community but has other places to go. Those type of things so the urgency would be, we'd , like to accomplish all of this by next fall. But I don't know if we can accomplish it that fast but we'd like to try to do that. So and that's why we're, Truman do you want to come up here. We've just got a little slide show that we put together. I don't know if all of you can see it. Maybe they'll see it on the video. As long as I have ' been here, many people have been talking about downtown Chanhassen and how they would like to see the community look like Excelsior. I think what people are looking for ... and a lot of times that has come up and I guess what we tried to show you is some of downtown. People talk about downtown. People talk about being pedestrian friendly and that type of thing so these are ... St. James Hotel in Red Wing for example. One of the ' things you should be aware of is that a lot of downtowns can end up looking like this. In other words, the businesses move out of the downtowns and we're using ... but that's what happens if you don't keep your downtown sort of viable and it's happening a little bit in Excelsior currently. The other thing people should ' realize that the backs of these beautiful buildings in the front, when you double those, look like this. Is not downtown Excelsior but it could just as well be, right. Most of your old downtown parking has ended up in the back of the buildings so this is what you see. Now we could say well we can fix that all up but obviously Hopkins and no town has really figured out how to do it. Even places like, this happens to be Winnoa. And , this is the front of those buildings. But you can see the people have tried to maintain some architecture. Reflected this as a town. We're going to go real quick through these slides. These are just images that we're trying to show you. Most of these would be the river town type of look... architecture is 1850 -1860. , Truman Howell: The late 1800's. Brad Johnson: And ' you can see, I think if you looked at Northfield or any of those towns like that, this is an old. That looks kind of new doesn't it ... And see a lot of these buildings are empty. The second floors are deserted but they still look kind of nice ... But that would be what is a downtown and I think we all, many of us from a small town, we say we're kind of comfortable with that. Truman has gone through and picked up some ' 48 1 LJ u I I City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 architectural types that we'd like to just show you that represent some of this period. Where is this do you think? Truman Howell: I don't know what the exact location is but there's some elements in here of balconies, awnings on the side of the building with arches. There's some architectural elements that we find ... in some of the older towns and the buildings that may come up. ...with different kinds of buildings. For example... They cast a certain kind of image that is sort of a stable feeling compared to some of the things that seem more contemporary. Here's another one with the large trees. This is a more contemporary rendition of an older building. Here they've put some pediments over the windows. Here they're using awnings. Again, the building looks, it looks like a stable piece of architecture. Then the more classical ones. Obviously this says bank immediately or courthouse. Various detail which develop these kinds of feelings. Again, pediments over the windows. Cornices. Awnings on the corner. Those kinds of elements are throughout the older buildings that you find turn of the century... Here you're getting into some things that are a little more exotic and the traditions... Brad Johnson: This is some of the architecture that we've classically been using in downtown Chanhassen. A lot of gables ... and this of course is Chanhassen. ...sort of the area of the downtown that we're trying to focus on. We're trying to remind you what it looks like. We haven't quite figured out the architecture. It's kind of interesting. In all these 20 years, this is why things do change. We say we're going to set this in concrete forever. But 30 years ago this was the premiere building in downtown Chanhassen with a brand new lumber yard had just opened up and so you know, things go change. Just 10 years ago this was remodeled. I think it's been..., what you do think Todd, a million bucks. Million and a half. These are some of the architecture elements that you probably recognize in the downtown. Areas that probably are friendly and many of us recognize them in the community. Where people have actually gone in and remodeled places. This is down... Buildings that have been redone. A lot of these were done by themselves. This is down along ... A lot of areas around Riverside. Anybody have any questions? I guess we threw this in because it's kind of an outdoor dining kind of thing and it's got the awnings and it's raised and probably has a good look. This has been very successful. That's ... old buildings. Looks nice ... Street look. You know this is what the whole street ends up looking with trees on it. One of the areas that we probably, there's two areas that we kind of focused on. One we didn't take a lot of slides like this and that was Canal Park up in Duluth that probably has led to a little bit of our thought because that's an entertainment district and we have about I would guess 58,000 square feet of bulk space we have to figure out what to do with and what they've done up in Canal Park is they've been able to figure out what to do with it. I don't know, has anybody been down on Main Street at St. Anthony this summer? That's become a fairly popular place, forgetting the rest of the whole area but that's kind of what, a lot of the architecture, does that look familiar? And these are buildings that have been redone and areas that are actually working. Movie theater. Different types of things that people have done to create traffic and if you go down there ... so this is what we have. And what we'd like and that is the idea that we try to create something new out of that back area. Into something more like that and so Truman has come up with some ideas. All the sort of investment in this so far has been made by the property owners. No city money has gone into the concept and as I said, Truman can probably go through what we're trying to think. There's a lot of things we have to think out in addition to what we had thought about. For example, a lot of parking lot over there. Not enough trees. We have ... and so you have to do something just long term to make it actually work. But that I think... Truman Howell: Part of the attraction of the downtown area is, what you've seen on the slides, has to do with ' some variety. Some, not everything is the same. Not all the buildings are alike. There's uniqueness to them and that was part of what we were trying to accommodate. The location that we're talking about, and you're all 49 City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 familiar with it. This is 78th Street here. The hotel. The proposed restaurant. Frontier building and Dinner Theatre here. We're talking about the back side where the bowling alley presently exists and what's called I guess the city building. The elevation of the floor of this building in relation to the present parking area back here is approximately 4 feet above the grade. So we've chosen to elevate a streetscape along the exterior of that building as a beginning place. There would be a pedestrian, attractive and friendly area for people to go to. Access not only from the back but also through the separation between the restaurant and the Frontier building. In large scale, that's what you see here. We've included the undulating walls with vegetation with trees and plants and all kinds of streetscape materials including railings, light fixtures, ramps for the handicap accessibility. Over here we have a game table area where people can sit and play cards, checkers, what have you. Over here near the restaurant is an outdoor seating area for meals. In this area we developed a theater which actually takes up this portion over here would be a 6 theater complex with some small retail spaces here and the back of this building, the back of the Frontier building actually also retail space. On this end where Filly's is presently located, the restaurant concept and then some retail space ... theater with the restaurant and behind the bowling area here. What we've done then in concept is to take a look at how we could, using the existing buildings as they are presently, we've refaced them with a variety of building faces and types of various images and ... that would give some life and interest to that facade. These are concepts. They are not each one of these particular designs exactly down to the nth degree but what we're trying to do is give you a feel for what could be an attraction to the area to bring people to it. Our interest is to use real materials and ..painted facades and this kind of thing. We would like to use real brick. We want to use real wood and we want to use materials that are compatible. We would obviously then structurally mount these to the existing panels. We would have a structural engineer involved to make sure we weren't causing any problems with having too high of buildings that would not be properly reinforced, etc. We've taken off a lot of the trees that you see here in an effort to show you better what the facade could be. Basically that's what we're planning to do. What would occur in relating the plans to the elevations. The restaurant would take up pretty much this area in here. The access to the bowling alley would be here. The restaurant here in the corner. These actual four buildings here would form the facades for the retail area. Moving on down, this new building here is actually an exist out of the theater area. This building here behind it is actually one of the theaters. Then the theater complex itself ...front. And the drawing that you have on that mailer that was sent to you is what the theater would look like based on, you're looking at a 45 degree angle. So that's basically what we're proposing and would like to get your comments and input and feelings about it. Brad Johnson: ...say too is that we do have to attend to the bowling alley obviously. We've got .... for the movie theater with good credit. Each of these have good credit and then Russ, you maybe can comment on your interest in moving over there. Russ Pauly: Well the operation that we're looking into that facility is about a 9,000 square foot. It would be a more Champs style. Sports bar and restaurant with more emphasize on food than what we currently have. Brad Johnson: I guess that's where we are. We think we've got the tenant space that we need. We've got 2 or 3 retail people that we have to have. One of the questions we have finally worked out is that we did include in that facade goes around and then the Frontier building is ultimately included in that facade and this can be broken down into retail. We have some parking, we have enough adequate parking the way we're set up. If you remember Fred Hoisington saying maybe you have too much parking in a lot of areas so we have to make some studies because there may be enough green in the parking lot to accomplish all that and then there was some interest in encouraging, you see what happens in these double ... backs of the buildings towards the railroad tracks but there may be someway again of figuring out how we can get some building or some structure down 50 City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 near the railroad. It's just that will take a lot of effort from the planning department and figure out how we can accomplish all of that. Truman Howell: Basically the parking which you see on this drawing does not have, except for on the ends any of the green space and I realize that you ... an ordinance at this point that would require to be considerably more green space in that parking area. However at this point, based on this drawing, there is adequate parking for all of these facilities that we're talking about. Councilwoman Dockendorf. Does that include the use that Southwest Metro currently has? Truman Howell: Yes. Brad Johnson: Yeah, if you go there now there's nobody parked there. Councilwoman Dockendorf: So hours of operation. Brad Johnson: Yeah. What they're trying to do is, we would have ... Friday night but right now that whole area does not have a lot of.-there's a lot of empty parking spots. The other area is we do have more expansion space of the hotel over here. We're going to sooner or later... That adds 38 rooms, right Vernelle? Truman Howell: 36. Brad Johnson: 36. You add another 20 or 30 and change the facade of the bowling alley, some day but that'd be the next phase of the hotel. The hotel has been very successful. This we feel. Truman Howell: It maintains the pedestrian access from the back with planned walkways coming to the back and then around the area. Brad Johnson: This I think the 2000, Vemelle went to all the 2002 meetings. Most of the people tell her this should be an entertainment area. As I said short of tearing everything down and starting over, which is difficult to do, this probably would work and we're trying to work within the building types that we currently have. There's always been an interest in the movie theater down here. As I said, we've got a business in town that's doing about, oh maybe a million and a half, two million dollars worth of business a year. It's kind of crazy to kick them out of town and that's kind of what would happen on October 1st of next year. So you've got a viable tenant that's already been in business here for how many years. Russ Pauly: 60. ' Brad Johnson: 60. Part of the reason is that Market Square has been successful is that we moved MGM in over there successfully with you guys help. We moved Chan Lawn and Sports over there with your help. And we moved Merlin in and that's made that a very stable type of shopping center. We didn't relocate or kick anybody out of town. And everybody else had a chance to so that's kind of the grand plan. Our process would be to go ' back to the HRA with your input and the planning input and start the process over. There we are Mr. Mayor. A couple of you have seen this before so. I Mayor Chmiel: Yes. So there will be two of us who won't have to comment. Richard. 51 City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 Councilman Wing: One of my big concerns when I see you walk in Brad is I constantly here from you market driven and what the market will bear. I think this is a big deal. This is a big event for our city. This is my ' number one priority when I got elected for this whole mess down there so I'm real excited and if you can put this together, I think we've got to do whatever we can to get this thing moving and do it right. But the point being, I want to start at the HRA. Get their support and funding so that you have the ability to put it together , and to do it right. But part of that means that we hire once and for all, without any question, an architectural professional architect to represent the city that attends every HRA meeting. Every Planning Commission meeting and every Council meeting to ask the questions and help set the pace. And this is a team effort and we're working together. It's not them against whoever. But I don't feel that anybody on the HRA is a designer ' and I don't think they know what questions to ask and I don't think we do a good job at it so I want someone, whether it's Jeff Farmakes or a professional architect, helping us get this thing done right and making sure it's done right so that if you say well we think, he can say here's what's best 20 years down the road or help us set ' this up. At any rate, let's get HRA to get on board. It has my full support. Let's get ourselves an advisor so that we're well informed and then move full steam ahead. The only other quick comment with whatever bar, I don't want to hear the word bar. Whatever restaurant goes in is a restaurant with a liquor license. If it's a Champs, it's food fast and liquor second. I don't want to put in another bar in there. I want a restaurant with ' liquor. A winning combination but I think that as we've looked at giving liquor licenses, they're for restaurants. Not for bars. We're no longer giving permits to bars so I just want to differentiate the wording so we're providing liquor license to a restaurant, not a bar. ' Mayor Chmiel: Colleen. Councilwoman Dockendorf. Well I certainly like this a lot better than a community center. A lot better. I ' whole heartedly concur with Richard however about getting a designer to counteract. Not counteract but to balance your proposals because I'm not a professional. This could either look absolutely wonderful. It could look terribly garish and I want to make sure it's done right. It's a huge, it's what people will identify , Chanhassen. Truman Howell: Would anyone have any problem with us working together? ' Councilwoman Dockendorf. Absolutely not. Councilman Wing: That's the point. ' Truman Howell: What I've been hearing is sort of an adversarial thing that they're here at the meetings so they can defend and I think it would be a lot easier if that person and I were to work together on the concept. , Councilwoman Dockendorf. Absolutely. Mayor Chmiel: Don't see any problem. ' Councilwoman Dockendorf. And will you be providing the mountains in the background shown there. Truman Howell: Oh, those are ... clouds. Councilman Mason: I thought, boy you know, if you could pull off mountains in the background. ' 52 1 City uncil Meeting - h' g August 22, 1994 Councilman Wing: Forget the mountains. If they could just pull this off at all. Mayor Chmiel: Okay, Mark. ' Councilman Senn: Conceptually it looks great. Architecturally it looks like you're heading in a good direction. I guess when it comes right down to it, I'll be more interested in just seeing what assistance level is required and that sort of thing. There's a lot of issues with that property too in terms of back taxes of the bowling alley and all that stuff but... ' Brad Johnson: I think the good news here is Mr. Dahlin who owns it can see his way through this ro'ect. He's... cooperating. So we'd like to o back to the HRA. We'll probably p g p y try to get there about in September ' and have some type of financial proposal on paper. And then work our way back upstream... Mayor Chmiel: Thanks. Item 10). I want to touch that one real quick. RECEIVE ASSESSMENT ROLLS SET ASSESSMENT HEARING DATE FOR SEPTEMBER 12 1994. Councilwoman Dockendorf. I'd move approval. I didn't see the stuff that we had on the desk when I pulled it. ' Mayor Chmiel: Alright. ' Councilman Wing: What just happened? Councilman Senn: And we're not approving anything. We're really just accepting it. ' Mayor Chmiel: That's right. Is there a second? Councilman Wing: Second. Resolution #94 -82: Councilwoman Dockendorf moved, Councilman Wing seconded to receive the assessment rolls and set the assessment hearing date of September 12, 1994 for the West 78th Street and ' Downtown Public Improvement Project 92 -3 and the Johnson/Dolejsi Utilities Improvement Project 92 -5. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously. AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE, CITY CODE SECTION 20.1181(B)(4) REGARDING ' INTERIOR LANDSCAPING FOR VEHICLE USE AREAS FIRST READING. Councilman Wing: Mr. Mayor, item number 12, when we approved this I said I didn't think anybody knew ' what they were approving and what was missing, which Byerly's picked up on, was that this was, that it addressed interior, some interior landscaping. All they did was add, take the existing ordinance and add this.. and I would move approval of item 12 and clear this off the agenda ' Mayor Chmiel: Yeah and that basically is really what it comes down to. Councilwoman Dockendorf. I'll second it. ' Mayor Chmiel: It's been moved and seconded. 53 City Council Meeting - August 22, 1994 Councilman Wing moved, Councilwoman Dockendorf seconded to approve the Punt reading of an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, City Code Section 20- 1181(b)(4) regarding interior landscaping for vehicle use areas. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously. Councilman Mason moved, Councilman Senn seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 a.m. Submitted by Don Ashworth, City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 54 F� t MEMORANDUM 1 I CITY OF CHANHASSEN 690 COULTER DRIVE • P.O. BOX 147 • CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA 55317 (612) 937 -1900 • FAX (612) 937 -5739 TO: Sharmin Al -Jaff, Planner H FROM: Dave Hempel, Assistant City Engineer DATE: December 28, 1995 SUBJ: Review of Site Plan for Chanhassen Entertainment Center Land Use Review File No. 96 -1 k Upon review of the site plan for the Chanhassen Entertainment Center prepared by Truman Howell Architects & Associates, dated December 4, 1995, I offer the following comments and recommendations: UTILITIES The site is serviced by municipal utilities. The storm sewer i convey runoff from this site to the downtown storm water is Boulevard). The existing/proposed parking lots appear to & basins to convey stormwater runoff from the site. The appli storm drainage plan to accommodate runoff from a 10 -year, likely will require additional catch basins on the site. In addi need to submit detailed storm drainage calculation. and ri mi, Pauly Drive has been designed to fitment pond (west of Market ieficient of the necessary catch nt's engineer will need to design a 4 -hour storm event. This most the applicant's engineer will ge area maps for staff to review and I approve. The City has sanitary sewer and water lines that intersect the site from east to west just south of the entertainment complex. According to the clans, the remodeling in the southwest corner of the complex will encroach upon the City's draina€ structure over existing sewer and water lines. avoid conflict with the City's utility lines. Thf avoid the conflict. A new drainage and utility a result of this relocation. itility easement and will actually build the art of the plan needs to be redesigned to line may be relocated by the applicant to ;nt would need to be dedicated to the City as In conjunction with the parking lot improvements, existing gate valves, manholes, and catch basins will require adjustment by the applicant's contractor. The City's Utility Department will Sharmin Al -Jaff December 28, 1995 Page 2 require inspections of these adjustments as they occur. The applicant's contractor will need to contact the City's Utility Department for the appropriate inspections. SITE GRADING The site is generally uniform draining from north to south at approximately a 3% slope. Only minor regrading of the site is proposed with the parking lot reconfiguration. In conjunction with the parking lot improvements, the existing Southwest Metro Bus pickup /drop off zone will be impacted. The existing westerly driveway entrance off of Pauly Drive is proposed to be shifted westerly approximately 18 feet. This results in losing four out of the five existing boulevard trees in the bus zone and brick pavement area. Erosion control measures such as protection around catch basins, rock construction entrances, and silt fencing needs to be incorporated into the site /grading plan. The applicant's engineer will need to prepare an erosion control management plan in accordance with the City's Best Management Practice Handbook. ACCESS The site is accessed from Market Boulevard and Pauly Drive. There are two existing driveways off of Pauly Drive and one from Market Boulevard. Pauly Drive is a city street with a 50 -foot wide right -of -way which is not shown on the site plan. The street for the most part deadends at the easterly curbcut to the entertainment complex. However, there is a gravel surface which serves as an access road to the dinner theater and scene building, and Great Plains Boulevard. Staff recommends that a drive aisle be incorporated into the parking lot design to maintain access to the east to the dinner theater and Great Plains Boulevard. Cross access easements and maintenance agreement for parking should be prepared by the applicant for each business to access the site and utilize the parking lots. The applicant should also incorporate a turnaround at the end of Pauly Drive or enter into an agreement with the City allowing the city snowplows to turn around within the parking lot facility. The existing easterly curb cut on Pauly Drive is proposed to be modified significantly. Plans propose a 150 -foot wide access opening from Pauly Drive which will create confusion and an unsafe approach for traffic. Staff recommends modifications to this access opening be limited to 36 feet in width. This may result in a loss of some parking stalls. I have attached a copy of a parking lot configuration prepared by the Hoisington Koegler Group, Inc. that depicts staff's recommendations for access points off of Pauly Drive for review and consideration by the applicant. According to City Code Section 20 -1118, a drive aisle between two rows of parking shall be a minimum of 26 feet wide. Some of the drive aisles do not meet this requirement and need to be 11 1 it I � �I� ' Sharmin Al -Jaff December 28, 1995 Page 3 ' revised accordingly. Staff also is concerned about turning radiuses and drive aisle widths for emergency vehicles. The applicant's engineer /site planner will need to increase radiuses and /or drive aisle widths to accommodate these types of vehicles. This also may result in loss of parking stalls. Staff recommends that the main drive aisles be 28 feet wide with 20 -foot wide radiuses at the intersections. Traffic control will also be an issue. The applicant should prepare a traffic signage plan for staff to review and approve prior to issuance of a building permit. ' Since this proposal will involve adjustments to public infrastructures, i.e. utility lines, city streets, boulevard trees, etc., staff recommends the applicant enter into a site plan agreement with the City and supply a financial security in the form of a letter of credit or cash escrow to guarantee compliance with conditions of approval and restoration to city boulevards and utilities adjustments. MISCELLANEOUS J 1 It appears the site plan will involve adjustment of property lines throughout the site, however, no preliminary plat was submitted with the proposal. Staff is wondering how the property lines will eventually end up on the site and we request that staff have the opportunity to require the necessary drainage and utility easement or street right -of -way based on the subdivision proposal. RECOMMENDED CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL 1. The applicant's engineer shall submit to the City for review and approval a storm drainage management plan. The plan shall also include detailed stormwater calculations and area drainage maps for a 10 -year storm event. 2. The applicant shall redesign the building plans to avoid conflict with the City's sanitary sewer and water lines. The applicant also has the option to relocate the City utility lines. The applicant will be required then to dedicate to the City the appropriate drainage and utility easements. All utility construction shall be in accordance with the latest edition of the City's Standard Specifications and Detail Plates. Since most of these improvements will be considered private, separate building permits will be required through the City's Public Safety Department for all storm sewer and utility lines. 3. The applicant and /or contractor will be responsible for adjustment of all existing gate valves, manholes, and catch basins on the site. The City's Utility Department will require inspection of these adjustments. Sharmin Al -Jaff ' December 28, 1995 Page 4 4. The applicant will need to develop a sediment and erosion control'plan in accordance with the City's Best Management Practice Handbook and the Surface Water Management Plan ' requirements for new development. The plans shall be submitted to the City for review and approval. Type I erosion control fence and rock construction entrances shall be employed and maintained at all access points until streets have been paved with a bituminous surface. Catch basins shall be protected with silt fence and /or hay bales until the parking lot has been paved with a bituminous surface. ' 5. All disturbed areas as a result of construction shall be restored with sod and /or landscaping materials within two weeks of completion of the parking lot. , 6. The applicant shall enter into a site plan agreement with the City and provide the necessary financial security in the form of a letter of credit or cash escrow to guarantee compliance with the conditions of approval and to guarantee restoration of city boulevards and adjustments to the City's infrastructures. 7. The applicant shall redesign the site plan parking lot configuration to include the following items: a. Show the City's 50 -foot right-of-way along Paul Drive. Y g Y g Y b. Incorporate a drive aisle access to the east out to the dinner theater /Great Plains ' Boulevard. C. Redesign the easterly curbcut to a maximum width of 36 feet wide. d. Provide a turnaround for city snowplow equipment at the end of Pauly Drive or enter into an agreement with the City allowing city snowplows to utilize the parking lot facility. e. Widen main drive aisles to 28 feet wide and incorporate larger radiuses to ' accommodate emergency vehicles, and increase drive aisle widths to a minimum of 26 feet wide per city ordinance. ' f. The applicant shall prepare a traffic control plan for City staff to review and approve prior to issuance of a building permit. ' 8. The applicant shall report to the City Engineer the location of any drain tile found during construction and abandon or reconnect all tiles as directed by the City Engineer. Sharmin Al -Jaff December 28, 1995 Page 5 9. The applicant shall apply for and obtain all the necessary permits of the regulatory agencies such as health dept., watershed district and MPCA. 10. In conjunction with the subdivision process, the City reserves the right to require the necessary drainage and utility easements or street right -of -way based on the subdivision proposal. Jms Attachment: Hoisington Koegler Group Parking Lot Layout c: Charles Folch, Director of Public Works g:bng\dave\pcNenter.ctr 11 t N I" CO n x-1 _ m Z n _ , c � O A N m Z D 11 5go mo N •O Z ; GEM H o u a v M© c O r 11 1 0 u NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Wednesday, January 3, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. City Hall Council Chambers 690 Coulter Drive Project: Site Plan Review Developer: Lotus Realty Ire_ W Y r Location: North of railroad tracks, east of Market Blvd. and south of W. 78th Street Notice: You are invited to attend a public hearing about a development proposed in your area. The applicant, Lotus Realty request a site plan review to remodel the existing Chanhassen Bowl/Filly's and a portion of the Frontier building into an entertainment center. A variance to allow wall projecting signs in an area zoned BG, General Business and CBD, Central Business District, located north of the railroad tracks, east of Market Boulevard and south of West 78th Street, Chanhassen Entertainment Center. What Happens at the Meeting The purpose of this public hearing is to inform you about the developer's request and to obtain input from the neighborhood about this project. During the meeting, the Commission Chair will lead the public hearing through the following steps: i ' 1. Staff will give an over view of the proposed project. 2. The Developer will present plans on the project. 3. Comments are received from the public. ' 4. Public hearing is closed and the Commission discusses project. The Commission will then make a recommendation to the City Council. Questions or Comments If you want to see the plans before the meeting, please stop by City Hall during office hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. If you wish to talk to someone about this project, please contact Sharmin at 937 -1900, ext. 120. If you choose to submit written comments, it is helpful to have one copy to the department in advance of the meeting. Staff will provide copies to the Commission. Notice of this public hearing has been published in the Chanhassen Villager on December 21, 1995 r �l I Amoco Americal Oils Co. B. C. Burdick Chanhassen Inn ' P.O. Box 342B 426 Lake Street 531 W. 79th Street Oakbrook, IL 60522 Excelsior, MN 55331 Chanhassen, MN 55317 ' Chanhassen Realty Co. Chan Retail Ltd. Partnership Church of St. Hubert 1589 Hwy. 7 c/o Weis Asset Mgmt., Inc. 7707 Great Plains Blvd_ ' Hopkins, MN 55343 8424 Irwin Road Chanhassen, MN 55317 Bloomington, MN 55437 ' Robert Dittrich Phillip & Nancy Hillman Holiday Station Stores, Inc. 1827 Crestview Drive c/o Tom & Kay Klingelhutz 4567 80th Street W. ' New Ulm, MN 56073 Rt. 3, Box 118A Bloomington, MN 55437 Annandale, INAIN 55302 Al H. Klingelhutz ' Gerald Schlenk, Jean vonBank Arthur & D. Kerber Gerald W. Schlenk Mary Goetz 225 West 78th Street 511 Chan View Chanhassen, MN 55317 8600 Great Plains Blvd. Chanhassen, MN 55317 ' Chanhassen, MN 55317 - Thaddeus E. Korzenowski Thomas & Mary Lou Krueger Market Square Assoc. Partnership ' 5315 3rd Ave. S. 7136 Utica Lane 200 W. Hwy. 13 Minneapolis, MN 55419 Chanhassen, MN 55317 Burnsville, MN 55337 ' Market Square Assoc. II, LLC John M. Havlik, Jr. Heritage Park Apts. ' 470 West 78th Street Box 195 c/o Thies & Talle Mgmt., Inc. Chanhassen, MN 55317 Chanhassen, MN 55317 470 West 78th Street, Box 25 Chanhassen, MN 55317 ' Gary L. Brown Gale Pelcl Gerald & L. Schlenk 1831 Koehnen Circle W. 505 Chan View 225 W. 78th Street ' Excelsior, MN 55331 Chanhassen, MN 55317 Chanhassen, MN 55317 ' Michael Sorenson Richard W. Steiner Jr. Valvoline Instant Oil Change g Rt. 2, Box 187K Belle Palin, MN 56011 P. O. Box 1717 Whitefish, MT 59937 301 Main Street E. Lexington, KY 40507 , Charles R. Wechterman Wawterfront Associates Donald F. McCarville ' Shelly Mehl- Wechterman 440 Union Place 3349 Warner Lane 509 Chan View Excelsior, MN 55331 Mound, MN 55364 r�'O11'9SSen, TAT�T 5521 7 ` hal ' Minnegasco, Inc. Mithun Enterprises, Inc. Ralph Molnau & Ronald Dubbe ' 201 7th Street St. 900 Wayzata Blvd. E. P. O. Box 151 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Wayzata, MN 55391 Waconia, MN 55387 Richard & Mary Rasmussen 503 Chan View Chanhassen, MN 55317 Twin Cities Western Railroad ' 2995 12th Street East Glencoe, MN 55336 ' Wilbar Properties 7811 Great Plains Blvd. ' hanhassen, MN 55317 I - Mark & Rose Ann Schlenk 501 Chan View, P. O. Box 145 Chanhassen, MN 55317 Dean H. L. Wallentine 507 Chan View Chanhassen, MN 55317 Chan Medical Arts Ltd. Partnership 470 West 78th Street Chanhassen, MN 55317 State Bank of Chanhassen 680 West 78th Street Chanhassen, MN 55317 Wendy's International, Inc. 40 Shuman Blvd., Suite 130 Naperville, IL 60563 Chan Medical Arts II, LLC 470 West 78th Street Chanhassen, MN 55317 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 3. The variance request is inconsistent with the purpose and findings of the sign ordinance. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously. PUBLIC HEARING: A SIGN PLAN REVIEW TO REMODEL THE EXISTING CHANHASSEN BOWL/FILLY'S AND A PORTION OF THE FRONTIER BUILDING INTO AN ENTERTAINMENT CENTER A VARIANCE TO ALLOW WALL PROJECTING SIGNS IN AN AREA ZONED BG, GENERAL BUSINESS AND CBD, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT LOCATED NORTH OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS, EAST OF MARKET BOULEVARD AND SOUTH OF WEST 78TH STREET, CHANHASSEN ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, LOTUS REALTY. Public Present: Name Address Brad Johnson Vernelle Clayton Karen & Robert R. Copeland Truman Howell 7425 Frontier Trail 422 Santa Fe Circle 14 Cooper Avenue, Edina 18202 Minnetonka Blvd. Shaimin Al -Jaff and Dave Hempel presented the staff report on this item. Farmakes: Anybody have any questions of staff? Okay, ones from the applicant. Vernelle Clayton: Good evening. My name is Vernelle Clayton. I live at 422 Santa Fe Circle here in Chanhassen. I'm very happy to be here to talk with you about this proposal... I think that from the reaction we've been getting from folks that have seen this proposed plan in our office ... As many of you know, although some of you are new, we did sort of a show and tell on a preliminary basis in ... August perhaps. Although perhaps a little bit earlier. The Planning Commission... to show you what we had in mind to do with this property... we then went back to the drawing board and more importantly went to the HRA with a similar plan, with the same plan and because there are three... approval and we have spent some time now working with builders and ... set a plans that are somewhat the same but... and easier to understand. Just briefly for those of you that are new and haven't seen that plan, it was... number of years of planning by a number of folks, including the city, for a number of proposals to use that property. And when it became apparent that the city was not going to develop it as either a rec center or community center or conference center, we got together sis Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 with the folks that owned the ... Pauly has it's own set of needs to move. He's planning to be ' and have a new Champs style restaurant... 9,000 square foot large restaurant in the area which is now Filly's ... We like to keep 60 year old businesses in town if we can and the other is, to... We appreciate your commitment to public service and taking all the time. I know it... We have with us a couple of future owners, the Copeland's ... and they will be one of the owners. Bob will be participating in the development and the construction next year. He'll be one of the owners of the cinema. We have with us too, Truman Howell. He was the architect... as well as earlier we met with all the other owners ... you may have seen Dan Dahlin, who owns the bowling alley. And the rest of that building was here in this building for a while but he ' decided he couldn't make ... as well and we met with a couple... and update them on the status of things. One of the things that they all want ... is there is a certain amount of urgency now that we have the plans to meet the time frame, time schedule that both Pauly's and the ... very ' doldrums of summer ... So they would like, if possible, the best time for opening a movie theater would be in May and we're going to do what we can to meet that time frame. It's going to be really tough. Site plan approval is what we're here for. In our experience and ' your... Chanhassen is a fairly new and growing town ... site plan applications like our's. Mostly we're talking about how we would locate a building on a site and how we work around all of that. In this case we've got the buildings and we're dealing primarily with the site and how it ' works and so forth. Typically one might say why is that. Why do you need site plan approval? As you know... change in use, there are permit requirements for site plan approval and so we ... essentially now changing the use ... but rather we're changing the use and going with the current ordinance... However we felt it was important to the overall look of the project... and we have therefore come up with a plan that ... the facade, boardwalk and the parking lot and the landscaping that goes along with it. The facade is changed since the last time we have shown it to you. As I mentioned earlier, it's much simpler and easier to understand. The materials are primarily brick and the ... drivit which was the material used on the Americana Bank building. The boardwalk is much the same as when we first showed it ' to you. It's been intended all along that that be the element that adds the most to the pedestrian friendliness and character of the project, and... And some of the other problems... The challenge was to fit everything in with the existing architecture of Chanhassen... different look to this project. We chose the old style, the downtown look ... the extent of public sentiment for this type of-and developers who have ... to reach back and get that for all of us. The sense of stability and a sense of community that we all feel is a part of that look and ' apparently we are all missing in society today and we're ... new urbanism and that's a term that Truman Howell often uses and ... so with that I'd like to introduce Truman Howell. ' Truman Howell: Thanks Vernelle. Good evening. Mr. Chairman, gentlemen of the Planning Commission. I'm Truman Howell. An architect. My office is in Wayzata, Minnesota so I get down here quite frequently and in the recent past few years have worked on several of the projects that have either come before you or to your predecessors so I'm ... back again and 50 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 1 51 1 would like to give you a quick review of the project and what we feel is an exciting solution to a problem. A visual problem, if nothing else. We're also revitalizing a part of the... This ' is a drawing that is done by a civil engineer showing the existing site, which you probably are all relatively familiar with but just in review. Basically this is the Filly's bar area. The facade along here has the entry to the bowling alley and then the warehouse in this area. And ' the Frontier building over here. This is the bus park and ride area and Pauly Drive along there. What we attempted to do was create an image for the area that would deal with the problems of...in terms of a, hopefully create an exciting facade... and we think that we've, one ' of the, using the problems of the site, we think we've developed something that will do that. The first element was the development of the raised streetscape. I know it's been referred to boardwalk as a and in some cases there may be some boards there but primarily it will be a , raised portion around the faces of the new townscape that will allow pedestrian access through. Through stairways. Through handicap ramps. To the various locations along the facade. This being the Frontier building here. Will be connected with a walkway over to a ' ramp coming up the 4 feet. As you know this alley has quite a ... grade as you come down the hill and that's what develops then the difference in the floor elevation between here and the existing parking lot. We bring people up onto this approximately 4 foot high in most all of the areas here. So it would be a raised platform. As you sit in your car here, you'd be looking up at the buildings. Obviously handrails along the entire area. We would have planters and on the streetscape itself also with large boxes that we'd be planting trees, shrubs, ' that kind of thing, and some along the faces of the building as well. We would install classic glass, so that the entire area is lit at night. We would put lights on the building itself. Shining up on the building and also then of course in the parking lots we would have more conventional lighting that would be the shielded type so that we could have pedestrians walking in the parking lot safely at night. It's a great place for small gatherings of people in the summer playing cards at tables. Outdoor dining near the restaurant area. We have even ' some bike stands that are up there so we can hopefully control that activity as well. This is basically the format that we chose to ... to the new facade. The new activity. The bowling ' alley access is in this area. The retail area is here. The theater is between 5 and 8 individual theaters. And the initial here would be a retail area. Actually probably professional offices along that eastern side of the building. Down here of course would be the restaurant, as was ' indicated earlier. As a part of the development of the streetscape we would use, as I mentioned before, the handrails similar to this. The base of the raised streetscape would be with a keystone and concrete topping. We would have then the more classic light fixtures ' and this is just an indication of what a building behind there might look like. The drawings that I will show you now are basically, well first let me show you the actual construction of how we're going to do this. As you know on the faces of the building now we have a pre- ' cast, approximately 8 inch deep fins on a pre -cast wall and those extend up to 25 feet of the total height of the building. We're building this streetscape up 4 feet on that building to match the existing interior floor. The green that you see here is a pre - existing panel. We'll ' 51 1 Planning Commission Meeting January 3 1996 g rS' , be cutting openings in for windows and doors would be handled in a similar fashion. We ' would then extend above the existing panel to cap off the top and we'd develop a facia or a face along here on the front of that existing building. It would be either a brick or effice, which is the generic term for such products as drivit, which we do have a sample for here. ' And that would give us the opportunity to do various types of patterns and undulations in the face of the building. We then will use a reinforced fiberglass material to form cornices along ' the tops of some of the buildings and also in some cases some of the columns that you will see on the building. That will be attached to then a back -up material that will provide the level facing from which to build the brick and the stucco or the drivit material on the face. ' So that basically gives you an idea of what ... This then would be the appearance that you would see of the buildings above the 4 foot elevated streetscape. On the end would be the restaurant area that would literally go from this location over here. If you recall, the existing ' facility now, we have an existing roofline roughly in this area and it pops up and goes across fairly consistently across the face of the building at that point. This was the place to then break the building into 5 different pieces and develop character for each one of the buildings on an individual basis, much like what would have happened in the 1930's, 20's, 40's as downtowns developed. This building here is brick. This building is brick. This building is brick and this is a effice material, as well as is this. As the primary material. Those two basic types of material is what we're planning to use on the buildings themselves. This would be the entry into the bowling alley and into the video game area. These four locations here are the entrances for the retail store... clock tower element here that can be seen from Highway 5 so that everyone needs a landmark as they go by and I think that this will become one as people drive back and forth along TH 5 and they'll see what time it is in the morning or evening. This is the theater going from this location down to the corner. This would be the ' marquee. These would be backlit elements up higher. Now behind most of these things, as you probably have guessed, there is no second floor in this area. These are fake windows. However we can do that as such that they will appear as though they are in fact windows. ' The same with the elements on this project in this building right here. Other images ... as we go around the building. Because the theater is actually, has an angle entry to it, you're actually seeing here the front at an angle. As you look straight on to here, this would be ' what you'd see. Reminiscent of the grand old theaters of, well maybe you folks, some of you aren't old enough to know but I certainly remember going to the theaters such as the Orpheum and those kinds in downtown and I guess they're revitalizing... Then we were interested in ' looking at, what do we do with the alley. As we turn the corner and go back up this incline. Well we decided that probably the best use of an alley is to make it an alley, only a nicer ' alley and so what we did there was to turn the corner with the theater so again now you're looking at an oblique angle in the front. This would be the side of the theater and then we turned it into basically, obviously clean it up and repair any of the problems with the face, if ' there are some now, if you've noticed, and this then would be the entrance for either the professional use or sonic small retail along the side. A look then back on the west. If we go 52 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 Farmakes: Okay. I Truman Howell: Then the—this is reinforced fiberglass and there are an incredible number of various designs of cornices that would go on to the face at the tops of several of the buildings ' here. This one would be brick right up to the top and then we would put over a metal siding. But these are the kinds of materials that we would use to accomplish that. This then material here is the keystone material which would be used on the actual streetscape. It would ' basically be a retaining wall... So those are the basic elements of the project. How we're going to put together and an idea of what materials we'll be using. If there are some questions, I can show the variety of colors that are available. I think they're, what we're ' shooting for is basically the colors that you're seeing in the materials here. We do have, for example, a variety of options. We have more than one ... but we're not confined I should say to any specific tone. It's pretty broad. And the same is for the cornices as well ... have been used on other buildings. These are just some examples... and they too have a variety of colors that one can use. 53 1 back to the restaurant area. The west side of that. It will be a continuation with not only the streetscape, the picnic tables and that kind of outdoor activity there as well. And also we ' have the delivery area and the refuse area, which are behind the wall and enclosed. And then the Frontier building, which would be in brick with the reinforced plastic cornices at the top. Now I'll show you briefly the material. Obviously for presentation purposes these colors ' seem a little bright and intended to be so such that each building would stand out, probably stronger than they will in reality because of materials unless we use glazed brick... quite that yellow so I'll show you the materials we're looking for. This is the effice material, which is ' basically on a backer board as we have here. Then the styrofoam reinforcement. A scratch coat, a brown coat and then a finish coat. A variety of textures and probably close to 1,000 different colors that we can use. And in the bank building, I mean sorry. In the theater ' building, as you can see the stones in there could be insized into this material so in fact it did look like large stones on the building itself. The brick. This would be the center building. The clock tower building. This would be the second building in with the prairie looking ' building. And this would be what we've the term, we call the bank building and the one with the entry to the bowling alley. So these are the materials for the facings. Farmakes: You're showing contrasting colors. Those colors you just showed us are for the larger mass of the building and then the detailing would be. The colors that you just showed us are for the master part of the building and then the detailing would be in a contrasting ' color...? Truman Howell: Right. ' Farmakes: Okay. I Truman Howell: Then the—this is reinforced fiberglass and there are an incredible number of various designs of cornices that would go on to the face at the tops of several of the buildings ' here. This one would be brick right up to the top and then we would put over a metal siding. But these are the kinds of materials that we would use to accomplish that. This then material here is the keystone material which would be used on the actual streetscape. It would ' basically be a retaining wall... So those are the basic elements of the project. How we're going to put together and an idea of what materials we'll be using. If there are some questions, I can show the variety of colors that are available. I think they're, what we're ' shooting for is basically the colors that you're seeing in the materials here. We do have, for example, a variety of options. We have more than one ... but we're not confined I should say to any specific tone. It's pretty broad. And the same is for the cornices as well ... have been used on other buildings. These are just some examples... and they too have a variety of colors that one can use. 53 1 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3 1996 Farmakes: I have a question on the expanses that we see on the left or right of the drawing. The back lit glass area in front of the entrance to the marquee area and to the theater and the opposite end of the stream on the far left side. On my left. It sort of looks like a TV set with a ball inside of it. Can you describe. Truman Howell: That would no ' t be the I m sure. 1 Farmakes: That is the restaurant logo? ' Truman Howell: Yes. But no, it is not. I'm saying it's what I put on there. I don't know what their logo will be. It might be ... for the restaurant. He's not indicated what that is to me, other than what I'm proposing here is a large backlit sign. Farmakes: So it's more like a pylon situation than a, incorporated into the wall as opposed to... ' Truman Howell: Yes. This actually sits out away from the building. The structure is away from the building. A two sided, or three sided, well it's literally four sided but the short side ' is going back. Comes out. Wraps around the building and goes back into the building. It is backlit, yes. ' Farmakes: ...or is the entire square backlit? Truman Howell: This portion on two sides is backlit. ' Farmakes: Alright. So the area that's yellow right now is. Truman Howell: All lit. Is the backlit portion. Farmakes: Alright. So it's a marquee type. Truman Howell: And the same down here. These u here r p are not signs as such. They are lit, backlit with a soft color. ' Farmakes: An ad plastic J p letters go in on that. ' Truman Howell: No, no. No, no. Down here, yes. But not up here. L 1 54 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 Farmakes: Alright, okay. Is there any lighting on this situation that, other than the street lighting, that we're unaware of? Is there lighting or neon or lights up at the top or anything ' that we're not seeing in the drawing? Truman Howell: Only the options that were allowed through your ordinance, in terms of f backlit lighting. We've indicated I think the locations of the lights. As a matter of fact, there's a sign which are indicated here... Now those are not all backlit signs. We're talking about sandblasting wood signs. We talked about some neon. What we tried to locate here is basically where those things can take place. Farmakes: Okay. So what is being proposed is that come Christmas time, running lights may ' not necessarily be running along the top of the roofline and then left up there? Truman Howell: Oh, no. Not necessarily... ' Skubic: I have some materials questions. What is the effice made from? ' Truman Howell: Well it's a plastic material. It's a stucco really. The only difference is that when, in years gone by we used to use lath and this is just a way of doing a plaster. Not ' using lath and what it does is, the advantage of that is, that will allow you to change the shape of this so you can get some variations and shape. Considerable variations. And I can show you an example of that. I don't have any particular one selected but as you can see ' here, there's a variety of things you can do with the materials... and columns and all kinds of shapes. As a matter of fact, one of the most interesting... is the Universal Studios. They literally built a town out of this material that looks like stone, like brick, like any number of different materials. It's really a very plastic material so you can do virtually anything to big projection and gargoyles. Whatever you can carve in this, you can virtually do with that. Vernelle Clayton: ...that we aren't going to do gargoyles but what you might have seen ' recently around town... American Bank and what they call the 79th Street Place does a thing like that. ...I think that Perkins has it and probably... Truman Howell: All of the Perkins that look like Taco Bell's in the front, that's all... and a lot , of them are remodeling their's to re -do that. I've done several of those remodeling. One in Jackson... Skubic: Thank you. I Farmakes: Any other questions for the applicant? Okay. Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion I to open the public hearing. 55 1 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 Vernelle Clayton: Excuse me, I wanted to come back. Farmakes: Okay, you wanted to come back. Vernelle , go ahead. Vernelle Clayton: I had talked with Sharmin and she suggested that we get some additional... and I will pass them out. It relates to a couple of comments that she made with respect to the, first of all the restaurant building, with the little arches that they have and the canopies that were built over the windows and how that picked up and relates to the hotel behind it. The larger picture above is the arches that they have in that building. We also ... but it's also picked up in the old City Hall building, which is ... and then the elements added at the top here, the pitched elements are found on ... with respect to the clock tower, we have other clock towers in town and some pictures of that we can take a look at. The thought here was a feeling of the same sort of thing. It's the same period. It's not the same style of architecture but it's ... and while it's different elements here, it's the same idea. Same concept... Another comparative element here is the ... and we have one other building in town that still reminds ' me of it. Kind of a take off on the prairie style... Then we, Sharmin had met and the building which is the Applebee's has the element of the ... block and we have the same thing actually going on down at the stores that are a part of the Byerly's complex. So the reason for having ' the Americana Bank building ... is not the style of architecture but rather than materials in the exterior. And then ... and what we're trying to do is show that there are some similarities around town... to get an idea visually of what you'll be seeing. This is coming north on ' Market Boulevard. By the time you leave Highway 5 and the moving on... This is a lesser important view in that it's coming from the east and every place where you can see... it's right through here and it's ... Applebee's and Tires Plus and so forth so whereas you can see the whole view all the time now... when that project was completed. This will be continuing as a view. This is what I ... I'll tell you, you can't slow down on Highway 5 anymore. I understand there's some 30,000 cars to 35,000 cars that go by every day. I saw quite a few when I was ' doing this but anyway, this is as you leave the, coming out from behind Festival. You're coming from the west and just past Festival and... and as you can see, it's fairly small. It gets a little bit bigger as you move along. Still a little bit bigger and the next one, a little bit ' bigger yet but still... scale drawing of the elevation that you have on the front copy ... same size that this is. Give you an idea of what you'll see as you move along. And then as you move closer to the corner, now you're in the left turn lane. The American Bank building is ' back here at the corner ... at the crosswalk. Except you see it on the other side of the Frontier building. So that's kind of what... I'm going to take out and show you something that we haven't talked about yet but one of the conditions and that's what I wanted to talk to you about briefly and that is that, Sharmin in her report suggests that we ... and do something with this ... Our architect's recommendation is that we paint this, but that we use a bland color. We want this to kind of recede and not be ... because our message we want to be on here. This has never been a part of our overall proposal. It was... presented to the HRA or earlier we 56 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 recognized the need to do ... painting, repairs that might be ... only remaining area for the hotel space then. So that was kind of...I think that's all I have in here and appreciate your time. I'd like to just run through the ... proposed conditions. If I may. As Dave mentioned, item number 1 and 2 will probably not be applicable unless we deal with the vacation of Pauly Drive and the fact that we will be, not be with ... will not find it necessary to move ... and therefore number 1 we won't be moving ... if we're taking out Pauly Drive, there won't be a sidewalk... As for number 3, we have no problem with the views of the rooftop. I guess I won't, in deference to your time, I'll just talk about those that we have questions ... We don't have a problem with number 4. With respect to the window signage... Most of you have seen me talk about this issue many times before and that we also spent an awful lot of time talking about the sign ordinance... Frankly we would agree to, we would not agree to this. We don't think that this project should be ... wintertime. In fact there are some reasons where ... window signs and the few merchants that will be ... will be open, they would the ones that would like to take advantage of the fact that there will be traffic late at night as the movies end and... probably be open later than most folks around town are ... so we would agree to, or we would respectfully request that that be changed to where window signage shall comply with city code. With respect to the sign criteria. We don't have a problem with that paragraph as amended by Sharmin earlier. ...and maintenance agreements. Yes. We have always done... The building official conditions. Yes, we plan to replat. Definitely and we will be, that will probably be the next thing that you'll be seeing from us ... and certainly they can relocate the... I talked, with respect to item (d). I talked with Steve last week and confirmed again with him this morning that it would be alright for me to say that... covered walkway and that was not intended. So we have a problem with those... We talked this morning about the Fire Marshal conditions and that's not a problem. The northwest elevation shall be remodeled. I have a little concern about the word remodel because I'm not quite sure what it means ... but we'll be happy to include... with respect to number 12, we have no problems with that. Number 13, we have no problem. 14, 15, 16, likewise ... so if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Farmakes: Do the commissioners have any questions? Conrad: Vernelle, just one. The west elevation, the part that staff said you should do something and you're saying paint it gray. Vernelle Clayton: Well I didn't... Conrad: There is a major entrance there. Vernelle Clayton: It's the bowling alley. 57 0 u ' Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 Conrad: Right. So what are you planning to do with that? ' Vernelle Clayton: We're not proposing to change that and that's... double doors but I think they're fairly sturdy and... Conrad: They have an awning ver that and that doesn't g t. ' Vernelle Clayton: I'm not sure that the awning would not fit. I think what will... ' Conrad: Well, I'm just curious. You talked about ... that seems to be a major entrance to the building and whether it's, and you're leaving the current, that design element out and introducing a whole new thing here so it just didn't seem like it was part of the same project. ' Vernelle Clayton: So what you're saying is... Conrad: I think you should look at it. Vernelle Clayton: We probably should. Any other questions? We had a fairly low key ' presentation for you tonight based on the hour. We are more excited about this than how... We're very excited about getting... about time you got something done down there, so. ' Farmakes: Is the applicant finished? Can I have a motion to open the public hearing? Conrad moved, Skubic seconded to open the public hexing. The public healing was opened. Farmakes: Does anybody wish to come forward and make any comments on this proposal? Let the record show nobody's coming forward. Do I have a motion that we close the public hearing. Peterson moved, Conrad seconded to close the public hewing. The public hewing was closed. Farmakes: Comments. Ladd. Conrad: I don't have much. I think I asked my only two questions. I think it's great in general. To cover up the word bowling. It's worth it. There's a long history on that but. Farmakes: I think that's a bowling ball there. 58 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 Conrad: But I'm not going to make any other comments. I think a lot of things have been covered. I probably agree with Vernelle's comments on the signage. I'm not sure I'd change it for this place. I think they should do something on that major entrance. It makes sense that it gets tied in and ... as a citizen, not as a Planning Commissioner ... I like it. Farmakes: Okay, Craig. Peterson: I commend the presentation. In the months that I've been on, I think it's one of the most thorough presentations I've seen ... very few questions... but with the exposure on the westerly side, there is going to be a lot of traffic. It's very visible. It's going to have very distinct facing south ... It just doesn't seem logical to put all the effort and all the creativity on one side and all of a sudden you go around the corner and go, it's just blank. It's an abrupt change. Brad Johnson: We could answer that. One of the things that you probably. haven't seen is there's a continuation behind the hotel that runs right down to Filly's on the outside... so I think we can address this. We've heard the issue and we can correct it probably fairly inexpensively. It's $1,000.00 a foot that we're ... to the front but I think... Farmakes: I don't mean to interrupt you but I'd like to go through the comments and then I can put it back out on the floor if you wanted to discuss any other issue. Brad Johnson: Okay, thanks. Farmakes: Do you have anything else? Peterson: Those are my comments. Farmakes: Okay, Bob. Skubic: I agree with Ladd and Craig. I think it's a fine plan and I really look forward to seeing that bowling alley remodeled. And I appreciate the photographs to give us a perspective of what this is really going to look like with the adjacent dwellings. I have a question for staff. What is the rationale for prohibiting signage in windows? Al -Jaffa It was supposed to prevent clutter. Overall clutter. But the ordinance does permit window signage. Aanenson: Again, we did give variances because of the sign permit ... we were allowing additional signage for visual clutter so I tried to minimize that. Certainly open 24 hours ... but i' • 1 u C C C ' Planning ommission Meeting - January g g a uary 3, 1996 ' we were just concerned about, we are allowing a little bit different signs ... but we also wanted to make sure it didn't get really garish and too loud. I think they understand that and that's what we're striving for. I think there's some flexibility. Skubic: Thank you. That's all I have. Farmakes: Don. Mehl: Yeah, I think it looks great. The detail in it of elevations... downtown area... Farmakes: Is that it? Thank you. My comments on this development, it's a large improvement. I know some of the members here may have not seen the earlier version of this. It was kind of a French, Champs D'Allysses walk down or whatever. Anyway, as I recall the comments that I made at the time... when you do architecture, sometimes you get carried away and you have so many possibilities for doing things and I think it was a solution that was attempted and some of the things that were talked about on Highway 5. Trying to incorporate more detailing and retail structures that were basically shelves and... marketing effort taking place inside the store. Trying to ... market product and basically the rest of the outside of the building is kind of forgotten about. In some cases it was going to be a back door itself, as part of the marketing concept to have a bare bones building on the outside. That was part of the connection with the low price type market. It's hard when we look at the types of buildings that we would look at and say, you know can't you improve that. Can't you bring us more detailing and that type of thing... solution to that. I think it's believable with the architecture, based on our old history here and that reinforces that to this solution. I think it's tolerable to sensibilities here and the features they'll be using on the outside... don't know what's underneath it unless you knock on it. There's a couple of things to make comments on. One is the large expanse of backlit. I'm not sure on the left sign on the right. I think due to massiveness of the building, the facade on the right, obviously that's not a lot of signage for that mass of a building. There is, it's brown on the lower part down there. I assume most of that would be window space. And then also you would have posters ... type of thing. I agree that the retail situation probably should have some ability to advertise in windows. We should moderate that as to what. There isn't a lot of window space on ... and I think some latitude. I don't think however fake windows up above should be incorporated into that percentage and whatever that window space is, I agree that's how we'd do it... So we probably should modify that or ... in the recommendations as to what you work out with that to go forward to the City Council. The issue doesn't put a limit I think on the amount of posters for a theater. But whatever that moderation is, I think it's safe for them to be outside and if they're like other movie theaters, they tape stuff up in the window. And on the other side, I think your limitation listed at 15% of the size of the logo in relationship to the sign. .� Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 ' Al -Jaff: Correct. Farmakes: n ° ' a es. A d that looks like it's about 50 /° shown in the sample. I m not sure, as they come back with a signage application, that that sign have a specific sign or how you're going to treat that. ' Aanenson: Which one are you talking about? The theaters have been specifically addressed. Farmakes: Right. I'm talking about the one on the far, it'd be on my left. Al -Jaff: As part of the logo, the percentage of the logo on that sign. The applicant has not ' shown us yet what the logo is going to look like so we don't have any of the details. They are not asking for any area variances. If there were any proposed, we will bring them back ' before you. So they will have to meet ordinance requirements as far as area of logos as well as signage on the building. They will have to meet that 15 %. Farmakes: Alright. The last issue, I hope, when we do these things where we talk about how ' to market, sometimes when you come up with something nice like this, it's the other ways that you market, particularly the chain type buildings. Often there seems to be a basic need , to fill it up with bright striped awnings and in moderation that's fine but sometimes it goes the other way and you wind up with kind of clown building. And hopefully, this is of interest I think to people who were interested in looking for something different than what's ' out there. It doesn't take long to hop into a car and go very far and see the backlit awning and the classic building, or a franchise building. So hopefully we're offering something different here and I like the solution that you came up with. I think it follows what we were ' hoping to find. So those are all the comments I have on that. I'd entertain a motion here. I don't want to challenge this one but there is several, to remind whoever makes that motion, there are several additions, both Sharmin, Dave added to the packet. , Skubic: I'll take a stab at this. I'll make a motion that the Planning Commission recommend approval of Site Plan for the Entertainment Complex #95 -21 SPR as shown on the site plan ' dated December 12, 1995 with the following conditions. 1 thru 20 with the additional changes and additions. Item number 6(e) shall be amended to have the addition of not to exceed 6 signs which are not to exceed 12 square feet. That's on page 13. 12 square feet ' each. And on page 14, condition number 12. I'll let Dave recite that. Hempel: Condition number 12 should be amended to read as follows, the applicant shall ' sleeve the portion of the city's sanitary sewer and water line which are impacted by encroachment of any building structure within the city's utility easements. In addition, the ' applicant shall enter into an encroachment agreement with the city for construction. The 61 1 L� ' Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 building structure, walkway within the city's utility easement. All utility construction shall be ' in accordance with the latest edition. The remaining part of that condition would remain as stipulated in the report. Skubic: Thank you. On page 15, I'd like to add to condition number 17, item (g). That the applicant and staff shall work together to vacate the eastern end of Pauly Drive for parking lot ' expansion in that area. And on page 16, I'd like to and condition 21 regarding the FMPC and I'll read that as recommended here from the FMPC that prior to final City Council approval of the site plan for the property, the developer agrees to wholly replace and /or reconstruct a ' traffic facility on the property, and further agrees to obtain approval for such replacement or reconstruction from the Southwest Metro Transit Commission. ' Farmakes: ...talked about. With their modification to (b) on 17. Hempel: Actually 17, condition 17(c) could be replaced with Commissioner Skubic's. ' Farmakes: The drive aisle comment? ' Hempel: That should remain. Condition 17(b) should remain. Farmakes: Would you take a friendly amendment on 5? On the window signage. The City ' staff review that and see how that incorporates with current sign ordinance and configure... what defines a real window space in this proposal. Okay, any other additions? Okay, a motion's been made. Is there a second? Mehl: Second. ' Farmakes: With a second, we'll vote. Skubic moved, Mehl seconded that the Planning Commission recommend approval of Site Plan for the Enteitainment Complex ( 05 -21 SPR) as shown on the site plan dated Decembe►• 12, 1995, with the following conditions: ' 1. The existing four trees located east of the existing bus shelter shall be relocated within the bus shelter area. Species shall be specified on the landscaping plan. 2. The applicant shall incorporate a sidewalk along Pauly Drive with the landscaping. Landscaping other than the city's boulevard trees shall be prohibited within the city's right -of -way or trail easement area. Any /all damaged sidewalk as a result of construction activities on the site shall be replaced in kind by the applicant. 1 62 L Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 1 4. 5. 6. All existing and proposed rooftop equipment shall be screened from views, specifically from Highway 5. The applicant must obtain a sign permit prior to erecting any signage on site. Window signage will comply with city ordinance and the staff and applicant shall work together to define what constitutes real window space to be used in the calculations. The following sign criteria is adopted as part of the site plan which includes variances: Signage Plan and Restrictions: Neon Illuminated a. The location of letters and logos shall be restricted to the approved building sign bands as indicated on Exhibit A. The letters and logos shall be restricted to 30 inches in height and must be back lit if illuminated. All individual letters and logos comprising each sign shall have a minimum depth of five inches and shall be constructed with a translucent facing over neon tube illumination. (Elevation drawing to be attached upon approval.) b. All individual dimensional letters and logos comprising each sign shall be back lit with neon tube illumination. Letter styles shall reflect the period style of the facades and /or corporate logos. At the cinema marquee and restaurant sign bands, lettering on a "Plexiglass" face shall be permitted and at the cinema marquee temporary individual letters and numbers may be used to display current and /or coming attractions, ratings and show times and dates. c. Tenant neon illuminated signage shall consist of store identification only. Copy is restricted to the tenant's proper name and major product or service offered. Corporate logos, emblems and similar identifying devices are permitted provided they are confined within the signage band and do not occupy more than 15% of the sign area. Sandblasted Wood, Tenant Identification a. The letters and logos shall be restricted to the approved building sign bands as indicated on Exhibit A. Projecting signs may not exceed 4 feet in height and 3 feet in width. 63 fl 7 Planning ommission Meeting - January 3 1996 g g �' , ' b. All wooden signs shall be sandblasted and letters shall be an integral part of the building's architecture. c. Signage shall consist of store identification only. Copy is restricted to the tenant's proper name and major product or service offered and such minimal messages such as date of establishment of business. Corporate logos, emblems and similar ' identifying devices are permitted provided they are confined within the signage band or within the projecting sign and do not occupy more than fifteen (15) percent of the sign display area. ' d. Projecting signs shall be stationary, may be lighted by spotlight and must use one of the three frame designs set forth on Exhibit A. ' e. Project signs shall be limited to one per tenant, not to exceed 6 signs total, and may not exceed 12 square feet each sign. Menu Signs I a. Shall be located at eye level adjacent to tenant entries as indicated on Exhibit A and shall not exceed 4 feet in height. ' b. Shall be used only to convey daily specials, menus and offerings and shall be wood framed chalkboard and /or electronic board with temporary handwritten lettering. No paper construction or messages will be permitted. c. Menu signs shall be limited to one er tenant and may not exceed 8 square p y feet. ' Posters a. The cinema shall be permitted framed poster displays for current and /or coming attractions at the south elevation only. Building Directory a. One building directory shall be permitted at the sign band indicated on Exhibit A at the "Bank Building" location. The directory sign shall not exceed 12 square feet. 7. Cross access easements and maintenance agreements need to be provided over the ' parking lot and driveways. 1 64 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 8. Building Official conditions: a. Amend site plan review application to include replatting with the object of removing critical property lines, or redraw plans to comply with code requirements for opening protection. b. Have a qualified engineer perform a structure evaluation of the subject building. This should be done prior to building permit issuance. c. Revise plans to relocate disabled parking spaces closer to other building entrances. This should be done prior to building permit issuance. d. Clarify extent of proposed alterations to the frontier building. This should be done prior to site plan approval. e. Clarify the nature of the crosshatched area between the proposed entertainment complex and the frontier building. This should be done prior to site plan approval 9. Fire Marshal conditions: a. "No Parking Fire Lane" will be established by the Fire Marshal. Contact Fire Marshal for exact details and comply with Policy #06 -1991. Copy enclosed. b. A remote fire department sprinkler connection must be relocated to the south side of the building. Contact Fire Marshal for exact location. c. Maintain a ten foot clear space around new or existing fire hydrants. d. Submit radius turn dimensions to City Engineering and Fire Marshal for approval. 10. The northwest elevation shall be remodeled as part of this proposal. 11. The applicant's engineer shall submit to the city for review and approval a storm drainage management plan. The plan shall also include detailed stormwater calculations and area drainage maps for a 10 year storm event. 12. The applicant shall sleeve the portion of the city's sanitary sewer and water line which are impacted by encroachment of any building structure within the city's utility easements. In addition, the applicant shall enter into an encroachment agreement with the city for construction. The building structure, walkway within the city's utility 65 0 C � I Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 easement. All utility construction shall be in accordance with the latest edition of the City's Standard Specifications and Detail Plates. Since most of these improvements will be considered private, separate building permits will be required through the City's Public Safety Department for all storm sewer and utility lines. 13. The applicant and /or contractor will be responsible for adjustment of all existing gate valves, manholes, and catch basins on the site. The City's Utility Department will require inspection of these adjustments. 14. The applicant will need to develop a sediment and erosion control plan in accordance with the City's Best Management Practice Handbook and the Surface Water Management Plan requirements for new development. The plans shall be submitted to the City for review and approval. Type I erosion control fence and rock construction entrances shall be employed and maintained at all access points until streets have been paved with a bituminous surface. Catch basins shall .be protected with silt fence and /or hay bales until the parking lot has been paved with bituminous surface. 15. All disturbed areas as a result of construction shall be restored with sod and /or landscaping materials within two weeks of completion of the parking lot. 16. The applicant shall enter into a site plan agreement with the City and provide the ' necessary financial security in the form of a letter of credit or cash escrow to guarantee compliance with the conditions of approval and to guarantee restoration of city boulevards and adjustments to the city's infrastructures. 17. The applicant shall redesign the site plan parking lot configuration to include the following items: a. Show the city's 50 foot right -of -way along Pauly Drive. ' b. Incorporate a drive aisle access to the east out to the Dinner Theater /Great Plains Boulevard. ' c. That the applicant and staff shall work together to vacate the eastern end of Pauly Drive for- pariaing lot expansion in that area. ' d. Provide a turn around for city snowplow equipment at the end of Pauly Drive or enter into an agreement with the City allowing city snowplows to utilize the parking lot facility. 1 66 Planning Commission Meeting - January 3, 1996 e. Widen main drive aisles to 28 feet wide and incorporate larger radiuses to accommodate emergency vehicles, and increase drive aisle widths to a minimum of 26 feet wide per city ordinance. f. The applicant shall prepare a traffic control plan for city staff to review and approve prior to issuance of a building permit. 18. The applicant shall report to the City Engineer the location of any drain tile found during construction and abandon or reconnect all tiles as directed by the City Engineer. 19. The applicant shall apply for and obtain all the necessary permits of the regulatory agencies such as health dept., watershed district and MPCA. 20. In conjunction with the subdivision process, the city reserves the right to require the necessary drainage and utility easements or street right -of -way based on the subdivision proposal. 21. Prior to final City Council approval of the site plan for the property the developer agrees to wholly replace and/or reconshuct a haffrc facility on the property, and further agrees to obtain approval for such replacement or rleconshuction from the Southwest Metro Transit Commission. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Conrad moved, Mehl seconded to note the Minutes of the Planning Commission meeting dated December 6, 1995 as presented. All voted in favor and the motion carried. ONGOING ITEMS: Aanenson: I just have one to share with you. I hope you received a copy of the Highway 5 corridor study and the little letter that says we've officially been approved. Technically it will be placed on the Met Council agenda for the 22nd, but the letter we got from the staff said that it is, we can immediately put it into effect. So that copy that you received does have the integrated ordinance in that so we will be making changes to the comprehensive plan map like in areas that we've done in the 1995 study area. Now again, we haven't brought it into the MUSA but we have guided that so just so you're aware of that. And then also, if any of you are interested in serving on the Carver County Task Force. Another Wednesday meeting. They're going to be updating the comprehensive plan so if anybody's interested. You get a per diem. $30.00. M C 0