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CC Minutes 5-12-04 City Council Meeting -_y 12, 2004 e ot4- 2J preserved, surveyed and staked in accordance with the City's wetland ordinance. The applicant shall install wetland buffer edge signs, under the direction of City staff, before construction begins and will pay the City $20 per sign. 4. All structures shall maintain a 40-foot setback from the edge of the wetland buffer. 5. The proposed development shall maintain existing runoff rates. Storm water calculations shall be submitted to staff to ensure runoff rates will not increase as a result of the proposed development. The applicant may work with the Arboretum to ensure their concerns are addressed. 6. Drainage and utility easements shall be provided over all existing wetlands, wetland mitigation areas, buffer areas used for mitigation credit and storm water ponds. 7. Erosion control blanket shall be installed on all slopes greater than or equal to 3:1. All exposed soil areas shall have temporary erosion protection or permanent cover year round, according to the following table of slopes and time frames: Type of Slope Time Steeper than 3: 1 10:1 to 3:1 Flatter than 10: 1 7 days 14 days 21 days (Maximum time an area can remain open when the area is not actively being worked.) These areas include constructed storm water management pond side slopes, and any exposed soil areas with a positive slope to a storm water conveyance system, such as a curb and gutter system, storm sewer inlet, temporary or permanent drainage ditch or other natural or man made systems that discharge to a surface water. 8. Street cleaning of soil tracked onto public streets shall include daily street scraping and street sweeping as-needed. 9. The applicant shall apply for and obtain permits from the appropriate regulatory agencies, e.g. Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (for dewatering) and Army Corps of Engineers and comply with their conditions of approval." All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to O. REQUEST FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL FOR A 13.000 SQUARE FOOT COMMERCIAL BUILDING WITH REQUESTS FOR A PARKING SETBACK VARIANCE AND A SIGN VARIANCE ON 1.9 ACRES ZONED PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF HIGHWAY 5 AND GALPIN BOULEVARD. BEAR CREEK CAPITAL. LLC. AND CHANHASSEN DEVELOPMENT. LLC. CVSIPHARMACY. PLANNING CASE NO. 04-21. 22 City Council Meeting -4Ity 12,2004 e Bob Generous: Thank you Mr. Mayor, council members. The applicant, Bear Creek Capital is proposing a pharmacy convenience store at the corner of Highway 5 and Galpin Boulevard. This site is directly in front of the Kwik Trip property. If you noticed the property line, they're cantilevered on Highway 5. That is part of the reason for the request for the setback variance. This line is in place where they comply with the design standards for setback for the parking lot. At this point they measure over here, they're 30 some feet off. As part of their submittal staff did recommend to the applicant that they orient their building so that the doorway was facing Highway 5. This necessitates the rest of the site layout. All the parking people want to be close to an entrance for retail uses. This is actually their second submittal. They have revised the drive thru area on the north side. Originally they had the traffic connecting to the north east driveway point but Planning Commission felt that this created additional conflicts there and so the applicant came in and segregated that. We believe that this site and their proposal works well and will be a good addition to the community. We are recommending approval of the site plan with the variance for the parking setback. They did have a second variance to increase the pylon sign to I believe it was 24 feet. As part of the design standards they approved a 15 foot pylon on the site that was to be shared by the two users. And then each site would get their individual monument signage. They have revised their monument sign location to meet, well actually it exceeds their setback. They've also revised the architectural detailing on the building to comply with all requirements of the ordinance. However staff believes they have sufficient visibility on that corner with the existing signage. The building with the wall signage and the monument signage that there's not a need to deviate for the pylon sign and we're recommending denial of that. With that I'd be happy to answer any questions. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions for staff. Councilman Lundquist: Bob, you talked about if the applicant were to turn their building essentially 90 degrees from where it is now, that that would alleviate the setback requirement. Is that what you were referring to? Bob Generous: Yes, if they could reorient the building then they'd have the parking on the north and the west side. Their drive thru would be facing Highway 5. Or in that comer. Councilman Lundquist: The drive thru would be. Mayor Furlong: Can you show us please? Bob Generous: Basically they'd... this building. Councilman Lundquist: Oh, I thought it was 90 degrees the other way. I'm sorry. Didn't you say the front door, where's the front door? Bob Generous: The front entrance is right here going out to Galpin and 5. 23 City Council Meeting A.y 12, 2004 e Councilman Lundquist: Okay, so if that faces 5, and the drive thru is in the corner of Galpin and K wik Trip, right? Bob Generous: Yes. Drive thru's up here. If you could flip it, they'd have their parking up here and parking here. They just have this little area down on Highway 5 side. Or this little area.. . Councilman Peterson: But then you'd see the drive thru. Bob Generous: Yes. Plus we want to have that sense of life facing the busy highway. Councilman Peterson: So you're not recommending that they turn it around? Bob Generous: No. Councilman Labatt: You don't want them to flip... Bob Generous: No. We want them to keep that orientation onto Highway 5. Councilman Lundquist: Okay, fair enough. Okay. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other questions for staff? No? Councilman Labatt: Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Councilman Labatt. Councilman Ayotte: Want to put a median in? Councilman Labatt: Can I? Just talking the drive thru real quick. What's the length and what's the potential number of cars that will be stacked? Bob Generous: They have stacking for 3 cars in each of the lanes on the north side. Their traffic study showed that that was the maximum they saw in their drive thru in other operations. Councilman Labatt: Have you ever seen the Walgreen's on Blake Road and Highway 7? Bob Generous: No. Councilman Labatt: Okay. Well I have. It's granted, obviously they have two stalls here. Right? Bob Generous: Two, yes. One is, the northerly one is just for dropping off the prescription. The southerly one is where they pick up the medications. And it's limited to only to prescriptions. They can't get anything else there. 24 City Council Meeting -tay 12, 2004 e Councilman Peterson: No coffee? Bob Generous: No coffee. Councilman Peterson: Unless it's prescription. Councilman Labatt: My only question is the number of cars that can potentially be stacked there and what happens with it exceeds 3 and do they, don't get me wrong. I'm not opposed to this project or the drive thru. I just want to make sure that we don't create. Bob Generous: Then they would potentially back out into that easterly drive aisle. However, that's a secondary access. Most people are going to come in the northwest comer. Where actually the Planning Commission wanted to see if there were ways to get more people to go up that way. But we don't know. Councilman Labatt: The sign? Will it be a flasher? Free coffee. Mayor Furlong: Bob, the flow for that drive thru, as we're looking at this picture, starts at the right and flows towards the building and out the mid egress point there. If it's going to fill up, it's going to fill up there. Either back below or back up into the private drive off of Galpin. Bob Generous: Yes. So we'll turn here or come up that way. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Okay, any other questions for staff on this one? No? Is there anybody representing the applicant here this evening that would like to address the council? This would be an opportunity. Sure. Tim Baird: Tim Baird with Bear Creek Capital. Mayor Furlong: If you could come up to the microphone, just so it's easier for the recorder. Tim Baird: Tim Baird with Bear Creek Capital and the only two things I really wanted to point out was, we've been doing these for about 8 years now. We've done about 75 of them and I can tell you that I've never seen more than 3 cars. I'd love to know there were more but I've never seen more than 3 cars. That's one. Two, I think this orientation really works out well and we've agreed to do some berming and that to really shade that. And three, we only, the way that CVS does their truck delivery, they only have one large truck a week and then they actually, that comes in after hours so they've got that down pretty much to a science. It's just, you mentioned, I heard someone mentioned, I don't know if it was Bob, the life concept. They really are big on that and try not to overload a site so that was it. 25 City Council Meeting -tty 12,2004 e Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any questions? No? Thank you Tim. If there are no other questions for staff I'll bring it back to council for comment. Or representative from Planning Commission, Commissioner Lillehaug, any comments or additional on this one? Thank you. Bring it back to council for comments. Councilman Ayotte: Looks good. Councilman Peterson: I agree with staff 100 percent. Councilman Labatt: I know my mother's excited about this place. Councilman Lundquist: I can't believe Craig's going to approve a drive thru. Mayor Furlong: I think a comment, and I'll commend staff on this, and it's with the orientation. One of the improvements that we have here, and you mentioned the drug store at 7 and Blake Road where that drivethru faces the intersection. You see these two brick walls and it's the same thing with the Walgreen's at 5 and County 4. This is going to look nice and people are going to know, it's going to be a great addition to our residents in the western part. Councilman Labatt: You bet it will. Mayor Furlong: I think it's great so. So congratulations, thank you. Tim and others and Planning Commission for working through the issues here. With that, we have, is there any other discussion or comments? Very good, with that is there a motion? Councilman Lundquist: I would move that the City Council approve site plan planning case #04-21, plans prepared by Anderson Engineering dated May 5th, revised 5-13, 5-20, and 6-24 in the packet with conditions 1 through 29. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second? Councilman Ayotte: Second. Councilman Labatt: Conditions 1 through 29? Am I in the wrong one? Mayor Furlong: Yep. Councilman Lundquist: It starts on page 3. Councilman Labatt: Oh, I was looking at the old one. Councilman Lundquist: Is that the right one Bob? Councilman Labatt: Yes. 26 City Council Meeting aly 12, 2004 e Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Did you second that Councilman Ayotte? Councilman Ayotte: Yes I did. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. It's been made and seconded. Is there any discussion? Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Ayotte seconded approval of Site Plan approval of Planning Case # 04-21, plans prepared by Anderson Engineering of Minnesota, LLC, dated May 5, 2004, revised 5-13-04, 5-20-04 and 6-24-04, with a 38-foot variance from the parking setback requirement and a variance to permit two rows of parking between the building and the road based on the attached findings and recommendation and subject to the following conditions: 1. The applicant shall enter into a site plan agreement with the City and provide the necessary security to guarantee erosion control, site restoration and landscaping. 2. The developer shall provide a bike rack. Additionally, the developer shall install benches on both the Highway 5 and Galpin Boulevard sides of the building. 3. The building is required to have an automatic fire extinguishing system. 4. All sidewalks shall be provided with accessible ramps. 5. The plans must be prepared and signed by design professionals licensed in the State of Minnesota. 6. Detailed occupancy related requirements will be reviewed when complete plans are submitted. 7. Utility plans: Cleanouts are required in the sanitary sewer system in accordance with the Minnesota Plumbing Code. 8. Applicant shall plant 8 deciduous trees along Galpin Boulevard in order to meet minimum requirements. 9. A lO-foot clear space must be maintained around fire hydrants, i.e., street lamps, trees, shrubs, bushes, Xcel Energy, Qwest, Cable TV and transformer boxes. This is to ensure that fire hydrants can be quickly located and safely operated by firefighters. Pursuant to Chanhassen City Ordinance #9-1. 10. The builder must comply with the Chanhassen Fire Department/Fire Prevention Division regarding the maximum allowable size of domestic water on a combination water/sprinkler supply line. Pursuant to Chanhassen Fire Department/Fire Prevention division Policy #36-1991. 27 City Council Meeting -4Iy 12, 2004 e 11. The builder must comply with water service installation policy for commercial and industrial buildings. Pursuant to Inspection Division Water Service Installation Policy #34-1993. Copy enclosed. 12. The builder must comply with the Chanhassen Fire Department/Fire Prevention Division regarding premise identification. Pursuant to Chanhassen Fire Department/Fire Prevention Division Policy #29-1992. 13. The builder must comply with the Chanhassen Fire Department/Fire Prevention Division regarding notes to be included on all site plans. Pursuant to Chanhassen Fire Department/Fire Prevention Division Policy #4-1991. Copy enclosed. 14. "No Parking Fire Lane" signs and yellow-painted curbing will be required. Please contact Chanhassen Fire Marshal for exact sign locations and for exact curbing to be painted yellow. 15. The proposed development shall maintain existing runoff rates. Storm water calculations shall be submitted to verify that the existing storm water pond is sized adequately for the proposed development. 16. Erosion control blanket shall be installed on all slopes greater than or equal to 3:1. All exposed soil areas shall have temporary erosion protection or permanent cover year round, according to the following table of slopes and time frames: Type of Slope Time (Maximum time an area can remain open when the area is not actively being worked.) Steeper than 3: 1 10:1 to 3:1 Flatter than 10: 1 7 days 14 days 21 days These areas include constructed storm water management pond side slopes, and any exposed soil areas with a positive slope to a storm water conveyance system, such as a curb and gutter system, storm sewer inlet, temporary or permanent drainage ditch or other natural or man made systems that discharge to a surface water. 17. Street cleaning of soil tracked onto public streets shall include daily street scraping and street sweeping as-needed. 18. The applicant shall apply for and obtain permits from the appropriate regulatory agencies (e.g., Carver County, Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed District, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (for dewatering), Army Corps of Engineers) and comply with their conditions of approval. 19. Show the location of the accessible ramps on the plans. 28 City Council Meeting -.y 12, 2004 e 20. All final plans must be signed by a registered civil engineer. 21. Add all applicable 2004 City of Chanhassen detail plates to the plans. 22. On the Grading Plan: a. Show all existing and proposed easements. b. Show the location of the existing silt fence. c. Show the existing topography of the site. 23. The retaining wall must be designed by a registered structural engineer and a permit from the Building Department must be obtained for its construction. 24. The City's type II silt fence must be used adjacent to the wetland on the east side of the site. In addition, a 75-foot minimum rock construction entrance must be included at the main access drive to the site. 25. The remaining assessment due payable to the City at the time of building permit application is $10,479. In addition, sanitary sewer and water hook-up charges along with the Met Council's SAC fee will be due at the time of building permit issuance. The 2004 trunk utility hook-up charge is $1,458 per unit for sanitary sewer and $2,814 per unit for water. The 2004 SAC fee is $1,425 per unit. The hook-up charges and SAC fee are based on the number of SAC units assigned by the Met Council. 26. Storm sewer sizing calculations will need to be submitted for review prior to building permit approval. 27. Directional signage showing access to TH 5 and south Galpin Boulevard shall be installed. 28. Revise the drive aisle width of the drive-thru exit from 16 to 20 feet. 29. Work with staff to increase the berming adjacent to TH 5 and Galpin Boulevard." All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to O. Mayor Furlong: That motion prevails. Also a request with regard to the sign variance. Councilman Lundquist: I would move that the City Council deny the sign variance based on the attached findings of fact and recommendation. Mayor Furlong: And is there a second to that motion? Councilman Ayotte: Second. Mayor Furlong: Any discussion? 29 City Council Meeting -.y 12, 2004 tit Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Ayotte seconded that the City Council deny the sign variance based on the attached findings of fact and recommendation. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to O. COUNCIL PRESENT A TIONS: Councilman Lundquist: Short, not really a presentation I guess. Just comments regarding the July 3rd and 4th festivities. One that myself and my family personally look forward to. We always have a good time and just wanted to publicly thank the Rotary for their efforts, the parade committee and all the volunteers and everything there. And our public, our parks department that, especially scrambled on the 3rd with all the rain and got the lights up and all of the work that Todd Hoffman and Jerry and Corey put through so that's a great event and it's hard to find anybody, even in the rain while I was out there, that didn't have a good time. So I think something that the citizens really enjoy and something that we don't find in the area anywhere around, anything like that at that time of year so hats off and thank you to the groups that put in those efforts and donated their time and money. Mayor Furlong: Thank you, well said. Other presentations? Comments. One thing I'd like to share today at the Chanhassen Library, U.S. Senator Norm Coleman hosted a Children's Health and Nutrition Summit. It was very well attended. There were anywhere from 60 to 75 people that came and attended. There was the panel discussion included Dr. Ellen Goldbloom who's the President and CEO of Children's Hospitals and Clinics here in the Twin Cities. They were joined by the Undersecretary of the USDA for Food and Nutrition and Consumer Services, Eric Boast who flew in from Washington today to be here. Also by Dr. Edward Thompson who's Deputy Director of the Public Health and Services for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention came up from Atlanta. There were 6 other panelists as well from the Twin Cities area. It was a great discussion. It was very interesting. They talked about nutrition, physical activity and the human and financial costs of lack of good nutrition and physical activity for children and really where the issues were and the answer was, there is no silver bullet. While it is a real issue, ultimately it's going to be the parents, schools, city and county governments and state and federal governments working together on different issues to do that so, it was a nice way to showcase the Chanhassen Library. To be a part of that. There were a number of people who came from around the area, as well as across the country to talk about these issues here in our town so one, I'd like to thank Justin Miller from the city staff who worked to help organize the room and make sure it went off without a hitch, which it did so Justin, thank you very much for that, but it was a very nice event. I know Channel 4 and Channel 5 both had camera crews there today so whether or not they'll show this evening, I don't know but it was a nice event. Councilman Lundquist: Did they get library cards? Mayor Furlong: Not to my knowledge. 30