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Revised Conditions of approvalChick-fil-A, Planning Case #2016-08 445 West 79th Street (Lot 2, Block 1, Zamor Addition) Staff recommends that the City Council approve the site plan for a 4,775 square foot, one-story building with a drive-thru and a variance for hard cover, plans prepared by HR Green, Inc., dated 02/23/16, subject to the following revised conditions and adopts the findings of fact: Building: 1. The building is required to have an automatic fire extinguishing system. 2. Building plans must be prepared and signed by design professionals licensed in the State of Minnesota. 3. Retaining walls over four high must be designed by a professional engineer and a permit must be obtained prior to construction. 4. Sanitary and storm sewer service must comply with Minnesota State Plumbing Code (see Table 701.1). 5. Detailed occupancy related requirements will be addressed when complete building plans are submitted. 6. The owner and or their representative shall meet with the Inspections Division as soon as possible to discuss plan review and permit procedures. Engineering: 1. Several proposed items are shown within the city’s drainage and utility easement, including: both retaining walls, clearance bar post for the drive-thru and the Chick-fil-A monument sign. These items must be moved out of the easement or the applicant must enter into an encroachment agreement with the city after, but concurrent to the site plan agreement. 2. An additional drainage and utility easement shall be recorded over the two drainage basins located south of the parking lot. 3. Staff has requested further analysis to include the Market Boulevard intersection. 4. The applicant’s engineer shall also examine ways to mitigate the queueing and decreased LOS. 5. The applicant shall and re-stripe the intersection of W 79th Street & Great Plains Boulevard to provide a longer left turn queue. 6. The applicant’s engineer shall verify whether an adequate sight line is provided for vehicles exiting via the eastern site access. 7. The applicant shall follow the accessibility code for the construction as well as all applicable State and Federal laws. 8. The applicant shall coordinate with city staff prior to removal or construction of the services regarding inspection and traffic control on W 79th Street. 9. Once construction is complete, the applicant shall retain ownership of the proposed sanitary service, water service and hydrant constructed on this property. Planning: 1. The applicant shall combine the two parcels as one lot. 2. 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. 3. Wall lighting and the trash enclosure lighting shall comply with city code. 4. The proposed monument sign shall be relocated on the site to comply with city code. 5. Signage shall comply with city code and requires separate sign permits for each sign. 6. The applicant shall reduce the drive-thru entry width to one lane to add a landscape peninsula in the southwest corner of the building and to expand the patio area. 7. The applicant shall investigate the shortening of the service sidewalk connecting the building to the parking lot. 8. The applicant shall provide enhanced landscaping to the north of the building. Landscaping: 1. The applicant shall revise the landscape plan to accommodate more of the required bufferyard trees in the south and east buffer yard areas. 2. The interior width of all landscape island must a minimum of 10 feet. 3. The 8” oak tree located on plans along the southeast property line must be preserved. Revised landscape plans shall note the tree as saved. 4. The London plane tree and Norway maple listed in the Plant Schedule shall be replaced with appropriate species from the city’s Approved Tree List. Water Resources: 1. The applicant shall consider modifications to site grading, catch basin placement or both to minimize to the maximum extent practicable, the amount of runoff leaving the site to the west. 2. Sheet C-3.1 the two swales/basin areas shown on the southern property boundary shall be stabilized as soon as possible after going on-line but no more than 48 hours afterwards. 3. The applicant shall do additional subsurface exploration/investigation to provide more substantial evidence that the infiltration system will work as modeled. The method of exploration/investigation shall be left to the applicant and their engineer’s discretion. In the event the findings indicate that infiltration is not feasible, stormwater management plans shall be modified accordingly. 4. The Stormtech system shall be owned and maintained by the property owner. 5. A drainage and utility easement shall be recorded over the Stormtech system and the two basins located south of the parking lot. 6. The design shall be modified to prevent the wall from experiencing inundation. In the event this is not possible, the D&U shall clearly state that the retaining wall is the sole responsibility of the property owner. 7. The applicant shall prepare an operations and maintenance manual which shall include a schedule of inspection as well as anticipated routine maintenance to maintain performance in perpetuity or until such a time as all parties agree it is no longer necessary. This document shall include persons responsible for inspections and maintenance and shall be recorded against the property. 8. The city or their representative shall be granted rights to come onto the property during and after construction to inspect the facility. 9. Inspection reports and maintenance records shall be made available to the City within 30 days of receiving a written request. 10. The applicant must evaluate the conveyance downstream to assure adequate capacity exists. 11. The model shall be modified to include the area that drains into ST-41 and the area that drains into ST-6 as basins. 12. Additional detail is needed for the Stormtech system to fully evaluate its efficacy. These items include elevation of chambers, interconnection between chambers for evaluation of short circuiting of the system, and elevation of the stone. 13. The applicant shall be responsible for all other agency permits such as MPCA, RPBCWD, MN DOT, MNDOT, et al. 14. It is estimated that $19,997.34 in stormwater connection fees will be due at lot consolidation. In the event that infiltration is not allowed, the Surface Water Connection Fee credit shall be modified to reflect the amount of abstraction achieved on the site. If no abstraction is achieved the credit shall be $0.00 and the fee due shall be $39,994.68. 15. The applicant shall, as part of the RAP, get guidance from the MN Pollution Control Agency on whether infiltration would be allowed in the area. 16. In the event that infiltration is not allowed, the applicant must redesign the storm sewer management system so that the following conditions are met: 17. There shall be no increase in rates leaving the site. 18. Abstraction is achieved to the maximum extent practicable. Other abstraction methods such as reuse must be evaluated. 19. Water is treated to achieve 90% removal of Total Suspended Solids and 60% removal of Total Phosphorus.