PC Minutes 1-2-07
CHANHASSEN PLANNING COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
JANUARY 2, 2007
Chairman McDonald called the meeting to order at 7 :00 p.m..
MEMBERS PRESENT: Jerry McDonald, Kurt Papke, Kathleen Thomas, Debbie Larson, Dan
Keefe, Kevin Dillon and Mark Undestad
STAFF PRESENT: Kate Aanenson, Community Development Director; Bob Generous, Senior
Planner; Sharmeen AI-Jaff, Senior Planner; and Alyson Fauske, Assistant City Engineer
PUBLIC PRESENT FOR ALL ITEMS:
Janet Paulsen
7305 Laredo Drive
OLD VILLAGE HALL: REQUEST FOR COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE MAP
AMENDMENT FROM PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC TO COMMERCIAL; AND REZONING
FROM 01. OFFICE AND INSTITUTIONAL DISTRICT TO CBD. CENTRAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 391 WEST 78TH STREET.
LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS OUTLET B AND THE EASTERLY 66 FEET OF LOT 1.
BLOCK 1. OLD VILLAGE HALL. THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUEST IS TO MAKE
THE ZONING AND LAND USE CONSISTENT WITH THE BALANCE OF THE PLAT
FOR OLD VILLAGE HALL. APPLICANT. CITY OF CHANHASSEN. PLANNING
CASE 07-01.
Bob Generous presented the staff report on this item.
McDonald: Mark, why don't we start down with you.
Undestad: No questions.
Dillon: Is there anything that's different? Nothing new is going to go into the spot if it's
rezoned?
Generous: Well there is a personal service use that will go into the property but there'll be no
changes. The use of the site is limited by the parking agreement that we recorded with the plat.
There are 4 parking stalls that are reserved for this use. This site, and that would permit, it could
be a retail use. It could be office use but anything within the CBD, however it's very limited to
building size. It's 500 square feet approximately. We don't see any change. The City's still
going to maintain ownership of it and so we'll control who we lease this to. However it would
permit the lease agreement to go forward that the City is negotiating right now.
Dillon: So what will this change in zoning do once, if it changes hands and the City doesn't own
it anymore and some private party owns it? I take it, it will be tax value that the City could earn
would go up a lot?
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Generous: Well yes, it would go onto the tax rolls but again the site is, it doesn't comply with
the minimum standards so that's why it's an outlot. They can't change anything unless they come
back and get a variance to the standards for a CBD lot. It doesn't meet the frontage requirements
and it doesn't meet the area requirements. So it is very restrictive as to what the use, what
someone could do on the property. Plus they have the limitation on the amount of parking.
Dillon: And there's no other improvements or changes to infrastructure that are being
contemplated?
Generous: Nothing. Internally there'll be some modifications to the building but that's it.
Dillon: That's all the questions I had.
McDonald: Okay.
Keefe: Does the City have a plan to convey the property though?
Generous: No.
Keefe: No. Okay.
McDonald: Debbie.
Larson: Don't have any.
Thomas: No.
McDonald: No? I have no questions or comments either. Is the, well I guess the City is the
applicant, or is there someone else?
Aanenson: No, we're the applicant.
McDonald: Okay. Then in that case, what I would do is open it to the public. Anyone wishing
to make comment on this, if you would please step to the podium and state your name and
address. Okay, seeing no one come forward I will close the public meeting and bring it back up
for the commission for comments. Kurt, we'll start with you.
Papke: I have no concerns with this. It would seem to increase the City's flexibility with what
they want to do with the property and that's kind of the bottom line. We know we still have
control over what we do with it so I think it just increases the options the City has to work with.
Thomas: I don't have any questions.
McDonald: Okay. Debbie.
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Larson: Ditto.
Keefe: No problem.
Dillon: I'm fine with it.
McDonald: Okay, I'm fine with it too. I guess Kurt said it quite eloquently for all of us. Does
anyone wish to make a motion?
Larson: I'll make a motion. Is it this one? Okay, the Planning Commission, the Chanhassen
Planning Commission recommends that the City Council approve the land use amendment from
Public/Semi-Public to commercial Outlot B for the easterly 66 feet of Lot 1, Block 1, Old
Village Hall subject to Metropolitan Council review. And the ChanhassenPlanning Commission
recommends that City Council approve rezoning from Office and Industrial District, 01, to
Central Business District, CBD for Outlot B and the easterly 66 feet of Lot 1, Block 1, Old
Village Hall.
McDonald: Thank you. Do I have a second?
Thomas: Second.
Larson moved, Thomas seconded that the Chanhassen Planning Commission recommends
that the City Council approve the land use amendment from Public/Semi-Public to
commercial for Outlot B and the easterly 66 feet of Lot 1, Block 1, Old Village Hall, subject
to Metropolitan Council review. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously
with a vote of 7 to O.
Larson moved, Thomas seconded that the Chanhassen Planning Commission recommends
that the City Council approve the rezoning from Office and Institutional District, 01, to
Central Business District, CBD for Outlot B and the easterly 66 feet of Lot 1, Block 1, Old
Village Hall. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 7 to O.
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