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02-12-01 PC Agenda AGENDA GOLDEN VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION Regular Meeting Golden Valley City Hall, 7800 Golden Valley Road Council Chambers Monday, February 12, 2001 7:00 P.M. I. Approval of Minutes - January 22, 2001 Planning Commission Meeting II. Discussion of Various Zoning Code and Map Amendments A. Amendment to the Planned Unit Development (PUD) Ordinance - Zoning Code Section 11.55 B. Revisions to the Official Golden Valley Zoning Map -- Short Recess -- III. Reports on Meetings of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, City Council, Board of Zoning Appeals and other Meetings IV. Other Business A. Review of Planning Commission attendance B. CommonBond Update C. Possibility of Planning Commission meeting on March 5, 2001 V. Adjournment . Regular Meeting of the Golden Valley Planning Commission January 22, 2001 A regular meeting of the Planning Commission was held at the Golden Valley City Hall, Council Chambers, 7800 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, Minnesota, on Monday, January 22, 2001. Chair Pentel called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M. Groger asked wha project.) smussen and Shaffer. Grimes, City Planner Those present were Chair Pentel and Commissioners Eck, Groger, M Commissioner Hoffman was absent. Also present were Director of PI Dan Olson and Recording Secretary Lisa Wittman. I. Approval of Minutes - November 27, 2000.Joint Meeti Commission, Planning Commission and Open Space an December 11, 2000 and January 8, 2001 Joint City en Valley Environmental n Commission; and lanning Commission Meetings. Commissioner Eck indicated Council Member Johnso Joint City Council/Planning Commission Meeting. Sh d as being absent at the January 8 ent at this meeting. Commission Shaffer stated on the January 8 second paragraph on page five should be uncil/Planning Commission Meeting the re d: e Shaffer stated developers shoul asking for. It's the developer' c the City and state why they want what they are . ility to tell us what the advantage is to the City. Chair Pentel indicated that the fou Council/Planning Commissio graph on page three of the December 11Joint City ould be amended to read: d with the Golden Meadows project. (Notthe Meadowbrook MOVED by Groger, 27, 2000 Joint eetin Open Space an Council/Planning C by McAleese and motion carried unanimously to approve the November e Golden Valley Environmental Commission, Planning Commission and ion Commission; and December 11,2000 and January 8,2001 Joint City ission Meetings minutes as amended. II. Informal Public Hearing -- Preliminary Design Plan - Rudy Luther P .U.D. No. 91 Applicant: Rudy Luther Toyota Address: 8801 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN e Purpose: The P.U.D. would allow for a car dealership building addition, various site improvements, and the temporary inclusion of an alternative school building. Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission January 22, 2001 Page 2 . Director of Planning and Development, Mark Grimes, stated that Rudy Luther Toyota is requesting a P.U.D. for the existing dealership that they have owned and made several improvements to since the mid 1970's. Grimes referred to his memo to the Planning Commission dated January 18, 2001. Luther is requesting a P.U.D. because they are proposing two uses on the property. One of the uses is the car dealership and the other is an alternative high school. The school that exists on the site now has a lease that is up in a year or two. . . icant changes from the existing dealership to the new plan. They are en area along Miller Street and along General Mills Boulevard, although it reen area required in the Industrial Zoning district. Along the proposed vacated frontage ey are showing about a ten~foot green area setback. The aerial maps indicated there is about 30 to 40 feet between the curb and the freeway wall. MnDot will maintain that property because they use it for maintenance. Even though the requirement is a 35-foot setback from street right-of~ways, in this case because it is against a freeway wall there is not as great of a need for the setback requirement. he preliminary perty. The proposal is . ding and eliminating the urrently selling used cars. am uilding and when the school is school property. Grimes stated the P.U.D. process is a two-stage process because it design and then a general plan of development, along with a repl to improve the property by putting a 15,500 sq. ft. addition on t old gas station property on the northeast corner of the site wher They will also incorporate the used car sales temporarily i removed from the site, the used car sales would be relo Another portion of this proposal is the vacation of the 1-394 went through this area, access to the devel 1-394 went in, Miller Street was constructed. Transportation. They no longer feel that it's n turned it back to the City of Golden Valle~ turning it back to the adjoining property This adds about one acre to the site vehicles. ad to the north of the building. Before the state-owned frontage road. When d with the Minnesota Department of them to own the frontage road so they have w in the process of vacating that property and would be the three auto dealerships in this area. e s them some additional land for parking and displaying This addition is mainly for se building to be able to do their to do some of their car cl campus. ew waiting area. Currently, they lack space in their existing ht now they use an off-site building on Pennsylvania Avenue IS would allow them to eliminate that site and bring it onto this Grimes added that along the west property line they are indicating that they meet the 10-foot setback requirement for green area. Along the north property line, the City would have to maintain an easement Over the entire area because of utilities, so all they can use the vacated area for is parking. In terms of parking, they have provided a calculation of their requirements. Commissioner Shaffer indicated that e some of the parking spaces aren't twenty feet deep. Grimes stated that the City requires parking spaces to be nine feet by twenty feet. Some of them are nine by twenty; some are only nine by eighteen. r " Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission January 22, 2001 _ge3 Grimes stated either we can allow that as a variance, or ask them to adjust those spaces by shrinking the aisle width. In the inventory area Staff doesn't see an issue with them not having 20-foot parking spaces. In the customer and display area there should be 20-foot parking spaces. Pentel asked Grimes to address the installation of fences and gates along Miller Street. Grimes stated they are proposing to put in a wooden fence and gates for security across 'veways and.at the display areas. There were two additional driveways, one along General vard, plus the frontage road driveway. Those are being reduced to one driveway a s 4. Staff sees reducing the number of driveways as an advantage. Grimes stated they haven't c requires a Conditional Use P the place of a Conditiona some handicapped spaces. re and tried to show they met ere they did not meet it. On the pr vided this information. The City ome easement information that was not his information to him. Grimes referred ed some concerns regarding ponding ansportation, but feels the project can go Another issue is the school parking. They need to dedicate 25 Grimes stated he went through the eligibility of the applicaf n in the requirements of the ordinance. There were a couple of a original plan they didn't show the setback lines. They Engineer in his review of the preliminary plat noticed shown. He has talked to their engineer and they to the City Engineer's memo dated January 18 issues that need to be looked at with the Dep forward to the Council at this point. ~hair Pentelasked since they are op be issued at this time since they ar n industrial zone if a Conditional Use Permit needs to ard with a P.U.D. and a new plan. footprint of the building and that's generally when the City ce they are applying a Planned Unit Development that takes ips are aware of the vacation of the frontage road. of the vacation of this road and it fits in with their future plans. e vacated land from MnDot would be sold back to the dealerships. Grimes stated when property is vacated it goes back to the adjoining properties from the time it was dedicated and that this is something the City Attorney will look at. John Baker, Architect for the project, pointed out some of the history of the property stating when it was originally built in the 1970's it was an R.V. dealership and Miller Street didn't exist. 1-394 was the same height as the frontage road now being vacated and that is the reason some of these buildings seem peculiar because of what was being changed around them, which is part of the reason the setbacks are . hardship and difficult to meet. Baker stated the intent is to make a nicer presentation of this building o 1-394, combine all the parcels together and tie them together. 'I Minutes of the Golden Valley. Planning Commission January 22, 2001 Page 4 . Pentel asked Baker if the tanks have been removed from the gas station on the northeast corner. Baker stated when the building was remodeled a number of years ago all the environmental issues regarding the site had been resolved. Shaffer stated he wanted t variances that are re rest of the buildings. Pentel asked if they intend to do anything to the school building to tie it in Baker stated they intend to re-grade, re-Iandscape, re-light and re-p school building so it will be a cohesive development. site, .and remodel the Chair Pentel opened the public hearing. Seeing and hearing no one Chair Pentel closed the pub!" Eck stated he's in favor of the proposal because it wo d imp McAleese stated that he supports the proposa analysis behind it. He sees that this site has is approved. However, the City also allo parcel and we clearly have that here, s Conditional Use Permit. He stated t a. permitted use, it's a conditional meet the conditional use require McAleese stated he has look t t problem here and this is an a .U.D. is appropriate, and talked about the , but will have only one use. after the P.U.D. here th. ere are two separate buildings on a single. a ajor issue. McAleese also mentioned the ., s because we are talking about an area where ~his is not priate analysis would be to look at what is required to would this be an appropriate use within that zoning district. lements from our zoning code and they don't present a nditional use. 't clear that having 18 ft. parking spaces is one of the zoning property. . ugh space when cars get dropped off. vided a very simple, accessible route for the trucks to use. Monte Bion, General Manager, Rudy Luther, stated it will be much safer because the cars will be dropped off where there are no customers and they will be going from 300 parking spaces to 530 spaces so it won't be a problem directing the traffic away from the customers. Pentel asked about signage issues. Grimes stated they would have to meet the industrial sign code. Eck asked about the location ofthe dumpsters. e . , Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission January 22, 2001 .ge5 Grimes stated any dumpsters would have to be screened. Shaffer mentioned the issue of ponds. Baker stated they've been working with MnDot and they are recreating the calculations and, if need be, they will enlarge the existing pond with whatever additional capacity they ed. Informal Public Heari ed by Shaffer and her, P.U.D No. 91 MOVED by Eck with the incorporation of the City Enginee~s require motion carried unanimously to approve the Preliminary Design PI III. Informal Public Hearing - General land Use Pia Applicant: Hennepin County Address: Southeast corner of Madiso located at 7155 Madison and Nevada Avenue North - property , olden Valley, MN e Purpose: The applicant is requ property from Semi-Public Facilif Nevada Avenue North nge the General Land Use Plan Map for the I at the corner of Madison Avenue West and IV. Rezoning (Z014-05) Applicant: Address: mer of Madison Avenue West and Nevada Avenue North - property t 7155 Madison Avenue West, Golden Valley, MN pplicant is requesting a rezoning of the property from Institutional (1-3) to strial at the corner of Madison Avenue West and Nevada Avenue North Dan Olson, City Planner, presented Hennepin County's request for a General Land Use Plan Map Amendment and Property Rezoning. Hennepin County wants to sell this property. Before they do this they want to rezone it to industrial and change the general land use from a semi-public facility to industrial because they feel there would be more uses for the property within the industrial zoning district. Olson discussed the history of the property. Right now it's a vacant lot, for the last 25 years it was temporary housing for teenage girls. Prior to that it was a printing company. In 1997, the County AJrchased it and planned to demolish the building and rebuild a 16-bed boys detention facility. ~ecause of that, they received some variances and a conditional use permit and had it rezoned to institutional. . Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission January 22, 2001 Page 6 . The General Land use plan was amended to semi-public facilities. Upon receiving these approvals it was discovered that it was too expensive to build the facility, so now the property is sitting vacant. Staff recommends the approval of the rezoning and general land use plan amendment as it fits with the surrounding industrial area. Reports on Meetings of Zoning Appeals and ny questions. Lorrie Stromme, Planner for Hennepin County, asked if the Commissione Pentel asked if they've determined if their existing facility is adequat Stromme stated that at about the same time they were plannin legislation came through with funding that allowed the County to center rather than operate a second. facility. 6-bed juvenile center, existing juvenile justice Chair Pentel opened the public hearing. Seeing and hearing no one Chair Pentel closed t MOVED by Shaffer, seconded by Eck and m amendment and rezoning. nanimously to approve the Land Use Plan e V. ing and Redevelopment Authority, City Council, Board of gs VI. lanning Commission Meeting will be cancelled. ion about the Hidden Lakes peninsula development that will be on the Agenda in February. Planning Commission decided to meet on February 3,2001 to discuss some of the issues concerning this development. VII. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 . ~ . e e MEMORANDUM DATE: TO: FROM: RE: February 7,2001 Golden Valley Planning Commission Dan Olson, City Planner Discussion on Amendments to the Planned Unit Development (PUD) Ordinance of the Golden Valley Zoning Code Background As you recall, there have been several discussions of late by the Planning Commission relating to the language of the PUD Ordinance, which is Section 11.55 of the Zoning Code. Staff is requesting at this time for discussion by the Planning Commission on two amendments to the Ordinance. These amendments would allow the following: · Give the Staff discretion in what types of information are provided by the applicant for a PUD application. · Specifically state that the PUD regulations not only apply to the Zoning Code, but also the Subdivision Regulations (Chapter 12 of the City Code). City Attorney Allen Barnard has drafted possible language for these amendments. That language is attached for your review. Recommended Action This information is presented for your discussion Attachments: Proposed new PUD Ordinance language J ORDINANCE NO. ,2ND SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY CODE Amending Planned Unit Development Regulations . The City Council for the City of Golden Valley hereby ordains: Section 1. The City Code is hereby amended in Section 11.55, subd. 1, by changing the last sentence thereof to read as follows: It is the intent of this Section to provide an optional method of land use regulations which permit design flexibility by substantial variances from the provisions of tJ::H&-Chapters 11 and 12 of the City Code; including. variances in . ". I . uses, setbacks, height, parking requirements, and similar regulations. Section 2. The City Code is hereby amended in Section 11.55, subd. a.A, by changing the first two sentences thereof to read, in part, as follows: Unless waived by the City, all data required on a preliminary plat and on a final plat, including streets, utility easements, existing or proposed subdivision of ownership, and such other information, if any, as required by the Subdivision Regubtions Chapter12 (Subdivision Reaulations) of the City Code~ (provided, however, that the application for the PUD may request variances therefrom~ and. if so. the submitted data shali inciude the information and rationafe reauired~ Section 12.54 of the City Code for variances from the Subdivi.sion Regulations. Section 4. City Code Chapter 1 entitled "General Provisions and Definitions Applicable to the Entire City Code Including Penalty for Violation and Section 11.99 entitled "Violation a Misdemeanor of Petty Misdemeanor" are hereby adopted in their entirety, by reference, as though repeated verbatim herein. Section 5. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law. . - . . e . Adopted by the City Council this ,2000. day of Mary E. Anderson, Mayor ATTEST: Shirley J. Nelson, City Clerk Published in the New Hope-Golden Valley Sun Post on 132389_1 ,2000. . . e MEMORANDUM DATE: TO: FROM: RE: February 8, 2001 Golden Valley Planning Commission Dan Olson, City Planner Discussion on Amendments to the Golden Valley Official Zoning Map Background Staff has been working on updating the Official Zoning Map to make it easier to reproduce and easier to read. Specifically, we are creating a colored zoning map on GIS. In the process of reviewing the current zoning map, staff discovered properties that should be rezoned. Below is a list of these rezonings for your review and comment: . Rezone little league ballfield near Honeywell from Industrial to Institutional (1-4) . Rezone city-owned storm water retention pond north of Honeywell from Industrial to Institutional (1-4). . Rezone Golden Valley Historical Society (6731 Golden Valley Road) from 1-1 (church) to 1-2 (museum) . Public Library (830 Winnetka Avenue North) from 1-4 (city offices) to 1-2 (libraries) . All properties zoned Open Development would be rezoned to their General Land Use Plan Map designation. See attached General Land Use Plan Map. . Change the underlying zoning classification for the following PUD's: . PUD # 5 - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) . PUD # 8 - Residential to Multiple Dwelling (M-l) . PUD # 13 - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) . PUD # 14 - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) . PUD # 16 - Multiple Dwelling (M-2) to Multiple Dwelling (M-4) . PUD # 18a - Residential to Multiple Dwelling (M-l) · PUD # 22 - Industrial to Business and Professional Office · PUD # 24 - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) · PUD # 26 - Multiple Dwelling (M-2) to Multiple Dwelling (M-4) · PUD # 27 - Residential to Multiple Dwelling (M-l) · PUD # 30b - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) · PUD # 34 - Institutional (I-2) to Institutional (I-I) · PUD # 36 - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) · PUD # 42 - Commercial to Business and Professional Office · PUD # 48 - Residential to Two'-Family Residential (R-2) · PUD # 53 - Commercial to Business and Professional Office · PUD # 54 - Residential to Two-Family Residential (R-2) · PUD # 67 - Industrial to Business and Professional Office · PUD # 87 - Commercial to Business and Professional Office . Recommended Action This information is presented for your discussion e Attachments: Current Official Zoning Map General Land Use Plan Map Proposed Official Zoning Map e 2 . e e Hey ra Planning 763-593-8095 I 763-593-8109 (fax) To: Planning Commission From: Mark W. Grimes, Director of Planning Subject: Informal Meeting with CommonBond Communities to Present Final Plans for Family Townhomes Date: February 7,2001 Common Bond Communities is scheduled to present their General Plan of Development to the City Council at a public hearing on March 20, 2001. Because this is the General Plan of Development stage, it is not required to come before the Planning Commission on a formal basis. The staff has asked Common Bond to informally present their final plans of the family townhome building at the Planning Commission meeting on February 26, 2001. (It was originally hoped that this presentation could be made at the March 12, 2001 Planning Commission meeting, however, that meeting has been cancelled due to the National Planning Conference.) Since the Hidden Lakes PUD amendment is scheduled to be on this same agenda, I have asked the Common Bond folks to come at 6:30 PM to present their plans. I will assume that the early start time for the February 26th meeting is OK with the Commission unless I hear differently at the February 12th meeting.