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02-12-90 PC Minutes.~_ MINUTES OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION February I2, 1990 A regular meeting of the Planning Commission was held at the Golden Valley Fire Station No. 2, 400 Turner's Crossroad So., Golden Valley, Minnesota. The meet- ing was called to order 6y Chair Prazak at 7:05P.M. Those present were Commissioners Prazak, Leppik, McCracken-Hunt, Russell, and Kapsner (arrived at 7:40P.M.). Absent were Lewis and McAleese. Also present were Mark Grimes, Director of Planning and Development, Beth Knoblauch, City Planner and Mary K. Dold, Secretary. I. Approval of Minutes - January 22, 1990 It was moved by Commissioner Leppik, seconded by Commissioner McCracken-Hunt and carried unanimously to approve the minutes of the regular January 22, 1990 Planning Commission Meeting. II. Informal Public Hearing - Preliminary Design Plan for P.U.D. #59, Dahlberg Inc. APPLICANT: Dahlberg Inc. ADDRESS: 4130 Olson Memorial Drive REQUEST: Approval of Preliminary Design Plan for a four level office/manufacturing building to be approximately 85,000 sq.ft. of space to house the headquarters of Dahlberg Inc. Chair Prazak introduced this agenda item and asked staff for a brief summary of the request. Mark Grimes, Director of Planning and Development presented this item. Last summer the Planning Commission reviewed PUD #57, North Wirth Commerce Centre, for this area. PUD #57 included buildings for Dahlberg Electronics and several other future building sites. PUD #57 has not worked out and Dahlberg Electronics has come back to HRA stating that they would like to develop a site for office/manufacturing facility on Hwy. 55 where the Otto Bock property is. It also would include a portion of the Soo Line property. PUD #59 includes only a site for the Dahlberg building. There would have to be future Planned Unit Developments on other parcels in the North Wirth Area. There are up to three additional sites for development and these would have to be looked at individually at some future time. The proposed redevelopment by Dahlberg is consistent with both the Comprehensive Plan and Redevelopment Plan for the area. 1 1 1 7~. Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission _ February 12, 1990 Page 2 Mr. Grimes gave a brief summary on Drainage, Traffic Circulation, Utilities, Landscaping, Detail of Dahlberg Building, Parking and Setbacks. Staff recommends approval. This is a good use of the property. and presents itself as an office building to Hwy. 55 and that's what this site deserves. Joan Russell asked if there was no traffic signal installed at Dahlberg Dr. and Hwy. 55 would this arrangement be satisfactory for Meadow Ln. and Dahlberg Dr.? Mr. Grimes stated that this area would have to be continuously monitored. Traffic studies would have to be prepared to determine the road capacity of the area after the Dahlberg building is completed. It will have to be determined what additional capacity can be added to this road and that will determine future uses on other sites in the area. HRA will have control over these sites. Commissioner Prazak had a question regarding the use of total coverage of the site by building and parking. Mr. Grimes said there are general requirements that must be maintained. There are structural limitations but the code does not count parking lots. There will be a 35 ft. setback plus the additional green from the Hwy. 55 frontage road which will be vacated.__ Commissioner Russell asked about restaurants in the North Wirth area. Mr. Grimes said that in the original North Wirth Commerce Centre one of the ideas was to have a restaurant in an office building but staff does not anticipate this use. Ron Erickson, KKE Architect, working with Dahlberg presented drawings on this site and gave a brief summary of the parking and building. He explained the grade level changes on the site and how the building was designed to fit the site. No detailed landscaping was presented at this time. Landscaping will be submitted with the General Plan. Commissioner McCracken-Hunt asked about the intent of the auditorium in the Dahlberg building. Joan Utter from Dahlberg said that they do a lot of training in-house and need a large training facility. She was not quite sure how many people the auditorium would hold. Commissioner Russell asked about the pedestrian walkways and Mr. Grimes stated that sidewalks would be put in on Meadow Ln. Commissioner McCracken-Hunt asked about access to trails in the area and Mr. Grimes said that would have to be worked out., The City may look in the future to some how connect with the Wirth Parkway system. The staff will look at putting in trails around the pond but will-have to work with the Park Board. Chair Prazak opened the informal public hearing. Cam Johnson, 700 Meadow Lane, asked what would happen with the two buildings on the Soo Line Property? Mr. Grimes said that the buildings, on Indiana Ave., will stay until the road construction starts in 1991. ,; a Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission February 12, 1990 Page 3 The Chair closed the public hearing. Commissioner Prazak commented on the attractiveness of the presented plan. MOVED by McCracken-Hunt, seconded by Russell and motion carried unanimously to approve the Preliminary Design Plan for P.U.D. #59, Dahlberg Inc. III. Review of Capital Improvement Program (CIP) by Don Taylor, Finance Director Because two commissioners were absent from the meeting, Mark Grimes asked Don Taylor to present the CIP at the February 26, 1990 meeting. IV. Amendment to the Planning Commission By-Laws Judy Nally, Deputy City Clerk, requested that staff present this item to .the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission holds its annual meeting at the second regular meeting in March of each year. At the annual meeting the Commission elects a Chair, Vice Chair, .. The City Council annually approves the appointment of the Planning Commission~Vice-Chair to the Board of Zoning and Appeals. With the current schedule, the City Council approval occurs one week before the elections of the Planning Commission at the second meeting. The requested amendment would move the annual meeting of the Planning Commission to the first meeting in March. The rules and regulations may be suspended by a majority of the members of the Commission at any regular meeting, or may be amended or repealed by atwo-thirds vote of the entire Commission. at any regular meeting subsequent to the meeting when the same is proposed. It was proposed by Commissioner Leppik, seconded by Kapsner and carried unani- mously to suspend the rules and regulations that would require the Commissioners to vote on the amendment at a subsequent meeting. It was moved by Leppik, seconded by Kapsner and carried unanimously to amend the by-laws to have the annual meeting of the City Planning Commission on the first regular meeting in March of each year. V. Re orts on Meetin s of the Housin and Redevel Council and Board of on~nq Appeals No reports were presented. Authority, Ci 1 1 Minutes of the Golden Valley Planning Commission February 12,.1990 Page 4 VI. Other Business Mark Grimes gave a brief summary of the meeting he had with the residents on Winnetka Avenue. It was suggested that an engineer be present at the next Planning Commission meeting and Mr. Grimes said he would ask City Engineer, Lowell Odland, to attend. VII. Adjournment The Chair adjourned the meeting at 8:25P.M. nda McCracken-Hunt, Secretary 1 1