02-16-2021 Planning Commission Minutes

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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6:00 o'clock p.m. Mr. Fischer replied currently their dough is made off-site. Another reason they want to do this is that they would have a significant cost savings by making the dough in-house. Any construction done in the new space would be done under the guidelines of the Hennepin County Health Department; they have walked through the space and have their construction health guidelines that the new space would be inspected for. Mr. Fischer said they would follow all health department guidelines and would be inspected before they would start producing dough on that side. Ressler opened the public hearing at 7:42 p.m. Ressler closed the public hearing at 7:42 p.m. Ressler asked if anyone has problems with this plan. Bollis likes it; he only brought up the parking because it was in the staff report. He feels like in looking at the new addition piece as retail, it falls under a different parking code requirement and it is actually less. He thinks the 5 spaces actually is conforming 100% with what they are asking for and he likes everything about it. Ressler said furthermore it is mitigated by having some public parking that seems to be well supporting the space that exists. It has been a successful business from everything he has observed and the space that is existing there makes it difficult to grow and sustain as that is how restaurants survive. He loves it, thinks it is great, and said they are always trying to create more vitality for that area. McCutcheon moved, Libby seconded, to approve LA21-000011 Jason Fischer And Kara Honebrink, (3416) 3420 Shoreline Drive, Conditional Use Permit. VOTE: Ayes 7, Nays 0. 9. LA21-000012 CLAIRMONT DESIGN BUILD, 1260 SPRUCE PLACE, VARIANCES (STAFF: LAURA OAKDEN) Rick Severson of Clairmont Design Build, Applicant, was present. Staff presented a summary packet of information. The Applicant is looking to construct a second story addition to an existing home which is located on a substandard lot. The footprint of the home is not proposed to change; the existing home encroaches in the side yard setback, 75 -foot lake yard setback, and the average lakeshore setback. The proposed improvements are all vertical and the property is currently over in hardcover and there are no proposed changes to the existing footprint or the setbacks to the property. The red shown on screen is the footprint of the existing home, so the white is identified as that proposed second story. The Applicant identified the substandard lot and existing home location as the practical difficulty for supporting the request. Staff finds there are a number of property characteristics making improvements to this lot challenging. The substandard lot is 50 feet wide and '/4 of an acre, where 1 acre and 140 wide are the standard, leaving little area for modest expansions. The existing home footprint currently has a 6.5 -foot side yard setback in the northeast; she noted the setback on screen where the current home sit 6.5 feet and 7.5 feet is required. The existing house footprint is also roughly a foot into the 75 -foot lake yard setback at 74.3 feet, and the property abuts an unimproved right-of-way to the north. The average lakeshore setback (ALS) is established solely by the house to the south which is set 83 feet back from the ordinary high-water level (OHL), making the existing house footprint encroach approximately 11 feet into that ALS. She said the proposed second story addition encroaches in those three ways, and are all vertical encroachments. These are practical difficulties to support the requested Page 18 of 38