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!• <■ <br />> ^ <br />1'4 <br />i:*5 <br />i <br />lI, <br />Date Application Received: 8-18-OS <br />Date Appileatioa Considered as Complete: 9-4-05 <br />60-Day Review Perkd Eipircs: 11-5-05 <br />COUNCIL MEETING <br />OCT 10 'H I .,' <br />CITYOFORONO <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Date: October 7,2005 <br />Item No.: ^ <br />Department Approval:Administrator Approval: <br />Name: Janice Gundlach^ <br />Title: City Planner <br />Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Item Description: #05-3149, John Thiesse on behalf of Trinity Lu!:ieran Church <br />2060 Sixth Avenue N - Conditional Use Permit <br />Zoning Dtetrict: <br />l-otArea: <br />Lot Width: <br />RR- IB, One Family Rural Residential District (2 acre minimum) <br />4.86 acres (211,687 s.f.) <br />556 feet (200’ required) <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Notice of Planning Commission Action dated 9-21-05 <br />B - City Engineer Recommendations <br />C - Draft Planning Commission Minutes <br />D - PC Memo and Exhibits dated 9-16-05 <br />Application Summary: Applicant requests a conditional use permit to allow construction of additions <br />to the existing church operating under the controls of several conditional use permits, also including <br />re-paving, re-orientation, and enlargement of the existing parking lot. <br />Planning Commissio,. Recommendation <br />The Planning Commission recommended 6-1 to approve the proposed conditional use permit as <br />submitted subject to clarification of the NURP pond requirement by the City Engineer. The dissenting <br />Commissioner felt there was too much parking proposed and the site would have a “big box ” feel. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />Staff recommends approval of the requested conditional use permit subject to the recommendations of <br />the City Engineer. <br />However, the applicant has stated that the church is concerned with the City Engineer recommendation <br />regarding the proposed pond to meet NURP standards (wet pond) rather than solely rate control (dry <br />pond). Tiie church’s concerns are that of liability* issues due to the day care that exists throughout the <br />weekdays and also the safety of the residents of the group home on the parcel to the direct west. The <br />applicant has staled that the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District has only required rate control and <br />would like to Council to consider whether the recommendation of the City Engineer regarding the NURP <br />standard be reconsidered. <br />COUNOL ACTION REQUESTED <br />Clarify for the applicant whether the pond must meet NURP standards and direct staff to draft a <br />resolution for adoption at the next City Council meeting reflecting that decision. <br />i