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r . tk fc.1. -iifcnrii EXHIBIT E Memorandum Date: To: From: RE: March 26.2004 Christine Valerius & Philip Fisk Janice Gundlach, City Planner^’ 2377 Shadywood Road ~ CUP and Commercial Site Plan Review This memo is intended to follow up on our meeting of V/ednesday, March 24*". Below is a bulleted list of the issues that need to be resolved prior to the April IQ'” Planning Commission meeting; • Meet with Minnehaha Creek Watershed District to determine if on-site stormwater treatment would be required. Staff would like to again stress our position that the site cannot support a drive-through facility. If you decide to continue with a drive-through plan have your surveyor and/or engineer confirm turning radiuses for the drive-through lane and its overall functionality. Any plan incorporating a drive-through will have to be confirmed by an engineer prior to the Planning Commission’s review of it. Also, be advised that your most current drive- through plan would require a hardcover variance and a front yard parking variance In addition to the variances already applied for. Submit more detailed plans by an architect for your proposed addition. A color rendering showing all existing and proposed building materials would be most helpful. Staff has also Indicated that some kind of pitched roof element should be included with the new plans. Examine the issue of extending the grassed rear yard in an effort to gain more of your rear yard back from the existing drive isle of the parking lot. This would help to somewhat improve the safety issues of car traffic at the rear of your site. Consider a paved 5' sidewalk against the rear of your proposed addition to allow pedestrians using the on-site parking spaces to more easily access the front door and to prevent the possibility of cars bumping into your building when entering the parking spaces. • Set up a meeting with Lyle, our Building Official to ensure there are no major site Issues involved with the conversion of residential st'ucture to commercial. Submit a revised survey which details all sidewalks, retaining walls, curbs, and which areas will be grassed and/or landscaped and which areas will be paved. I’d also like to reiterate that the Planning Commission at their March meeting indicated they would support the building setback variance, the CUP request for a coffec/bakery use, and a rear yard parking setback variance. Please submit all revisions by April 12"' at 12:00 NOON in order to be heard at the April IS”' meeting. Thanks and please call with questions. II a t / ‘i ‘ iB I I I ii 1 i ' ; • I ; ! i I I; .. j II ! 1 Sn'