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To: Chair I lawn and Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorsc, City Administrator <br />I <br />From: Mike GafTron, Senior Planning Coordinator <br />Date: November 17,2000 <br />Subject: ^2638 Proposed Zoning Code Amendment: <br />1 ) Revise “B-6 Highway Commercial District” standards to <br />incorporate more detailed landscaping and architectural standards. <br />2) Revise B-6 list of allowed uses lo include clinics. <br />ListofFxhibits <br />A - Zoning Code Section 10.45 B-6 Highway Commercial District <br />B • Proposed Replacement Section 10.45, SuM. 6 (II) <br />C • Proposed Replacement Section 10.45, Subd. 6 0) <br />D - Highway 12 Corridor Excerpt from 2000-2020 CMP <br />The landscaping and architectural standards being incorporated into the RPUD District can be <br />equally applicable to the B-6 Commercial District The B-6 landscapinu standards in place are <br />relatively minimal, contained in Subd. 6 (H), (K), (L) and (M) as follows: <br />//. At least twenty five percent (25%) of the land area shall be landscaped with <br />grass, approved ground cover, shrubbery and trees. At least three percent (3%) of the land <br />area within a parking area shall be landscaped <br />The following minimum sizes shall be required at the time of planting: <br />Overstory Deciduous Trees <br />Ornamental Trees <br />Coniferous Trees <br />Major Shrub Plantings <br />2-1/2 inches in diameter <br />1-1/2 inches in diameter <br />6 feet tall <br />5 gallons <br />I. All trash and trash handling equipment shall be stored within the principal <br />structure, within an attached structure accessible from within the principal structure, or <br />totally screenedfrom eyv-level view from public streets and adjacent residential properties. <br />If accessory structures are proposed they shall be constructed ofthe same building material <br />as the princifHil structure and be readily sen ed through sw inging doors. <br />K. The ground level view of all meclutnical utilities shall be completely screened <br />from contiguous properties and eidjaceni streets, or designed to be compatible with the <br />architectural treatment of the urincipal structure. <br />L External loading andser\ice mas must be completely screened from the ground <br />level viewfrom contiguous residential or commercial properties and adjacent streets, except <br />at access points.