Agenda Packet Cc - regular meeting 8/28/1989

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Zoning File #1417 July 13, 1989 Page 8 Eileen Hassel contacted staff to advise of a location that might provide less of an impact on adjacent residential.. The site was adjacent to the Busy Beaver Day Care off of Highway 12. The applicants visited the site and determined that it was out of the area of concern and not adjacent to the 69 KV transmission lines. Options of Action Available to the Planning Commission - If the application for a conditional use permit is to be denied, the Planning Commission must relate to the necessary findings set forth in Section 10.09, Subdivision 6. If approved, the approval recommendation should contain some of the following: "to recommend approval of a conditional use permit for Northern States Power Company to install a elf ctrical substation at 3960 Sixth Avenue North" Approval is subject to the following conditions: 1. Power substation is approved at a 69-138 KV capacity with a resulting distribution voltage of 13.8 KV. Applicant is hereby advised that the granting of this conditional use permit conveys no vested rights and that any attempt to increase the capaci}y of this substation requires a separate conditional use permit review. 2. At the tics of application for a building permit for the substatio,:, the applicant must provide cross profile/engineering plans for driveway and profile of base to be installed at facility. Applicant is to submit an amended landscape and grading plan designating a berm extending along the south side of the facility for approximately 69' graduating with 4:1 slopes as it approaches the entrance drive. Berming is to be extended along the west side of the facility in a northwesterly direction for approximately 601. Landscape play to be amended providing 6' high evergreen plantings in 2 rows of staggered plantings. Relocate fence to meet 1C9' setback from front street line. 4. Cooling fans of transformer to be placed so as to reduce noise impact on adjacent residential properties to west and south. 5. All construction/excavation to be 26' from the adjacent wetlands defined at the 964 elevation.