08-18-2025 - Agenda Packet Planning Commission - PC packet

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FILE # LA25-000036 18 August 2025 Page 5 of 7 resulting from walls without further disturbance, the applicant should provide an updated landscape plan to create more screening of the walls as part of the CUP. This criterion is not met. 2) Compliant with the zoning code, including any conditions imposed on specific uses as required by Article V, Division 3 of the City Code; retaining walls within the lakeyard are permitted where they are deemed necessary to protect the integrity of the slope. The applicant provided an opinion from a professional engineer in support of the walls as constructed, as they provide slope stability, erosion control, and a stormwater benefit. A landscape plan providing more substantial screening of the walls must be submitted. This criterion is met. 3) Adequately served by police, fire, roads, and stormwater management; the property meets this standard. 4) Provided with an adequate water supply and sewage disposal system; the property meets this standard. 5) Not expected to generate excessive demand for public services at public cost; the property meets this standard. 6) Compatible with the surrounding area, as the area is used both presently and as it is planned to be used in the future; the prior removal of natural, unmaintained vegetation and installation of the stone retaining walls changed the existing character of the property. However, as installed, the walls are providing stability for the slope and the mature trees, and further disturbance may adversely impact both. The applicant should submit a landscape plan providing better screening of the walls from the lake. This criterion is not met. 7) Consistent with the character of the surrounding area, unless a change of character is called for in the community management plan, the installation of stone retaining walls without adequate vegetative screening has changed the character of the property. This criterion is not met. 8) Compatible with the character of buildings and site improvements in the surrounding area, unless a change of character is called for in the community management plan; the retaining walls are not adequately screened from view from the lake. The retaining walls and condition of the property are similar to the other properties on Forest Lake along Wildhurst Trail. This criterion is met. 9) Not expected to substantially impair the use and enjoyment of the property in the area or have a materially adverse impact on the property values in the area when compared to the impairment or impact of generally permitted uses; the lakeshore wall improvements on the subject property should not impact the neighboring property values or the enjoyment of the neighboring property owners. 10) Provided with screening and buffering adequate to mitigate undesirable views and activities likely to disturb surrounding uses; the applicant has not provided a landscape plan to provide adequate natural screening and buffering of the retaining wall improvements when viewed from the lake. This criterion is not met. 11) Not create a nuisance which generates smoke, noise, glare, vibration, odors, fumes, dust, electrical interference, general unsightliness, or other means; the walls on the subject property are not anticipated to create a nuisance situation. This criterion is met. 12) Not cause excessive non-residential traffic on residential streets, parking needs that cause a demonstrable inconvenience to adjoining properties, traffic congestion, or unsafe access; the retaining walls should not have any impact on residential streets or traffic. This criterion is met. 123