03-21-2011 Planning Commission Packet

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�. y MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Tuesday, February 22,2011 6:30 o'clock p.m. (#11-3498 KRAUS-ANDERSON,875 WAYZATA BOULEVARD WEST,CONTINUED) The language in the 2008-2030 Community Management Plan was revised in the most recent CMP update process to allow for the site to be developed at a density of up to 15 units per buildable acre with a maximum structural coverage of 30,000 square feet. Including the covered entry,the applicant is proposing a two-story building with a 25,665 square foot footprint and a total of 47,891 finished square feet. The building will consist of 63 total units—33 assisted living, 11 enhanced assisted living, and 19 . memory care units. The Planning Commission should consider the following: 1. Compatibility of the proposed plan with the RPUD standards and consistency with the goals, policies,and objectives of the comprehensive plan and surface water management plan; 2. Preservation of the site in its natural state to the greatest extent practicable by minimizing tree and soil removal and designing grade changes to be in keeping with the general character and ' appearance of neighboring properties; � 3. Creation of compatible relationships between buildings and open spaces both on the site and adjacent to it,incorporating natural site features and with existing and future buildings having a visual relationship to the development, giving special attention to: a) An internal sense of order for the buildings and uses on the site and provision of the design concept and the compatibility of the same with the adjacent and neighboring structures and uses; and vehicular and pedestrian circulation,including walkways,interior drives,and parking in terms of location and number access points to the public streets,width of interior drives and access points,general interior circulation, separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic and arrangement and amount of parking. 4. Promotion of energy conservation through design,location, orientation and elevation of structures,the use and location of glass in structures and the use of landscape materials and site grading; 5. Protection of adjacent and neighboring properties through reasonable provisions for surface water drainage, sound and sight buffers,preservation of views,light and air and those aspects of design not adequately covered by other regulations which may have substantial effects on neighboring land uses. The applicants'new plan appears to have two full floors where the previous plan had a stepped down or . ground hugging appearance on the ends of the building. The City had conducted a review of the information submitted by the applicant. It appears two of the wetlands on the properiy have been determined not to be wetlands under the Wetland Conservation Act jurisdiction. Therefore,these wetlands do not fall under the City's wetland regulations. The wetland � buffer widths shown on the applicant's plans are based on the MCWD width requirements and exceed by five feet the City's buffer width requirement. A financial security in the amount of$12,000 should be provided by the developer with regard to wetland buffers. Page 2