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6.13. SR 05-18-1998.,y of River MEMORANDUM Item # 6.13. TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Mayor and City Council Scott Harlicker, Planning Assistan~ May 18, 1998 Request by Beaudry Oil for a Conditional Use Permit, Public Hearing Case No. CU 98-9 Request Consider a request by Beaudry Oil for a conditional use permit to construct a second car wash bay. Location 630 Proctor Avenue Zoning~land Use C3 (Highway Commercial) / CC (Community Commercial) Attachments · Location Map · Site Plan · Resolution vacating easement for 6th Street Overview In July 1995 the applicant was granted a conditional use permit for the existing facility. It included a commercial building and a single car wash. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to construct a second car wash bay adjacent to the existing one. The exterior of the expansion will match the existing building. No modifications other than the second car wash are proposed. 13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · TDD & Phone: (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425 Memo to Mayor & City Council/CU 98-9 May 18, 1998 Page 2 Stacking The applicant is proposing to utilize the existing stacking area for the second car wash. He is proposing to stripe the parking lot to indicate the stacking lane. Both car wash bays will use the same stacking lane. Because of the need to m~intain a 24 foot wide drive aisle to access the parking spaces on the south side of the building, a second stacking lane will not be possible. In the past there has been a tendency for cars to line up into the rear access between the car wash and the adjacent convenience store. The applicant has indicated that to prevent this from happening cones will be placed across the rear access to encourage cars to follow the striped stacking lane. There is stacking room for about 12 cars before the front access between the car wash and the convenience store is blocked and room for about 7 cars before the rear access is blocked. The stacking lane will also tend to block drive aisle around the rear of the building. Landscaping A recent inventory of the site found that all the landscaping on the original approved plan had not been installed. A street tree on the north side of the access to Proctor and a tree on the front side of the building had not been planted. All landscaping should be installed as shown on the approved plan. To provide a visual break in the pavement and provide some shade for cars waiting to use the car wash landscaping should be instsl]ed on the island containing the vacuums. The plantings should be located so they do not interfere with the underground vent system. Related Issues The car wash is owned, operated and functions as part of the adjacent convenience store. The convenience store was approved in 1993. In connection with that approval the applicant, Ken Beaudry, was granted a easement vacation to vacate a portion of 6th Street. Certain conditions were made part of the approval of the easement vacation and the convenience store. There are two outstanding issues related to those approvals. The easement vacation required that the ~l] bituminous areas not utilized for the access drive from Highway 10 to the convenience store be removed and landscaped and maintained as part of the convenience store's landscaped area. This condition has not been met. There is still pavement in place that is not part of the access drive. It is occasionally used for parking of vehicles. This pavement should be removed and landscaped in accordance with the conditions of the resolution granting the easement vacation. f:Xshrdoc\plen nln g\scott\cu98-9cc.doc Memo to Mayor & City Council/CU 98-9 May 18, 1998 Page 3 There are also site improvements required as part of the approval for the convenience store that have not been installed. Landscaping that was shown on the approved plan has not been installed. Eight scotch pine were to be planted along the east property line. These trees need to be installed as well as the dogwoods that are suppose to be planted around the electrical transformer. Flowering crab trees are shown along Proctor and along 6th Street that have not been planted. The landscaping along Proctor and 6th Street should be installed as shown on the approved plan. Planning Commission Meeting At the Planning Commission meeting held on April 28th one of the neighbors spoke at the public hearing. She had concerns regarding an increase in trsffic generated by the additional car wash. She felt it was difficult to get in and out of the site now and would only get worse when the proposed car wash is built. The applicant indicated that there are underground vents and fuel pipes in the vicinity of the island, which is located between the car wash and the convenience store. They want to make sure that any landscaping would not interfere with the vents and pipes. The Planning Commission discussed traffic circulation between the convenience store and the car wash as well as the need to ensure that projects are developed and improvements installed as shown on approved plans. Recommendation The Planning Commission recommended the City Council approve this request for a conditional use permit for a car wash with the following conditions: 1. The stacking area be striped and cones placed to direct trsffic to the appropriate stacking lane. 2. The landscaping be installed as shown on the approved plan for the car wash/commercial building. 3. Because of the need to maintain 24' wide drive aisle along the south side of the building a second, or parallel, stacking lane is prohibited. 4. The islands containing the vacuum cleaners be landscaped with plantings that do not interfere with the underground vents and pipes. s:\plsnnin g\scott\cu98-9cc.doc ION LOCATION MAP -q RESOLUTION 94.54 300916 RESOLUTION FOR THE CITY OF ELK RIVER A RESOLUTION FOR VACATING STREET, DRAINAGE, AND UTILITY EASEMENTS WHEREAS, a majodty of the property owners abutting the street, drainage, and utilit'y easement have requested the City Council in a petition dated February 15, 1994, to vacate such easement according to law; and, WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on March 21, 1994, before the City Council at the Elk River City Hall on such petition after due published and posted notice had been given as well as personal notice to affected property owners on March 11, 1994, and ali persons interested were given an opportunity to be he~rd; ~-nd, WHEREAS, it appears that it will be in the best interest of the City to approve such petition. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that such petition is hereby granted and the street, drainage, and utility easement described as follows is hereby vacated with the conditions stated below: That part of vacated 6th Street (formerly Lewis Street): lying west of the Southerly extension of the East line of Lot 3, Block 8, of the duly recorded plat of W.H. HOULTON'S ADDITION to the Village (now City) of Elk River, Sherburne County, Minnesota; and lying east of the Southerly extension of the East line of the West 7 feet of said Block 8. EXCEPTING therefrom all that part, thereof lying southwesterly of a line described as Beginning at a point on said Southerly extension of the East line of the West 7 feet of Block 8 a distance of 50 feet north of the point of intersection thereof with the South line of said 6th Street; thence southeasterly to a point on said South line of 6th Street a distance of 50 feet east of said point of intersection, and there terminating. THE .APPLICANT IDENTIFY ALL EXISTING PUBLIC UTILITIES WITHIN THE STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY AND GRANT TO THE CITY A DR..~!NAGE AND UTILITY' EASE.~NT OF ADEQUATE SIZE AS DETERMINED BY THE CITY ENGiA~EER. A_LL BITUMINOUS AREAS NOT UTILIZED FOR THE ACCESS DRI'v-E TO THE CO.~-v~NIENCE STORE BE RE_k¢OVED A_N-D REPLACED WITH BLACK DIRT AND SOD AND BE 2,L~JNTA/NED AS PART OF THE CONVENIENCE STORE'S LANI)SCAPED AREA. Adopted by the Elk River City Council this ,'// ATTEST: easement.doc .. day of ~,~'~c, , 1994. Her~ Duitsman, Mayor , Ramona Doebler ,..~'Sherh,rr.? O0u~ Auditcr Deputy t. ....