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HomeMy WebLinkAbout4392 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1971/11/15Original RESOLUTION NO. 4392 NOVEMBER 15, 1971 8 C & D RESOLUTION GRANTING PERMIT UNDER SECTION 6:176.2 AND SECTION 6:056.1 OF THE ST. LOUIS PARK ZONING ORDINANCE FOR A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT, TARGET STORES, INC., WHEREAS, application has been made to the City Council by Target Stores, Inc., for a permit under Sections 6:176.2 and 6:056.1 of the St. Louis Park Zoning Ordinance for the following purposes: to use land in the B-1, B-2 Business Districts and the F-1 Flood Plain District 1 for a commercial development unit at the following location: Tracts D, E, and U, Registered Land Survey No. 1058. WHEREAS, The Council has considered the advice and recommendations of the Planning Commission and the effect of the proposed use on the health, safety and welfare of the occupants of the surrounding lands, existing and anticipated traffic conditions, including parking facilities on adjacent streets, and the effect of the proposed use on the compre- hensive plan, therefore BE IT RESOLVED that permit is hereby granted to the applicant for the purpose above set forth upon the following conditions: 1. That the site be developed, used and maintained in accordance with Exhibit "A", General Plan; Exhibit "B", Proposed Drainage Plan, as modified by the Planning Department on November 2, 1971; and Exhibit "C", Final Plat Target First Addition, except as said exhibits may be hereinafter modified by the following conditions or conditions under the plat of Target First Addition. 2. All new electric, gas, water, sanitary sewer, telephone, and utilities shall be placed underground. 3. The 44 foot wide private road from Target Road to West 36th Street shall have a poured -in-place concrete curb at least 6 inches high and said road and curb shall be constructed at standards acceptable to the City Engineer. Said road shall be kept clean and 'free from potholes and maintained thereafter. 4. Street trees shall be planted abutting the private road at a spacing of one tree for every 50 feet as shown on Exhibit "A", as modified. 5. Additional landscaping in the parking lot and along the pedestrian way shall be provided as shown on Exhibit "A", as modified. The private road from West 36th Street to Target Road shall have decorative on street lighting to provide a 1.5 foot candles at the street level, or equal to or greater than the level of lighting in the parking lots if said lighting exceeds 1.5 foot candles. 6. A pedestrian walk shall be provided along the west side of Lot 4 from the proposed bus plaza to West 36th Street. 7. The pedestrian network shall be improved with land- scaping as shown on Exhibit "A", as modified. 8. Signs shall be limited to name plate signs, symbols, logos and architectural features that identify a particular service or goods which is provided on the site. All signs shall meet the following conditions: a. No advertising or business signs shall be located within 25 feet of the private road. b. Billboards are hereby prohibited. c. All new signs are to be integrated with the building unless a need for a free standing sign is documented in which case there shall be no more than one free standing sign which does not exceed 80 square feet in area and 25 feet in height per lot. d. Business signs not attached to the buildings shall be architecturally treated and coordinated with the principal budding by use of compatible materials and design. e. Lighting for signs shall be interior or indirect so that light rays are not directly visible beyond the lot lines. 9. All new building and remodeling of either existing or new building shall be compatible and complimentary to the highest standard of building located between West 36th Street Aquila Avenue, the Burlington Northern Railroad Right -of -Way and Highway 7. Elements of compatibility include but are not limited to: Building form and mass, exterior materials and their appearance and durability, landscaping, exterior lighting, and site development. 2 10. Development on vacant lots requires a special permit and the filing of an application under provisions provided in the ordinance. All such proposals must be compatible with the overall plan. 11. All of the improvement shall be in accordance with the following schedule: a. The private road including the curbing, surfacing, and landscaping and tree planting adjacent thereto shall be completed by July 1, 1973. b. Construction of a major pedestrian walk and landscaping adjacent thereto between Target Road and Target Depart- ment Store and from the Target Department Store to the north end of the Target Department Store parking lot shall be completed by July 1, 1973. c. Landscaping and planting in the Target lot as shown on Exhibit "A" as modified, shall be completed by July 1, 1973. d. Street lighting along the private road shall be completed by September 1, 1973. 12. The City shall be given an easement over the private road and to the public park along the utility easement which parallels the south line of Lot 4. 13. All access to public roads and to the lots as contained in the plat shall be as shown on the general plan, unless modifications to the general plan are approved. 14. In compliance with provisions of the subdivision ordinance and the Commercial Development unit, the subdivider and applicant shall enter into a contract with the City covering the necessary improvements as contained in the special permit and the final plat. 15. That Lot 4, Target First addition be developed for a four story office building and six stall drive-in bank facility with the following conditions: a. The site shall be developed, used and maintained in accordance with Exhibit "D",Site Plan; Exhibit "E", Grading Plan; Exhibit "F", Landscape Plan; and Exhibit "G", Elevation Plan; except as hereinafter modified by the following conditions. 3 b. The total chargeable floor area of the office building for parking shall not exceed 46,600 square feet. c. The lot shall be graded so as to meet the grades of existing park land with a slope of no more than 2 to 1 or the transition between the surfaced area and the park area shall be accomplished by a decorative terrace, with said plans subject to approval of the City prior to construction. d. Pedestrian walkway, street lighting, street trees and planting of the parking islands shall be accomplished as provided in the overall general plan and as shown on the Exhibit "F", as modified by the Planning Department on November 2, 1971. e. All improvements as shown on the Exhibits "D", "E", "F", and "G" as modified including surfacing, striping, tree planting, landscaping, pedestrian walkway, lighting, plaza, and the like shall be completed by July 1, 1973. Adopted by the City Council November 15, 1971. Attest: dJi ity Clerk App ed as to form and legality: "-c_e 79.4.--___