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HomeMy WebLinkAbout96-158 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1996/10/22RESOLUTION NO. 9E-153 A RESOLUTION RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 96-89 APPROVED ON JUNE 3, 1996 AND APPROVING A FINAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) UNDER SECTION 14:6-7 OF THE ST. LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE RELATING TO ZONING FOR PROPERTY ZONED C-2, GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, LOCATED AT 5600, 5640, 5680, 5700, 5800 and 5900 CEDAR LAKE ROAD; AND 1620, 1650, 1690 AND 1700 PARK PLACE BOULEVARD; AND 5601, 5699 AND 5799 WEST 16TH STREET AND1625 ZARTHAN AVENUE (TOTAL SITE FORMERLY KNOWN AS 1625 ZARTHAN AVENUE) WHEREAS, the St. Louis Park City Zoning Ordinance permits shopping centers in excess of 200,000 square feet by Planned Unit Development (PUD) under certain conditions in the C-2 Commerical Zoning District, and WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 96-38 approving the Preliminary PUD on March 18, 1996, and WHEREAS, the City staff were informed on April 12, 1996 that certain environmental remediation would be necessary and such remediation would affect the timing process of demolition of the existing building and resulted in the need to amend the conditions of preliminary approval, and WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 96-71 rescinding Resolution No. 96-38 and approving the Preliminary PUD subject to certain revised conditions on May 6, 1996, and WHEREAS, a complete application for a Final Planned Unit Development (PUD) was received on April 26, 1996, and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission reviewed the Final PUD application at the meeting of May 1, 1996, and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the Final PUD subject to 17 conditions of approval on a 3-1 vote with three members present voting in the affirmative and one member voting against, and WHEREAS, the City Council received an overview from City staff and the City Attorney of the necessary agreements related to the PUD at its May 13, 1996 Study Session, and WHEREAS, the applicant and current and prospective property owners have entered into a development agreement, supplemental development agreements, sidewalk easements agreement, reciprocal easement and operation agreement, and a reversion agreement, which agreement 1 nullifies and voids without any further action required on the part of the City Council the preliminary and final approval if certain conditions are not met. WHEREAS, the applicant submitted an application for a minor amendment to the approved Final PUD to allow the height of Retail 1 to be reduced from 30'8" to not less than 20'0". Park: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY the City Council of the City of St. Louis A. Recitals The recitals set forth above are incorporated herein and made part of this resolution. B. Findings 1. Ryan Construction Company of Minnesota, Inc., as developer with the consent of the property owner Honeywell, Inc., has made application to the City Council for approval of a Final Planned Unit Development ("Final PUD") within the C-2 General Commercial Zoning District under Section 14:6-7 of the St. Louis Park Ordinance for property located at 1625 Zarthan Avenue for the legal description as follows, to -wit: See Exhibit A - Legal Description 2. The City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of the Planning Commission (Case No. 95 -51 -PUD) and the effect of the proposed Final PUD on the health, safety and welfare of the occupants of the surrounding lands, existing and anticipated traffic conditions, the effect on values of properties in the surrounding area, the effect of the use on the Comprehensive Plan, with specific consideration given to the Plan By Neighborhood Section of the Comprehensive Plan, and compliance with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance. 3. The City Council has determined that approval of a Final PUD will not be detrimental to the health, safety, or general welfare of the community nor with certain contemplated traffic improvements will it cause serious traffic congestion nor hazards, nor will it seriously depreciate surrounding property values. The Council has also determined that the proposed Final PUD is in harmony with the general provisions, purpose and intent of the City's Zoning Ordinance and its Comprehensive Plan and that the requested modifications comply with the requirements of Section 14:6-7.2(E). 4. The contents of Planning Case File 95 -51 -PUD are hereby entered into and made part of the public hearing record and the record of decision for this case. 2 p 1 C. Conditions and Approval A Final PUD at the location described in paragraph 1 of the above findings is approved based on the recitals and the findings set forth above, the Approved Final Plans, and subject to the following conditions: 1. Issuance of demolition and erosion control permits shall be subject to the following conditions as required in the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) Resolution and subsequently modified on March 18, 1996 and May 6, 1996 as follows: a. Demolition, hauling and construction activities shall be limited to the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays and 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays. b. Trucks and construction equipment shall be prohibited from using Zarthan Avenue between Cedar Lake Road and 16th Street and shall enter and exit the site from 16th Street and Park Place Boulevard only. c. During demolition of the existing building, the western wall of the building shall be left intact as a sound barrier for as long as practicable. d. Use of explosives shall be prohibited. e. All demolition and construction equipment shall utilize state of the art muffler systems. f. On-site crushing and recycling operations shall be located as far from existing residential land uses as practicable. 2. Approval of the Preliminary and Final Planned Unit Development and Plat shall be subject to the following conditions as required in the EAW Resolution and subsequently modified on March 18, 1996 and by this resolution as follows: a. Installation of all roadway improvements associated with anticipated traffic from the proposed use and dedication of public right-of-way to accommodate public infrastructure . b. Adjustments to existing traffic lights, street lights and other utilities. c. Installation of sidewalks along the length of Cedar Lake Road, Park Place Boulevard, 16th Street, and Zarthan Avenue adjacent to the project and connecting to public plaza areas within the site. d. Dedication of drainage and utility easements to a depth of 10 feet back from planned right-of-way and execution of a sidewalks easement agreement. Such sidewalk easements shall extend 1 foot beyond required perimeter sidewalks. e. Installation of on-site directional signs to I-394 and Highway 100 to prevent unnecessary traffic in residential neighborhoods. f. Delivery and garbage service trucks shall be prohibited from using Zarthan Avenue between Cedar Lake Road and 16th Street and shall be limited to servicing the uses between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on weekdays and 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays. Unoccupied delivery and garbage 3 g. trucks shall be prohibited from idling on site during nighttime hours as defined by Section 11-507(3)(a). Overnight parking of vehicles, semi -trailers, refrigeration units and the like shall be prohibited unless parked wholly within any of the enclosed loading dock bays. h. Openings of rooftop fans and air circulation equipment shall be required to face away from residential neighborhoods and all exhaust openings except bathroom fans shall be prohibited on exterior walls facing residential neighborhoods. In the event bathroom fan exhausts exceed the maximum nighttime allowable noise limits, operation of these fans shall be terminated until compliance with the City of St. Louis Park Noise Ordinance is achieved. i Compliance with ordinance provisions relating to exterior lighting and prevention of unnecessary nighttime site lighting. j. Compliance with all applicable City ordinance provisions shall be required unless modifications are specifically authorized by this Final Planned Unit Development approval or by more stringent requirements of the development agreement or supplemental development agreements. 3. The following modifications to ordinance requirements are authorized as part of this Final PUD approval: a. Bufferyards are not required between drive through facilities and adjacent properties that are part of the Final PUD b. The temporary hoop structures associated with Home Depot's "Garden Center" outdoor sales area are not required to be architecturally integrated with the principal building (utilize same building materials) provided masonry walls surrounding the outdoor sales area are provided as shown on the Approved Final Plans. c. A Bufferyard "D" may be substituted for the required Bufferyard "F" between the truck circulation and loading areas for the Retail/Service/Restaurant building on Lot 5 and Park Place Boulevard. d. Buildings are not required to utilize at least 60% brick or other natural stone on each building face but are approved with percentages of brick and other materials as shown on the Approved Final Plans. e. Buildings on Lots 2 and 3 may have more than 5% bright, pure accent colors on each facade and are approved with the percentages of accent colors shown on colored elevations "stamped" as received by the City on March 15, 1996 and on April 19, 1996 (Exhibits B2 and B3 of the Approved Final Plans). f. The area of all wall signs may exceed 7% of the building wall area but may not exceed the wall sign area shown on the Approved Final Plans. Exhibit A7 of the Approved Final Plans shall be revised to reduce cumulative wall signage by at least 37 square feet in accordance with the Preliminary PUD approval. g. Individual wall signs may exceed 150 square feet but may not exceed the individual wall sign areas shown on the Approved Final Plans. 4 h. Two free standing "off -premise signs", advertising uses on properties within the PUD only, are allowed as shown on the Approved Final Plans. Such signs are denoted on the Approved Final Plans as "Center Pylon Signs" and also as "Monument Signs". Such signs may also be referenced as "Project Identification Signs" or "Tenant Identification Signs". i. The maximum size of the "Center Pylon Sign" faces may exceed 300 square feet and may be 320 square feet each as shown on the Approved Final Plans. j. The maximum total sign area of the "Center Pylon Signs" may exceed 400 square feet and may be 1,280 square feet as shown on the Approved Final Plans. k. One Monument Sign measuring no more than 4 feet 4 inches in height and 16 feet in width and identifying only the name of the Shopping Center may be placed in Outlot A as shown on the Approved Final Plans. Such sign shall include seating on one side, shall be faced primarily with brick, and shall not be counted toward the total approved sign areas. 1. Exterior lighting spillover may exceed 1.0 footcandle at property lines that abut other properties within the Final PUD but may not exceed ordinance restrictions at property lines that abut properties that are not within the PUD. m. The Bufferyard "D"s separating the in -vehicle sales and service uses (drive- throughs) on Lots 4,5,6,7 and 8 of the Plat from 16th Street and Park Place Boulevard are not required to include a minimum of 95 plant units per 100 linear feet and may include a total of 225 fewer plant units than required as shown on the Approved Final Plans. n. Certain canopy trees may be installed at sizes less than 2-1/2" caliper as shown on the Approved Final Plans and such trees shall be given full plant unit credits. o. Certain evergreen trees may be installed at sizes less than 6 feet (height) as shown on the Approved Final Plans and such trees shall be given full plant unit credits. 4. The site shall be developed, used and maintained in accordance with the Approved Final Plans, which are incorporated herein as Exhibits P 1, P2, Sl, S2, Cl, C2, C3, LI, L2, L3, L4, L5, Al, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7 as revised by condition 3f of this resolution, A8, A9, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6 ("Park Place Plaza" Monument Sign Detail), B1, B2 and B3, and the following conditions: a. MPCA approval of the remediation plan relating to environmental contamination on the site and conformance with the conditions of the approved remediation plan. b. Final PUD approval is contingent upon the developer and current/prospective property owners, including Home Depot, signing the required agreements and conforming with all provisions of the executed special assessment agreements for construction of required off-site improvements, executed development agreement and executed supplemental development agreements that cover all on-site improvements within the PUD in accordance with Section 14:6-7.5(F), executed sidewallc easements agreement, executed reciprocal easements and operation agreement, and the executed reversion agreement. Wherever there is a conflict between the requirements of any of said documents, City Code, and/or this resolution, the more stringent requirements shall apply. 5 c. The type and colors of all exterior building materials (including building facades, canopies, screen walls, fences, trash enclosures, and permanent exterior signage) throughout the Final PUD must match those adopted as part of the Approved Final Plans, and no exterior building materials other than doors may be surface painted (this requirement does not prohibit the use of standing seam metal with a baked enamel finish, as approved). Said doors shall be painted to match the approved brick or rock face block color. All exterior building materials must be maintained in an aesthetic manner as determined in the sole discretion of the City. d. Wherever brick is denoted on the Approved Final Plans, a full 4" thick face brick must be applied in a masonry technique except that an alternative brick application, face brick cast in structural panels, is specifically approved for the Home Depot building on Lot 2. The alternative brick application for Lot 2 must match the color, texture and visual aesthetics of the brick used throughout the remainder of the PUD e. Permanent exterior signage is limited to that shown on the Approved Final Plans. Additional window signage, temporary banners and the like are restricted in accordance with the terms of the "Maintenance and Operational Restrictions" Exhibit of the development agreement and supplemental development agreements. f. All light poles must be included within curbed areas. g. All rooftop equipment must be screened from ground level view using parapet walls and all rooftop equipment must be painted to match the color of the rooftop to ensure that it is minimally visible from nearby office towers. h. Prior to issuance of any building permits, the developer must reimburse the City for all costs incurred by the City in connection with processing the applicant's PUD, and preparation and implementation of the development agreements and associated agreements. i. In lieu of meeting certain bufferyard requirements as waived in Paragraph 31 above, the developer shall donate 225 plant units to the City in the form of twenty 2-1/2" canopy trees by June 1, 1997 for use on nearby lands to provide screening of the project. j. The subsequent phase of the PUD is approved in concept only as including 110,000 square feet of gross retail building area, 495 parking spaces and 55 proof of parking spaces on Lot 1. The details of the subsequent phase shall be reviewed as a minor amendment to the approved Final PUD, unless additional off-site impacts or modifications to Code or PUD requirements are anticipated, in which case, the details of the subsequent phase shall be reviewed as a major amendment. In either case, the City Council reserves the right to hold a public hearing regarding the subsequent phase. The subsequent phase shall require amendment to the development agreement and/or supplemental development agreement for Lot 1 k. No administrative subdivision of any property within the PUD shall be granted due to the interrelatedness of the PUD, plat, and Approved Final Plans. 1. The developer and/or property owner shall dedicate, at no expense to the City, any right-of-way which may be necessary and required in the future to facilitate improvements at the intersection of 16th Street and Zarthan Avenue and/or to 6 provide access from Cedar LakeRoad into the PUD. Developer and/or property owner shall be responsible for the costs associated with these potential future improvements based upon the benefit to the project and/or the demands the project has placed on the roadway system. Any such improvements would require a major amendment to the Approved Final Plans for the PUD m. The developer and/or owner shall obtain all necessary permits to complete any further required environmental remediation of the site and undertake said remediation pursuant to Local, state and federal regulations, as applicable. n. The developer shall receive all other necessary permits and approvals from the City including, but not limited to sanitary sewer, water tapping permit, demolition permit, building permits, and erosion control permit. o. The developer shall obtain approval by the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District as well as any other approvals required by state and federal agencies, including the required Indirect Source Permit, and the developer shall comply with all conditions of said approvals and permits. p. The Final Plat shall be submitted to the County for recording prior to initiating any site work relating to construction of the PUD project, evidence of filing of the final plat or other assurances pertaining to required easements shall be presented to the City prior to issuance of any permits other than demolition and associated temporary noise permits. q. The Preliminary and Final Plat are inherent components of the Preliminary and Final PUD approvals and are subject to the conditions of Preliminary and Final PUD approval and the Approved Final Plans. Access to the platted properties shall be limited to the means provided in the Approved Final Plans. r. No certificate of occupancy for any building in the PUD shall be issued until all the circulation drives and internal sidewalks throughout the PUD and all the improvements, other than Landscaping and wear coat of asphalt, for that building's lot, have been installed and accepted by the City. All landscaping on the lot shall be completed within one (1) year from the date the certificate of occupany is issued. s. The general public shall have the right to utilize the internal sidewalks for pedestrian access, including walking bicycles, through the PUD property and for access to the outdoor seating plaza, which shall remain available to the general public in perpetuity for passive recreational use that is not disruptive to the operation of the shopping center. No provision of the reciprocal easement and operations agreement shall be interpreted as overriding this requirement. t. The Approved Final Plan Exhibits may be revised to include a 4,450 square feet Arby's restaurant on Lot 4 in accordance with the plans reviewed by the Planning Commission on May 1, 1996, and further revised as follows: to clarify building materials; to ensure that building materials match materials used throughout the remainder of the development; and to reduce the width of the metal door on the rear elevation to a maximum of 8 feet. u. The obligations and conditions herein imposed on the developer by this Final PUD shall also apply to any property owner, successor or assign. 7 v. The City may enforce any provision of this resolution in the same manner as provided for a violation of the City's Zoning Ordinance and/or as provided in the development agreement or supplemental development agreements. 8 f 1 5. The Final PUD shall be amended on October 22, 1996 to incorporate all of the preceding conditions and add the following condition: a. The height of the future Retail 1 tenant space at 5680 Cedar Lake Road may be reduced from 30'8" to not less than 20'0". ATTEST: Adopted by the City Council October 22, 1996 A-A-1-0-- Revieed by administration: Manager 8085 RES 10 ,,-"' 9