12-23-10 Site Review MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Lower Level Main Conference Room
201 First Avenue East
ATTENDING:
Paul Burnham, Asst. City Engineer Jeff Clawson, Building Official
Sean Conrad, Senior Planner Rebekah Wargo, Asst. Civil Engineer
P. J. Sorensen, Chairman
GUESTS: Mark Johnson, Architect
HEAR THE PUBLIC: None.
PERFORMANCE BOND REMINDERS: None.
OLD BUSINESS: None.
NEW BUSINESS: None.
PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS: Nothing.
Spring Prairie Center Phase III — preliminary plat application for Spring Prairie Phase III for ten
commercial lots just north of Lowe's. Their preliminary plat approved in 2003 expired about a year
ago. Their PUD zoning would still apply. The write up will include the standard conditions for
infrastructure, stormwater, street improvements, etc. and will be given to Public Works for their final
approval.
OTHER REPORTS: Sykes — preliminary discussion for next remodel phase — Mark Johnson,
project architect, presented the layout showing the existing restaurant, market, and pharmacy as well
as the sun room, the dining room, a new covered entry, and mechanical space. Primary discussion
related to proposed apartments. They may take down a house across the alley and put in garages.
This original building was built somewhere in 1905 and has gone through various stages of additions
and remodels over the years. It was built as two 25' wide buildings. They are planning on trying to
have an entrance off of Second Street with an elevator and an entrance on the southwest corner ofthe
parking lot. This would allow us access to these future parking garages over here on this other lot.
There's a thought to try to get a service elevator that goes from the second level down to the
basement that's primarily for use in the grocery store and the market. The primary exiting systems
are here so we have a continuous corridor adjoining those two stairs. The whole building will be
sprinklered. There will be a mix of two 2-bedrooms and three one -bedrooms on the second floor.
They're all designed to have balconies where they have available space for them. They'll put some
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windows in here so they can actually see across the existing restaurant roof. Clawson suggested he
look at the Step Building Requirements as he's not sure you can have an opening close to the roof
according to the requirement. Sorensen also thought it might affect the snow load. They are
interested in adding a partial third story of apartments up here. It's smaller than the rest. Right now
there are two 2-bedrooms and one 1-bedroom. It may end up with two 2-bedrooms. Clawson asked
where their second exit is, and they think they are in that area where they can get by with one.
Clawson thinks they will need two when over two floors. The stairwell is open. Sorensen mentioned
they will need to provide handicapped parking in the appropriate locations. Landscaping also needs to
be established in the parking area, even if it means taking out some of the parking spaces. They will
also need to look at the parallel spaces by the barber shop, since they got installed without any of the
design criteria which had previously been discussed. They have added in some substantial timber
planter boxes. Clawson mentioned that Immanuel Lutheran Home will be demolishing their carport
structure in the spring and this project may be able to use part of it as a covered parking structure
here. The walls on the north side of the building will be taken down. To make the basement more
useable, the whole back part will be storage and some storage around here for the apartments, but
would like to get some natural light in there. They would like there to be a light well sticking out into
the sidewalk basically five feet. They talked about ways to protect that. Burnham stated they cannot
put in an open well as it is not permitted. You would have to enclose it. It would still be problematic,
as it would be a private improvement in a public right-of-way, which is a liability issue. Propose
something and we will take a look at it. Height distance was discussed. With a CUP, it is has no
specific limit, but does have certain parameters. They have three water users: fire suppression, the
market that is there right now, and the third would be the apartments. They will add another service
for the sprinkler. There is a 3/4" service out here on this side and a 11/2" on this side, which is running
everything right now. From the market standpoint, this is probably not adequate. They need a larger
one for all the ground level activity and maybe this one over here would work for the apartments.
They would like to upgrade the 3/4" to a larger service. Burnham said that whatever service they
abandon, they would get a credit for that. If they turned this into one single property, they would get
credit for whatever impacts you had for the two houses. If it's not really one property, they can't
move impact fee credits from one property to another property. Impact fee information has been
provided to the Building Department. They will be replacing the sidewalk and do some rearranging
of the street trees. Also, the decorative light pole will need to be taken out and stored by Public
Works while they are constructing. They will need a right-of-way permit when they get into the
sidewalk/road areas.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:35 a.m.
Recorded Minutes were transcribed by Kathy Kuhlin, Recording Secretary
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