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Memo to Mayor and City Council/CU 04-12 May 17, 2004 Page 2 Overview The applicant currendy operates an oil change and lube business on this property. The property is zoned C3 (Highway Commercial) and is 1 acre in size. Adjacent land uses include Kentucky Fried Chicken, a small commercial strip center and an office building. The property is a comer lot with frontage on Dodge Avenue and 5th Street. The applicant is proposing to install 7 concrete pads in the grass area at the northeast corner of 5th Street and Dodge Avenue. These pads will be used to display vehicles that the applicant will have for sale. The oil change and lube business will continue to operate from this site. Analysis Auto sales require a conditional use permit. The limited number of cars proposed to be for sale (7) should not have a significant impact on the area. The cars will be driven on to the pads from the interior of the property. A new curb cut will be installed along the existing driveway off of 5th Street. There will be no direct access to the pads from a public street. The applicant is proposing a 10 foot setback between the pads and the property line. A 10 foot setback is what is required for any parking area. No additional lighting is shown on the site plan. No new signage is proposed. No modifications to the existing driveways and parking areas, other than the new curb cut, are proposed. The proposed 7 pads should not have a significant impact on the drainage on the site; stormwater will continue to drain as it currendy does. The applicant will be changing the current landscaping on the site. The landscape plan includes landscape beds in front of the pads. Landscaping in those beds include several species of bushes, daylilies and arborvitae. There are two existing landscape beds that will be removed. The landscaping includes a birch tree, 4 flowering crab trees and several bushes. There a~e also four evergreen trees that the applicant plans on keeping. Since the birch and flowering crab trees were included on the approved landscape plan that was part of the original conditional use permit approved in 1993, they will have to be replaced. The area that will be used to access the display pads will be surfaced with a honeycombed material that provides a stable driving surface while allowing grass to grow through. Plannina Commission Meetina At the Planning Commission meeting held on April 27t\ two people spoke at the public hearing. Their comments included the following: . Are the pads setback far enough from future improvements to Dodge Avenue? . Installing some type of surface in the area behind the pads so that it does not turn to mud when it is wet . Replacing and/ or replanting landscaping that will be removed . Traffic impacts on the intersection of Dodge and 5th Street . A means to prevent people from driving vehicles off the front of the pads and onto the street. s: \pLANNING \ Case Files \2004 \ CD 04-12 N orthem Auto \ CD04-12CCS-17,doc