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Description of Project Narrative <br />CU 20-18 <br /> <br />The narrative is your opportunity to describe, promote, and sell your proposal to the Planning Commission <br />and/or City Council before the meeting(s). A typewritten narrative explaining your request in detail should <br />include, but not limited to, all the following applicable information: <br /> <br />Elk River Fire Station #3 is planned to provide fire suppression services to the existing and newer <br />developments in the eastern part of Elk River and it will be critical to maintaining appropriate response times <br />during and after the Highway 169 project. The building will be approximately 17,500 square feet including the <br />mezzanine area. The building will be one-story with a mezzanine, utilizing CMU bearing walls with concrete <br />spread footings and steel joist roof structure. There will be a tornado shelter inside the building. Major space <br />types include the Apparatus Bays and support spaces, a training tower, a large divisible classroom, dayroom, <br />dining, and kitchen spaces, offices, shower rooms, and a physical training room. Like the adjacent Twin Lakes <br />Elementary, the land is programmed for Public Use, and a Fire Station fits into that category based on the <br />previously approved CUP 05-08. <br /> <br />The building will be at a state of readiness 24/7/365, but as a volunteer fire station the hours when <br />firefighters are actively in the building are impossible to predict. The station is planned to be the base of <br />operations for ~30 firefighters. There are 10 parking stalls for first responders and 35 parking stalls for the <br />public or for firefighters arriving at the station for a non-emergency reason. <br /> <br />Driveways have been situated to separate emergency vs. non-emergency use. The emergency entrance to CR <br />40 is proposed to be wider with this project to ensure an adequate width for potential need of an additional <br />apparatus bay on the north side of the fire station. <br /> <br />Trash dumpsters, electrical equipment, and mechanical equipment will be screened from public view. No <br />outdoor storage is proposed. <br /> <br />The exterior enclosure includes utility brick, stone panels, metal panels, and decorative CMU over a CMU <br />backup wall. Roofing will be a standing seam pitched roof over the apparatus bays and a low-slope membrane <br />roof over the office and living areas. <br /> <br />There will be building-mounted backlit letters on the east elevation reading “ELK RIVER FIRE STATION <br />No. 3” <br /> <br />Future Municipal well: <br />As guided in the approved CUP, a municipal well was also sited within this parcel. City staff, design team and <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities (ERMU) water staff have worked to identify a feasible solution to incorporate <br />both the municipal well and the proposed fire station. <br /> <br />This would incorporate a well, well house, and appropriate watermain which would be covered by an <br />easement allowing ERMU access and use. The well and well house would be installed in the future once the <br />need is required to maintain future growth. The well house would use similar building materials as both the <br />proposed fire station and the existing school. Only the watermains would be installed with this proposed <br />project. ERMU has an agreement with the school district stating that when we construct a municipal well, <br />their well will be released to us as a monitoring well or it must be sealed.