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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 06-06 PCP PLANNING CWMIISSION AGENDA R=�XXR MZMXNG JuT.,t,- 6 1974 C81.1 t--) Qrder� e%00 p,ra. 2. Rol."-L c6113 3. -Approval or Minutes: May 16, 1974; May 23, 1974 4. Chninnan's r-zplan.ationU The Planning commission is an advisory body. one of the Coinmisgion's functions is to hold Public Hearings. in the matters concerned in these hearings, the Commission makes recommendations to the City Council. The City Council makes all final decisions on these matters. AWUFsTW3MS AND APPEALS 5. P� S . Anderson 74030 Variance from Section 15-400 to permit coast-ruction of garage one foot from rear lot line which abuts an alley at 15319 Logan Avenue Marth PLANNING 6, R. TI. Northrup 74031 Special Use Permit for Special Home Occupation involving Photo Cora.position typesetting at 6613 U. pity Avonue Worth 7 A Prcliminary R�L—SL App-- oval for tracts 'Lying nortb of T. --I-?4 , southwesterly of Shingle C-reek an6 f�asterly of Xerxes certe'r �Jfayce�'.:" 7 4 0 3 uperats z noncommercial in �-L Distrjct, involving a home more than 5 handicapped ambilatory pers3rs at 6808 Bryaut T,venue North (,to be A;J 2 of rrooklyn cente'c 74025 z,,; q IVO 3 nq y 1 1974" ii Iv-- pzir s at. 'Frierson 1.VE-113ues NOrth. pj,aris for a rownhouse project, on s ites lovated at 67th and Smerson .1.1.5 k V1?9 S R0 271t)-) , Prcpo!�d Ordinence Amendments to 35-400 7,'Lelative to Multi Residential b. t�z4viev; *1 Com'prehenslive Plar C. Pending It.C.'sts P.IdINMING, CO1yF'MUeS123110M 1157 O IATION S ET �a Application No. 74030 Applicants; P.S. Anderson Loclti.on: 5319 Logan Avenue North Request: Variance The applicant seeks approval of a variance from Section 35-400 to permit construction of a garage one foot from his near lot lire, rather than .the required 5 feet. The rear of the property abuts a 30 foot alley way. Section 35-400 (6) provides that "except as otherwise provided, garages shall be permitted to be constructed to within give feet of the rear property line." The City council approved a similar request on July 14, 1969 (Application No. 69032) for the neighboring property at 5317 Logan'Avenue NO. , "on the basis that the existing ordinance structure does not provide adequate standards relating to garage setbacks along alleys." • During Commission consideration of the 1969 matter, it 'was hatiOd that, outside of the Humboldt Addition area featuring idde 30 flet alleys, a narrower alley (14 ft.) exists at the north end .of than same black Of Logan Avenue. it was shown that garage setback f ve feet from the property line of the nsarrowat portion of the a ley would be closer to the center line of the alley than the applicant's garage were he to build hp to the property line. Alleys are found in 'the older plats in the southeast portion of the City and. the 30 ft. widths are only in the south portion of the 5300 blo ks be een HAUnboldt and Morgan Avenues. Remaining alleys are a average` of 14 feet. ' ovidg t,ht. y0hre many aeceseory structures Nve been Consetructe+d up to or to within one to three Meet of the alley/property line. Problems have arisen in.the case of the 14 ft. alleys with rtspt'ct to maintenance and snow removal. Past variance action has involved lots abutting the wider 30 ft. alleys where there is adequate area for vehicle clearance and snow storage. The orsdinti ace sloes, not specifically comprehend lots abutting al.leyss; situations reprgzented by this application may be considered in terms of the following: 1. v, Dedicated alley ways are limited to one portion of the i4o. 74030- Gone°d. page 2 city and resulted from early approved plats; 2. These older areas were originally permitted to develop and construct accessory buildings at standards other than present requirements. 3. As such rennovations are made, individual cases can be reviewed and evaluated on their merits through the variance procedure; 4. The existence of a 30 ft. wide alley has been and can be held to be a determining factors in such cases, noting snow clearance and maintenance difficulties associated with narrower alleys. 5. in Short, the properties involved are limited in number and location, and are collectively unique from other properties in the zoning district. The apilicant contends, in addition to the "uniqueness" and precedent factors, that he would realize a hardship in meeting the current setback standard since an access problem would re- sult and an unnecessary amount of rear yard would be taken. • incidentally.' there is an existing garage on the parcel, setback approximately one foot from the property Bite. Heighbc^ring property owners have been n®tified of the hearing. Approval would be to permit. construction of a garage setback to within one fmt of the property lime, notings 1. The ordinance does not specifically a mprehend those pascals abutting alleys; 2. The alemtrient to a wide 30 ft. alley which affords adequate vehicle access and snow storage= 3. preceSent for such action :involving the adjacent parcel; G 4. The uniqueness of the parcels abutting 30 ft. alley vaays in relation to other pvoperties in the zr.eisag district. TAO approval lo, i3u)..Iect to the fol.-Lowing ccszdi.tionst a. The action relates only to the rear yard setback, and no other variances are granted or implied. b. All other applicable ordinance requirements will be met. c:. The existing garage will be removed or demolished prior to the issuance of a building permit. y � E5%(47 CY 14 FPL I c .A 3-I as AI sal 6&e k roALr &A(A Ss ct(.. KI 0 T" Y0 ' # � av�st �we '�ae� less, t)f s.a'St v 93 s i �1C h✓d y1T PLAMING C�Ac�� ISS30N INFORMATION SHEET Application No. 74031 Applicant: Robert 69. Northrup Locstiono 6613 unity Avenue North Requests Special use Permit ( The applicant seeks permission to conduct a special home occupation which involves photo composition typesetting. Attached is a copy of a brief descriptive statement submitted by the applicant. A determination should be made as to the frequency of customer pickup and the intensity of related traffic. Neighboring property owners have been notified. Approval would be subject to the condition that the use shall conform to all applicable ordinance provisions and violation thereof shall be grounds for revocation of the permit. -r graphics, inc. 6613 UNITY AVENUE NORTH • MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55429 (612)533-7389 May 14, 1974 City of Brooklyn Center 6301 Shingle Creek Parkway Brooklyn Center, Minn, 55430 Attn: Mr. Blair Tremere Director-Planning & Inspection As you requested, the following is a brief description of the business involved in my application for a Special Use Permit. O The nature of the business is photocomposition, which is a form of typesetting. Unlike the Linotype machine, there is no metal or heat involved. The typesetting is ��� U accomplished by exposing light-sensitive paper inside a machine which takes about the same floor space as a u card table. The paper is then taken to a. small table- top photographic processor to develop it, and the process is completed. In some cases I might "pasteup" the type into its final position for printing, but most of my customers do that for themselves. After being "pastedup", the usual next step is for my customer to take it to his printer for printing. Very briefly, that describes it. I'll be glad to answer any questions you might have. Sincerely, Robert W. Northro Application go. 74032 Applicant: 1B.C.I.P. , Inc. Location: Northerly of I-94, Easterly of Xerxes, and Southwesterly of Shingle c ceellz- Request: Preliminary R.L.S. Approval The aDolicant seeks approval of a _preliminary R.L.S. consisting 6:" seven tracts, one of which is Freeway Boulevard which is under constructIon. Tract "ib" is the site of the approved Kennedy-Cohen Applicance Store. The Director of Public Works will be prepared to discuss the plat in detail. Approval would be subject to the follmiing: . 3. Final. R.L.S. is subject to review by the City Ebgineer. 2. ?ina l is subject to the requiroments of Chapter 15 of the City ®kdinanares. AR-, dil�r., Applicat4on ?qo. 74033 Brooklyn Center Jaycees Y,ocatlon-. 6806 Bryant Avenue North vacant) Reqll,eate Special use Permit The application is for a snecial use in the R-A district, per the requiremeats of Section 35-310.- 11011--her non-conimercial uses re- quired for the rlublic welfare in an R I district, as determined by the City Couaail. 44 The applicant Proposes to construct a single family dwe.Aing which 'Would serve as a horne Ifor not more than six persons who are "developmentally dianbled" , according to Mr. Dick Schifi'let, a professional with the Outreach Conimunity Center. Accore,ing to information supplied by Mr. Schifflet, the residents would be under the supervisioti of home managers-r^arents and would be employed. The intent is Lo provide assistance in basic home living skills through daIly experience in a standard home environment. A descrintliLve statement by the A;pplicant is attached, as is a collection of nellis ar;.-Icles concerning the estaolishment of a similar horse in and the ef-Forts of the applicant in supporting this concept.. i1eighboring proner-ty owneri have been notified of the hearing. The Ordinance Standards for a Special Use are set forth in Section 35-.220(2) 2 a. The establishment, irmintenance or operation of the special use will pr rwtate and enhance the general public welfare and will not be detrimemtal to or endanger the public hezJth, safety,morals or cmfort. b. The special use will wt be injurious to the use and enjoyment of other property in the imme4iate vicinity for the purposes already permitted, nor substantially diminiSh and imp.Air property valu*9 within the neigh- borhold. l o�3a.racr,�.'a�akar :w aor� Application wx)e 40,33 cont'd Pace 2 c. The establishment of the special use will not impede the normal and orderly development and improvement of surrounding property for uses permitted in the district. d. Adequate measures have been or will be taken to pro- vide ingress, egress and parking so designed as to minimize, traffic congestion in the public streets. ee The special use shall, in all other respects, conform to the applicable regulations of the district in which it is located. The ordinance defines "Family" as "one or more persons related A ar doption, or a group of not more than five persons not so related together with his or their domestic ser- vants or gratuitous eat mal.rtainibg a eawcisan househ2ld in a !Lwellinq unit. According to the applicant the residents do not have personal vehicles----except for the manager-parent couple. Approval would be subject to the condition that the use shall conform to all applicable ordinance provisions and violation thereof shall be grounds for revocation of the permit. 1 � t r t � L1 BROOKLYN CENTER JAYCEES y` BROOKLYN CENTER, MINN. 55429 May 23 1974 Brooklyn Center Planning Commission !� Brooklyn Center , Minnesota ) SPECIAL USE PERMIT : 6808 BRYANT AVENUE NORTH V PURPOSE This is a request for a special use permit to allow the Brooklyn Center Jaycees and Outreach Community Center to operate a home for at least four and not more than six mentally and physically handicapped ambilatory persons, under the supervision of home managers - parents , with support of proffessional staff from Outreach Community j Center . BACKGROUND Outreach Community Center , 1619 Portland Avenue South, is a short - term training center for Developmentally Disabled Citizens , with the ultimate goal of each client developing to live independently within the community . Many of these clients , after reaching full development at Outreach, need a facility which will ease the transition from Outreach , to living alone and independently in an apartment within the community. The group home provides this service by allowing each client the opportunity to aquaint himself with the norm of American living , by part- of meals laundry , and preparation , part- icipating in the planning a p p Y housekeeping , etc . EMe,O J MINNESOTA JAYCEE ES , 5 Leadership Training Thru Community Development � ✓gYCEE9 SSk T RICHFIELD . -UN NO. 61 -38TH YEARCoPy.ght 1974.SunN.w,poVen.Inc.. Thursday, April 25, 1974 After a three-hour hearing,attended by more than According to Outreach and city officials the home 130 people the Richfield City Council approved grant- is safe for the residents.Wayne Burggraaff,city man- ing a special use permit to Outreach Community Cen- ager, said the home meets all housing codes require- ter. The permit allows establishment of a residential ments to be safe for up to ten people and meets all the home for six employed mentally retarded adults at life safety code requirements. An outside fire escape 7425-4th Ave.S. from the second floor and an alarm system will be The permit was granted subject to Planning required. Commission stipulations which called for no more While many characterized the discussion at the than nine persons to live in the house, restriction of April 16 hearing"frayed tempers"and"getting off to permanent parking to only the house parents' car, a bad start," much of the Monday night council dis- compliance with assistant fire chief's recommenda- cussion was spent discussing the qualities of the hand- - tions,and that the property be used only as a commu- icapped. A number of individuals and groups charac- Y pp "gentle," terized the mentally handicapped as " nity based facility. g The councilmen and mayor all said there had been "kind."A joy to have around with much to teach us." a high response from the community regarding the issue. Attendance at a Planning Commission meeting Opponents characterized the project as "a noble April 16 was also heavy. venture." One man who opposed the project cited a There were three areas concerning opponents to family with mentally retarded children as "the most the program: feasibility and safety of the house for wonderful people on the block." r use in this purpose; the nature of the clients at the home; and the effect of having such a special use Ellsworth I. Serstock, an attorney for the neigh- permit granted in a single family residential neighbor- borhood resident opposing the permit said the request hood. really was for rezoning. He also said the ordinance Officials from Outreach explained the home would against having a number of unrelated people living in be staffed by a couple who have volunteer and profes- the same house was because such situation tended to sional experience with the mentally retarded. The be "offensive and annoying causing special police purpose of the home offficials said, is to provide an problems, although this is less true with the mentally mc area where mentally handicapped adults can gain retarded than with the communal arrangements the so= experience in independant living under minimal su- ordinance was designed for." pervision. Clayton LeFevere, city attorney said the request L "The key," said D. R. Shiffle,an Outreach board came within the definition of acceptable special uses ® member "is that they, the mentally retarded,epilep- request either as a boarding home or philanthropic tic or cerebral palsied living in the home,will live as and charitable institution and was therefore not rezon- any adUt would." ing. "We are not picking on Richfield;" he said. "We Serstock said that 71 per cent of the properties in a will be excellent neighbors and will be taxpayers." 350 foot radius oppose the proposal.He said the pro- He and other officials then explained the Outreach ject would effect the value of the property adjacent to program which has been operating for 10 years as a it and cut down the number of possible interested buy- non-profit corporation. The Board is composed of vol- ers. unteers from all Twin City areas and professions. "This is a noble venture," he said. "But it is not ® They employ more than 30 salaried professionals who noble where they.propose it. Multiple dwelling is the work with institutionalized handicapped adults to help proper area for this. them enter the community. One hundred thirty volun- "The council should not be required to bail out a mc leers assist in the program in social and recreational man who overbuilt. programs. Proponents cited the same arguments as ones Outreach hopes to establish ten such residential being brought up when racial housing integration be- centers in the Twin Cities which acts as"an umbrella gan; others cited examples of neighbors with large service for those clients not ready to`sink or swim.'" foster children families which had not decreased the Other communities have invited Outreach to establish property values. in their community. Glen Anderson, administrator of a resident home Money for the groups comes from a combination for the retarded in Minneapolis said he had surveyed 0 of clients fees (from the wages of the working the property values of homes in his neighborhood, clients,federal and state funds and some fund raising which are both single and multiple family dwellings. benefits. The program has operated under similar budget- He said in two years the home has operated,of the six ing since its conception ten years ago. According to homes being sold in the neighborhood, five were sold the executive director Ross A.Craig,it is his and oth- at price above their assessed market value. er professionals'opinion that the program will contin- "What determines the property values, he said, ue to be funded. "are the minds of the people who decide to sell their Twenty-seven of the 100 clients served by Out- homes." reach work at Opportunity Workshop.Residents at the Six unrelated women are presently living in the da s.mW will home. Opponents said they have not complained be- PLANNXNG COMISSION INFOIWATION SHEET Application No. 74025 Applicants City of Brooklyn Center Location: 67th and Emerson Avenues North Request: Rezoning The application is a City initiated petition for rezoning two parcels from R--5 to R-3. The item was tabled at the May 16, 1974 meeting to permit review by the Northeast Neighborhood Advisory Group. The Group has recommended approval of the application per the attached letter from the Chairman. Approval is recommended on the basis that the R-3 District is consistent with the Comprehensive Plant is compatible with adjacent land uses; and effectively speaks to the issue of small parcels as remnants of larger multi-residential district tracts. Telephone 561-6457 Hannag Agencg , Inc. INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS 6432 North Willow Lane Brooklyn Center,Minnesota 55430 May 30, 1974 Mr. Blair Tremere City Director of Planning and Inspection City of Brooklyn Center 6301 Shingle Creek Parkway Brooklyn Center, Minn. 55430 Dear Blair, The N. E. Neighborhood Committee discussed the rezoning of the two parcels at 67th and Emerson to R _ 3. We talked with people in the neighborhood and it is our concensus that this rezoning from R .. 5 to R-3 is an acceptable proposal and that we recommend that it be approved. e_ 7�'k <<t • `° ` . Sincerely, I 'AY 1974,, RECEIVED �. William D. Hannay fili OK f1'.;Up. WWI L Chairman �. �s WDHslmn `._� o 4,. Per c `wVf, � TTtq 4 C" ? elf. each S'G ... ... .. .. .. .. + 4 .., r L..y a3rid fi. .xi. i.al4i€. pF{�}{��/ �`.; 4Y00 ,� e od include Only -:7;"nw's1„'' tiw Primary cmncq„ "� sir' k7,c- and par- t side *. .b Site An Also, Call -te'll' "'Ilver map.Lwr �;r r 'ain.lmlw 6" diameter recoxamend that fill Green Asti, be used I'ieu -C)t t1le Maple planted on the street Z-aes of the pro�ect. silver maples have histories of root p,robjems iw,h -I.cYt �antevfert,, with w6lkways and driveways, and are 3,-jnc-rs have- been rgotlfied as a matter of Approval would be subject to the following conditions.- i', ldifhq , planzj are subjet--t to review by the Building Official witkj respect to applicable codes prior to the issuance of pexmits, 2 . Grading,, drainage, utility and berming plans are subject to review by the City zngineer prior t* the issuance Of permits', A performance agreement and financial guarantee (in an amount to be detexTained by the city Manager) shall be subalitted to asstire completion of required improvements. 4. The ownership,, ;xdnegement and maintenance of All outside conunan areas erA common' facilities, including driveways, utilities and site lighting shall be under the jurisdiction of one homeoviners association or mantgement. 5. hnnt"-owners assoai*tian agreements and bylaws shall be submitted to the city; shall be subject to review by the city Attorney prior to than issuance of building permits; and shall lnclude8 a. Provisions for the City to provide maintenance and revitalization of roadways* utilities, a4d Other common use facilities in the event the City Council deers such maintenance and revitalization necessary, with the cost of such expenses twat might be incurred to be assessed to the property vwnerso bo provision for water and sewer main and fire hydrant maintenance and inspection agreements pursuant to Section 35-410kS� of the ordinances. 6. The repmired minimum 6*1 diameter trees and any other shaft trees planted in yards abutting streets shall be Green Ash or another approved vari&ty, in lieu of indicated Silver Maple trees,. C-2 Pro 'p-C4 -Z 6 Ai 107rt4 77 oa H oc, .....................