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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC86016 - 4/10/86 - 6660 Shingle Creek PkwyP_"... VING COMMISSION FILE Cam... File Purge Date: f'B 911 FILE INFORMATION Project Number: C9601to PROPERTY INFORMATION Zoning: PLAN REFERENCE Note: If a plan was found in the file during the purge process, it was pulled for consolidation of all plans. Identified below are the types of plans, if any, that were consolidated. • Site Plans • Building Plans • Other: FILE REFERENCE Note: The following documents were purged when this project file became inactive. We have recorded the information necessary to retrieve the documents. Document Type Date Range Location Agendas: Planning Commission Office Minutes: Planning Commission '`'`o/B40 City Vault Minutes: City Council ��� City Vault Document Type Number Location Resolutions: Planning Commission City Vault Resolutions: City Council City Vault Ordinances: City Council City Vault COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FILES CHECKLIST CITY OF Bt4..�.LYN CENTER PLANNING COMMISS1ON APPLICATION Application No. 86016 Street Location of Property Legal Description of Property Owner Address Please Print Clearly or Type 6660 Shingle Creek Parkway Tract B. R. L. S. 1329 Phone No. Applicant Color Converting Industries (William Hegstrom -Mai I notification of meeting to 1153 5th AVe. Newport, MN 55055) Address 129 S. E. 18th St. Des Moines, IA Phone No. 1-800-297-0046 Type of Request: Rezoning Variance Subdivision Approval Site & Bldg. Plan Approval Special Use Permit X Other: Description of Request: Deternination that ink manufacturing/warehouse and distribution is sinilar in nature to other permitted uses in the I-1 district. Se.'e— f The applicant requests processing of this application and agrees to pay to the City of Brooklyn Center, within fifteen (15) days after mailing or delivery of the billing state- ment, the actual costs incurred by the City for Engineering, Planning and Legal expenses reasonably and necessarily required by the City for the processing of the application. Such costs shall be in addition to the application fee described herein. Withdrawal of the application shall not relieve the applicant of the obligation to pay costs incurred prior to withdrawal. Fee $ 25.00 Receipt No. 70522 Dates of P.C. Consideration: Approved Denied Date: March 27, 1986 PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION this I L day of (t-V CI L CITY COUNCIL ACTION Dates of Council Consideration: 19 �0 U. , subject to the Approved Denied this day ofat"'i 19 W(19 , with the following amendment: P/I Form No. 18 . (over please) Planning Commission Information Sheet Application No. 86016 Applicant: Color Converting Industries Location: 6660 Shingle Creek Parkway Request: Determination The applicant requests a determination by the City Council that the storage, manufacture, and distribution of ink is similar in nature to other permitted uses in the I-1 zoning district. The applicant wishes to locate in the industrial building at 6660 Shingle Creek Parkway. The property in question is zoned I-1 and is bounded on the east by Johnson Controls, on the south by the Northwestern Bell maintenance facility, on the west by Shingle Creek Parkway, and on the north by 67th Avenue North. Section 35-330, subsection 1 f permits in the I-1 zone: "Other uses similar in nature to the aforementioned uses, as determined by the City Council." Among the aforementioned manufacturing uses permitted in the I-1 zoning district are: 116. Printing and publishing and allied industries. 7. Chemicals and allied products as follows: -Drugs -Soaps, detergents and cleaning preparations -Perfumes, cosmetics and other toilet preparations (compounding and packaging only.") Also, in terms of wholesale trade activities, "Drugs chemicals, and allied products" are listed as terms which may be traded from the I-1 district. Certainly, the storage, manufacture, and shipment of ink involves chemicals and allied products. The concern with the proposed use is primarily over the flammability and toxicity of the liquids involved. The Fire Department has requested and received information on each of the materials to be handled in the business. Section 35-413, subsection 2 of the Zoning Ordinance (attached) prohibits the storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products which could be detonated, unless specifically licensed by the City Council. The materials involved in this operation are not explosives, only highly flammable and potentially toxic in the event of a fire. The determination which must be made regarding the proposed use is whether the risks posed by the storage and manufacture of ink and ink components is unacceptable in the I-1 district, or whether modifications to the tenant space can be made which will make the risk an acceptable one. Fire Inspector Milton Selander has had correspondence with Mr. Bill Hegstrom of CCI and obtained information on the types and quantities of materials, flammability ratings, extinguishing media (water, foam, CO2, dry chemical, etc.), flashpoints and other safety data on the materials to be used. ( see correspondence attached. He has also transmitted a memo to Building Official Andy Alberti expressing various general points of concern regarding this potential tenant (see attached. Note: this is not a list of specific requirements, only general concerns that Mr. Selander feels must be addressed). 4-10-86 -1- Application No. 86016 continued Building Official Andy Alberti and Inspector Clay Larson have also inspected the building in question at 6660 Shingle Creek Parkway. The Building Official's comments should be available in writing by Thursday's meeting. The general thrust of his conclusions is that the building in question, more specifically the tenant space CCI seeks to occupy, can be modified to meet the requirements of the building code and the fire code. We have also contacted the City of Des Moines, Iowa where CCI is presently located and inquired as to the zoning of their present location and the zones in which such an operation would be allowed. The existing CCI plant is located in the M-2 (Heavy Industrial) zoning district in Des Moines. The City of Des Moines allows the manufacture and storage of ink only by conditional use permit in the heavy industrial zoning district. This classification is based on the storage of flammable materials on the site which constitutes a Group H occupancy under the Uniform Building Code. We have reviewed the permitted and special uses in the I-1 zoning district (see Section 35-330). Most, if not all, fall into the B-2 occupancy rating. Few would fall into the Group H occupancy class as far as the general use, though certain storage rooms or processes might. The Zoning Ordinance does not explicitly refer to the occupancy categories of the Uniform Building Code in distinguishing between permitted and non -permitted uses. It should be pointed out, however, that certain uses that are Group H occupancies (such as paint booths and planing mills and saw mills) are specifically prohibited. Nevertheless, some Group H occupancies do exist in the Industrial Park, such as Medtronic (lithium storage); Hiawatha Rubber (rubber processing); the City garage and MTC bus garage; also plastic molding and die casting activities. There are also propane gas storage tanks stored outside and above ground in the Industrial Park which pose a very considerable potential safety risk. Thus far, the City has accepted these risks in the I-1 zone. It is a policy question whether a use classified as an H-2 occupancy should be allowed in the Industrial Park (I-1) zoning district. It should be kept in mind that such a use could conceivably occupy an entire industrial building, not just a limited tenant space, if a finding is made that it is similar in nature to other permitted uses in the I-1 zone. The conclusion that staff draw from the Zoning Ordinance and from the uses located in the Industrial Park is that the proposed use is not similar in nature to other uses permitted in the I-1 zoning district. We reach this conclusion because the principal activities of the proposed use involve the storage, processing, blending and shipment of flammable materials throughout the tenant space. The occupancy classification of this use is, therefore, H-2 under the Uniform Building Code. While there are other uses in the Industrial Park that contain H occupancies, the hazardous occupancy in those cases is only for an accessory use, not a principal use. The principal uses allowed and existing in the Industrial Park are generally B-2 occupancies, not classified as hazardous under the Building Code. We recommend that principal uses which must be classified as H-2 occupancies not be considered similar in nature to other permitted uses in the I-1 zone. If, however, the Planning Commission is inclined to recommend approval of the proposed use, staff will be prepared to recommend conditions of approval. 4-10-86 -2- .:vCE CREEK OPEN SPACE ; I/ 26 25 r.,.:`... .. 69TH P, N-ft R5 C2 p4R I 6?TH y� APPL CATION 0. ~o 86016' J 1R5 0 67TH AVE. CO z w r / . Q 1 cn Rv w r BROOKLY` HIGH 651' f e 'Planning Commission Information Sheet Application No. 74012 Applicant: Coachman Diversified Location: 6660 Shingle Creel; Parkvaa,y Request: Building Plan Amendment The applicant has proposed certain alterations to the easterly exterior wall of the structure which was built in 1974. The alteration would involve installation of large overhead doors, to accommodate a new tenant. The prospective tenant -use should also be evaluated as to whether it "is similar in nature to other I-1 uses," since it is not clearly comprehended by the ordinance. Letters are attached describing the proposed use.