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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 178 - Amending Ordinance No. 135 - 09/12/1972 5 k p a VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE HENNEPIN COUNTY, MIXTESOTA i ORDINANCE NO. 178 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 135 The Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie does ordain: Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 135 is hereby amended by 3 adding to Section 2 a new subdivision 2.1, which shall read as follows: Subd. 2.1 Site Plans a The site plan shall be prepared and signed by a landscape architect, or professional site planner with educational training or work experience in land analysis and site plan preparation. The specialized and complex aspects of land analysis requires the expertise provided by the site planning professional. The site planner must be an early participant in the development process to provide accurate and detailed analysis of the proposed development ( site, The basic natural inventory date must be used by the design team members to produce an appropriate site plan. b) The proposed site plan shall include the follwing provisions: 1) Detailed natural land analysis which documents existing physical features such as: vegetation, soil types, slopes, hydrologic system, wildlife, and geology. The existing physical features should be presented as a composite at the sane scale as the final site plan or included on the final site plan sheet. 2) Proposed construction of all alterations of the site. 3) Exact structure siting and building elevations. 4) Manmade features that influence the site, such as utility easements. 5) Other considerations appropriate to particular sites as specified by the Village Staff. c) The provision of this section shall apply to all zoning districts with the exception of R1 single family. Section 2. Subdivision 2.3 of Section 2 of Ordinance No. 135 is hereby repealed. Section 3. There is to be added a new subdivision 2.3 to. Section 2 which shall read as follows: of Ordinance No. 135, Subd. 2.3 Special Requirements-Screening and Landscaping. a) Performance Bond for Landscaping Work In every case where landscaping is required by any ordinance of the Village, or by an approval granted by the Village, for a building or structure to be constructed on any property, the applicant for the building permit shall file with the Village Manager a performance bond with a corporation approved by the Village Manager as surety thereon, or other guarantee acceptable to the Village in an amount to be determined by the Village Manager, but for at least one and one-half times the amount estimated by the Village Manager as the cost of completing the required landscaping and not to exceed a twice said amount, said bond to be in force q for at least two complete growing seasons sub- sequent to the completion of the required land- scaping to insure proper planting and growth and otherwise to be in form and substance acceptable to the Village Manager. For purposes hereof landscaping shall include screening when to be done by the use of shrubs, hedges, bushes, or other growing things. No building permit shall be issued until such bond, when required hereunder, is filed with the Village Manager. b) A landscaping plan submitted to the Village shall comply with the provisions of Section 2. c) All exposed ground areas surrounding or within a principal or accessory use including street boulevards, which are not devoted to drives, sidewalks, patios or other such uses shall be landscaped with grass, shrubs, trees or other ornamental landscape material. No land- scaped area shall be used for the parking of vehicles or the storage or display of materials, supplies or merchandise. d) All open areas of any site, lot, tract or parcel not left in a natural state shall be graded to provide adequate drainage, and except for areas for parking, drives, or storage, shall be landscaped with trees, shrubs or planted ground cover. Such landscaping shall conform with the planting plan approved by the Village at the time the building permit was issued. Owner' s responsibility to see that this land- scaping is maintained in an attractive and well kept condition. All vacant lots, tracts or parcels shall also be properly maintained in accordance with their natural or existing character. 4 -2- r ti e) Installation of grass, sod, trees and shrubbery or other vegetative materials in areas z-ot otherwise improved, including sodding in the area between the property line and the curbline of the adjacent street. f) Screening of all mechanical equipment located on roof. r g) Screening shall consist of earth mounds, walls, fences, compact evergreen or dense deciduous hedge 6 feet in height together with over and understory trees in a buffer strip of at least 10 feet in width. Hedge material must be at least 3 feet in height and trees must be at least 12 feet in height at planting. h) Screening industrial outside storage shall be accomplished to a height and depth consistent with the size and extent of the open storage materials and area. i) Parking areas that accommodate more than 20 cars shall be landscaped and planted on the perimeter and throughout the lot to the extent of at least 5% of the actual surfaced area. a Section 4. The last paragraph of subdivision 2.7 of Section 2 is hereby deleted. Section 5. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 135 is hereby amended by adding to the same the new subdivision 2.8. which shall read as follows: Subd. 2.8 The Village Manager or his designated representative r shall review all proposals to determine if they comply r with the provisions of this section_, and in addition with the previous approved site plans. If he is of the opinion that a particular proposal does not so conform he shall refer the matter to the Board of Appeals for a decision. First read at a regular meeting of the Council of the Village of Eden Prairie this 12th day of September, 1972, and finally read, adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the Council of said Village on the 12th day of December, 1972. Paul R. Redpath, Mayor of the Village of Eden Prairie Attest: f Edna M. Holmgren, Cl rk _3_ k r:. SUN NEWSPAPERC60 a r AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION � � Minnetonka - Eden Prairie Sun 6601 W. 78th St. Bloomington, Minnesota i►� _ a ,.. �rld(3,dgarinreRa�f. - y., WIZ soil State of Minnesota County of Hennepin } ss. tins y l•µ;: J. R. RITCHAY, being daily sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated s 'M ` YI 11Mta^ has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Minnetonka-Eden Prairie Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in i the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least ?'t once each week. !3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local Q s interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 750% of its total eta t.s circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second- class matter in its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of Minne- tonka and Village of Eden Prairie in Hennepin County and it has its known office of issue o a) in the Cityof Bloomington in Henhe in County. Ys tlld4 'g p ty. established and open during its regular i tlr+b�.alu�Y.t,, business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and maintained by the managing ofricer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular ;+` business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related thereto. (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has complied with all foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of , publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of ; Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form o111aC prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. -„ , He further states on oath that the printed C rc3 in a n ce N c. 7 7 c m. hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed r i +a and published therein in the English language, once each week, for , 0nE' successive weeks; .. s that it was first so published on �,ur P 21 day of Decerlber 19� f and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including y 5 the day of , 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being i the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit: : .. abcdefghijklm.nopgrstuvwxyz pw l z l abcdefghijklmnoppnWvwsyz 9 000 q. xpy c.� fi Subscribed and a.mn hwfor.. It a "tiR 23a oL December 192-2 Y (Notarial Sea4) . Muriel L. Quist, Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minn. My Commission Expires July 28th, 1M.1VPW' `. F. s. ^ a � I