Planning Commission - 10/06/1970 AGENDA
EDEN PRAIRIE PLANNING COMMISSION
Tuesday, October 6, 1970 7:30 P.M. , Village Hall
INVOCATION
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
I. MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1970
II. RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS
A. "In The Hills" Bor-Son Building Corporations Planned Unit
Development. Bryant Lake Area.
B. Planned Study Districts Redesignation. Reveiw of Staff
Recommendation.
C. Hillcrest Court Third Addition. Co. Rd. 4 and North Hillcrest
Court. Preliminary Plat.
D. Edenvale Industrial Park T.H.5. Industrial Rezoning of Preliminary
Plat. Review of Staff Recommendation.
E. Billboard Regulation Ordinance. Review of Managers Proposal .
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f1INUTES
EDEN PRAIRIE PLANNING COMMISSION
Tuesday, October 6, 1970 7:30 P.M. , Village Hall
Members present Chairman LaGrow, Nesbitt, Raguet, Meyers, Emerson and Schee.
Also present was Village Manager, George C. Hite.
I. MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1970
e Minutes of September 15, 1970, were approved without correction.
II. RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS
A. In The Hills" Bor-Son Building Corporation's Planned Unit Development
Bryant Lake Area. r. Ben Gingold, an architect representing the applicant,
explained a number of revisions made to their proposal since the last
Commission meeting. The changes essentially involved greater flexability
in Villages 3,4, and 5 by not designating at this time the specific number,
location, or size of structures involved. The number of units in Villages
3,4, and 5 was indicated to be within the range of 1 ,050 and 1 ,175.
The Village Manager presented a planning report on the project dated October
6, 1970. The report reviewed a number of considerations involved in evaluating
the proposal and recommended that the proposal be referred back to the
applicant for additional consideration.
Mr. Harvey Coleman, representing Bor-Son Corporation, requested that the
Commission defer action on their request so that the applicant might have an
opportunity to review & perhaps incorporate some of the suggestions contained
in the planning report. Mr. Don Sorenson, representing the Bryant Lake area
residents, also requested that the Commission defer action until they had had
an opportunity to have the proposal reviewed by a planner they had retained.
A motion to continue the matter until the Commission's meeting of October 20,
1970 was unanimously approved.
B. Planned Study Districts Redesi nation. Mr. Bill Bonner, representing the
Village s planning consu tams, reviewed their recommendations as to the
redesignations of the Planned Study Districts established in November 1969.
The Village Manager reviewed the purposes and permitted uses within the Rural
zoning district which was the recommended redesignation of most of the existing
Planned Study Districts areas. He futher advised the Commission that all
affected property owners had been advised that the Commission had the matter
under consideration.
A number of persons in the audience asked questions about the proposal . An
atttorney representing one of the owners suggested that each individual
property owner should be given the opportunity for specific and individual
consideration of the reclassification of their property.
A motion recommending to the Council that the redesignation of the Planned
Study Districts as suggested by the planning consultant be approved subject
to affected property owners being given the option of requesting individual
consideration of their property was unanimously approved.
Planning & Zoning Minutes
October 6, 1970
Page 2
C. Hillcrest Courts Third Addition. Co. Rd.4 and North Hillcrest Court.
Mr. Bill Bonner, reqpresenting the Village's planning consultants, reviewed
his August 4th and October 6, 1970 staff reports on the proposed subdivision.
He concluded by recommending that the proposal be approved subject to the
provision of an easement for a possible road extension to the east of the
subdivision and subject further to lots within the plat being served by
public utility systems..
A number of residents from the Hillcrest Courts 2nd Addition area, which is
located immediately to the south of the proposed plat, objected to road
connections from the proposed plat onto North Hillcrest Court Drive. They
indicated that they felt the additional traffic generated the new subdivision
would constitute both a nuisance and a menace on the established street. Mr.
Bonner commented that the 34 proposed lots in the new subdivision would have
access to North Hillcrest Court, South Hillcrest Court and Alpine Way and
that in his opinion this additional traffic would not produce traffic volumes
unlike that found on most residential streets within the community. He noted
further that the anticipated future development of County Road 4 into a four
lane divided facility suggested that it would not be advisable to create another
intersection within the 730 feet be between Alpine Trail and North Hillcrest
Court.
A motion recommending to the Village Council that the proposed plat be
accepted subject to the conditions set forth in the staff report was unanimously
approved.
D. Edenvale Industrial Park. T.H.5 . Mr. Don Peterson, representing the
Eden Land Corporation, presented their request for industrial zoning and in-
dustrial plat approval of their land along the north side of T.H.5 and
bounded by Purgatory Creek on the east and north, and the northerly extension of
Wallace Road on the west. Mr. Bill Bonner, representing the Village's planning
consultants, presented a staff report dated October 6, 1970. The report con-
cluded that the proposed development was in keeping with both the Village's
Comprehensive Guide -Plan and the Concept Plan approved for Edenvale and re-
commended that the plat be approved and that the zoning pattern described in
the October 6th report be implemented.
Mr. Peterson also requested that the Village authorize greater lot coverages
than currently permitted under the zoning ordinance and presented a suggested
formula for this purpose and a list of justifications. The Village Manager
suggested that the request would have to be handled as an amendment to the
ordinance rather than as a varience for any individual lot or plat and re-
commended that action on the request be deferred until a future date.
Mr. Bonner noted that the request by Mr. Peterson for screened outside storage
on certain lots could be handled under the existing ordinance if the property
in question were zoned I-General .
A motion recommending to the Council that the proposed plat be accepted and
the the zoning pattern set forth in the October 6th staff report be implemented
was unanimously approved.,
Planning & Zoning Minutes
October 6, 1970
Page 3
E. Billborad Regulation Ordinance. The Commission engaged ina general
discussion relative to the proposed ordinance regulating the erection and
maintenance of billboards. The Manager reported that he would continue to
have discussions with representatives of the sign industry and recommended
that action on the proposed ordinance be deferred for at least two weeks.
The Commission agreed.
Meeting adjourned at 10:10
Norma Sc ee, Secretary