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Planning Commission - 06/07/1966 . A G E N D A VILLAGE OF £DEN PRAIRIE Zoning & Planning Commission Tuesday 7 June, 1966 ITEM PURPOSE 6-1-66Z Minutes of 17 May, 1966 -------------------Approval 4-4-66Z Public Hearing ----------------------------Hagen, Mason, Astleford, Carter, Griffiths, Garrison, Dvorak, Swendseen to Rezone to M-2 2-6-66Z Public Hearing ---------------------------Greg Redpath -- RA to R-1 6-2-66Z Public Hearing ---------------------------Ken Anderson - L. M. Warden -- RA to SI 5-8-66Z James-Gleason-Lowinski -------------------Minning License 5-2-66Z Gordon England -------------------------- Dividing Property 6-3-66Z Mrs. John Raguet -------------------------Information on Easement Road off of Sunnybrook Road - 6-4-66Z Walter Carpenter, Minn. Tree Inc. --------Use of Clabo Property and Rezoning to S-I 6-5-66Z Schmit Bros ------------------------------Boarding Kennel at 15482 Sunrise Circle 6-6-66Z Russell H. Zakariasen --------------------6x12 Sign on Highway 169 SeverPeterson Property 6-7-66Z Bob Hartman ------------------------------Nursery on Ray Stodola Property on Duck Lake 6-8-66Z N.S.P. -----------------------------------Westgate Sub Station .i, �a.J:• I • i- r •-! - ..i-l• 7 I�M1J r' iT i7r.i:'7�° t1F •+='c.'...i rh, l _ .'.I7j.;/'"::f r. y.1: f�•� -;. . A G E N D A VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE Zoning & Planning Commission Tuesday 7 June, 1966 ITEM PURPOSE 6-1-66Z Minutes of 17 May, 1966 -------------------Approval 4-4-66Z Public Hearing ----------------------------Hagen, Mason, Astleford, Carter, Griffiths, Garrison, Dvorak, Swendseen to Rezone to M-2 2-6-66Z Public Hearing ---------------------------Greg Redpath -- RA to R-1 6-2-66Z Public Hearing ---------------------------Ken Anderson - L. M. Warden -- RA to SI 5-8-66Z James-Gleason-Lowinski -------------------Minning License 5-2-66Z Gordon England -------------------------- Dividing Property 6-3-66Z Mrs. John Raguet -------------------------Information on Easement Road off of Sunnybrook Road - 6-4-66Z Walter Carpenter, Minn. Tree Inc. --------Use of Clabo Property and Rezoning to S-I 6-5-66Z Schmit Bros ------------------------------Boarding Kennel at 15482 Sunrise Circle 6-6-66Z Russell H. Zakariasen --------------------6x12 Sign on Highway 169 SeverPeterson Property 6-7-66Z Bob Hartman ------------------------------Nursery on Ray Stodola Property on Duck Lake 6-8-66Z N.S.P. -----------------------------------Westgate Sub Station :ls ri . •... .. _.. - .fir)t, `.Y \ .l ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING 7 June 1966 PRESENT WERE: A. W. Miller, Chairman David W. Dale Anthony R. Hirt Albert C. Picha Dr. John H. Wright Ralph J. Nesbitt Cecil C. Cruse James C. Brown, Clerk Quentin K. Wood, APW James Hawkes, Planner MINUTES The Item 6-1-66 and the minutes of May 17$ 1966 were approved as read. ITEM 1-6-66Z THE PONDEROSA BUILDERS, FINAL PLAT APPROVAL Mr. Wood stated there appeared to be no objections now to his engineering report on the Ponderosa Plat. Then he recommended to the Planning and Zon- ing Commission approval of the final Plat. A motion was made by Ralph Nesbitt, seconded by Dr. Wright to recommend to the Council approval and acceptance of the final Plat of the Ponderosa Build- ers on Ponderosa Hills and to authorize the Chairman and Clerk of the Planning and Zoning Commission to sign the Plat. The motion carried. ITEM 4-4-66Z PUBLIC HEARING MASON, HAGEN, ASTLEFORD, CARTER, GRIFFITHS, E GARRISON, DVORAK, SWENDSEEN TO REZONE TO M-2 The property generally speaking in the Northeast quadrant of the Village bounded by the Highways 18 and 169 and Nine Mile Creek. Notes on this hear- ing are in Hearing File ##11. Many people spoke for the proposed re-zoning. Mr. Goetze sppke against the proposed re-zoning. Several people had questions on the boundaries of the area to be re-zoned and the type of industries that would be allowed into the area. The Zoning Board suggested to Mr. Mason, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Swendseen, who represented the petitioners, that they consider the SI rather than the M-2 zoning for the area. The SI ordinance was read in part to the parties involved so that they would understand the types of buildings and industries that would beallowed in an SI zoning. Parts of the Ordinance 8 relating to the M-2 zoningwere also read so that they would understand the general types of manu- facturing that could go into an M-2 zoning. The petitioners agreed in their own right altho they could not speak for all the people involved that they felt the SI zoning would be the most suitable zoning for the area in keeping with the general character of the area already started by the plants of Research and Transistor. The petitioners also pre- sented plans for a right-of-way to be constructed into a public road between County Road 60 and County Road 39. The road had not been finalized as to its exact location and there was no final points either at 60 or 39 where the road would connect due to the requirements of the State of Minnesota in not yet having placed the Inter-change on 169 at 60 or Hennepin County Highway Department in having completed the Inter-change on County Road 18 at 39. ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING - 2 7 June 1966 Mr. Hawkes recommendation to the Planning and Zoning Board that the zoning of SI on the area North of the proposed road would be good zoning for the Village, that at the present time not enough information was available in the areas South of the proposed road to determine how far South, if any, the in- dustrial zoning should go. Mr. James Hawkes believes that after further study there may be areas South of the road which should properly be zoned industrial or commercial in keeping with the area North of the road, until a natural buffer is reached. He felt because not enough study had been made on the ground and terrain in the area the requirements of the Nine Mile Creek water shed district, etc. , an opinion was not feasable at this time. A motion was made by Dr. Wright, seconded by Anthony Hirt to recommend to the Council rezoning to SI all the land requested by the petitions, north of the proposed road to be created between County Road 60 and County Road 39, on the logical contour of the ground so that the Highway Department would accept the requested property. The balance of the land the petitioners requested south of the proposed road to remain as presently zoned at this time. By roll call vote, Albert Picha yes, Anthony Hirt yes, Cecil Cruse no, Arthur Miller yes, Dr. John Wright yes, David Dale no, and Ralph Nesbitt yes. The motion carried. ITEM 2-6-66Z PUBLIC HEARING on GREG REDPATH because of publication difficultieq, his hearing is postponed until the 21st of June. ITEM 6-2-66Z THE PUBLIC HEARING YENITETH ANDERSON, L. M. WARDEN PROPERTY Notes on this hearing are in Hearing File V 13. Mr. McDonald and Mr. Morehouse reppesented the petitioners and presented their information to the Council. Mr. Herb Johnson of Research Incorporated, presented detailed drawings showing the proposed land use for this area under consideration. Mr. Hawkes was asked for his opinion on this area and felt that this rezoning would be consistent with the genral area and what had already been done. He felt the board should recommend to the Council that the rezoning go all the way to Scencie Heights Road and not leave a small area left Residential in an area completely surrounded by highways with the majority of the area zoned Industrial. Mr. Goetze spoke against the rezoning. A motion was made by Cecil Cruse, seconded by Ralph Nesbitt, to recommend to the Council the rezoning of the land from RA to SI as per the petition as it is the best and highest use for the area and is consistent with the general zoning in the area and the major road nets which are presently going through or future con- templated for the area. The motion carried. Mr. Cecil Cruse then made a motion, seconded by Mr. Albert Picha to recommend to the Council that they consider the balance of the property from Mr. Warden's ZONING AND PLANNING C014MISSION MEETING - 3 7 June 1966 property to Scenic Heights Road to also be rezoned to SI so that it would not leave a residential island surrounded by roads in the middle of an in- dustrial area and would be consistent with good zoning practices. The motion also carried. A motion was then made by Cecil Cruse, seconded by David Dale to request the Clerk to write to Transistor Electronics Incorporated, Research Incorporated, and Char-Lynn to ascertain their feelings on having their zoning changed from M-2 to SI. The motion carried. ITEM 5-8-66Z JAMES, GLEASON, LOWINSKI REQUEST FOR A MINING LICENSE Mr. Wood stated that the maps submitted by the applicants met the specifica- tions for the Village for granting a mining license in the area to allow the removal of earth deposits from part of the area, fill in other areas, and the removal from the site of certain deposits. Mr. James Hawkes recommended that along the west boundary of the area where it joins School Road, certain residents and the property of the Eden Prairie School District that instead of starting from the property line of the ad- joining property whether it be Village, School, or private and going into a 4 to 1 slope that the owners of the property, which is being re-worked and mined, maintain a minimum 15 foot strip on their property which would main- tain the same level as the adjoining property. This strip then to be used as an area for plantings in a buffer zone. The reason for this, any plantings made on a slope have to grow considerably be- fore they reach sufficient height to provide any screening to the adjoining property holders. By planting on a level with the adjoing property hold- ers, the plantings provide the screening immediately and will continue to provide greater and greater depth of screening. Motion was made by Nesbitt, seconded by Dr. Wright to recommend to the Council granting of the mining license with the 15 foot strip being reserved along the western edge of their property. Motion carried. ITEM 5-2-66Z GORDON ENGLAND Mr. Wood had contacted Mr. England and his surveyor and there was some pro- blems to be straightened out as to the requirements of the Zoning Board as the property at the present had not been registered and it would cost an additional sum and time to have the property Torrens before there could be a register- ed land survey made on it. Mr. Wood is to contact the surveyor and get the property properly laid out so that the Planning and Zoning Commission can de- termine the feasability of Mr. England's request in relationship to the ad- joining property. No ' other action was taken at this time. ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING - 4 7 ._June 1966 tU ITEM 6-3-66Z MRS. JOHN RAGUET Mrs. Raguet did not appear and no action was taken on her request. v v ITEM 6-4-66Z WALTER CARPENTER MINNESOTA TREE INC. Mr. Carpenter appeared requesting information on the use of the property owned by Mr. Clabo and Mr. Oothoudt which he has purchased in the point of the E-. traiangle where New Highway 5 and Old Highway 5 join from this point East. The property is zoned SI and Mr. Carpenter wanted information as to the feasability of putting in a nursery sales operation such as he presently has on County Road 60 and 169 which is going to be taken by the re-location of State Highway 169. Both the Planning and Zoning Commission and Mr. Carpenter = in checking over certain aspects of the SI Ordinance felt that there could be problems in operating a nursery sales business on this particular site. In the SI zoning, as some of the requirements such as the outside storage requirements would make it unfeasable to fun the business and not have the products available and visible to the public. Also the building required would be mainly the building; in which the equipment used in the service of the customers of the business, such as trucks, tractors, and so forth; would be stored in a special constructed building to meet the SI code would be rather expensive for the storage of these vehicles. 11r. Carpenter stated at the time that he was not asking for anything other then inforamtion and felt that between himself and the Board information had been passed to allow him to do some more :studying of the area. ITEM 6-5-66Z RUSSELL H. ZAKARIASEN Request for sign on Highway 169 approximately one quarter mile east of County Road 4 on the north side of the Highway on the Sever Peterson property. The sign to be 6 feet x 12 feet and strictly a directional sign saying that the (� Cedar Hills Golf Course open to the public is one or two or three turns and so many blocks ahead, etc. There was much discussion on this matter as the sign was a definite need for the golf course in order to allow people to locate the course and make use of it. This is a special added recreational feature for the Village of Eden Prairie. It does not cost the Village of Eden Prairie taxpayers any money for it's operation. The people who use the course pay for the facilities, 4 the people who don't use it do not pay for them, in fact the course property pays taxes to the various taxing authorities in the Village of Eden Prairie. PIf the volume of business done at the course is not sufficient to make the course a break-even operation, someday it will have to be dis-continued. Anyone familiar with Highway 169 from the Carver County line where it enters Eden Prairie until it leaves Eden Prairie, at the Edina border is familiar with the number of signs advertizing various products and or businesses lo- ® Gated outside of the Eden Prairie area. Under our sign ordinances these signs are legal because the sign, the basic sign itself was in the Village before © the sign ordinance was passed and the people who owned the signs are con- stantly updating them in order to advertise current businesses and current ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING -- # 7 June 1966 products for sale. Under our sign ordinance a sign such as Mr. Zakariasen is requesting would not be legal in the area for which it is being requested and it was felt that a new business would be at a dis-advantage located in Eden Prairie if they could not put directional signs to their place of bus- ness compared to a business located out of Eden Prairie who are able to lo- cate their information on existing signs within the Village. A motion was made by Albert Picha, seconded by Ralph Nesbitt, to pass to the Council with the recommendation that the sign be approved and the Council take whatever legal action is necessary to allow this type of sign and re- quest that Mr. Hawkes present to the Village his ideas on directional signs for businesses and industry located within the Village of Eden Prairie. Upon a rol�_call vote, Picha yes, Hirt yes, Cruse yes, Miller yes, Wright yes,Dale , and Nesbitt yes. The motion carried. ITEM 6-7-66Z BOB HARTMAN Mr. Hartman appeared before the Planning and Zoning Commission to advise the Board that he has in connection with Mr. Ray Stodola and Mr. Gordon Stodola started a Nursery on the Stodola property on Duck Lake. While no re-zoning is . required, he wanted the Commission to be advised of his venture and also he • asked for information on the type of signs he could put on his property ad- vertizing a nursery or nursery products. He also stated that this was the first time that he had come before this Board and had sat through several hours of their deliberations on other items and he felt that the Board was a very fair and just Board and its actions were taken in the best interests of the Community and he wanted to compli- ment the Board on their work. Mr. Goetze dis-agreed with him. 6-8-66Z N.S.P. WESTGATE SUB STATION Mr. J. W. McKellip and Mr. Jerry Welk appeared before the Planning and Zoning Commission to present information regarding a' proposed Sub Station to be lo- cated behind Louver Manufacturing Company along the railroad tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to be known in the Northern States System as the Westgate Sub Station. This Station is being built to serve the Village of Eden Prairie primarily and is to be supplied by a 115,000 volt service line to be constructed from the Minneapolis-Northfield and Southern Railway Tracks and Highway 494 in the City of Bloomington, following Highway 494 and State Highway 5 to the Sub Station. They also proposed to tie this station in with the Glen Lake and Excelsior Sub Stations with special lines to these two particular Sub Stations. Steel towers would be used on the lines carrying the 115,000 volts from the present transmission line at• the junction of the Minneapolis - Northfield and Southern Railroad and 494 in the City of Bloominton to the Westgate Sub Station. The tie in lines to the Glen Lake Sub Station and the Excelsior Sub Station would use conventional wooden poles. ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING - 6 7 June 1966 The opinion of the Board was that this was a good location for the Sub Station. That Eden Prairie would have the requirements in the future for the electrical power that this Sub Station would provide. They did feel that these lines for serving the Sub Station and also other proposed lines which Northern States Power is considering putting through the Village of Eden Prairie, should be consolidated into the least number of power right- of-ways so as to prevent cutting the Village up into little pieces of ground by various right-of-ways such as highway, railroad, and the poorer transmissions right-of-ways. Also the Board felt that they should go over the ground where the proposed line is to be constructed to determine if this is the most advisable position for it or if there should be some adjust- ments made in the location of the line. Motion was made by Ralph Nesbitt, seconded by Cecil Cruse to take under con- sideration the request of Northern States Power Company for the Westgate Sub Station and it's necessary feeder lines and to have an answer for them for the meeting of July 5, 1966. The motion carried. ITEM 6-A-66Z MR. J. M. WALLACE Mr. Wallace has purchased a lot known as lot "C" in a tract surveyed out and owned by a Mr. Berglund on Mitchell Road. The Wallace's appeared before the Zoning Board to request a variance from the 50 foot set back for a building or the 80 feet from the center of the road. In checking into this, we find that this survey which shows 5 lots on Mitchell Road south of the pond which is just north of Starring Lake have been recorded but have not been approved by the Village. These lots are approximately 1/2 acre. The present zoning of the area is RA which requires a minimum of 40,000 square feet. The party who is handling the sale of this has informed the buyer that the 1/2 acre includes all of the land to the center of the pond. The Wallace's were advised that while the area was undoubtedly buildable the party owning the land would have to come in before the Zoning Board and the Council with his survey to get it straightened out as to the required area for a proper lot under the existing zoning also the requirements by the Village for plotting this particular area. Apparently the party owning the ground has decided to do all the work on his own without contemplating any action by the proper officials of the Village of Eden Prairie. No action was taken on the request of the Wallace's for a variance as it appears that the party ownin, the land must get this into the proper pers- pective before any action by the Village can be taken. ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING -- 7 7 June 1966 ITEM 6-B-66Z SPECIAL MEETING WITH THE COUNCIL REGARDING THE PROPOSED PLANNING PROGRAM FOR THE VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE A motion was made by Anthony Hirt, seconded by David Dale to recommend a decision be made on an over-all master-plan for the Village and the Council take the necessary action to initiate the necessary means, either 701, professional planner, or amateur planners to accomplish this. The motion carried. The Planning and Zoning Commission discussed dated and felt that June 16, 1966 would be as appropriate date as could be arranged for a special meeting on this subject with the Council, therefore, they are recommending to the Council that the 16th of June be the date for the Special meeting. A motion was made by Cruse, seconded by David Dale to invite not only the people from the State but an individual from the Village of Edina, either their Planning and Zoning Commission, as Edina has never had . a complete Zoning plan, also individ- uals from the Shakopee, Burnsville, and Plymouth Planning and Zoning Commissions as these people have from a size standpoint relatively similiar problems to Eden Prairie and have all gone through Zoning plans. The motion carried. ITEM 6-C-66Z PETITION FOR RE-ZONING A petition to rezone certain land located adjacent to Highways 169, 212, in the Village of Eden Prairie was presented to the Planning and Zoning Board. The land involved was owned by George Bren, Lillian Bren, Dorothy Kusisto, Edward Dvorak, Helmar Gregerson, John Wright, Alvin Bren, and Frank E. Bren. The request is to rezone from RA and RC to C-2. The $85.00 to cover the cost of the public hearing was received with the application. A motion was made by David Dale, seconded by Cecil Cruse to set the Hearing date for July 5, 1966 and to include in this consideration the property owned by H. C. Foreman. The motion carried. Motion was made by Cecil Cruse, seconded by David Dale that the meeting be adjourned at 1:40 A.M. This motion was unanimously approved by all members of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Jame C. Broom, Clerk of Zoning and Pla ning Commission