3B - Amend Conditional Use Application to Construct Grocery Store with Additional Retail Space in the Commercial District

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EM ® PPIDAR Builder of towns.Creator of value. 5125 COUNTY ROAD 101 • #100 • MINNETONKA,MN 55345 • PHONE: 952/294-0353 • FAX:952/294-0151 WEB:www.oppidan.com October 16, 2009 Ms. Dawn Bittner,Zoning Administrator City of Pequot Lakes 463 8 County Road 11 Pequot Lakes,MN 56472 RE: Conditional Use Permit Application Grocery Store Development—Pequot Lakes,MN Dear Dawn: This letter shall serve as a brief description of the proposed Grocery Store Development on Highway 371, in Pequot Lakes,MN and the request for a Conditional Use Permit. Oppidan,Inc. is proposing to construct a grocery store and additional retail on approximately 6.5 acres of land. Project highlights include: • Current Zoning for the property is Commercial. • A grocery store of approximately 30,000 s.f. • Additional retail space of approximately 3,000 square feet, connected to the main building on the south side. • Gas canopy and pumps on the east side of the site. • New parking lot surface and lighting, designed to minimize the impact to adjoining properties. • New Landscaping around the entire site, including larger buffers to the adjoining properties. • Extension of a private sanitary sewer line forcemain from the building site to a connection point east, across Highway 371 to an existing City sewer line. • Extension of a new, 24 foot wide private road, south of the site,for a distance of approximately 900 feet to connect with Pillsbury Street to the south. • Creation of two new pond areas to maintain water quality and volume runoff for the development. There is one requested Variance for the development. This request is for the impervious surface of a site in a Commercial Zoning District. The requirement for a Commercial development is to have no more than 25% impervious surface,which can be increased to 50%with a CUP. The development will have approximately 59% of the surface as impervious and 41%pervious,thus requiring the variance. The development is adjacent to commercial uses at this time. To the south,there is a vacant building (formerly occupied by the MN DNR). To the north there is a church site. To the west the parcel houses a storage facility and vacant land that is zoned for commercial types of uses. Across Highway 371,the zoning is for commercial development. With these zoning classifications surrounding this site,there are no impacts to the adjoining property.