City of Austin, Minnesota City Council Meetings, 13 Aug 2019

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City of Austin, Minnesota

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Austin City Planning Commission is called to order. Our first item on the agenda is the approval of the Tuesday May 14th 2019 meeting minutes. Has everybody had a chance to review the meeting minutes.

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I do have a couple changes.

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Believe I was absent last meeting and also on the third page when I say the fifth or sixth paragraph down starting with Commissioner Stewart, clarified. I. Think the last word in that paragraph is supposed to be compliance.

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We approve as amended, motion by Commissioner minor, second, second and all in favor. So the second item on the agenda. The agenda is an open public hearing to consider a petition for a conditional use permit from Austin hotel group LLC to place a free-standing sign that exceeds the height and area limitations of city code. The proposed sign will be 60 feet high. The area of a sign will be approximately 250 square feet. Yeah.

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Just to clarify, initially, we were fixated on the area.

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Height because we were treating it as a sign appeal, but since this is a sign that is along our freeway I 90, we treated it like as a freeway oriented sign which requires a conditional use permit. So the area in height is not as essential to the analysis as the conditional use requirement so free. So our code requires a freeway oriented ground sign which exceeds the standards went along up in us in our science.

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Sign, permit or sign code went along a highway where the speed limit is in excess of 45 miles per hour, so required conditional use permit, which this is one of those signs.

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The conditional use permit requires that the Planning Commission find, where applicable, that the use will not create an excessive burden on existing park. School streets and other public facilities and utilities would serve the a or proposed to serve the area that the use will be sufficiently compatible or separated by distances or screenings from adjacent agricultural residential zone uses that the use will be sufficiently compatible.

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Let's see that the use in the opinion of the Planning Commission is reasonably related to the overall needs of the city and the existing land use, the structure and site shall have an appearance that will not have an adverse effect upon de jacent properties that the use is consistent with our doning chapter and purposes of the zoning district and which is the applicant intends to locate the proposed use that you use will not cause traffic hazard congestion.

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Existing businesses will not be adversely affected that the use will not result in unnecessary destruction of natural features, and then subdivision 5 includes some of those things again repeats Geographic taken to you should take into consideration the geographical area involved where the use will depreciate the surrounding area, character of surrounding area demonstrated need for such use and whether the use will cause any nuisance.

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This particular site is I have up on our Google Maps this that site. That looks essentially that rectangle that's a little darker than the surrounding area.

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That area is currently zoned, b-two Community, Business District, the proposed use is as hotel. The sign would be advertising the hotel. The property to the east is a multi-family residential facility. The property to the west is essentially, you know to developed as it will and I don't expect any additional to the west. The kind of wooded or area with trees is a stormwater pond and then there's a where the little hand is there's a that's where the awesome marketplace sign went in, which was the same kind of analysis.

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That you're making for this particular sign was also conditional use permit.

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The I have some pictures of the sign I. Do you have any questions about what the sign would look like? Specifically, it's just a free-standing sign with cobblestone Hotel Suites.

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And they do have the petitioner has a representative here to describe more about the project if you need additional information, but this is the sign that's proposed for that location. It did include some of their other signage in the packet, but this is the one that we are specifically talking about.

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Is it compatible to other freeway signs in the area in terms of size, location, the.

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Awesome Marketplace sign was they had a proposed 35 for theirs. There are other sign form. I might be not specifically right in that location that exceed I. Think the tallest are about 80 feet so, like the subway sign is 80.

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Quick trip is close to that height. The heart of the sign, I'm, not sure I'll talk about it.

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But so those would be the close and.

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Then one at the I forgot the height of the one that tore these are the Holiday Inn yeah, but that's also similar in height or maybe exceed 60 feet, potentially.

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But I would say that height is not extreme for that type of sign along the freeway.

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I could have Matt. Can you know.

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Matt Snyder and from sign art we're located in a hole, Claire, Wisconsin and we'll be doing the sign project for a cobblestone hotel. I did do the Hardy sign across the interstate from there. It's approximately about 240 square feet and that's an 80-foot sign.

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The Holiday Inn science, probably closer in the neighborhoods to 100 feet in height and I, have some examples. Kind of of the signage in the area.

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Here's a photo looking across the interstate at the Hardee's Burger King Kwik Trip and subway signs I'm, just kind of put the heightened perspective that Hardy signed to the top of the star portion right. There is 80 feet from grade.

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Here's a photo of the holiday inside, which is probably about all I, would save 1,000 to 1,200 feet to the east of the location. The sign we're proposing do.

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You have one of the marketplace sign chance.

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I only have one on my phone I don't know if that'll show up on there. How close are these two gonna be to each other? You know I'd, say they're, probably gonna be within a hundred feet of each other.

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This might be kind of difficult to see, but right in this vicinity, right here is where we're proposing the cobblestones sign to be, and roughly right about here is where that existing marketplace ein will be.

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I think with the location of the cobblestone sign that we're proposing the increased in we'll keep the marketplace I'm giving up good and it will be above it yeah I, believe the marketplace sign is a little bit closer to the right away or the interstate. Then the cobblestone sign will be as well.

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You have any other questions thanks man.

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So there's nobody here for and.

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Then I would just note that we did send out notices to the surrounding property owners. Read.

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Somebody's phone anyway, so we sent we sent notices out the surrounding property owners and we did not reach and that.

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Quite some time ago, initially we're treating this as a sign appeal, and then we changed it to a conditional use permit. So we went an extra month, so they had more notice than typical almost a month more, and we have not heard anything concerning this addition. So.

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So there's no more questions or discussion. There emotion.

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Mr. Chairman I move that we approve a conditional conditional use for the same for cobblestone IAM.

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So we have a motion by commissioner, my no and a second by Commissioner Yellen, all right. Any further discussion.

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Otherwise, I all in favor of the motion, aye.

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Opposed to motion so whoops.

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Thank you motion to adjourn.

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One thing: if all of you could just take a look at our our comprehensive plan online I think I'd like to bring that to our Planning Commission meeting.

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Have you all do some review some of the chapters and maybe work on updating some of those, especially like our future land use plan would could use some review additional review, but just you know, just as you are able to just take a look at it just to familiarize yourself if you're not already familiar with the comprehensive plan, it's on our website and then we'll I'll just talk about it in the future. At some point, Thanks.

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I'll move that way.

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John: okay: there we go all in favor.