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Home My WebLink About12/11/2012 WorkshopC I T Y O F ND OVE 1685 CROSSTOWN BOULEVARD N.W. • ANDOVER, MINNESOTA 55304 • (763) 755 -5100 FAX (763) 755 -8923 • WWW.CI.ANDOVER.MN.US Andover Planning and Zoning Commission Workshop Meeting Agenda December 11, 2012 Andover City Hall Back Conference Room 6.00 p.m. 1. Call to Order 2. Discuss Proposed City Code Text Amendments 3. Discuss City Code 12 -12 Permitted, Conditional and Prohibited Uses 4. Other Business 5. Adjournment �•f`� ®r M M ras 1685 CROSSTOWN BOULEVARD N.W. • ANDOVER, MINNESOTA 55304 • (763) 755 -5100 FAX (763) 755 -8923 • WWW.CI.AN DOVER. MN.US TO: Planning and Zoning Commissioners FROM: Stephanie L. Hanson, City Planner SUBJECT: Discussion: Amendment to the City Code Title 11, Subdivision Regulations to amend the definition for Seasonal High Water Mark and to reduce the minimum requirement for drainage and utility easements along the front and rear lot lines; Title 12 Zoning Regulations to amend the definition for Farm Animals, to require parking stalls to be marked in white paint, and to require parking and accessways to be maintained in a neat and adequate manner, and Title 8 Public Ways and Property to prohibit the planting of trees in the boulevard. DATE: December 11, 2012 REQUEST The Planning and Zoning Commission is requested to review and consider amendments to the City Code Title 11: Subdivision Regulations, City Code Title 12: Zoning Regulations, and City Code Title 8: Public Ways and Property prior to the public hearing at the regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting. RespeFnie Sub .t ed, Steph Hanson Attachments: Ordinance XX, Amending City Code Title 11: Subdivision Regulations and Amending City Code Title 12: Zoning Regulations Ordinance XX, Amending City Code Title 8: Public Ways and Property CITY OF ANDOVER COUNTY OF ANOKA STATE OF MINNESOTA THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANDOVER DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: CITY CODE TITLE 11: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS CHAPTER 1: GENERAL SUBDIVISION PROVISIONS SECTION: 11 -1 -4: DEFINITIONS: For the purpose of this title, certain words and terms are hereby defined as follows: SEASONAL HIGH WATER MARK: The elevation of mottled soils The highest anticipated ground water table, or elevation shown by a geotechnical study accepted by City Staff. (Amended 9/18/07, Ord. 355) 11 -1 -5: EASEMENTS TO BE DEDICATED: A. Dedication Of Easements: Final plats shall identify and dedicate all easements for utilities, drainage, street rights -of -way, surface water ponding and such other public uses as shall be found necessary, convenient or desirable by the City to ensure the timely extension of utilities to adjacent properties. Lots served by municipal services shall have a minimum 5 -foot drainage and utility easements along the side, front, and rear lot lines. and 10 tea. ^ir ^g° and utility easement along the Rent an eaf lot lines-. Lots without municipal services shall have 10- foot drainage and utility easements along all property lines. Easements for trails and vehicle maintenance access will be dedicated on a separate document. (Amended 9/18/07, Ord. 355) CHAPTER 3: DESIGN STANDARDS SECTION: 11 -3 -4: EASEMENTS: A. Utility Easements: Easements at least ten twenty feet (20} (0') wide or as determined by the City Engineer, centered on rear and side lot lines, shall be provided for utilities where required by the platting authority. Utility easements shall have continuity of alignment from block to block and lot to lot. Lots served by municipal services shall have a minimum 5 -foot drainage and utility easements along the side, front, and rear- lot lines 1„t lines and ° Minimum 10 foot ,lr.,inage and .,t:l:ty easements .,leng the front and rear- lot lines. Lots without municipal services shall have a minimum 10 -foot drainage and utility easements along all property lines. (Amended 9/18/07, Ord. 355) CITY CODE TITLE 12: ZONING REGULATIONS CHAPTER 2: RULES AND DEFINITIONS SECTION: 12 -2 -2: DEFINITIONS: The following words and terms, whenever they occur in this title, are defined as follows: ANIMALS, FARM: Animals commonly kept for productive purposes on a farm, such as cattle, hogs swine (including pot- bellied OWN), sheep, goats, and other similar animals, excluding poultry. (Amd. 4/18/06, Ord. 325A) CHAPTER 13: PERFORMANCE STANDARDS SECTION: 12 -13 -8: OFF STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS: E. Design Standards: 6. Surfacing: a. Specifications: All driveways, off street driving, loading, parking and storage areas shall be surfaced in accordance with the standard specifications as adopted by the city and on file with the office of the City Engineer. b. Maintenance of Parking Facilities: It shall be the resnonsibility of the owner of the rp inciple use or building to maintain, in a neat and adequate manner, the parking, space and accessways with materials in accordance with the standard specifications as adopted by the city and on file with the office of the City Engineer. c b. Exemptions: (1) Farm dwellings and faun operations are exempt from this paving requirement. (2) City parks shall be exempt from the paving requirement if approved by the City Council. (3) Storage areas for heavy construction equipment that would damage the pavement may be exempt from the paving and surfacing requirement, with an acceptable surface approved by the City Engineer. d E Plans: Plans for surfacing and drainage of driveways for nonresidential uses shall be submitted to the City Engineer for review, and the final plan shall be subject to written approval. 7. Striping: Except for single - family, two - family, townhouse and quadraminium dwellings, all parking stalls shall be marked with white or- yellew painted lines not less than four inches (4 ") wide. (Amended Ord. 8, 10 -21 -1970) All other Titles, Sections and Chapters of the City Code shall be as written and adopted by the City Council. Adopted by the City Council of the City of Andover on this _ day of January 2013 ATTEST: Michelle Hartner, Deputy City Clerk CITY OF ANDOVER Michael R. Gamache, Mayor CITY OF ANDOVER COUNTY OF ANOKA STATE OF MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. XXX AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY CODE TO PROHIBIT THE PLANTING OF TREES IN THE CITY RIGHT -OF -WAY UNLESS APPROVED AS A PART OF THE PLATTING PROCESS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANDOVER DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: CITY CODE TITLE 8: PUBLIC WAYS AND PROPERTY CHAPTER 1: BOULEVARD USE SECTION 8 -1 -2: IMPROVEMENTS TO BOULEVARD AREAS 8 -1 -2: IMPROVEMENTS TO BOULEVARD AREAS: The planting of trees is prohibited in the city right -of -way unless approved as a part of the platting process, however improvements to boulevard areas, except as noted in Section 8 -1 -4 of this chapter, may be allowed as long as such improvement does not impair, interfere with, or offer a potential threat of damage to city vehicles when snowplowing. The city shall not be responsible or liable for injury to or from such improvements, and the owner or occupant, by placing or using boulevard areas for improvements, agrees in doing so to hold the city harmless for any and all claims of any injury or damage to or from such improvements. Any city owned equipment, such as sewer and water lines, damaged or impaired by such boulevard improvement, shall be remedied at the homeowner's or occupant's cost. (Ord. 106, 9 -6 -1994) All other Titles, Chapters and Sections of the City Code shall remain as written and adopted by the Andover City Council. Adopted by the City Council of the City of Andover on this 2nd day of January, 2013. CITY OF ANDOVER ATTEST: Michael R. Garnache, Mayor Michelle Hartner, Deputy City Clerk 8 -1 -4: PROHIBITED ENCROACHMENTS; EXCEPTIONS: A. No encroachment of any kind shall be permitted within a sight triangle as defined in Subsection 12 -2 -2 of this code. B. No encroachment shall be permitted without City Council approval within eight feet (8') of the curb in urban areas and to the rear of the ditch in rural areas. In cases where there is no ditch, the distance shall be eight feet (8'). The City Council may determine that certain temporary encroachments may be allowed for health, safety and general welfare reasons and will be handled on an as needed /request basis. (Ord. 106A, 7 -15 -2003) 1685 CROSSTOWN BOULEVARD N.W. • ANDOVER, MINNESOTA 55304 • (763) 755 -5100 FAX (763) 755 -8923 • WWW.CI.ANDOVER.MN.US TO: Planning and Zoning Commissioners FROM: Stephanie L. Hanson, City Planner SUBJECT: Discuss City Code 12 -12 Permitted, Conditional and Prohibited Uses DATE: December 11, 2012 REQUEST Please bring your workshop packet materials from the November 13 workshop. We will continue discussion on the Permitted, Conditional, and Prohibited Uses table.