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the City Attorney before it could recommend anything. Teague stated that, if Beisswenger comes forward with a formal site plan that includes the 4,000 square foot outside storage, the City would get a specific opinion from the City Attorney. Baker stated the City should get an opinion from the City Attorney on the Concept Plan. Beisswenger asked, if the 12,000 square foot addition were out of the picture, would the 4,000 square foot outside storage and the parking be allowed. Teague responded a special use permit would be required for the parking. Baker stated it would not be a problem for him. Baker stated that would be an alteration of the 1987 site plan and would probably be within the intent of the 1987 plan. Beisswenger stated he would wait for the City Attorney’s opinion. Teague stated he would call the City Attorney and let Beisswenger know what he says. Zoning Ordinance Amendment City of New Brighton Teague reviewed his memo concerning continued consideration of a zoning ordinance amendment to create a new zoning district to be called MX-G, Mixed Use-Gasoline. Teague showed graphics illustrating his memo points. As a starting point for this discussion, Teague said, the limit for gasoline pumps would be five. Teague asked the Commission to go through the conditions and decide which conditions to send to the Council. Teague read the list of conditions. b. All on-site structures, shall have pitched roofs Zisla stated that the pitched roof may be a favorable design element now, but the Commission cannot say the pitched roof is the best design. O’Brien agreed with Zisla. a. The exterior wall treatments of all on-site structures, with the exception of canopies, shall be brick, natural stone, decorative concrete block or stucco. O’Brien stated he was opposed to requiring certain materials; good design is hard to legislate. Architectural metal panels should be included. c. The number of gasoline pumps shall be limited to five (5). Mark Lambert, attorney representing Douglas DeCoster, was present. DeCoster sent the conditions to Amoco for their comments. Amoco agreed with most of the points; however, Amoco was concerned about the limitation of gas pumps to five pumps. Lambert showed the site plan from January from Amoco. Amoco has not sent a new site plan pending the results of the Commission’s discussions. The plan shows eight pumps. DeCoster’s site is 1.7 acres and could hold eight pumps. Were the stations with four and five pumps on .75 acre lots or one acre lots? Taking Lakeville’s ordinance as the extreme, the lots were 1.25 acres and did not have a pump limit. Amoco has stated they can live with these design standards, but given the size of the site, Amoco wants to have up to eight pumps. Lambert stated that, according to this draft ordinance, DeCoster and Amoco will have to come back to the City for a special use permit. Then, design issues, traffic flow, and so forth would be discussed. To the extent that the Commission is considering the broad ordinance that authorizes a station, the City should “never say never” and rely on the special use permit aspect when dealing with the number of pumps. Lambert asked that the Commission not to limit the pumps to five pumps. Amoco would like to stay with eight pumps. Baker thanked Lambert for his comments. Zisla stated that DeCoster’s site presents problems that are the reverse of the site being too small. The 1.75 acre site could turn into a major fueling station as opposed to a neighborhood convenience center. Lambert’s arguments in favor of not limiting the number of pumps are I:\COMMISSIONS\PLANNING\MINUTES\1999\04-20-99.WPD 8