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62.3 New NORM WELLS ARCHITECT, P.A, Seventeenth Avenue Northwest Brighton. Minnesota 55112 ph. 631-8798 September 14; 1988 City of New Brighton 803 Fifth Avenue M1 New Brighton; Minnesota 55112 Attention: Erny Mattila, City Planner Re: Brighton Corporate Center Variance Request Dear Mr. Mattila: The Brighton Park Partnership requests a variance from the parking lot setback requirement for the South parking area which parallels Second Street NW. This request is to reduce the setback requirement from forty feet along Second Street NW to sixteen feet. The reasons for this reques.... are as follows: The Project Site is linear in configuration thus making the resultant building linear in shape; To provide the required 30;000 square feet of building area, and to provid~ required parking for the building~ a linear configyration of building and parking has been designed, which fits the overall concept of the Corporate Park, Second Street is to'beused primarily as an acess street to the Corporate Park, thus it .will not be used by the general public. It will become a short cu~-de-sac street to provide access to the Lots in the North half OI the Park and willn6t be used as a thoroughfare to areas beyond thii development. Since Second Street will not be heavily trafficked by the public; the need for green space along the parking area is not as important as where heavy public traffic occurs. The green area along Second Street will be thirty feet wide; will be bermed and heavily landscaped as indicated on the Landscape Plan; and will provide a pleasing appearance. Parking ,vill be along the South side of the building, rather than at the street side of the parking area. The combination of a bermed and heavily landscaped thirty foot green area and parking the cars at the building rather than along the street meets the intent of the parking setback requirement for buffering cars from the street. This project is in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan and granting this variance request will not 'be detrimental to adjacent property or to the pUblic as a whole. ShOUld you require further information regarding this request please feel free to contact Jim Senden or Norm Wells. Thank you for your consideration of this request. Respectfully submitted, ~vJ~ Norm Wells Architect PA for Brighton Park Partnership Jam