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Planning Commission <br />Meeting Minutes <br />June 23, 2022 <br />Page 3 of 14 <br />Moline asks if the Public Works Department believes that with the 20% increase in <br />traffic from the Delo area, the street system and neighborhood can handle it. <br />Ritchie says they did a quick review of this trip generation letter and the city engineers <br />expressed no concerns. They will do a deeper dive into this though prior to City Council. <br />Krantz asks if that will include the level of service for the intersection at Griffith St and <br />Highway 42. <br />Ritchie says staff did not require the applicant to provide a full traffic study that will <br />include the evaluation of the intersection. <br />Howe mentions that in the last meeting, a public comment was received discussing <br />previous PUD agreements in regards to the traffic linking Caledonia Cir to Highway 42. <br />Are we consistent with those previous agreements? <br />Ritchie says any specific agreement between property owner to property owner are not <br />part of any PUD or plat applications. She gives an overview of applicable agreements <br />between property owners in regards to access between Cannon St and Highway 42. <br />Howe says if we were to make this part of this provision, would that be appropriate to <br />discuss with this proposal. <br />Ritchie says the property to the east is not a part of this application so she cannot see a <br />way to bind a property owner to an application that is not a part of this existing one. <br />Brauneis asks how staff came upon the 10:00pm cut off for hours of operation and <br />hours of amplified music. <br />Ritchie says this is just a starting point for discussion. Staff tried to keep in mind that <br />this property is zoned commercially and would not have any hours of constriction <br />outstand of our nuisance code. <br />Commission Questions of Applicant: <br />Sean Murphy, LCP Development <br />Hoefner asks for more context on the trip generation data. <br />Murphy says they are not anymore experts than staff on what those numbers mean. <br />The main takeaway we took from this data is that this is not a large increase in the <br />function of neighborhood traffic flow. It was not seen as an issue to the current street <br />layout. <br />Krantz mentions the live work units in the original proposal and now the switch to one <br />single commercial building. Why are the live work units no longer a viable? <br />Murphy says those eight units ranged from 3200-4400 sq ft. That is a large unit. 66% of <br />the structure was designated for residential. The live work units were not designed to be <br />a work from home scenario. It was for small business owners to have up to five <br />occupants on the ground floor. Based on the current market, these would be at a cost of <br />one million or more for the live work units and the rent would be largely unfeasible. <br />Krantz states it would not be possible for a live work unit to rent out the lower floor to a <br />small business. <br />Murphy reminds the commissioners that this proposal was the previous developer's <br />design so it is difficult to speak on their vision, but it seemed like it was not intended for <br />it to be rented out. <br />Moline asks if the applicant can speak on the reduction in the square footage of the <br />amenity space as well as how the use was picked. <br />Murphy says he does not have the exact square footage of the previous Delo lofts. The <br />previous proposal had a small pocket amenity space along Griffith St that was intended <br />to be a more traditional open space. We chose a pickleball court because we have seen <br />