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Council approves design flexibility for IDC Automatic addition at 360 Coon Rapids Boulevard
Summary
The council approved a planning case to allow overhead doors on a new 2,000-square-foot storage building at IDC Automatic’s site, subject to a condition banning outdoor equipment storage. The Planning Commission had recommended approval.
The Coon Rapids City Council on April 1 approved a design-flexibility request for a building addition at 360 Coon Rapids Boulevard (Planning Case 24-8), allowing overhead garage-style doors to face Coon Rapids Boulevard on a new 2,000-square-foot detached storage building.
Planning staff explained the original site plan approved in July included a small addition on the back of the main building. Following review by the Coon Creek Watershed District and other permitting steps, the applicant proposed a separate 2,000-square-foot storage building at the southeast corner of the site with overhead doors facing north and east. The building would be set back approximately 320 feet from the street right-of-way and be about 20 feet high; staff described the doors as standard overhead garage doors, not large truck dock doors.
Staff recommended approval of the design flexibility with one condition: no outdoor storage of equipment on the site. The Planning Commission had reviewed the request at its March meeting and recommended approval.
Councilmember Geisler moved to approve design flexibility to City Code section 11-1003.11(a)(18) (as cited in the packet) to allow overhead doors to face Coon Rapids Boulevard, finding the modification responds to site conditions and furthers the port/district intent; the motion included the no-outdoor-storage condition, was seconded and carried by voice vote.
Council discussion noted that watershed-district changes prompted the alteration and that IDC Automatic is a long-term employer in the city; members said the building’s setback and screening would reduce public visibility.
