Title
Ordinance - Third and Final Reading on an Ordinance Approving a Specific Use Permit for Restaurant with Drive-thru Service on Approximately 1.04 Acres Located at 1571 E. Debbie Lane; KMSP-Luna Grill Restaurants (ZC#15-011)
Requested Action
To consider the subject request for specific use permit.
Recommendation
The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on September 8, 2015 and voted 5-0 to recommend approval. Commissioners Smithee and Knight were absent.
Description/History
The property is located at the southeast corner of Lifetime Fitness’s parking lot, next to Villas di Lucca. The developer plans to put three restaurants at this location - Bahama Buck’s, Luna Grill and the 3rd one is undetermined. Bahama Buck’s at the western end of the building has a drive through facility. The proposed site plan complies with the commercial development design standards as well as the new requirements on restaurant with drive through facilities.
- Two points of access
- Shared drive approach to Debbie Lane with Lifetime Fitness
- Cross access to the parking lots of adjacent properties
- Stacking lane parallel to the street will be located behind the building
- Stacking lane will be clearly delineated
- Stacking lane will be integrated with on-site vehicular and pedestrian circulation and not exit directly into the street
- A by-pass lane will be provided between the stacking lane and landscaping median
- Stacking lane will accommodate at least five stacking spaces before the order board and four stacking spaces between the order board and the transaction window
- Stacking lane will have a minimum width of 10 feet
- Stacking lane exposed to the adjacent property will be screened by shrubs along the rear lot line
- A 20’ wide landscape buffer will be provided along the side lot lines
Prepared By
Felix Wong, Director of Planning
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