Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

All right. Thank you. I'm calling the Monday, June 23rd, 2025 Planning Commission meeting to order. Will everyone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. All right. First item on the agenda tonight is the approval of the agenda. Do I have any concerns about the agenda this evening? Would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda? Move to approve the agenda. I have a motion to approve. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Second to approve the agenda. All those in favor of approving the agenda say I. I. Oppos. All right. Agenda is approved. Uh moving on the minutes from the June 9th, 2025 planning commission meeting. Does anyone have any concerns about the minutes or edits? All right, seeing none, I have one that I'd just like to mention. On page three, Piper asked for and received confirmation there had been a planned LRT station on this property, which would not now not be built. I did mention city hall property. If you read that, it says this, meaning you could read that as Danfos property. So, I just like to say city hall property, please. Other than that, uh if there's no other amendments, I would ask for a motion to approve the minutes as amended. Motion to approve the minutes with the changes. All right. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor of approving the minutes as amended, say I. I. I. Opposed. Minutes are approved. Moving on. We have one public hearing tonight 2025-03. This is a planned unit development concept review on 77 acres. Planned unit development district review with

waiverss on 77 acres. Site plan review on 77 acres. Will the proponent of the project please come forward. Thank you. Gentlemen, if you could state your name and spell it for record and please walk us through your request. spelling is uh kn a ble. I am Nathan Zwiki. I'm architect and designer with the Redmond Group. Uh last name is Z Y W I C KI. Thank you. Please tell us about your request. Yeah. So, we're here to request the approval of a new Vidian Credit Union off of Flying Cloud Drive and Middle Road in Eden Prairie. I think we got a PowerPoint. And Nathan's going to touch on the architecture and the Vidian. I'll talk a little bit about site plan, landscape, and that'll be it. So, we can go to the next slide. Oh, it's right here. Oh, just kidding. There we go. Um, a little bit of ver a little bit about Vidian. Uh, they were founded in 1934 um by a handful of John Deere tractor employees. Um, it was founded because they wanted to offer their fellow co-workers an alternative to commercial banks and other for-profit financial institutions at that time. Uh currently uh Verdian is a modern full-ervice financial institution that offers a broad range of products and services to fit a variety of their member preferences and lifestyles. Uh they're not for-p profofit and owned by their members. Um and their main objective is to benefit their members and their families throughout a variety

of no or lowcost services, low loan rates, and higher savings rates. As Dave said, um they're going to be on Flying Cloud Road, but currently they have a location at 6385 Old Shady Oak Road, uh sweet 110. Um upon the approval of this, they are going to move their main location to the to the Flying Cloud location and keep this location open as well. Uh the hours of operation are going to be Monday through Friday 8:30 to 5:30 and then Saturday 8:30 to noon. Uh they will have drive of drive up or drive-thru traffic approximately 35 to 40 vehicles per day. Um and then they wanted to note that most other branches um see more in branch traffic than drive-thru traffic. So yeah, the site itself is currently an existing car wash facility that will get demolished and then rebuilt with the new credit union building. Currently there's three site accesses to the property. One off of middle set and then two off of the private drive running north south. The southern access off of middle set is going to be removed as part of the project and then the two accesses will be utilized off of the existing private drive. uh two birectional entrance at the south and then a one-way uh egress at the north end of the property. The project itself will you know utilize existing utility services that are there serving the existing facility and then it'll also be providing a new stormwater management system to meet the requirements of the wershed district which is the um the um Bradley Purgatory Bluff Creek wershed and then landscaping wise um landscape plan is proposed to meet city

requirements screening along Flying Cloud drive. There's a quite a grade change from Flying Cloud down to the site. So, there'll be a little retaining wall. We'll have some screening on top of that. Screening around the building and then screening the parking lot on the west side with a couple of couple of trees is currently proposed there. So, the building design itself is designed to be open and welcoming to current and potential membership. Um, it incorporates large amounts of natural light and includes uh components that speak to Verdian's brand, including the green accents that are shown around the the entry here in this image and as well as the butterfly roof as well. Uh, the Verdian branches are designed to be clean and modern with a focus on delivering members through a digital first philosophy um including in branch support and guidance. A branch includes, like I said before, two drive lanes with an ATM. Um, the exterior building materials and colors comply with the city code and mixing the various classes by means of glass, stonemasonry, and aluminum siding. The overall architecture fits the surrounding area by bringing a new modern building to the Flying Cloud streetscape. This is another rendering from the other side. So, the main entry is further into the rendering. This is the drive up. the ATM will be on the outside drive through lane. Um, and then we included a night shot as well um where they wanted to um emphasize the entry by having some linear lights within the ACM the metal panels and as well as along the V-shaped butterfly roof surface and facial. That's it. So, we're here to answer any questions you have on the project. Great. Thank you. Any initial questions? Got a question. Commissioner,

as far as the ATM machine, you have one on the outside by the drive-thru. Do you plan to have one on the inside of the entrance of the lobby as well or They do not. No. Okay. The only thing they'll plan on having in the lobby is a coin counter for public use. Okay. Questions? Uh just you mentioned the experience the other branches have more in branch um traffic than through the drive-thru. Is that is that typical for standalone banks or is it more of your experience? Yeah, we're finding that to be a little bit more true depending on the area in which they're in um the one that they're referring to now in the current location they do have a little bit more lobby versus tribal. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Far. Mr. Sure. Yeah. I was going to make a comment on the landscaping plan regarding the the ability of those plantings to screen headlights because the drive-through lane faces north right against traffic of southbound Flying Cloud Drive. But then looking at your grading plan, I noticed you do have a pretty good grade separation there with the retaining wall. So, uh I I don't think it's going to be a problem, but just maybe in the future if if headlights become a problem. I don't know if you could look at that later. It's only winter here six months a year. Um uh so that may take some evergreens at the top of the hill at the far north end there, but just something to look out for. Yes, chair, commissioner. Yeah, good good comment. I I think the grade change will help with most of that concern. It's about five or six feet lower than the Flying Cloud Drive, so it shouldn't be an issue, but if it is, we can always add some landscaping in the future. Okay. Thank you. I like the way the plan circulates a lot. Great. One more question. Keep keeping on the uh concept of the landscaping. The trees that's along Middle East Road. Um they're pretty mature uh trees. Are they remaining or are you pulling those out?

Uh chair, commission members. Yeah, we're proposing to remove a couple of the existing trees down by the entrance on the southwest corner of the site, but then there are four trees there that we're proposing to to keep along Middle Set. So, there's a few that we had to remove to get the entrance work to work and the grading to work, but then we are proposing to keep four of the seven trees that are out there. Thank you. Great. Thank you. We'll go to the city for the city's report. Jeremy, would you walk us through, please? Thank you, chair, commissioners. Uh, not a lot to add from my side. Uh, this is a redevelopment of the former, uh, Mr. car wash site and some of you may recall uh there's a driveway as you exited the car wash right near the intersection with middle and and flying cloud drive that is going to be removed at the request of the city to try to provide less choice right at that intersection try to shift people further uh further away from that major intersection so that is a is an improvement on the site um there are two waivers being requested with this um this project when it was a Mr. car wash that was approved um with variances back then we didn't necessarily use PUD is the same way we do now and in that situation we approved the zero foot setback with uh with variances here we're um approving it through or recommending approval through the PUD waiver process and the two waivers are parking setback uh the parking lot um is right up against the property line um as as part of that entrance drive. So, it'll be a zero foot setback instead of the required 10-ft setback. Same thing with the accessory structure, which is for the dumpster enclosure. The dumpster currently is located on someone else's property um when it's served, Mr. Carwash. Uh that will be located in a

conforming um dumpster enclosure with a roof. That will be the zero foot setback from the property line. Um it's not really a new standard or new condition in the sense that parking lot is already there now just as part of this approval we wanted to make sure we granted the waivers as necessary. So staff is recommending support for those waivers uh because of how the site lays out and how the site has functioned over the last 20 years or so. Um the applicant had mentioned parking or excuse me the parking exceeds the the minimum requirements. The building materials and building building design exceeds or meets the requirements from city code. Um the landscaping exceeds the requirements um from for city code when you factor in all the the landscaping shrubbery and trees and flower bed areas. Um so staff is recommending approval of this uh site plan. the PUD concept and the PUD waiver uh subject to the conditions they're outlined in your staff report. Most of which are um would be would be shown in the final construction drawings. They're not formative. They won't change the layout uh at all. Just uh relatively minor comments to be addressed as part of the building building and site u site permits. So staff recommends approval and stand for any questions. Thank you. Any questions for the city about this? Mr. Chair, can I just a simple question on the aerial um there's some yellow lines depicting the lots around this site and just to the north where that other multi-tenant building is along Flying Cloud Drive. It seems like their property wraps around to the northwest on this shared driveway that the bank comes in and out from. And there's about what looks like maybe seven or six or seven parking stalls along there.

I have uh the Henipin County aerial um on my screen. Okay. Once that pops up. So when you see the um exit driveway from this bank on the north corner of their property right across from the driveway, it looks like there's about on their new plan half dozen parking stalls along that shared driveway. Those, am I right that those appear to be the sole property of the next business to the north? Or is there some shared parking that this user could use there? Not that they're short on parking, but I'm just more curious about what's going on with that parking on the other side of the driveway. So, looking at the site plan on the screen now, are you referring to um upper left? It's shaded gray right there. Right in that area. Yeah, that is not on the um the subject property that has been used by um that's where the dumpster enclosure was for Mr. Carwash where the dumpster was. So I think and really this whole kind of pod of commercial areas was developed kind of at the same time with the thought of cross access and um shared parking and shared access. So that's um that really isn't changing here uh in terms of how that kind of driveway can be used. Does that answer your question? I believe so. Um yeah. So this is this is a PUD. Is this PUD? This isn't a I raise this. We're not asking for a revised PUD. This is a new PUD. This is a new PUD. And so they're not um absorbing uh other access rights

that are that were in the earlier PUD. Mr. Chair, commissioners, they're not changing anything. So absorbing is an interesting verb. They're how access this isn't a public way, the driveway. Um they have an access easement through that through that space. They do. Yes. Okay. I thought that would have gone along with the previous PUD. Well, again, there wasn't a previous PUD. There was It was all approved as part of um some some variances and some um that kind of process. It wasn't formally adopted as a PUD as we would do now. Okay. Um but there is a an access easement for this property through that property. All right. All right. Through the I believe it's a a diamond retailer. um they they can access through that property. Thank you. Appreciate the clarifications. All right. This is a public hearing. If anyone would like to come forward to offer comments for against this request, please do so now. Seeing none, I entertain a motion to close the public hearing. Motion to close public hearing. Motion to close. Do I have a second to close? Second. Second to close public hearing. All those in favor say I. I I opposed. Public hearing is closed. Any further discussion on this item? Would anyone like to make a motion? Looks pretty straightforward. Uh maybe before we make a motion, I'd just like to state since we're looking at two waiverss, I support the two waivers for the reason cited in the staff report. And with that, I'll go ahead and make a motion to uh move to recommend approval for planned unit development concept review, planned unit development district review with waiverss, and site plan review all on 0.77 acres as recommended by staff represented in the June 23rd, 2025 staff report. All right, I have a motion from Commissioner Far for approval. Do I have a second? Second.

We have a second from Commissioner Weber for approval. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Would anyone like to abstain? All right. Right. Good luck moving forward. Thank you for your presentation this evening. All right. Jeremy, any planners reports? Not tonight. Any members reports? Entertaining motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Have a second. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. We're journ. Thanks everyone. Nicely done.