Date: April 19, 2018
To: Members of the Planning Commission
From: Scott Tempel, City Planner
Title
Bluff View Preliminary Plat
Body
Action Requested:
The Planning Commission is requested to recommend approval of the preliminary plat for the Bluff View Addition.
Summary Report:
The proposal for this 32.2 acres consists of 59 single-family lots, 11 twin homes, four 4-plexes and two Neighborhood Commercial lots. The Koester's wish is to provide a quality, affordable housing development. They approached staff with some draft concepts late in 2017 that varied from the expired Southbridge preliminary plat. Varying from existing preliminary grading increased development costs and caused connectivity problems with the HRA property. The current proposal uses the preliminarily graded street grid causing a reduction in the density of the project. It connects with existing development at Ford Street, Southbridge Drive, Aspen Street extended and proposed Brookside Drive. The intended connection to Southbridge Drive to the west was eliminated as Southbridge will not be allowed to be connected to 246 by MNDOT.
Background:
Southbridge was originally proposed by the ARCON Corporation to develop 52 single-family residential lots, 140 row-style townhomes and 124 back-to-back townhome units. The single-family lots had a minimum size of 6,500 square feet. The row townhomes were planned in 35 separate structures of 4 units apiece. The back-to-back units were to be in 14 buildings with 8-10 units per structure.
Only Phase 1 of the project was constructed before the economic crash of 2007-2008, which forced ARCON to abandon the project. The final plat for the first addition consisted of 17 multi-family buildings containing 82 units and 10 single-family lots as shown in Attachment 3. Not all of the units were constructed. Several of the multi-family parcels were not developed, but many have now been purchased for development.
In 2008, the remainder of the project...
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