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Home My WebLink About3.c. Rosewood Estates PropertyCITY OF ROSEMOUNT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION COUNCIL WORK SESSION DATE: February 11, 2004 AGENDA ITEM: Rosewood Estates Property AGENDA SECTION: Discussion PREPARED BYr Kim Lindquist, Community Development Dir. fq AGENI L; w 3 ATTACHMENTS: Letter from Maxfield Research, Map, WSB Traffic APPROVED BY: Information At the last Council Work Session, staff raised a question about the land use for a property within the Rosewood Estates area. The property is currently designated for Urban Residential and is zoned RI Low Density Residential. The developer has approached planning staff about rezoning the property to permit townhome units and has provided a concept plan. Staff questions whether this is a good location for residential uses and would like to explore a commercial use on the site. This would be consistent with the designation and zoning of the property immediately south of the site. Council seemed receptive to having the property be rezoned and reguided to commercial. One question was what the change in land use of this parcel could do to the city's downtown redevelopment efforts. Jay Thompson, Maxfield research, has provided a memorandum addressing this concern. He conducted the recent market study for the downtown project. His letter indicates that he does not believe there will be anyconflicts between the commercial developer that would be attracted to the Rosewood site versus the downtown area. They are two different market niches. Potential traffic impacts to the existing neighborhood would also be a discussion point. WSB is looking at some traffic layouts that could reduce, but not eliminate, cut through traffic in the adjoining Rosewood neighborhood. Attached are some preliminary comments and alternative traffic concepts provided by WSB. Based upon the discussion at the February work session, staff will be talking to the property owner about development on the site. Should the Council indicate that the property might be a better commercial site than residential, staff would initiate a comprehensive guide plan amendment. We would wait to rezone the property until a project was brought before the City for review. Given the above discussion, staff would also like to raise the disposition of the property immediately to the east, the church property. It appears that the church maybe selling the property and is looking for suitable users. Staff has spoken to the CDA about using a portion of the 15 acre site. They may be interested in using approximately 5 acres for affordable townhomes. They are also looking into a single family affordable housing product that might fit on this site. According to representatives of the CDA, the church may be interested in keeping approximately 3 acres for their future needs. Additionally, there are 4 -5 acres of ponding on the site. Subtracting all of the stated uses, there is approximately 2 -3 acres for additional development. Depending upon the site design, staff could envision a commercial use locating at the southwest corner of the parcel. That would put it immediately across from commercial and would create a smaller commercial hub in the area. Staff would like discussion and direction on the preferred future land uses of the "church" parcel. We would like to confirm the Council's interest in having a CDA project on a portion of the site, of course, pending further details. We would also like know if the Council could support additional commercial on a portion of this site, so long as it complements the other uses and is appropriately designed to handle traffic concerns. A. 4 Aeld Research Inc. January 29, 2004 Ms. Kim Lindquist Community Development Director City of Rosemount 2875 145`" Street West Rosemount, MN 55068 Dear Ms. Lindquist: It was a pleasure speaking with you on Monday about the impact that a big box retail store near Downtown Rosemount would have on the potential for retail in the Downtown. As I understand, there is a proposal to rezone a parcel on the northeast intersection of Highways 42 and 3 (east of the rail road tracks) to allow big box retail. Our Market Potential Study for Downtown Rosemount, completed in November 2003, found demand for an additional 59,000 square feet of retail space in the Downtown through 2008. This demand was calculated for store types that are appropriate for a downtown environment — that is, smaller stores (about 5,000 square feet or less) that do not need large parking lots and that will also be able to market their unique Downtown location as an experience that can't be found at shopping centers. Big box stores would not fit this retail category, and therefore, there would likely be little competition between Downtown businesses and a big box store located on the subject Site at Highways 42 and 3. In short, big box on the subject Site will not reduce our calculated retail demand in Downtown. In fact, it may strengthen the Downtown by generating additional traffic to the area, providing Downtown businesses the opportunity to capture "spin -off' customers. If you have questions or need additional information, please contact me. Sincerely, MAXFIELD RESEARCH INC. r, Jay Thompson Senior Research Analyst 615 1" Avenue NE #400, Minneapolis, MN 55413 (612) 338 -0012 fax (612) 904 -7979 hI ��.�� :: �� -' 'A ) WSB & Associates, Inc. Memorandum To: Andy Brotzler, P.E., City Engineer City of Rosemount From: Chuck Rickart, P.E., P. T. O.E., Transportation Engineer WSB & Associates, Inc. Date: February 3, 2004 Re: Rosewood Village Access WSB Project No. 1005 -47 The proposed Rosewood Village Development is planning a commercial area north of CSAH 42 and west of existing Business Parkway. With all access to this proposed commercial area from Business Parkway, a potential issue exists for cut - through traffic between Biscayne Avenue and the commercial area, trying to avoid CSAH 42. Based on this potential, two alternative access designs have been developed to help eliminate and /or reduce this cut - through traffic potential. Each alternative is discussed below. Access Alternative 1 — Residential One -Way Access This access alternative would require Business Parkway to curve to the west just north of CSAH 42. A right turn only and one -way to the existing 148 Street would be provided. This alternative would eliminate all access from the residential neighborhood to the proposed commercial area, and to CSAH 42 via Business Parkway. All traffic from the residential area north of CSAH 42 would be required to access CSAH 42 at Biscayne Avenue. Traffic entering the area would have the option of taking the one -way in from Business Parkway or from Biscayne Avenue. The attached figure illustrates this alternative Access Alternative 2 — Residential Right In/Right Out Access This alternative would be similar to Alternative 1, with Business Parkway curving to the west into the commercial area with 148 Street teeing into Business Parkway as a right in/ right out. In this alternative, the median would need to be extended past the 148 Street access to prevent left turning traffic from the commercial area to turn onto 148 Street. Similar to Alternative 1, traffic exiting the residential area to the north of CSAH 42 would be required to access CSAH 42 at Biscayne Avenue. No left turn out would be allowed at Business Parkway. The potential for cut - through traffic would exist for traffic from Biscayne Avenue going to the commercial area using the right out from 148 Street. The reverse movement from the commercial area to Biscayne Avenue would not be allowed and traffic would be required to use CSAH 42 to Biscayne Avenue. The attached figure illustrates this alternative. C: Documents and SettingslajbIocal Settings lTemporary Internet Files 1OLK141020304- memo- ab.doc Mr. Jeff Sandberg, P.E. April 3, 2002 Page 2 Both alternatives would require additional right -of -way and reconstruction of the roadways from just north of CSAH 42 to approximately Brenner Court. Based on review of the geometrics and potential for cut - through traffic, Alternative 1 would provide the best alternative for eliminating the potential cut - through traffic. However, this alternative also eliminates access to the commercial area from the residential area between Biscayne Avenue and Business Parkway. If you have any questions or require any additional information on these alternative access configurations, please contact me at 763 - 287 -7183. 4150 Olson Memorial Highway Suite 300 Minneapolis Minnesota 55422 763 -541 -4800 763- 541 -1700 FAX CADocuments and Settings lajblLocal Settingsl Temporary Internet Files IOLK/41010304- memo- ab.doc C _ I ... ..... ..... ._........ CSAH 42 Alternative 1 - Residential Oneway Access Rosewood Site - City of Rosemount, Minnesota o � N OD 7 � o so 00 4 , — BRENNE- R- STR -EET — - — I Alternative 2 - Residential Right In / Right Out Access Rosewood Site - City of Rosemount, Minnesota