Cond. Use Permit-Construct Car Care Fac.October 18, 1985
Case No: 85 -56
Applicant: Brian Zubert
Location: llth Avenue & 7th Street South
Request: Conditional Use Permit to construct a car care facility
STAFF FINDINGS & COMMENTS: Anderson
1. Applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to construct a car care facility
at the corner of llth Avenue South & 7th Street. The subject site is zoned B -3.
2. The facility will consist of a 10 bay car wash and a self service laundry with
15 washers. The car wash is a self service car wash contained within the building.
3. The subject site has 39,074 square feet, the proposed building will have 10,368
square feet. The Floor Area Ratio will be .27. Ordinance 427.35 requires a maxi-
mum F.A.R. of 1.5.
4. The landscape plan shows 21 trees. Ordinance 427.48(10) requires 16 trees for this
site. The site will be bermed on the north side. The plan shows trees with a dia-
meter of 2.0 - this will have to be increased to 2.5.
5. The parking requirement for the laundry area is 8 parking spaces, the proposed plan
shows 9. The Zoning Ordinance has no parking requirements for a car wash, however,
there is a City Ordinance 418.70 which requires sufficient off - street area to pro-
vide parking for three times the number of vehicles which are enclosed in the build-
ing. The applicant has 18 parking spaces, the ordinance would require 30.
6. The Fire Marshal has the plans, however, no report was received as of the date of
this review.
7. The City Engineer has the plans, however, no report was received as of the date of
this review.
8. The entrance /exit will be on llth Avenue South.
9. The exterior of the building will be made of decorative concrete block.
10. The height of the proposed building will be approximately 30 feet. Ordinance 427.35
requires a maximum height of 45 feet in a B -3 District.
11. The trash container will be located within the rear of the building.
12. The proposed building would have a front yard setback of approximately 17 feet, a
northerly side yard setback of 47 feet, a southerly side yard setback of 37 feet
and a rear yard setback of 47 feet. These setbacks conform with Ordinance 427.35.
13. Westbrooke Apartments are located to the east, a small shopping center to the south,
an office building to the north and a home to the west.
14. The lighting proposed on the site will be placed on the bottom of the building and
illuminate the site.
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NARRATIVE
U -DO CAR CARE AND WASH COMPANY
MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA
The U -Do Car Care and Wash Company engages in the business of
self service car washing and detailing. All of this is done
w ithin the confines of a controlled environment, which, unlike
other self service car washes, is a patrolled and maintained by
an on duty attendant. At U -Do Car Washes the customer will find
that they do not need to carry a pocket full of change, a bucket,
two rags, a chamois, window cleaner and towels to wash their car.
Instead they will drive up take out a time slip, the only entrance
w ill automatically open and they will select a hay in which to begin
cleaning their auto; the customer will pick and choose what
He or she will do to their car from the most complete selection of
car washing options available. They can use foaming degreaser,
tyrefoam wheel cleaner, car presoak, bubble brush, high pressure
soap or rinse, hot high pressure lemon wax, and spot free rinse.
All of these are for the outside of their car, and for the inside
they can switch to vacuum to clean carpets, upholstery and ash
trays. They can go to either the office or the indoor vending
area and pick up various items to detail their automobiles;
We will have window cleaners, chamois, car scent, upholstery
shampoos, whitewall shine, "Armour All ", and much more. Again
all of this is done indoors year round. Occasionally we at U -Do
incorporate automatic car washes into Our projects. Typically
it will seldom be more than one automatic by which is then pro-
✓ ided with it's own lane of stacking and it's own exit lane. We
use one of two styles, either the all new brushless "Rotorai1"
or the more traditional brush type known as the "Slant Brush"
These automatics would also be contained in a cortrolled environ-
ment and would actually be a part of the main building structure.
The automatic bays are serviced by an electronic teller, whereas
the self serve hays are serviced by a system similiar to that of
a parking ramp. It is this system which accounts for the major
difference between our building design and that of the typical
self serve washes.
The U -Do Car Care concept of taking all of the normally noisy,
unsightly, and messy functions associated with self serve washes
and moving them indoors under a system of controls which eliminates
the possibility of them becoming a problem to our neighboring
businesses, has proven to enhance our project acceptability into
areas with strict zoning.
SUITE 310, 15612 HIGHWAY 7, MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA 55345, PHONE AREA CODE (612) 938 -1982
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