St. Louis Park Planning Commission

Where the data center is discussed

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• ▶ ~0:01…our public hearings this evening the first one which is item 3A on the agenda is a conditional use permit for St Louis Park School District Data Center and we'll turn it over to City staff for presentation hello thank you chair my name is Jacqueline Kramer I'm an associate planner with the city of St Louis Park tonight…
• ▶ ~0:02…t is a gravel storage yard you can also see the blue box is where the proposed building is so the school district would like to build a new Data Center building connected to and located northwest of this existing Maintenance building it would go right on top of the gravel storage area so that outdoor storage area would…
• ▶ ~0:02…of the gravel storage area so that outdoor storage area would go away the new building will include storage offices warehouses for I.T and data center purposes and it would serve the entire St Louis Park School District with this project there's no changes proposed to the football field or the stadium the existing Mai…
• ▶ ~0:04…g driveway there's also new bike racks being installed a new trash enclosure and then new plantings of trees and shrubs around the proposed Data Center for public property like the school district they are required to replace every tree that comes down with a construction project at a one-to-one caliper inch ratio so f…
• ▶ ~0:05…e permit is required and because there's an existing Maintenance building there's an existing building next to the stadium and then the new Data Center building that triggers the requirement for the cup so staff reviewed the plans to make sure they were in compliance with all of the requirements for a conditional use p…
• ▶ ~0:07…arehouse use in the building Warehouse uses in this District have to provide one space for every 1500 square feet so the first floor of the data center is about half office half warehouse and then the second floor is all office So based on the size of the building the zoning code requires 11 parking spaces for this new…
• ▶ ~0:10…r questions commissioner yeah um sorry and I was a little late I apologize where can you just show in the on here where the entrance of the data center is gonna be there's like the entrance yep there's two there's an entrance here I believe there's an entrance up here too and there's sidewalk all the way around the bui…
• ▶ ~0:11…ide the maintenance building to get to this exit and then go to the parking lot understood okay and then what is just directly south of the data center what is that little bit of land this is an existing driveway and loading zone there's a load like a a garage door here so that's used for dropping off equipment at the…
• ▶ ~0:11…ng zone there's a load like a a garage door here so that's used for dropping off equipment at the maintenance building and then also at the data center when they get computers or servers um the trucks will stop here they pull in and then they can bring them into the data center and then head out yeah okay okay clear th…
• ▶ ~0:11…also at the data center when they get computers or servers um the trucks will stop here they pull in and then they can bring them into the data center and then head out yeah okay okay clear thank you any other questions um clarify commissioner youngquist I'm just curious with the addition of the proposed playground ad…