The first item and the only item we have tonight uh is a front yard setback variance for a detached garage located at 1032 Lake View Drive West. Is that correct? Yeah. Uh, and this is a recommendation by staff to adopt a resolution to approve the front yard setback.

So, a rear yard setback, which is really the lake, um sideyard setbacks, shoreland setback, um flood plane setback, and then this separation from flood plane, and again, impervious surface all remaining the same.

And then thirdly, and and perhaps um most significant is that under the state's non-conforming use law, this home could be torn down and rebuilt with simply a building permit if they were building asis. So, um it's be this request is before you this evening because of that second story, uh garage edition and that flush wall on on the north side.

We bought our property in 2006 and spent a year with your approval to um renovate obviously not changing the foundation and we actually didn't take down all the walls but we did a lot of renovation inside and we see the value in having a home such as that one being torn down, a beautiful new home being put up next to us increases the property values for everybody around us.

I really like the fact that it's using the existing foundation, that it's not physically growing. The fact that, um, impervious service is staying the same. I think it's a hard thing to make this work and make it fit. I think you've done a good job of putting that together. I think it'll add a lot to the neighborhood as well.

The plan contemplates removal of um that existing 224,000 uh square foot building and the associated parking and then construction of a uh one building 270,000 square ft. Um the specific design and um the tenants have not been selected uh yet uh as we're still in concept plan phase, but I'm sure the developer can kind of talk about their process as they've um built um many similar projects throughout the Twin Cities metro uh area.

I guess the biggest thing that we do that would be sustainable on a site like this and it was a big it was a very big deal for when we did the uh Nexus project, the former American Family Insurance campus, is that when we're demolishing these buildings, we're recycling all the concrete on site. So, partly because we can reuse that, grind that up and reuse it underneath the building, not only does it mean we don't have to haul it off and take it to a dump, but we also don't have to haul anything in. So, we're basically reducing truck traffic simultaneously, but also the emissions pretty dramatically.

I don't disagree uh with anything you said, Miss Thomas, but I I think you're right. This variety, I think it's really this balance act that we tried to structure. And I think Susan, if you go back to the map where you were talking about that kind of northeast or northwest quadrant of Opus, that really is a more industrial. You have holiday circuits, you have telekcom, you have an engineering company, you have lots of different uses kind of and and and frankly a school is not a small use either, especially that school. Um, and so lots of traffic with that school etc. Um and frankly the balance on housing um when we think about where that should go and open I mean we have lots of thoughts about it going near the station and so this being kind of across the way I mean I think it's good for employment and all of that that you would have a stop there but the actual residential property kind of focusing more by the station is really what we wanted to encourage. I think also frankly being right smack dab on the light rail line um I think encourages that kind of industrial light industrial use to keep to that northwest quadrant.

I always worry about heat sinks and and having the big concrete walls creating sound bouncing around in the community or um more heat. So, I'd love to see something with maybe even green walls on the exterior to try to add some of that sustainability, add some sound suppression, some cooling. So, something something more innovative for this area as maybe a as maybe inspiration for other people who want to come into this area and and do more building and uh and more industry.