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EDC okays addition to medical complex
By SHEILA MULLANE ESTRADA ST. PETERSBURG -- St. Anthony's Health Care is expanding its $30-million medical center at the Ulmerton Road entrance to the Carillon Business Center. A 17,000-square-foot addition to the four-story medical complex, now under construction, was approved by the Environmental Development Commission Wednesday. EDC consideration of the revised project site plan was triggered when the development square footage exceeded the 150,000 square-foot maximum that can be approved in-house by city planners. The Carillon Outpatient Center, now totaling 162,000-square-feet, will "form a pretty nice focal point for the entrance to Carillon," according to city planner John Hixenbaugh. Each month the EDC meets to consider proposed development projects that require variances or site plan approval and requests for alley or right-of-way easements. If the requests are not too far out of line with city codes, the EDC will recommend their approval to the City Council -- providing the developer includes substantial greenspace and other changes to improve the appearance of the project. Among other items considered Wednesday were: OUTDOOR STORAGE: Wholesale Tile, located at 3101 22nd Ave. N, was granted a special exception and parking variance for a planned 3,970-square-foot outdoor storage area. The fenced area will be used to store tile materials. The expansion was endorsed by the Ponce de Leon Neighborhood Association. OUTDOOR EATING AREA: The EDC approved a special exception and site plan for a 360-square-foot outdoor eating area at the Dairy Queen restaurant located at 3101 66th St. N. John Barger, who represented the restaurant, said the eating area would eliminate a safety problem caused by patrons who occasionally eat their meals while sitting on the curb between the parking lot and the street. The outside eating area will be located in the front of the restaurant and will be surrounded by a 4-foot decorative wrought-iron fence with interior landscaping. DOCK TIE POLES: The EDC split the difference between angry neighbors when it approved an application for dock tie poles but denied an addition to the dock at a home at the corner of 46th Avenue and 13th Lane NE. Both residents, who own pie-shaped lots at the end of a finger, claimed that the other encroached in the water space for the other property. The compromise was reached, despite a staff recommendation for denial, as a way to better define the "boundary" between the two properties' docking areas. "This board's role is essentially conflict resolution," said chairman Douglas Robison. "We clean up the messes left by developers by trying to find the best solution for the homeowners." TOWNHOUSE REPLAT: Nearly a year after construction began and only weeks from completion of the project, developers of a five-unit townhouse project at 833 Third St. N found themselves embroiled in a property line dispute. At issue is up to two feet of property at the back of the complex that, depending two conflicting surveys, belongs either to the developers or to their neighbors. The EDC approved a preliminary plat, providing the dispute is resolved before submitting the case to the City Council for final approval. The developers need the property divided into separate lots in order to sell the units as fee-simple townhouse properties. ALLEY VACATION: The EDC vacated a 16-foot alley parallel to 49th Street S north of Eighth Avenue to allow consolidation of properties where the owner, Keith Fox, plans to build a new facility for his landscape contracting business.
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