Z-5683-B Staff AnalysisSeptember 30, 1999
ITEM NO.: 13 FILE NO: Z -5683-B
NAME: Montessori School - Conditional Use Permit
LOCATION: 3704 Woodland Heights Road
OWNER/APPLICANT: Montessori School/Joe White, White-Daters
Engineers
PROPOSAL: To amend an existing conditional use permit
to revise the site plan at 3704 Woodland
Heights Road by adding a drive through drop-
off driveway along Pleasant Forest Drive on
this R-2, Single Family Residential zoned
property.
ORDINANCE DESIGN STANDARDS:
1. SITE LOCATION:
This site is located on the southwest corner where Rodney
Parham, Woodland Heights, and Pleasant Forest intersect.
2. COMPATIBILITY WITH NEIGHBORHOOD:
This site is Zoned R-2, Single Family Residential, and is
surrounded by a mixture of residential and office zoning.
There are single family residences to the west, woods and a
20+ acre tract of land containing the B'Nai Israel Temple
to the south, and to the north and northeast the zoning is
0-3, General Office, and offices do currently exist there.
This proposed amendment does not change the building and
only adds a driveway from Pleasant Forest. Therefore, Staff
believes it would not change the compatibility with the
neighborhood.
The Pleasant Valley and Pleasant Forest Neighborhood
Associations were notified of the Public Hearing.
3. ON SITE DRIVES AND PARKING:
This proposal would add a pull-through drop-off driveway
from Pleasant Forest Drive. Neither the driveway into the
front parking lot, nor the front parking would be affected.
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4. SCREENING AND BUFFERS:
No comment.
5. PUBLIC WORKS CObMNTS:
Repair or replace any curb and gutter or sidewalk that is
damaged in the public right-of-way prior to occupancy.
6. UTILITY AND FIRE DEPT. COMMENTS:
Water: No objection.
Wastewater: Sewer Service Line location for this property
unknown.
Southwestern Bell: No comments received.
ARKLA: Approved as submitted.
Entergy: No comments received.
Fire Department: Approved as submitted.
CATA: No Comments received.
7. STAFF ANALYSIS:
The Montessori School is a non -conforming use, which
existed prior to this area's annexation in 1974. A C.U.P.
was approved July 23, 1998 to expand the school to its
current size and build the addition where the proposed
driveway will serve the school. No additional building
expansion is proposed now. The school serves 85 children
and has 15 employees and no change to those numbers is
proposed. The proposed changes are minor and are intended
to improve traffic flow into the school and at the
intersection of Woodland Heights and Rodney Parham by
pulling the drive-through drop-off traffic back away from
the intersection.
This proposal does not change past C.U.P. agreements
including the school's contribution to the City's project
to improve the intersection, and the school's obligation to
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upgrade the screening of the residential property to the
west. Therefore, staff is supportive of this application.
8. STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the conditional use permit
subject to compliance with Public Works Comment and agreed
design, and subject to complying with the previously agreed
to upgrade in landscaping and screening of the residential
property to the west.
SUBDIVISION COMMITTEE COMMENT:
(SEPTEMBER 9, 1999)
Joe White, White Daters Engineers, was present representing the
application. Staff gave a brief description of the proposal.
A revised design was presented by Public Works. It was agreed
that Public Works and the applicant would meet and work out an
acceptable design prior to the public hearing.
There being no further issues, the Committee accepted the
proposal and forwarded the item to the full Commission for final
action.
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION:
(SEPTEMBER 30, 1999)
Joe White, White-Daters Engineering, was present representing
the application. There were no registered objectors present.
Staff presented the item with a recommendation for approval
subject to compliance with the conditions listed under "Staff
Recommendation."
The item was placed on the Consent Agenda and approved as
recommended by Staff. The vote was 11 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 absent.
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