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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-9578 Applicant Comments 042321City of Little Rock Planning and Development Planning Commission Hearing/June 10, 2021 Applicant Comments for Proposed Development Applicant Responses are due no later than Friday, April 30, 2021. Please submit revised site plans, if applicable, along with any written responses. All documents should be submitted to Torrence Thrower (tthrower@littlerock.gov) for review. RE: Z-9578 (7711/7715/7717 Ohio Street) Development Comments: 1. Show required screening fence (6 foot high opaque or wood fence) along east property line on a revised site plan. 2. Adjust site plan to provide required buffers and landscape strips along street and east property lines. See attached comments. Contact Tracy Spillman at (501) 371-4864 with any questions. Civil Engineering Comments: 1. Due to the proposed use of the property, the Master Street Plan specifies that Ohio Street for the frontage of this property must meet commercial street standards. Dedicate right-of-way to 30 feet from centerline. 2. Provide a Sketch Grading and Drainage Plan per Sec. 29-186 (e). 3. Storm water detention ordinance applies to this property. Show the proposed location for stormwater detention facilities on the plan. Maintenance of all private drainage improvements is the responsibility of the developer and/or local property owners’ association and detailed in the bill of assurance. 4. Close existing curb cuts with the construction of new driveway entries. 5. Trench grates create continuous maintenance issues and a reduction in drainage capacity. Due to existing inlet located within the sag of the street, a combination open throat inlet constructed in conformance with PW-1A or PW-1B and trench grate with a junction box should be installed. No other inlets exist on the southside of Ohio St west of Mississippi St. 6. All driveways shall be concrete aprons per City Ordinance. 7. Driveway locations do not meet the traffic access and circulation requirements of Sections 30-43 and 31-210. A variance must be requested for the proposed two driveway cuts and locations. Driveway spacing on a commercial street is 250 ft from other driveways and intersections and 125 ft from the side property line. A variance must be requested for the proposed two driveways. LR Fire Department Comments: Maintain Access: Fire Hydrants. Maintain fire apparatus access roads at fire hydrant locations as per Appendix D of the 2012 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Vol. 1 Section D103.1 Access road width with a hydrant. Where a fire hydrant is located on a fire apparatus access road, the minimum road width shall be 26 feet, exclusive of shoulders. Grade Maintain fire apparatus access roads as per Appendix D of the 2012 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Vol. 1 Section D103.2 Grade. Fire apparatus access roads shall not exceed 10 percent in grade except as approved by the fire chief. If the grade exceeds 10 percent, approval will be denied and the applicant must submit request to be reviewed by Fire Chief for Approval. Loading Maintain fire apparatus access road design as per Appendix D of the 2012 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Vol. 1 Section D102.1 Access and loading. Facilities, buildings or portions of buildings hereafter constructed shall be accessible to fire department apparatus by way of an approved fire apparatus access road with an asphalt, concrete or other approved driving surface capable of supporting the imposed load of fire apparatus weighing at least 75,000 pounds. Landscape Comments: 1. Any new site development must comply with the City’s minimal landscape and buffer ordinance requirements. 2. A land use buffer six (6) percent of the average width / depth of the lot will be required when an adjacent property has a dissimilar use of a more restrictive nature. As a component of all land use buffer requirements, opaque screening, whether a fence or other device, a minimum of six (6) feet in height shall be required upon the property line side of the buffer. Easements cannot count toward fulfilling this requirement. The plantings, existing and purposed, shall be provided within the landscape ordinance of the city, section 15-81. The width of the parcel is approximately 190 feet. The east buffer is deficient. A minimum 11.4-foot buffer is required. The depth of the parcel is approximately 300 feet. The street buffer is deficient. A minimum 18-foot street buffer is required. Screening requirements will need to be met adjacent to the east residential zoned property. 3. A perimeter planting strip is required along any side of a vehicular use area that abuts adjoining property, or the right-of-way of any street. This strip shall be at least nine (9) feet wide. One (1) tree and three (3) shrubs or vines shall be planted for every thirty (30) linear feet of perimeter planting strip. The north and east perimeter planting strip is deficient. 4. Screening requirements will need to be met for the vehicular use areas adjacent to street right- of-way. Provide screening shrubs with an average linear spacing of not less at three (3) feet within the required landscape area. Provide trees with an average linear spacing of not less than thirty (30) feet. 5. Eight percent (8%) of the vehicular use area must be designated for green space; this green space needs to be evenly distributed throughout the parking area(s). The minimum size of an interior landscape area shall be one hundred fifty (150) square feet for developments with one hundred fifty (150) or fewer parking spaces. Interior islands must be a minimum of seven and one half (7 1/2) feet in width. Trees shall be included in the interior landscape areas at the rate of one (1) tree for every twelve (12) parking spaces. 6. If any of the landscape code requirements cannot be met a variance from the City Beautiful Commission may be required before a building permit is issued. 7. The development of two (2) acres or more requires the landscape plan to be stamped with the seal of a Registered Landscape Architect. 8. An automatic irrigation system to water landscaped areas shall be required for developments of one (1) acre or larger. 9. The City Beautiful Commission recommends preserving as many existing trees as feasible on this site. Credit toward fulfilling Landscape Ordinance requirements can be given when preserving trees of six (6) inch caliper or larger.