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Gmail Vernon Williams <garnatengineering@gmail.com>
Fwd: Planning Staff Comments for October 14, 2021 Planning Commission
Meeting
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Vernon Williams <garnatengineering@gmail.com> Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:01 AM
To: tthrower@littlerock.gov
Cc: Longhills Express <longhillsexpress@gmail.com>, Aman Devji <aman.ranmanagement@gmail.com>, Neeraj
Kumar <nkumar@designgroupmemphis.com>
Torrence,
Please allow this email and the attached documents to serve as my response to your review comments that are also
attached. The numbers of my responses reflect the numbers of your comments.
Development Comments
1. There will be three units in this building. The north unit will be a C-store. The middle unit will be a vape shop
and the southern unit will be a liquor store.
2. The C-store will sell food items. There will be no in -door seating for dining. Food must be purchased for
carryout or customers will be allowed to order food via a cell phone app with a scheduled pickup time for pickup
without going in at the pickup window on the north side of the building.
3. The C-store will not have a menu board. We will have a sign on site directing traffic to the pickup window. We
have changed the label on the site plan from drive-thru canopy to pickup window. The liquor store will also
have a pickup window. As with the C-store, there will be no menu board for the liquor store. We have also
changed the label on the site plan for this pickup window.
4. The C-store will operate 24 hours/7 days per week. The vape shop will be open from 7:00 a.m to midnight/7
days per week. The liquor store will be open from 9:00 a.m. to midnight/closed on Sunday.
5. We would respectfully request to be allowed to permit signage separately.
6. We plan to construct the dumpster enclosure from painted CMU block. We will comply with the ordinance.
7. We will comply with this requirement.
8. This is the redevelopment on an existing site. The building and parking lot are already there and we are
disturbing as little of the existing parking lot as possible. We would Mpes ny antes r Hired to leave
the street buffer as is because we do not plan to disturb that curb line or the driveways into the site. We have
elected to purchase more property to enable us to provide the required perimeter buffers. A revised survey and
site plan are attached which reflect this.
Civil Engineering Comments
1. Will comply. The site plan has been modified to provide a new ADA ramp at the intersection.
2. Will comply.
3. Will comply.
4. Will comply.
5. Will comply.
6. Will comply.
7. There will be no order board locations. See Development Comments 2 and 3 for more information. I apologize
for the confusing labeling on our site plan, but the drive thru for the C-store is not a drive thru like you would see
at a fast food restaurant. As a response to COVID, this chain is experimenting with an app that will allow
customers to make orders from the store online and then pick the orders up at the pickup window at a
scheduled time in order to avoid entering the store. This is anticipated to be like an online order from a grocery
store, except being a C-store the orders will be much smaller and able to be transferred to the car through the
pickup window. Since we have control of the scheduling of pickups, we will have maximum control over the
length of the queue. It will be managed where no more than one car is at the window at a time. For example,
through the app we could limit pickups to 10 pickups per hour or something like that.
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8. See response 7 above and Development Comments 2 and 3. The south pickup window is for a liquor store.
We have provided space for four cars to queue up, which we feel is appropriate. We have provided room for 2
cars to queue up at the C-store pickup window. However, pickup times at the C-store window will be scheduled
by the store and we never anticipate there being more than one car in the queue at a time.
Landscape Comments:
1. This is the redevelopment of an existing Dollar General Store. The building and parking lot are already there.
We are repurposing this vacant building and trying to utilize as much of the existing infrastructure as possible.
2. The Dollar General was on leased property. My client is purchasing 1.2 acres +/- from a larger 9.5 acre tract.
The seller will retain ownership of the remaining 8.3 acres. The site includes an existing opaque fence that is in
good repair and will be left. We have modified the boundary survey for this purchased property, so that the 16'
buffer on the west side and the 11' buffer on the north side can be provided.
3. This is a previously developed site. We`respec u!!y reg est varia a for he str huff r to heave it as
curr ntly developed.
4. Will comply.
5. Per landscape comment 2 response, we will comply on the north and west sides. a res ctfu! y request a
variance for the streret buffer to leave it as currently developed.
The numbers for some landscape comments were repeated. My numbering reflects that.
3. Will comply.
4. Will comply. A greenspace calc is attached which shows that 23% of our parking area is greenspace.
5. An irrigation system will be provided.
6. Our plans are stamped by a landscape architect.
7. 1 believe our landscape plan reflects an honest attempt to save all trees possible.
8. No response.
LR Fire Department Comments: Will comply.
LR Reclamation Authority Comments: Will comply.
Vernon J. Williams, P.E.
GarNat Engineering, LLC
Mailing Address:
Physical Address:
P.O. Box 116
3825 Mt Carmel Road
Benton, AR 72018
Bryant, AR 72022
Ph: (501) 408-4650
Cell: (501) 425-2771
Fax: (888) 900-3068
www.garnatengineering.com
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From: Thrower, Torrence <tthrower@littlerock.gov>
Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 3:37 PM
Subject: Planning Staff Comments for October 14, 2021 Planning Commission Meeting
To: garnatengineering@gmail.com <garnatengineering@gmail.com>
Vernon,
Attached are staff comments and comments from utilities.
Applicant responses are due nn lat r h. eclnesd3y Sentemlzeri3, 2021_. please submit revised site plan(s), if applicable, nlong with
any written responses. All documents should be submitted to this email address for review.
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If you have further questions, please feel free to contact this office.
Torrence Thrower Development Specialist
City of Little Rock Planning and Development
723 W. Markham Little Rock, AR 72201-1334
Main: 501-371-4790 1 Direct: 501-371-4764
Email: tthrower@littlerock.gov
Website: https://www.littlerock.gov
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Z-4940-C Planning Staff Comments.pdf
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21086 13624 Vimy Ridge Rd - Boundary RI-SURVEY-34X22 GW (1).pdf
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21086 Vimy Ridge C Store Design -GREEN SPACE CALC.pdf
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8- L1.0 LANDSCAPE PLAN.pdf
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2-DEMO PLAN.pdf
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3-C1.0 SITE PLAN.pdf
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