Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutCBC 08-04-2005MEETING NOTICE The City Beautiful Commission will hold its regular meeting at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, August the 4th, 2005, in the Sister Cities Conference Room on the second floor of City Hall. AGENDA Call to Order: Tim Heiple, Chair Roll Call: Open Public Meeting: ITEM NO.1 C.B.C. 588-New Matters - Suds Car Wash Coulson Oil Group, Owners Dave Atkins, Agent 8001 Geyer Springs Road ITEM NO.2 C.B.C. 589-New Matters- Stonewood Apartments Stonewood Apartments, Ltd. Partnership, Owners Craig Jeup, Applicant Pat McGetrick, Agent 3600 Springer Boulevard Close Public Meeting: Approval of the Minutes: July 7th, 2005 Treasurer's Report: Ann Ivey Old Business: New Business: Adjournment: City Beautiful Commission ♦ 723 West Markham ♦ Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 ♦ (501) 371-4864 August 4, 2005 ITEM NO. 1— C.B.C. 588 — NEW MATTERS Applicant: Address: Description: ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS: Suds Car Wash Coulson Oil Group, Owners Dave Atkins, Agent 8001 Geyer Springs Road The southeast corner of the Geyer Springs Road and Interstate Interchange 1. The perimeter planting strip adjacent to freeways or expressways shall be at least thirty (30) feet wide except within designated mature areas. VARIANCE REQUESTED: A reduction of the perimeter landscaping strip adjacent to Interstate 30. FINDINGS: The property at 8001 Geyer Springs Road is occupied by a vacant convenience store with gas pumps. The applicant proposes to raze the building and redevelop the property for a Sud's Car Wash. The new development will consist of a single building with three self - serve car wash bays, two automatic car wash bays and an equipment room. Three vacuum islands will be located in front of the building, at the perimeter of the paved driveway parking area. The site will be completely redeveloped with new landscaping, paving and street improvements. The redeveloped site is proposed to have a landscaped street buffer of 10 feet in width on the north perimeter where the site abuts the interstate frontage road. The landscape ordinance requires a minimum perimeter landscape strip width of 30 feet where a site abuts an expressway. The zoning ordinance also requires a minimum street buffer width of 30 feet when abutting an expressway. In conjunction with a Conditional Use Permit application, the Planning Commission approved a variance to allow the reduced expressway street buffer width of 10 feet at its July 21, 2005 hearing. The site actually abuts a frontage road and is further separated from the interstate traffic lanes by the interstate entrance ramp. The site is separated from the frontage road by unpaved right- of-way, which varies in width from 15 to 25 feet. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff is supportive of a variance to allow the reduced perimeter landscape strip width of 10 feet. -30 Entrance Ramp r� QU&5T1oN 139.8� _ Dumpster Landsca/ping� W/ Wood CJ) p CTYP-) Screening © Fence Proposed ION - Building C.D a G a C= = b =i 170.04' I III =301 T T 0 T C. S. C- CAS E. 588 August 4, 2005 ITEM NO.2 — C.S.C. 589 — NEW MATTERS Applicant: Stonewood Apartments Stonewood Apartments Ltd. Partnership, Owners Craig Jeup, Applicant Pat McGetrick, Agent Address: Description: ORDINANCE RE UIREMENTS: 3600 Springer Boulevard South of Interstate 440 1. An irrigation system shall be required for developments of one (1) acre or larger. Developments of less than one (1) acre shall have a water source within seventy- five (75) feet of the plants to be irrigated. VARIANCE REOUESTED: 1. A reduction in the requirement to irrigate all landscaped areas of the site. FINDINGS: The applicant is in the process of constructing 52 units of multi -family housing and associated parking and landscaping on this 9.67 acre vacant site. Because all of this site is located within the floodway, only approximately one half of the property is being developed. The applicant is proposing the placement of a 6 foot high brick and steel fence around the perimeter of the site. There is a small strip retail center located adjacent to the southeastern portion of the site. To the south of this site is a Union Pacific Railroad line. Watershed is located east of the site across Springer Boulevard. The area to the west of the site is vacant and is the Fourche Creek floodway. The applicant proposes to provide irrigation in all planting beds and between the proposed structures and Springer Boulevard. Rather than irrigating all remaining landscape areas, the applicant proposes to provide a water source within seventy-five (75) feet of all the other landscaped areas. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Since the applicant has agreed to include on -site irrigation along Springer Boulevard, staff supports this variance request. I"= too I t Ca B.C. CASE -53- R