HomeMy WebLinkAboutCBC 03-10-1992(2)March 10, 1992
ITEM NO. 1 - C.B.C. 546 - NEW MATTERS
Applicant:
Location:
Description:
ORDINANCE REQUIREMENT :
Cindy Bauer/Tracy Spillman
for Union National Bank
8000 Cantrell Road
Long Legal
1. A perimeter planting strip shall be required along any
side of a vehicular use area that abuts the right-of-way
of any street. This strip shall be at least six (6) feet
wide.
2. At least forty (40) percent of the view of the vehicular
use area shall be screened from the abutting street.
VARIANCE RE ❑ESTED:
Deletion of a portion of the minimum four (4) foot to six (6)
foot wide perimeter landscaping strip and the associated
screening shrubs and trees.
FINDINGS•
Union National Bank is proposing to reconstruct its branch
bank at this existing site. All areas set aside for
landscaping, asphalt and curbs are proposed to remain the
same. The applicant is proposing to increase the landscaping
in existing areas to well above ordinance requirements in lien
of providing the landscape strip along Cantrell Road which
would entail removal of existing asphalt and curb and gutter.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the application provided the
applicant is willing to plant screening shrubs in the right-
of-way immediately north of the parking area.
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Pratt Remmel Jr.
4201 Kenyon Road
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) bb 1-1669
March 3, 1992
isreetings to the City Beautiful Commission:
I am in the process of trying to organize a model outdoor classroom to
teach hands-on gardening and community building skills to a portion of the
K-12 youth population of Little Rock. I would like to create a local
conservation corps which teaches self-worth along with its projects,
What I am asking from the City Beautiful Commission is a tempQrary legal
r'sider�ce with you . I am applying for seed grants to develop and test my
concept, and I need to be working with a group with a tax-exempt status
to meet the requirements of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and
other possible funding sources.
I am currently working to identify the various local people interested in
this environmental education venture, and I am also writing a proposal for
a piece of a Federal block grant from the National and Community Services
Commission. This grant proposal, managed by the Governor's Office on
Volunteerism, is due March 23 in Washington DC, If granted, by late June
we could begin to create a city youth conservation corps whose first work
could be to build the gardens for this model outdoor classroom. Via this
project, a community youth corps could learn to build gardens for schools,
parks, housing projects, their own families, retirement homes, etc.
Your commission was recommended to me by Bill Bunten and it seems a
logical choice since I am negotiating with Bill and Little Rock Parks to
use the south end of Dunbar Community Center's land as a possible site for
this model outdoor classroom. I look forward to the possibility of working
with you and hope you will positively consider this request. Thank you.
Sincerely,
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cc: Bill Bunten, Brenda Donald, Freeman McKindra, Billie Ann Myers,
Jo Luck Cargile, Don Crary