HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-3590-A Staff AnalysisSeptember 27, 1993
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A. gngineering ISSUga :
Z -3590-A
Gary and Kathy Lainer
1000 South Shackleford
Lot 1, Shackleford Square
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From the offstreet parking
provisions of Section 36-502(3) to
permit less parking spaces than
required by ordinance.
The property is not large enough
for the required number of parking
spaces and the topography of the
site.
Vacant
Retail
There are none to be reported.
B. staff Analvsig:
The proposal for 1000 South Shackleford is to develop the
site for a commercial user, a retail furniture store, and
the request is to grant a variance from the number of
parking spaces required for a retail use. The proposed site
plan shows 44 spaces for a total of 31,200 square feet. The
building will be two stories and have 15,000 square feet of
showroom space and 15,000 square feet designated for
warehousing. (The remaining area, 1,200 square feet, is for
the dock and loading.) Using the ordinance standard of one
space per 300 square feet of gross floor area, the
commercial use would be required to have 98 parking spaces.
After a building reaches 10,000 square feet in size, then,
the parking standard is reduced by 5% for each additional
10,000 square feet.
September 27, 1993
Item 1 Cont.
The parking section of the ordinance states:
Business uses with a mixture of sales space and
stock warehousing may reduce the total offstreet
parking requirement in those instances where the
floor area devoted to warehouse exceeds 70% of the
gross floor area. Such uses may compute the
warehouse portion separately at the standard set
for warehouse and storage.
The warehouse and storage parking requirement is five spaces
plus one space per 2,00 square feet. If this parking ratio
was applied to the proposed development, the number of
needed spaces would be only 57. Because the proposed space
for the warehouses is approximately 50%, the total parking
formula had to be calculated at the 1 to 300 ratio.
For the proposed commercial user, staff is of the opinion
that using the standard commercial ratio causes a somewhat
excessive requirement and the 98 spaces are not needed. A
furniture store is not a high traffic generator and
separating the retail and warehouse space for parking
purposes is probably a better representation of the parking
demand created by the use.
C. Staff Recommendation:
Staff recommends approval of the parking variance as
requested.
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT ACTION:
(SEPTEMBER 27, 1993)
The applicant, Gary Lanier, was present. There was one other
interested individual in attendance. Mr. Lanier indicated that
he had nothing to add to the staffs analysis.
James Wyers, a property owner to the west, spoke and expressed
some concerns with overflow parking, but did not object to the
parking variance.
There was some additional discussion about the request and staff
explained its reasoning for supporting the parking variance.
A motion was made to grant the parking variance as requested.
The motion was approved by a vote of 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 absent and
1 open position.
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