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HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff Report - Z-9726 092322 ITEM NO.: 4 FILE NO.: Z-9726 NAME: FT Investments, LLC Beauty Shop – Conditional Use Permit LOCATION: 6105 Father Tribou Street DEVELOPER: Grant M. Cox (Agent) 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201 OWNER/AUTHORIZED AGENT: FT Investments, LLC (Owner) 6105 Father Tribou Street Little Rock, AR 72205 SURVEYOR/ENGINEER: Trotter Surveying 18640 Congo Ferndale Road Little Rock, AR 72210 AREA: 0.43 acre NUMBER OF LOTS: 1 FT. NEW STREET: 0 LF WARD: 3 PLANNING DISTRICT: 3 CENSUS TRACT: 21.04 CURRENT ZONING: O-3 VARIANCE/WAIVERS: None requested. PROPOSAL/REQUEST/APPLICANT’S STATEMENT: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to allow for a barber/beauty/esthetician shop within the existing multi-tenant building on the O-3 zoned property located at 6105 Father Tribou Street. B. EXISTING CONDITIONS: The property contains an existing two-story building. The first floor contains commercial and office uses with multiple tenant spaces. The second floor contains several residential apartments. Commercial, office and multi-family uses are located east, west and south of the site. R-6 zoning is also located west of site. The Roman Catholic Diocese (Catholic High School) is located on the north side of Father Tribou Street. Paved parking is located on the north and south sides of the building. An access drive from Father Tribou Street is located at the northeast corner of the property. There is shared paved parking with the adjacent property to the west. C. NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATIONS: All owners of property located within 200 feet of the site and all neighborhood associations registered with the City of Little Rock were notified of the public hearing. D. ENGINEERING COMMENTS: No comments. E. UTILITIES/FIRE DEPARTMENT/PARKS/COUNTY PLANNING: Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority: No comments received. Entergy: No comments received. Summit Utilities: No comments. AT & T: No comments received. Central Arkansas Water: No comments received. Fire Department: Commercial and Industrial Developments – 2 means of access. - Maintain fire apparatus access roads as per Appendix D of the 2012 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Vol. 1 Section D104.1 Buildings exceeding three stories or 30 feet in height. Building or facilities exceeding 30 feet or three stories in height shall have at least two means of fire apparatus access for each structure. Section D104.2 Building exceeding 62,000 square feet in area. Buildings or facilities having a gross building area of more than 62,000 square feet shall be provide with two separate and approved fire apparatus access roads. Exception: Projects having a gross building area of up to 124,000 square feet that have a single approved fire apparatus access road when all building are equipped throughout with approved automatic sprinkler systems. D104.3 Remoteness. Where two fire apparatus access roads are required, they shall be placed a distance apart equal to not less than one half of the length of the maximum overall diagonal dimension of the lot or area to be served, measured in a straight line between accesses. County Planning: No comments received. F. BUILDING CODES/LANDSCAPE: Building Code: No comments received. Landscape: No comments. G. TRANSPORTATION/PLANNING: Rock Region Metro: No comments received. Planning Division: No comments. H. ANALYSIS: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to allow for a barber/beauty use (Airbronze Sunless Studio) within the existing multi-tenant building on O-3 zoned property located at 6105 Father Tribou Street. The applicant will occupy a portion of the first floor which contains barber/beauty related services. The existing salon (Salon Artistry) occupies the eastern portion of the first floor and is not associated with this application. The second floor contains several residential units. The applicant provided the following information regarding the building layout and current uses: Pursuant to Pulaski County Assessor, the total area of the existing building is approximately 7,600 square feet.  4,100 square feet on the first floor and 3,500 square feet on the second floor. List of existing uses and building area: There are seven commercial units on the first floor and seven residential units on the second floor. 1 of the commercial units is used as a psychologist’s office. 2 of the commercial units are combined for use as a hair salon. 4 of the commercial units are combined for use of a tanning salon. Each of the units is approximately 585.71 square feet in area. Psychologist’s office: approx. 585.71 sq. ft. Salon Artistry: approx. 1,171.42 sq. ft. Airbronze Sunless Studio: approx. 2,340.00 sq. ft.    The proposed barber/beauty shop (Airbronze Sunless Studio) will have five (5) employees. The proposed hours of operation will be from 10:00am to 6:00pm Monday through Thursday and 10:00am to 3:00pm on Saturday. Paved parking is located on the north and south sides of the building. An access drive from Father Tribou Street is located at the northeast corner of the property. Shared paved parking also exists between the buildings with the adjacent property to the west. Section 36-502 of the City’s Zoning Ordinance requires a minimum of twenty-three (23) parking spaces for the proposed use. A total of thirty (30) parking spaces exist on the north and south sides of the building. The existing parking complies with ordinance standards. The applicant not proposing any new signage at this time. Any new signage must comply with Section 36-553 of the City’s Zoning Ordinance (signs permitted in office and institutional and zones). Any new site lighting must be low-level and directed away from adjacent properties. The applicant notes that a dumpster on the site will be utilized for garbage collection. To staff’s knowledge, there are no outstanding issues associated with this application. The applicant has done a good job in addressing issues raised by staff during review of this application. The proposed barber/beauty use will not be out of character with the mixture of uses within this general area along Father Tribou Street. The proposed use should have no adverse impact on the surrounding properties. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the requested CUP to allow a barber/beauty use on the O-3 zoned property at 6105 Father Tribou Street, subject to compliance with the comments and conditions outlined in paragraph E, and the staff analysis, in the agenda staff report.