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File No.: Z-7508-C
Owner: CGTR Lot 2, LLC
Applicant: Joe White Associates Engineers
Address: 10621 Colonel Glenn Road
Legal Description: Lot 2R, Circustrix Addition, to the City of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
Current Zoning: C-4
Present Use: Vacant
Proposed Use: New Commercial Construction
Variance(s) Requested: A variance is requested from the area provisions of Section 36-302 to allow a building with a reduced side yard setback in a C-4 District.
A variance is requested from the area provisions of Section 31-210 to allow a reduced minimum spacing of a driveway from an intersection.
Justification: The applicant’s justification is presented in an attached letter.
STAFF REPORT:
Planning and Development Civil Engineering Comments:
Staff will support the proposed drive from Talley as a Right In, Right Out drive. However, staff does require as a provision that the developer provide a Traffic Impact Study at the
time a building permit is applied for.
Landscape and Buffer Comments:
All landscape and buffer areas for the new development must comply
with Chapters15 and 36 of the City of Little Rock Code of Ordinances.
Building Codes Comments:
No comments.
Analysis:
The C-4 zoned property located at the southeast corner of Colonel Glenn Road and Talley Road is comprised of 1.07-acres and is currently vacant. The property is mostly
tree covered and generally slopes downward from north to south and from east to west.
The property is bordered to the south and east by C-4 zoned uses, a vacant C-3 zoned property to the west across Talley Road, an I-1 zoned warehouse to the northeast, and a PCD to the
northwest across Colonel Glenn Road.
The applicant proposes to construct a new 4,300 square foot convenience store / gas station structure located at the central portion of the site with a new 2,500 square foot canopy for
pumps and new paved parking area which circles the canopy structure from the west to the east. The proposed parking area is centered on the site adjacent to the north façade (main
entry) of the convenience store with twelve (12) parking spaces.
The site plan indicates the proposed development will have two (2) paved access drives connecting Colonel Glenn Road to the north and Talley Road to the west. The proposed access drive
connecting to Colonel Glenn Road at the northeast corner of site is indicated as a thirty (30) foot wide shared cross access (utility) easement drive bordering the existing lot to the
east. The shared access drive extends south from Colonel Glenn Road at the north between the Lot 2R and Lot 3R and connects to an existing asphalt drive bordering the south perimeter
of the development.
The proposed thirty-five (35) foot wide access drive connecting to Talley Road is located eighty-five feet from the south of the north property line adjacent to the Colonel Glenn Road
Right-of-Way. Staff is supportive of the drive connecting to Talley Road as a Right-In, Right-Out Drive with the including of a traffic impact study at the time a building permit is
applied for.
Section 31-210(e)(2) Collector Streets, states, “Minimum spacing from the property line shall be one hundred twenty-five (125) feet”. Therefore, the applicant is requesting a variance
to allow the proposed access drive spacing from the property line to be reduced from one-hundred twenty-five (125) feet to eighty-five (85) feet.
The site plan indicates that the proposed new convenience store structure is to be located one-hundred fifty (150) feet from the north (front) property line and twenty-five (25) feet
from the west (side) property line.
Section 36-302(e)(2) Side yard, states, “There shall be a side yard on each side of the building having a width of not less than fifteen (15) feet. On a corner lot, the side yard on
the street side or exterior side shall be equal to the required front yard setback”. Therefore, the applicant is requesting a variance to allow the side yard setback to be reduced
from forty-five (45) feet to twenty-five (25) feet.
Staff is supportive of the requested variances. Staff views the requests as reasonable. The proposed location of the new access drives and new structure will be situated on the site
in a manner similar to other developments in the immediate area. Staff believes that the variances will have no adverse impact on the adjacent properties or the general area.
Staff Recommendation:
Staff recommends approval of the requested side yard setback reduction and the access drive spacing reduction, subject to the descriptions and any conditions in the “staff analysis,”
and the following conditions:
A building permit being obtained for all construction.
Abide by all site development requirements for C-4 zoned properties.
Compliance with the Landscape and Buffer requirements of Chapters 15 and 36 of the City’s code.
Provision of a Traffic Impact Study at the time of building permit application.
Revision of the access drive connection to Talley Road to a Right-in, Right-out drive configuration.