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Home My WebLink AboutPC Minutes for Z-5491-CApril 11, 2024 ITEM NO.: 9 FILE NO.: Z-5491-C NAME: Little Legacy Leadership Academy – Conditional Use Permit LOCATION: 1804 E. Capitol Avenue DEVELOPER: Renita M. Hoof (Agent) 104 Turtle Creek Cove Maumelle, AR 72113 OWNER/AUTHORIZED AGENT: Miles Memorial C.M.E. Church (Owner) 1804 E. Capitol Avenue Little Rock, AR 72202 SURVEYOR/ENGINEER: N/A AREA: 1.06 acre NUMBER OF LOTS: 7 FT. NEW STREET: 0 LF WARD: 1 PLANNING DISTRICT: 6 CENSUS TRACT: 2 CURRENT ZONING: R-4 (CUP) VARIANCE/WAIVERS: None requested. A. PROPOSAL/REQUEST/APPLICANT’S STATEMENT: The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to allow a child day care center (Little Legacy Leadership Academy) at Miles Memorial C.M.E. Church. The day care center will include fifteen (15) staffers and 25 to 60 children at any given time. B. EXISTING CONDITIONS: The property contains an existing one-story, 8,692 square foot, brick building on the northeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Bender Street. There is a mixture of zoning and uses surrounding the site. April 11, 2024 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont.) FILE NO.: Z-5491-C 2 C. NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATIONS: All owners of property located within 300 feet of the site and all neighborhood associations registered with the City of Little Rock were notified of the public hearing. D. ENGINEERING COMMENTS: 1. Will the parents be required to pick up and drop off their children in the morning and afternoon all at the same time, or will they be required to stagger drop off and pick up times for their kids at the site? Provide a traffic operations plan showing how the traffic will arrive, leave, and queue on and around the site on local, adjacent City streets for staff to review for impacts to local vehicular and pedestrian traffic. E. UTILITIES/FIRE DEPARTMENT/PARKS/COUNTY PLANNING: Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority: No comments. Entergy: No comments received. Summit Utilities: No comments. AT & T: No comments received. Central Arkansas Water: 1. All Central Arkansas Water requirements in effect at the time of request for water service must be met. Fire Department: Maintain Access: Fire Hydrants. Maintain fire apparatus access roads at fire hydrant locations as per Appendix D of the 2012 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Vol. 1 Section D103.1 Access road width with a hydrant. Where a fire hydrant is located on a fire apparatus access road, the minimum road width shall be 26 feet, exclusive of shoulders. Fire Hydrants Locate Fire Hydrants as per Appendix C of the 2012 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code. Section C101 – C105, in conjunction with Central Arkansas Water (Daniel Tull 501-377-1245) and the Little Rock Fire Marshal’s Office April 11, 2024 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont.) FILE NO.: Z-5491-C 3 (Capt. Tony Rhodes 501-918-3757, or Fire Marshal Derek N. Ingram 501-918-3756 Number and Distribution of Fire Hydrants as per Table C105.1. If you have any additional questions, please contact our office. Contact Capt. Tony Rhodes at (501) 918-3757, or Fire Marshal Derek N. Ingram (501) 918-3756. Parks and Recreation: No comments received. County Planning: No comments. F. BUILDING CODES/LANDSCAPE: Building Code: No comments received. Landscape: 1. Any required landscaping must comply with Chapter 15 of the City’s Landscape Ordinance. G. TRANSPORTATION/PLANNING: Rock Region Metro: No comments received. Planning Division: The request is in the East Little Rock Planning District. The Land Use Plan shows Residential Medium Density (RM) for the requested area. The Residential Medium Density (RM) accommodates a broad range of housing types including single family attached, single family detached, duplex, town homes, multi-family and patio or garden homes. Any combination of these and possibly other housing types may fall in this category provided that the density is between six (6) and twelve (12) dwelling units per acre. The application is to rezone from R-4 to CUP. Surrounding the application area, Mixed Use Urban (MXU); This category provides for a mix of residential, office and commercial for older urban areas to allow dissimilar uses to exist which support each other to create a vital area. Development should reinforce the urban fabric creating high and moderate density developments that result in a vital (dense) pedestrian-oriented area are appropriate. Residential Medium Density (RM); The Residential Medium Density (RM) accommodates a broad range of housing types including single family attached, single family detached, duplex, town homes, multi-family and patio or garden April 11, 2024 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont.) FILE NO.: Z-5491-C 4 homes provided that the density is between six (6) and twelve (12) dwelling units per acre. Commercial (C); The Commercial (C) category includes a broad range of retail and wholesale sales of products, personal and professional services, and general business activities. Commercial activities vary in type and scale, depending on the trade area that they serve. Park/Open Space (PK/OS); The Park/Open Space (PK/OS) category includes all public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, flood plains, and other designated open space and recreational land. This site is not located in an Overlay District. Master Street Plan: East Capitol Avenue is a Local Street on the Master Street Plan. Local Streets are roads designed to provide access to adjacent property with the movement of traffic being a secondary purpose. The standard Right-of-way is 50’. Sidewalks are required on one side. This street may require dedication of right-of-way and may require street improvements. Bicycle Plan: The Master Bike Plan Map does not show existing or proposed facilities in this area. Historic Preservation Plan: This property is not located in a Historic District. H. ANALYSIS: The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to allow a child day care center (Little Legacy Leadership Academy) at Miles Memorial C.M.E. Church. The day care center will include fifteen (15) staffers and 25 to 60 children at any given time. The property contains an existing one-story, 8,692 square foot, brick building on the northeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Bender Street. There is a mixture of zoning and uses surrounding the site. The primary use of the religious institution and functions will continue. The applicant proposes to utilize a maximum of 3,000 square foot of the overall 8,692 square foot building containing the east and west wing of the rear portion of the April 11, 2024 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont.) FILE NO.: Z-5491-C 5 building which includes the multi-purpose area, five (5) bathrooms, commercial kitchen and eight (8) classrooms. Operating hours will be Monday-Friday from 6am to 6pm, and Saturday (once a month) from 8am to 4:30pm. The applicant’s cover letter states, “the staff of the Academy will meet the state mandate requirements for staffing. The building has been inspected by the state fire department codes and has passed all requirements.” An existing concrete driveway extends from E. Capitol Avenue along the south property line provides access to an asphalt-paved parking lot containing twelve (12) parking spaces. Staff feel the existing on-site parking spaces and available on-street parking along E. Capitol Avenue, Bender Street and Reichardt Street is sufficient to serve the use. The applicant notes children will enter and exit from the door located on the west side of the building adjacent to the existing parking lot. Parents will enter the building, sign their child into the daycare no later than 9am. Pick up time will be no later than 6pm. Daycare staff will be available for sign-in/sign-out of children near the door. The applicant is not proposing new signs with this application. Any new signage must comply with Section 36-553 of the City’s Zoning Ordinance (signs permitted in institutional and office zones). The site plan does not show a dumpster enclosure. Any dumpster installed on the stie must comply with Section 36-523 of the City’s Zoning Ordinance. Any new sight lighting must be low-level and directed away from adjacent properties. To the staff’s knowledge, there are no outstanding issues associated with this application. The church has been in existence for 149 years. The daycare center may extend services for Carver Elementary and E-STEM which are in the general area. Staff feels the proposed daycare center at this location will have no adverse impact on the general area. I. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the requested conditional use permit to allow a daycare center, subject to compliance with the comments and conditions outlined in paragraphs D, E and F, and the staff analysis, of the agenda staff report. April 11, 2024 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont.) FILE NO.: Z-5491-C 6 PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (APRIL 11, 2024) The applicant was present. There were no persons registered in opposition. Staff presented the item and a recommendation of approval as outlined in the “staff analysis” above. The item remained on the Consent Agenda for Approval. The vote was 11 ayes, and 0 nays. The application was approved.