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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCBC-631-THE VILLAGE AT RAHLING ROAD Staff MinutesMarch 06, 2014 ITEM NO. 2, C.B.C. 631— NEW MATTERS Applicant: Address: Description. ORDINANCE RE UIRMENTS: Chapter 15, Sec. 15-96. Perimeter planting strips. Deltic Timber Corporation Owner Timothy Daters, White-Daters Associates, Inc., Agent Rahling Circle. The Village at Rahling Road Lots 1A, 113, 1C, & 7 (a) A perimeter planting strip is required along any side of a vehicular use area that abuts adjoining property or the right-of-way of any street, highway or freeway. This strip shall be at least nine (9) feet wide. The perimeter planting strip adjacent to freeways or expressways shall be at least thirty (30) feet wide except within mature areas. VARIANCE REQUESTED To allow a reduction in the landscape strips between Lots 1A, 113, and 1C to less than the nine (9) feet typically required. In addition to allow street buffers on each of the lots as well as Lot 7 to be less than nine (9) feet as typically required to comply with the minimum ordinance standards. FINDINGS: The project as planned is consistent with the proposed development framework originally proposed for the Village when first approved in 1997. When originally proposed the Village included dense urban development inside and around Rahling Circle, with large expanses of landscape and buffer along Chenal Parkway and Rahling Road. The current request includes a review of Lots 1A, 113, 1C, and 7, the Village at Rahling Road. Lot 1A contains an existing building with 10,900 square feet. The site plan indicates a total of 41 parking spaces and a total lot area of 49,926 square feet. The development for Lot 1B is for a multi -use event center as defined by the City of Little Rock Ordinances. The building will contain 10,300 square feet. The site plan indicates a total of 91 parking spaces with a total lot area of 74,730 square feet. The center will operate from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm with the exception of Friday and Saturday when the hours may be extended to 12:00 am. All signage is to comply with the Chenal Architectural Design Elements for the Village at Rahling Road and the City ordinance. The site plan indicates a maximum ground mounted sign height of six feet and a total sign area not to exceed forty square feet. Building signage will not exceed signage allowed in commercial zones or a maximum of ten percent of the facade area. The building is proposed with a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet. All site lighting will be low level and directed downward into the site and away from adjacent properties. Parking for a lodge hall, exhibition hall, club and similar places of public assembly is one space per 100 gross square feet of floor area. Based on the building square footage the typical parking required would be 103 spaces. Staff is supportive of the parking as purposed. Within this area there is street parking and a large shared parking lot is located on proposed Lot 1C. Lot 1C contains a shared parking area. With this site plan the area is indicated for future development. The development proposed on Lot 7 is a strip center containing 16,140 square feet of building area with a 1,760 square foot covered outdoor deck. The site plan indicates 78 on -site parking spaces with a total lot area of 99,879 square feet. Based on typical parking required for a mix use development a total of 79 spaces would be required. The development has been constructed with parallel spaces on the street and a centralized parking area to serve the users. Staff feels with available parking the parking proposed is adequate to serve the proposed use and will not impact the remainder of the development. The site plan indicates the placement of landscape strips between Lots 1A, 113, and 1C less than the 9 feet typically required. The plan indicates each of these areas with a 6.5-foot landscape strip allowing a total of 13-feet between the two lots. In addition the street buffer on each of the lots as well as Lot 7 is indicated as less than the 9-feet typically required to comply with the minimum ordinance standards. Landscaping will be installed as per ordinance requirements. On February 20, 2014, the Little Rock Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the PCD. ,r STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Staff is supportive of allowing the landscape as indicated on the site plan. The overall development has been constructed with reduced landscape strips and in most places no street buffer is in place.