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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFAIRVIEW SHOPPING CENTER SECOND REPLAT - Filed GC-GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 2003-10-20CCC( M'T UnM ARCHITECTS/PLANNERS. P.C. ONE CARL'S JR. RESTAURANT AND CAR WASH STATEMENT OF PLANNING OBJECTIVES Carl's Jr. Restaurant and Car Wash are situated on a 11 acre parcel with the Fairview Shopping Center P.U.D. on West Elizabeth Street. The existing zoning is BP (Planned Business) which allows for the proposed uses. The restaurant will employ approximately 60 persons on a full-time or part-time basis. The car wash will be managed by one full-time employee. The restaurant occupies the northern 2/3 of the site along West Elizabeth Street between the existing Taco Bell and Chesterfield, Bottomsly and Potts. The following points were considered in the planning concept for the restaurant: 1. The desire to locate the restaurant in a visually prominent location. 2. The desire to continue a visible, functional accessway from -the driveway in front of Duds and Suds across our site -to the access road (private) along the west side of the site. 3. The creation of an open, unified parking area between Carl's Jr. and CB&P's which can be used as a shared park- ing area to help during offset peak loads of the two establishments. 4. The drive-thru lane was looped around the building to direct traffic back onto the private access road to access W. Elizabeth Street. This was preferred over a scheme where the drive-thru exited directly onto W. Elizabeth Street (right turn only) similar to the circulation plan at Wendy's to the east of this site. 5. Earth berming was employed in the landscape area long W. Elizabeth Street for two reasons. First, for visual enhancement and to create more interest in the landscaping scheme; secondly, to mitigate possible headlight glare onto Elizabeth by vehicles using the drive-thru. 6. Access to the restaurant was intentionally made as far south along the private access road as practical to allow for an uninterrupted 8 to 10 car stack at the entrance point onto W. Elizabeth Street. 7. The landscape areas along W. Elizabeth Street and the private access road employ the same species used at Taco Bell to the west, thus visually continuing and integrating the same landscape concept thru the P.U.D. 107 WEST 29th STREET FIRESIDE SQUARE, SUITE 200 LOVELAND, COLORADO 80537 303/669-9060 The 4-bay self-service car wash occupies approximately 1/3 of the site along the southern boundary. The following points were con- sidered in the planning concept for the car wash. 1. The North -South orientation of the building allows suffi- cient site clearance for the required stack space both in front of (1 space) and behind each wash bay (4-5 spaces). 2. Parking stalls to the east of the car wash allow for a dry -off area while parking stalls to the west of the car wash, along the private access road, provide an excellent location for employee parking for the restaurant use. 3. The car wash is buffered from the proposed Matador Apart- ments to the south by a 10 foot wide landscaped area with a 6 foot high solid cedar fence along the property line. The development plan for the Matador Apartments indicates a parking area adjacent to this property boundary. The dwelling units are located approximately 70 feet south of the property line. 4. The landscape strip along the north side of the car wash buffers the car wash and provides definition of the drive area. It also serves to define access points for circula- tion into and out of the car wash facility. 5. Materials used in construction of the car wash will be repetitions of exterior materials used in construction of the restaurant to provide a sense of unified site develop- ment -and visual compatability of the structures. n cc� H Ll UP ARCHITECTS/PLANNERS, P.C. ONE SITE DEVELOPMENT DATA Carl's Jr. Restaurant and Car Wash W. Elizabeth Street Ft. Collins, CO Note: No Dwelling Units are associated with this use. Lot Area: 63,801 s.f. (1.465 Acres) 100% Building Areas Carl's Jr. Restaurant 3,476 s.f. 5.4% Self -Service Car Wash 1,960 s.f. 3.0% Parking, Walks, and Drives 43,705 s.f. (1.003 Acres) 68.5% Landscaped Areas 14,660 s.f. (0.337 Acres) 23.1% Restaurant Seating Capacity 88 Persons Parking Sapces Provided 44 Spaces (Includes (2) Handicapped and Motorcycle & Bicycle Parking Areas) Existing Zoning BP - Planned Business Completion Date June, 1986 Maximum height of all building structures (restaurant and car wash) shall be eighteen (18) feet. 107 WEST 29th STREEL FIRESIDE SQUARE, SUI-fE 200 LOVELAND, COLORADO 80537 30 /06,) 9'-)6u