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HomeMy WebLinkAboutREGENCY LAKEVIEW - PDP & APU - PDP120013 - REPORTS - CORRESPONDENCE-NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGApplicant's Response — Two Neighborhood Meetings The first meeting with the City, neighbors and developer was held August 31, 2011. The original project included: • 10 buildings (9 residential and 1 clubhouse) • 238 residential units and 381 required parking spaces • All residential buildings were three stories in height • Three buildings fronted E. Drake Road and the smallest setback between a residential building and the property line was 35 feet. • The southern portion of the site would be an open "green space" The neighbors had a number of comments: • Too much traffic • Too many residential units • Loss of the 11 acre park • Residential buildings too tall • The N-S orientation of the detached garage buildings created a wall After this meeting, the project team believed that if the project were modified, the neighborhood objections could be mitigated. • Regency and CCCC renegotiated the purchase contract to allow a significantly smaller project. The renegotiation involved a 36% reduction in the purchase price and took a couple months to accomplish. • The project reduced the residential unit count and required parking count by more than 25% (238 units reduced to 175 units and 381 required parking spaces reduced to 288 required parking spaces). • The project added a 2 acre neighborhood pocket park with low wall seating and pathways that would be open to Regency Lakeview residents and neighborhoods' residents. • The project reduced the number of buildings by omitting the building located in the NE corner of the project site (number of buildings reduced from 9 to 8). • The project reduced the height of the residential buildings from all three story structures to a mixture of two stories, two stories rising to a center three story section and three stories. • The detached garage orientation was changed to an E-W to remove the "wall" of N-S detached garages. • The project added an earthen berm between the detached garages and the east property line. • Evergreen trees were added to the ends of driveways by the garages to screen headlights. • The project increased the separation distance between the closest residential building to the property line (was a 35 foot separation and increased to an 80 foot separation). • The project completed a Traffic Delay Study to evaluate the neighbor feedback that vehicles waited up to l0'minutes to turn out of the surrounding streets and onto E. Drake — specifically Dorado Court, Brookwood Drive N and Brookwood Drive S. • The project changed its name from Regency at Parkwood Lake to Regency Lakeview • The southern most access to the site was eliminated so that multi -family residents would use the northern access to Lemay Avenue rather than the southern one that borders the neighborhood.