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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTURNING POINT - MODIFICATION OF STANDARD - 12-99A - CORRESPONDENCE -Troy Jones -Turning Point _(801__S_Shields)_____ _ _ _ _ Pagel From: Troy Jones To: Bob Blanchard Date: Tue, Nov 23, 1999 9:05 AM Subject: Turning Point (801 S. Shields) :.. Here's a brief run down of the history of this project from a Current Planning perspective. I forwarded a copy of this to Greg too. On Feburary 8, 1999, a conceptual review was conducted for the property at 801 S. Shields. In that conceputal review, the property owner (at the time) was proposing commercial/retail on the ground floor with parking on the upper floors. On February 23, 1999, the owner (at the time), Chris Wells, called me to inform me that Turning Point was interested in buying the building and changing the use to a group home. Peter Barnes pointed out, at this point, that the LUC states that a change of use would trigger the need to bring the site up to compliance with the LUC [required in section 2.14.2(B)]. On May 11, 1999, the architect for Turning Point requested an engineering variance to allow the continuation to use the access off Plum Street into the existing parking area on the east side of the property. On May 19, Cam McNair approved the variance to allow continued access to the eastern parking lot with the condition that the west entry and parking lot be improved and act as the primary access to the property, and that the access into this eastern parking area should be a single movement right -in situation, if possible. Based on the description that Turning Point provided describing the number of residents and employees at any one shift, it was determined that the project must provide 20 parking spaces in order to comply with the LUC. The need for this many parking spaces lead to the applicant's choice to redesign the site to accomodate as much of the required parking as possible (the remainder of the parking is to be rented from the adjacent property owner). In the new site design the applicant chose not to utilize the engineering variance that had been granted to allow continued use of the eastern parking lot. The project was reviewed as a minor amendment, and went through several rounds of revisions before the design met all LUC criteria. The design issues that had to be refined were parking stall & drive asile dimentions, landscape requierments. During the minor amendment review, it was discovered by Peter Barnes that the property had never been platted. The LUC specifies in 3.3.1(A)(3)(b) that property must be part of a platted subdivision to be allowed to change the use of the property. On June 23, 1999, the minor amendment was approved with the condition that the propery be platted using the city's type 1 review process. During the plat review the issues causing the need for revisions were dealing with ROW requirements and sidewalk requirements. The plat of the property was approved on September 21, 1999 using a type 1 process. CC: Dave Stringer; Mike Gebo; Peter Barnes