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From:
Troy Jones
To:
Bob Blanchard
Date:
Tue, Nov 23, 1999 9:05 AM
Subject:
Turning Point (801 S. Shields)
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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