Title
Ordinance - Third and Final Reading on an Ordinance Approving a Zoning Change to Replace the Existing PD with a New PD for C-2 uses, Including a Day Care Center, on Approximately 7.3 Acres Generally Located South of Woodcrest Lane and West of Westridge Drive; Hanover Property Co. (ZC#16-002)
Requested Action
To consider the subject zoning change request.
Recommendation
The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on April 4, 2016, and voted 6-0 to recommend approval. Commissioner Preston Horn was absent.
Description/History
The property is located between E. Broad Street and Woodcrest Lane, behind the buildings housing McDonalds, 7-Eleven and Dickey’s Barbecue.
The existing PD on the property was adopted in 2013 after City Council denied a zoning request for mini-warehouses. It allows “General Retail Uses and General Service and Office Type Uses permitted in the C-2 Zoning.”
The proposed PD will allow ALL permitted uses in the C-2 zoning (as amended last year), including a day care center, which will be the first of the proposed development. The site plan for the 10,000 sf day care center is included in this zoning change request. Other future developer will be subject to detailed site plan approval by the Council. The development will comply with C-2 standards with the following exceptions:
- The maximum allowable height will be reduced from 50 to 35 feet
- The day care center will have a monument sign at the end of the entrance drive despite not having public street frontage
- The screening wall adjacent to single family homes will be replaced by a wrought iron fence approx. 50’ from the residential property line due to an existing gas line easement, matching the current screening and landscaping next to the existing building by this property
The internal drive providing access to the day care center from E. Broad Street is only built part of the way to Woodcrest Lane. Staff has inquired about the completion of the drive to Woodcrest Lane. Hanover Property Co. responded that “The common access drive to Woodcrest Lane and the accompanying utility lines to be extended underneath the future drive, will continue to be constructed as the vacant land along the common access drive area is developed. The exact location and alignment of the drive and utility needs are not currently known.”
Third and Final Reading - May 23, 2016
Please see the attached letter from the pipeline company claiming a wider blanket easement and objecting to a permanent fence or wall adjacent to their 50' easement. It will apply to any new masonry or pre-cast wall and any extension of the existing retaining wall and wrought iron fence as shown in the existing condition picture.
Prepared By
Felix Wong, Director of Planning
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