2008-45 GRANTING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT - 3840 NORTH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DRIVE

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ECONOMIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT MEM RANDUM No. 08-75 July 3, 2008 TO: Honorable Mayor Michael T. Carrigan and City Council FROM: John A. Smith, Interim City Manager Greg C. Crowe, Assistant City Mana e Suzan M. Stickle, Senior Planner�3� Stephanie E. Ashe, Historic Preservation Planne� � SUBJECT: Conditional Use Permit at 3840 North Martin Luther K ng, Jr. Drive for a car wash in a B-2 Commercial District. SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approva of the Conditional Use Permit with the following conditions: 1.) The correct legal descripti n is added to the Lighting Plan. 2.) The proposed Lighting Plan comes into compliance and meets the current Zoning Ordinance. 3.) The Landscaping Plan is approved pending the legal s bdivision of the property. 4.) Building permits will not be issued as proposed in the approve plan until the property is legally subdivided. The City Plan Commission voted 6-1 to recomme d approval of this petition at the June 5, 2008 meeting; the minutes of the meeting are attached. I BACKGROUND: The subject site, zoned B-2, Commercial District, is located at 3840 North Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, contains approximately 32,680 squ�re feet, and is currently undeveloped. The petitioner is requesting a conditional use permit to allow for the cdnstruction of a state of the art Rainstorm Car Wash. The proposed building will be 3,656 square eet in area. It will contain a single bay in which the vehicles will drive through. The drive up la e will accommodate eight (8) vehicles which feed from two (2) lanes into one (1). Also on si e, there will be seven (7) vacuum stalls. POTENTIAL OBJECTION: Four (4) objectors were present and o e (1) letter was submitted and presented at the June 5, 2008 Plan Commission Meeting. These o jectors were all residents of Cowgill Avenue an area which was already prone to flooding. Thes residents voiced concern with drainage issues related to the development located to the northeas of the subject site. They feared more development would increase the existing flooding condit'ons. The development of the subject site will not have a direct affect on the surface drainage long Cowgill Avenue. It should be noted that all runoff and excess drainage will be contained on site. INPUT FROM OTHER SOURCES: The Conditional Use Permit was reviewed by the City's Technical Review Committee; Planning, Engineering and Fire approved the petition. STAFF REFERENCE: Any additional questions may be forwarded to Stephanie E. Ashe at 424-2781 or at sasl�e(�i,;dccattirii.�;o�-_. i BUDGET/TIME IMPLICAT�ONS: None.