2001-79 AMENDING PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT - WEST TOWNE SQUARE

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' � ' � • Page 2 of 4 West Towne Square PUD Amendment September 6, 2001 left out of the rezoning. This oversight was corrected in May. The project, known as West Towne Square, is currently under construction and is expected to open this fall. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 3. The applicants have purchased five additional adjacent lots in this area: one on Wood Street and four on Macon Street. They are proposing to rezone these lots from R-6 to B-2 and amend the PUD for West Towne Square to add two 12-unit apartment buildings. In addition to the buildings, additional parking would be added,most of which is parallel to Macon Street. The applicants have also submitted a separate petition for vacation of the alley located behind the lots in question. The site plan shows a turn-around area at the west end of the remaining alley. This will allow refuse trucks and other vehicles a place to turn around after providing service to the remaining houses east of the development. 4. The two new buildings will be served by extensions of the utilities already approved for the original PUD. A 6-inch watermain that serves the commercial building from an existing main in Wood Street will be extended to the buildings. The sanitary sewer line that will be located in the former alley will be extended east to a service line from each building. This line connects to a combined sewer located under Oakland Avenue. 5. The site plan shows two, 3-story buildings with 12 units each. The western building is situated parallel to Wood Street and contains a113-bedroom units. The eastern building is �� located perpendicular to Wood Street and contains a112-bedroom units. The buildings are I accessed via private sidewalks within the development; the western building is also accessed from the public sidewalk on the Wood Street side. 6. The western building is set back 11 feet from Wood Street,which is the same setback for the commercial building. The eastern building is set back 20 feet from Wood Street. According to the developer, this was done at the request of the adjoining property owner to the east. The eastern building is also 12 feet from the east property line. Since the adjoining house is only . about 2 to 3 feet from the property line,the buildings will be situated about 14 or 15 feet apart. 7. In the original plan, the access drive off of Wood Street was located further to the east. The amended plan shows the access drive moved west so as to be between the commerciaUoffice building and the western apartment building. The drive accesses a private parking area containing 195 parking spaces (including 7 handicapped-accessible spaces). 8. With the addition of the 24 apartment units, 213 parking spaces are required to serve the entire site. In addition to the 195 off-street parking spaces, 14 spaces are provided on the street. This is consistent with the previously approved PUD which showed eight parallel parking spaces on Oakland and 13 parallel spaces on Wood Street. However, on the amended plan seven of the spaces on Wood Street have been deleted. Again, according to the developer this has been done at the request of the adjoining property owner. The on-street parking spaces were allowed to be counted toward the total requirement in the original PUD. By combining the off-street and on-street parking spaces,there is a total of 209 spaces. Although this falls short by four spaces of the Ordinance requirement, the PUD allows for a relaxing of the standards. The original PUD was also short by two spaces. Staff