2001-79 AMENDING PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT - WEST TOWNE SQUARE

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Excerpts from Plan Commission Minutes of October 4, 2001 Cal. No. 01-35 Petition of R &D DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, 202 South Franklin Street, to rezone the premises at 1049 WEST WOOD STREET and 1058 WEST MACON STREET from R-6 Multiple Dwelling District to B-2 Commercial District. And, on same petition, for subsequent approval of an amended B-2 I�� Planned Unrt Development at 1099 WEST WOOD STREET, 1058 �i WEST MACON STREET and 1049 WEST WOOD STREET. I It was moved and seconded(Smith/Shampine)to remove Cal. No. 01-35 from the table for I�i, action. Motion carried unanimously. '� Mr. Van Steenhuyse presented the recommendation of staff: I! The ori inal PUD for the office/retail building was approved in December 2000 and the building I g is now nearly complete, and an asset to the area. The applicants have purchased five additional adjacent lots in this area: one on Wood Street and four onMacon 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 1�Iacon 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 turnaround I area at the west end of the remaining alley. This will allow refuse trucks and other vehicles a I place to turn around after providing service to the remaining houses east of the development. � Mr. Van Steenhuyse added that the site plan shows two, 3-story buildings with 12 units each. The western building is situated parallel to Wood Street and contains all 3-bedroom units. The ', eastern building is located perpendicular to Wood Street and contains a112-bedroom units. The buildings are accessed via private sidewalks within the development; the western building is also ; accessed from the public sidewalk on the Wood Street side. 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. Mr. Van Steenhuyse then described the proposed parking plan. 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