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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989-03-13 - Agendas - FinalFAYETTEVI LLE •4E CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS AGENDA FOR A MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION Monday, March 13, 1989 at 5:00 p.m., in the City Administration Building, Directors Room second floor, 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas. BUSINESS: 1. LOT SPLIT NO. 1: Submitted by Robert Neukranz for property located on the North side of Rockwood Trail on part of lot 9, Block 1 of South Hampton Addition. Property zoned R-1, Low Density Residential containing :..95_acres. 2. CONDITIONAL USE REQUEST - TANDEM LOT: Submitted:_by Robert Neukranz for property located on the North side of Rockwood Trail on part of lot 9, Block 1 of South Hampton Addition. Property zoned R-1, Low Density Residential containing 1.00 acres. 3. LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT: RE -SUBMITTAL OF BURCKART VILLAGE APARTMENTS: Submitted by John C. Burckardt and represented by Harry Gray of Northwest Engineers. Property located S. of Appleby Rd. & along the N. side of Drake St. zoned C-2, Thoroughfare Commercial, containing 7.2 acres. 4. LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT: RE -SUBMITTAL OF LAKE SHORE APAR1MEPTS Submitted by James Lindsey. Property located on the North side of Joyce St. zoned R-2, Medium Density Residential, containing 19.29 acres. 5. LOT SPLIT 1{2: Submitted by Don McIntire for property located on the east side of Joe Fred Starr Rd. just outside the city limits contains 1.75 acres. 6. OTHER BUSINESS. 7. Approval of the minutes of the regular Planning Commission meeting of February 27, 1989. 113 WEST MOUNTAIN 72701 501 521-7700 • -‘•t a"4g1-n- 4 eI, /4h vidT. s,'"Y.L is•S!s'.�-, 0 . ,?":-;;• Rtyj71iw'.ijtit fJ". o s, no trees, noarkBn , f , g. -a on First Commercial "lot, co a says 4./6ic.ga By Valerie Smith It'4/SE GAZETTE STAFF • For weeks, workers have pre- pared for the greening of the empty lot at Second and Main streets. .-: il -. Since a bank buildingon the property was razed last summer, the site has been a treeless ex- . pease of black asphalt.:.. . Until the lot is dotted with trees and shrubs, the city of Little Rock will not grant First Commercial . Bank a permit to open a parking lot there. ... �.•R'r.rM... • ' So three contracting firms have been busy laying irrigation pipes and digging plant beds. • It's all because of the Little Rock landscape code.• . Championed by the City Beauti- ful Commission, and adopted by the city Board of Directors in 1978, the code is aimed at beautifying parldng lots. Jim Hathcock, chief of env'ronmental codes for the city. said. Thorough and detailed — down oto the size of trees and choices of greenery — the code applies to property development, expansion or improvement projects, and to . development of parking lots of more than 2,500 square feet. Rath - cock said. Anyone who plans to develop property must submit a building and a landscaping plan, Hathcock said. When the completed project Is inspected, landscaping must be completed and approved as well. "Landscaping is an integral part of but di g pia . We c nom stress the sidewal IS-inch-highparkingplaces shrub e forloevery 25 that enough," H thcoc said. When the ank was warned of a in Nt- Failur to comply with the city's landscape code violation, it Garner would not say what First landscape code 's a mi demeanor, quickly responded with a land- Commercial must spend to comply subject to a $600 fine and a pen- scoping plan that extended "be- with the city's landscape code. or alty of $250 for every day of non- yond the minimum,' Hathcock what percentage of the total devel- compliance. ' said. . , opment cost It comprises. He did "Fortunately about 99 petient • "We're extremely satisfied with ; say that the underground Irriga- of the people voluntarily comply,' the progress they've made there;' , Hon system for the total 290 -foot - said Hathcock, whose Env ron- Hathcock said Inst week. `by -160 -foot parking area was op - mental Codes Unit polices and en-.. Bill Gamer, senior vice president ' tionaL •-• = . t- - forces landscaping. •• '- of First Commercial Bank, said Hathcock said for some property The"vast majority" of the other nothing was accidental, and all owners, thecost of complying with 1 percent "Just don't realize development efforts were planned ^the code was higher than Just they're in violation of the code,' to comply with the landscaping ' planting trees and shrubs. he said. 'yi-t •.•,,•-: ' . code - - •- • _ 11 Commercial tots adjacent to a :;'Cheaper to plea' "cter'• :': It was considerably cheaper to :parcel of residential -zoned prop- , jackhammer the planting beds at: serty must plant shrubs and trees, . Hathcock said a court battle ter paving than to create the beds • as well as install an opaque fence - with the city over landscaping had and pave around them, Garner or wall to separate the business never been won, and "it doesn't said. - - 1 'property from residential prop - take many days to eat up a couple Ted Berg, president of Asphalt \. erty. .4 -----•---" r of thousands dollars In fines" in Contractors Inc., which frequently.: v' Although the roles about land - the meantime. "It's a lot cheaper to paves parking lots in Little Rock; .scaping are stringent, the time go out and plant the shrubs,' he (but did not pave the First Com-: frame for complying is extremely added. ' 0.-i4,,t' •,-vee- .• it' mercial lot), said his company., flexible, Hathcock said.r- •'4 In the last few weeks. Aachen- would lay asphalt either way, but •\ When, a warning is issued, a mer operators blasted through as- that blasting through asphalt was .property owner has 15 days to phalt at Second and Main to create the easier option when the land- -submit a written landscaping plan. rows of triangular-shaped plant seeping plan was fairly elaborate. =.If more time is needed, it usually is beds and narrow trenches for un- The cost is about the same in either `granted, he said, and frequently a derground irrigation. Same trees case he said. - ' ;temporary ""certificate of mat - are in place on the lot at Third and In any ease by raid -December, ..,panty" is issued before the land - Main, but because the parking area crape myrtles, oak trees and as-' '. scaping is complete- -v- is being expanded after the razing sorted shrubs should be in place, ate 4 In phased projects, like shopping of the bank building at Second and the rate of approximately 'one center construction or multiple - Main, more trees and shrubs are shrub every 10 feet and a tree dwelling property development, required throughout. - every 40 feet. The greenery' may be the city may also accept a perfor- Hathcock said the developer ei- clustered, in planters, in single mance bond for part of the land - Cher had been unaware of the land- pots or a number of other alterna- leaping, while the rest is being scope code, or had failed to com- tives, Hathcock said. j; ' -completed. ..,',',-1-4T; ..i.14: -`• munIca te with his asphalt In total, to meet the landscape 4 We try to work with developers contractors, who apparently acci- code, the lot will have a 2-inchdi- because each situation has its own dentally laid asphalt "right up to ameter, 12 -foot -high tree, and an . set of problems," Hathcock said.