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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989-11-16 Minutes• • MINUTES OF A PLAT REVIEW MEETING A meeting of the Fayetteville Plat Review Committee was held on Thursday, November 16, 1989 in Room 111 of the City Administration Building, 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas. UTILITY REPRESENTATIVES• Tom McElroy, Rick Evans, L.O. Ferguson and Larry Winkler CITY REPRESENTATIVES Don Bunn, Dennis Ledbetter, Lisa Cox and Elaine Cattaneo S lat mo ^ OTHERS PRESENT: Albert Skiles and Don Dees LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR ADDITION TO SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES 1901 COMMERCE DRIVE The first item was a large scale development plan for an addition to Superior Industries represented by Albert Skiles, Architect, and located at 1901 Commerce Drive. Property is zoned I-2, Heavy Industrial. ALBERT SKILFS - REPRESENTATIVE Skiles stated that they are planning an office addition which is about 10,000 square feet adjacent to their existing offices and manufacturing plant.. He noted that they have adequate existing parking to accommodate -the -new addition but they want to add a new parking lot in the front of it for the ease of the employees. There will be one new entrance added for this new parking lot. The only new utility connection coming in from the road will be tapping into the sewer line in front of the offices. As far as the other utilities, there is enough capacity internally to feed the new wing. The water from the new building will be dumped into the existing storm drain that runs parallel to the building. The water line that goes around the perimeter of the building will be moved and they will revise the plat to indicate the new location of the hydrant and the valve that controls the internal sprinklers. The portion of the water line underneath the building will be abandoned. TOM MCELROY - SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE McElroy stated that all of their services will be provided on the premises and they don't need anything unless additional facilities are requested by the developer. RICK EVANS - ARKANSAS WESTERN GAS Evans stated that they will not need anything more. No problems. LARRY WINKLER - SWEPCO • Winkler stated that they have enough capacity to take care of what is planned; therefore, they have no additional requirements. • • • Plat Review November 16, 1989 Page 2 L.O. FERGUSON - WARNER CABLE Ferguson stated that they don't have anything in the vicinity. No problem. DENNIS LEDBETTER - FIRE DEPARTMENT In answer to a question from Ledbetter, Mr. Skiles stated that this would be sprinkled. He asked if it would still need to have a 4 hour fire wall. Freeman Wood, Inspection Superintendent, stated that if they have 60' of permanent open space around the building and it is fully sprinklered, only a 2 hour firewall will be required to separate the industrial occupancy from the business occupancy. HAL MORTON - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT No comments. DON BUNN - CITY ENGINEER No comments. ELAINE CATTANEO - CITY PLANNING SECRETARY Cattaneo stated that the Subdivision Committee meets at 1:00 p.m. on November 22nd and the Planning Commission meets on November 27th at 5:00 p.m. She noted that they will need to submit proof of notification of the adjoining property owners to the Planning Office. LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR STUDIO ONE APARTMENTS STEVE CUMMINGS & JOE FRED STARR - W OF GREGG & ACROSS FROM LAWSON The second item was a large scale development plan for Studio One Apartments submitted by Don Dees on behalf of the owners, Steve Cummings & Joe Fred Starr, located west of Gregg Avenue across from Lawson and zoned R-2, Medium Density Residential. DON DEES - REPRESENTATIVE Dees stated that they presented a plat last year at this time with a proposal for 24 units on this property. However, due to the cost and the initial investors, their plans had been changed to a 52 unit apartment building all consolidated into one building. He noted that these will be efficiency apartments with 192 square feet to each unit. The building will be two-story with 13 units per floor back to back on each side of the building. He added that they are planning to move the building farther to the south than the first building was planned. He stated that they are offering the required parking spaces at 1.5 per unit and will have 5 handicapped parking spaces. He stated • • • Plat Review November 16, 1989 Page 3 that they are provided a utility easement along the east side of the property line and they are planning to set a fire hydrant 110' up the east side of the property line. The sidewalk is presently existing. They are basically just changing the style of the building and the location of the building on the property. The drainage will flow in a north & northwesterly direction. There will be two retainer walls with one on the south side and one on the east side of the property with it being about 5' at the southeast corner going to 2' at the end. He noted that there is about a 3' grade that they will have to be cutting out of that corner of the property and that dirt will be moved down to the northwest corner of the property for buildup. Dees advised that the present ownership of the property is Joe Fred Starr and Steve Cummings. Lyndall Brown and his father, Cecil, are the ones who are wanting to put this project in. Upon approval of getting the project through the Subdivision and Planning, they will exercise their option to purchase the property from the present owners. TOM MCELROY - SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE McElroy asked if there is going to be an open utility chase between the units. Mr. Dees stated that they will have a pipe chase down through the center of the building which will be accessible on one end. McElroy stated that he has facilities brought to this location on the west side of_Gregg on the south side of this property. He asked how much space there would be between the retaining wall and the building on the south side. Mr. Dees stated that they would have 5'. McElroy asked if they would have any problems putting the pipe under the retaining wall over to the side of the building. Mr. Dees stated that they could do that. McElroy stated that they will plan on coming in from the south end, but they will need to have a pipe over to the center of the chase. LARRY WINKLER - SWEPCO Winkler stated that they will set a pedestal on the southeast corner of the property primarily on the east side. He asked how wide the utility line along the front is. Mr. Dees stated that it is 25' wide with 45' from the curb to the building eaves. The building overhang will be 5' with 10' between the building front and the retainer wall and from the retainer wall to the property line will be 25' and another 10' to the curb. Winkler stated that they will need the utility line easement moved over to the retainer wall in order to have room to serve it. Winkler stated that the main obstacle he sees is the metering since they will be individually metered. Dees explained that they plan to put 26 meters on one end of the building and 26 on the other. Winkler advised that they will probably have to spread the metering out either along the back or the front of the building or build a separate wall just for the meters maybe along the south retaining wall or on the southwest corner of the building. Dees stated that they might consider moving the building to the north to accommodate for that wall. Winkler explained that they will have to have a concrete block firewall with no utilities going up through the roof in the middle of the building before SWEPCO could give them a separate service for each end. • • • Plat Review November 16, 1989 Page 4 RICK EVANS - ARKANSAS WESTERN GAS Evans stated that they have a line running north and south on the west side of Gregg Avenue. He asked that the developers call them to locate it before they do any cutting. L.O. FERGUSON - WARNER CABLE Ferguson stated that the contractors can wire it or they will wire it. They have service available along Gregg Avenue and Lawson. Will need a Schedule 40 PVC under the retaining wall at the southeast corner. Need a week or two advance notice. DENNIS LEDBETTER - FIRE DEPARTMENT Ledbetter stated that they are going to need a 20' unobstructed width in parking lot in order to get fire trucks around that corner ( 18' is shown). He added that state law requires 20'. Dees stated that they plan to install smoke detectors in each unit and they will follow the code on the required fire extinguishers. HAL MORTON - SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT Morton stated that the dumpster location is o.k. as long -as they can get their front end loader in there. There should be adequate marking of "no parking" in front of the dumpster and the pad will need to be reinforced because of the stress put on it from the trucks. LISA COX - PARKS DEPARTMENT Cox stated that the land required would be .52 acres with the money in lieu of $4,420. This area is not a high priority park area, but the Parks Board will be making a recommendation to the Planning Commission on Monday night, November 20th if he would like to attend. Dees asked if the parks fee can be made in three payments. Bunn answered, yes. FREEMAN WOOD - INSPECTIONS SUPERINTENDENT Wood stated that this will have to be drawn by an architect and they will need stamps on it. It will have to be submitted to the State Health Department in Little Rock for approval. Those problems will be taken care of when they come in to get the building permit. He added that on the plat the total building is shown as 5,920 square feet with 52 units which only gives you 113.85 square feet/unit instead of 192 square feet. The Housing Code requires a minimum of 150 square feet/person with 100 square feet added for each additional person. Dees stated that he must have miscalculated because the apartments are going to be 12' x 16' = 192 square feet. Wood advised that they should contact Sandra Carlisle at the NW Regional Planning Office to find out what the requirements are for identifying each unit for the • • Plat Review November 16, 1989 Page 5 911 Emergency system. DON BUNN - CITY ENGINEER Bunn stated that they had a discrepancy in the total acreage. The staff calculates around 1.8 acres here instead of 2.05 by looking at the Court House records and taking into account the right-of-way of Gregg Street. That being the case, the number of units will have to be cut down to 46 units to accommodate the zoning requirement of 1,700 square feet of land area/unit. He added if the owners don't agree with that, they will need to verify the 2.05. Bunn asked if these would be regular rent by the month apartments. Dees answered, yes, with a six-month lease. Bunn asked how old all the fill is on this property. Dees answered that it was put in there when Gregg Avenue was widened so it is about 3 or 4 years old. Bunn stated that a lot of their parking lot will be on that fill so they will need to be careful. Dees stated that he had consulted with McClinton -Anchor and found out that it will cost about $30,000 to get that parking lot fixed appropriately and get it stable. Bunn stated that they will need to do something to control the drainage off of that parking lot. He asked if the building itself will be on natural ground or on fill. Dees stated that he doesn't know the answer to that question, but the biggest part of the fill came in on the west section of -the property and not a lot brought in where the building is going to sit. Dees stated that they intend to drill down and sink some piers. Bunn stated that according to Fire Code, the fire hydrant has to be within 400' to 500' of the property. He noted that he thinks it was amended to 400'. Need to look and see whether the existing water line for the fire hydrant is under Gregg Avenue. The water meter needs to be east of the retaining wall rather than west of the retaining wall. Dees stated that all the water will be under one meter. Bunn noted that he needs to show the ownership and developer on the plat and the zoning data. Bunn advised that the sidewalk is existing. His biggest concern at this point is the stability of this parking lot. PERRY FRANKLIN - TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT Franklin was unable to attend the meeting, but he was concerned that there is only one entrance/exit with this many units proposed. Also, he noted that if they plan to put anything at this entrance over 30" high, it needs to be at least 25' back from the intersection. • JIM JOHNSON - WATER METER DMSION Johnson was not present at the meeting, but he commented that in order to give • • • Plat Review November 16, 1989 Page 6 addresses for each unit, he would need some sort of layout showing how many floors and unit locations on each floor. ELAINE CATTANEO - CITY PLANNING SECRETARY Cattaneo stated that the developers are responsible for notifying the adjoining property owners and they have three options as per Code of which Mr. Dees has a copy. The Planning Office will need proof of notification. She advised that they will need the revised plats in the Planning Office by Monday, November 20th, by 3:00 p.m.