Planning Report
ADP16-0007/Pecan Creek Business Park
City Council District 1
Planning & Zoning Commission
September 14, 2016
REQUEST:
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Consider approval of an Alternative Development Plan (ADP) for the construction of an office development. The subject property is generally located on the north side of Duchess Drive, approximately 750 feet west of South Loop 288 within a Community Mixed Use General (CM-G) District. (ADP16-0007, Pecan Creek Business Park, Mike Bell)
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OWNER:
Kent Key & John Rainey/Triple Crown Properties, Inc.
APPLICANT:
Lee Allison/Allison Engineering Group, LLC.
BACKGROUND:
The applicant is proposing to develop the site with an office use consisting of two buildings, each approximately 12,750 square feet of gross floor area. Phase 1 will include the northern building, northern parking lot, and the drive aisle from Duchess Drive. Phase 2 will include the southern building, the central parking lot, and the 35 additional spaces along the drive aisle. Please refer to the attached Site Plan, Landscape Plan, and Phasing Plan for more detail. The property is zoned CM-G District and office is a permitted use. However, the applicant is requesting to deviate from the following site design criteria in Subchapter 35.13 of the Denton Development Code (DDC):
* Subchapter 35.13.13.3.C.1 generally requires parking areas be located behind or the sides of buildings and not between the building and the street. Parcels that are adjacent to a Primary or Secondary Arterial, are not part of a pedestrian oriented district, and comply with the screening requirements in Subchapter 35.13.13.C.3 are exempted from this requirement, however the subject property does not meet these qualification as Duchess Drive is classified as a Collector Street. The applicant is therefore requesting the ADP to allow a circular parking lot with 18 spaces between the two buildings and the street.
* Subchapter 35.13.10.B.1.d requires all parking spaces that exceed the number r...
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