Planning Report
ADP16-0020 / Mission Street Offices
City Council District 4
Planning & Zoning Commission
March 8, 2017
REQUEST:
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Consider a request for approval of an Alternative Development Plan for an initial phase of a proposed office park development on 1.65 acres located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Fort Worth Drive and Mission Street. (ADP16-0020, Mission Street Offices, Hayley Zagurski).
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OWNER:
Kent Key
APPLICANT:
Lee Allison with Allison Engineering Group
BACKGROUND:
The subject property is comprised of portions of two parcels of land currently zoned Community Mixed Use General (CM-G) District. The applicant intends to plat the property so that the subject property will be comprised of four lots.
Per Section 35.13.5 of the DDC, an Alternative Development Plan (ADP) provides the option to address the design criteria of Subchapter 13 of the Denton Development Code (DDC) through a discretionary site plan review process which includes review and consideration by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The applicant is requesting an ADP to deviate from the design requirements of Subchapter 13 of the DDC as it pertains to three aspects of site design:
1. Building orientation
2. Permeable paving for excess parking
3. Large scale development standards
a. Reduction in the minimum 100 foot distance between mechanical equipment adjacent to a single family use to approximately 30 feet.
b. The requirement for an 8-foot masonry screening wall located along the common boundary line of adjacent residential property.
The proposed development is intended to be part of a larger campus-style office park. The first portion of this request is to orient the buildings away from the street towards the interior of the office park. The applicant is also proposing to provide parking in excess of the required number of spaces and is requesting to deviate from the requirement to use permeable paving for those extra spaces. Additionally, due to the inte...
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