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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004 07 12 Public Hearings 409 COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM 409 Consent Informational Public Hearing X Regular July 12, 2004 Meeting MGR.fL-- /DEPT jfr" Authorization REQUEST: The Community Development Department- Planning Division requests the City Commission hold a Public Hearing for aesthetic review of Reece Building Three on Nursery Road. PURPOSE: To encourage creative, effective, and flexible architectural standards and cohesive community development consistent with the intent and purpose of Article XI - Minimum Community Appearance and Aesthetic Review Standards. APPLICABLE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: Ordinance 2003-43, Aesthetic Review Standards, City of Winter Springs (attached) CHRONOLOGY: Jan. 22, 2001- Adoption of Ordinance 2001-03 Annexing the property. Jan. 26. 2004- City Commission adopted Ordinance 2003-43, establishing minimum community appearance and aesthetic review. Feb. 4, 2004- Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend approval for final engineering/site plan. Mar. 8, 2004- City Commission voted to approve final engineering/site plan. Mar. 30, 2004-Preconstruction meeting was held. Construction has not yet begun. The engineer is determining the best route to construct the sanitary sewer and will submit FDEP revisions to the existing permits, to incorporate the change. July 12, 2004- Aesthetic Review of Building Three by City Commission CONSIDERATIONS: The site was annexed on January 22, 2001. At that time, Nursery Road was then a County ~ July 12, 2004 PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM 409 owned road, lined with immobilized (often junked) automobiles and often blocked off by tow trucks and other vehicles. The existing automobile repair shops were in violation of various health-safety regulations. When this site was subsequently brought forward for a Future Land Use amendment, rezoning, and a site plan, residents came forward and voiced concern over the situation at hand and over plans to enlarge the facility, which was oriented heavily toward automobile repair. Issues of concern were subsequently addressed and incorporated into a development agreement at about the same time as the Future Land Use amendment to Commercial and rezoning to C-2 took place. The development agreement divided site development into two primary phases (interim and re- development) and addressed the park donation, restricting parking in front of the businesses along Nursery Road, temporary and permanent on-site parking, landscape buffers and walls, restricting uses adjacent to the residential properties, replacing the existing on-site residential uses with commercial development, traffic analysis, and site illumination. The development agreement prohibited auto repair shops, mechanic shops, auto body shops, auto paint shops, sheet metal shops, metal fabrication shops, industrial uses, or uses which generate obnoxious odors and excessive noise in the eastern most 400 feet of the site (that portion abutting off-site residential development). Businesses in the eastern 400 feet must limit their hours of operation to between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Phase I, as set forth in the development agreement, has been completed and this site plan constitutes movement into Phase II. Phase II is demarcated into sub-phases, to allow new construction to begin on the undeveloped portion of the site, while the existing on-site residential (8 duplexes, one single-family unit, and associated detached garage) and some of the highway frontage buildings are removed and replaced with commercial buildings. Buildings 1 & 2 currently exist and are to remain, while Building 3 is phase II A; Buildings 4 & 5 are Phase II B. Pursuant to the development agreement, the owner has constructed masonry walls around the portions of the site that abut residentially zoned properties, as well as across from the park. The property has received site plan and final engineering approval and at time there were no objections from the adjacent community. FINDINGS: The aesthetic review is only for Building Three. Building Three is a 24,000 SF metal building sited behind a four foot split face CMU wall on the eastern portion of the site. The building is situated facing west with the street frontage being the narrow dimension of the building. The applicant has submitted elevations illustrating the elevations of Building Three and the proposed colors and materials, as well as a color illustrative. The new building will be a tan standing seam metal building with dark green trim and dark green metal mansard awnings. Doors will be painted tan to match the wall panels. An existing four-foot grey split face CMU wall buffers this building from the street. The applicant July l2, 2004 PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM 409 has added an additional tree to the two trees indicated on the site plan, to help screen the view ofthe building from Nursery Road. ST AFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff has reviewed the Applicant's request for aesthetic review (Building Three, only) and has found it to be in compliance with the intent of Ordinance 2003-43 and recommends that the City Commission approve the request. ATTACHMENTS: A. Color rendering of the street side of the proposed building & Elevations of the proposed building COMMISSION ACTION: July 12, 2004 PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM 409 ATTACHMENT A: Color rendering of the street side of the proposed building & Elevations of the proposed building