Agenda - Planning Commission - 01/03/2013

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• • oriented to this internal drive. This internal drive was an important design element the subdivision because it allowed the existing retail/office building on Lot 2 to be part of this campus environment and take advantage of shared parking opportunities with the new Wiser Choice Liquor Store building on Lot 3, thereby, solving an existing parking problem for those businesses. Our restaurant design closely evaluated the existing conditions created by lot lines, existing building orientations and traffic access. Based on this information, the front of our site faces east and is oriented toward internal street. Due to the need for vehicles to maneuver around the site, the building cannot be constructed at the build -to line. However, the Framework anticipated this type of situation and provided a tool to create a street edge through the use of a stone and decorative aluminum fence as shown on our plans. The Framework states that when this street edge is used, the fencing edge should be 40% of the frontage. Our plans show that the fence edging covers 42% of the street frontage on Sunwood Drive. This exceeds ordinance requirements. The fencing will offer breaks to open views into the site and provide a sidewalk connection to the front door of the building. This will create a strong, yet inviting, street edge. We understand the importance of the building appearance on all four elevations. While our customers will enter the building from the front (east) side of the building, the north, south and west elevations were designed with interesting building elevations to provide curb appeal. All elevations are treated with similar materials, including glass, brick, EIFS and metal accents—there is no "back of building" on this site. The trash enclosure is designed as part of the building and has window glazing on the north face to provide visual interest for customers in the drive-through. The fence/landscape edge along Sunwood would limit the visibility to this elevation from the street, but any glimpse of the elevation would provide an interesting face. The COR Framework requires that "Rooftop equipment shall be screened from the line of site of pedestrians and integrated into the design and massing of the roof form." This site complies by locating all mechanical equipment on the roof screening from line of sight of pedestrian by the proposed parapet which is designed as part of the building. This is no requirement that rooftop equipment be screened from the sky (or from the future elevated Armstrong Boulevard) nor is such screening viable. We understand the COR TWO subdivision is unique within The COR in regard to the building orientation necessitated by the unique access situation. However, we believe that our site plan complies with the spirit and intent of the COR Framework while providing a viable site plan for the unique types of uses on this block. At your request, we have provided another copy of this approved sketch plan for the COR TWO subdivision to show how the buildings in this campus setting are all oriented toward each other around the internal drive. Chris Anderson 2 December 20, 2012