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CONSIDERATION OF A PRELIMINARY PLAT AND WAIVER OF ALLEY REQUIREMENTS FOR MUSIC PLACE. (LOCATED AT 2570 NORTH INTERSTATE DRIVE).
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BACKGROUND: This item is a preliminary plat for Music Place Addition and is located at 2570 North Interstate Drive. The property currently consists of .79 acres and one (1) lot. The existing residential structure will be removed from the site. The proposal is for an office and warehouse.
Planning Commission, at its meeting of January 12, 2017, recommended to City Council the amending of the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan from Institutional Designation to Commercial Designation. Also, Planning Commission recommended that this property be placed in the C-2, General Commercial District and removed from O-1, Office Institutional District. In addition, Planning Commission, at its meeting of January 12, 2017, recommended to City Council that the preliminary plat for Music Place Addition be approved with alley waiver.
DISCUSSION: The proposed Preliminary Plat for Music Place will involve the development of 8,000 square feet of office/warehouse space on the west side of North Interstate Drive just north of Rock Creek Road. As such, Music Place is expected to generate 56 additional trips per day, 20 additional AM peak hour trips, and 12 additional PM peak hour trips. The Music Place trip generation potential for this development is well below the threshold for when a traffic impact study is required. Traffic capacities on nearby arterial roadways exceed the demand for existing and proposed trips as a result of this development. No negative traffic impacts are anticipated.
The Music Place development features frontage along both North Interstate Drive and Yarborough Way. At staff's request, the applicant located all access to Yarborough Way thereby preserving all possibilities for a future interchange with I-35 at Rock Creek Road. The access to Yarborough Way will be opposite the existing access to Chr...
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