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CONSIDERATION OF A PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR EASTPARK CROSSING II ADDITION, A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, WITH WAIVER OF ALLEY REQUIREMENTS. (GENERALLY LOCATED NORTH OF ALAMEDA STREET ON THE WEST SIDE OF 12TH AVENUE N.E.)
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BACKGROUND: This item is a preliminary plat for Eastpark Crossing Section II, a Planned Unit Development (PUD), and is generally located north of Alameda Street on the west side of 12th Avenue N.E. The property consists of 7.13 acres and four (4) lots. The property will consist of retail shops, restaurants and possibly a bank. The development will include privately maintained storm water detention facilities.
City Council, at its meeting of July 27, 1999, adopted Ordinance O-9900-1 placing this property in the Planned Unit Development (PUD) District. Planning Commission, on March 12, 2015, recommended to City Council the preliminary plat for Eastpark Crossing Section II, a Planned Unit Development be approved with alley waiver.
DISCUSSION: The 46,220 square-feet of commercial space in this addition is expected to generate approximately 4,112 trips per day. The traffic capacities on the nearby arterial roadways exceed the demand for existing and proposed trips as a result of this project. No negative traffic impacts are anticipated.
Because of the development's size and traffic generation potential, the applicant would normally have been required to conduct a comprehensive Traffic Impact Analysis. Such a study was submitted with the original Preliminary Plat for this site. That study found that improvements were required at the intersection of Alameda Street and 12th Avenue East. As such, the findings of the original study remain valid.
Those improvements included a redesign of the intersection to include dual left-turn lanes and exclusive right-turn lanes on all four intersection approaches. This construction would also require the existing traffic signal to be rebuilt.
The cost estimate used to determine tr...
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