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Item 6E (2)The following is a Site Plan approval request for the Verizon Wireless Expansion under Planning Case ZA11-050. 1 The applicant Corgan Associates Inc. on behalf of Verizon Wireless is requesting approval of a Site Plan for an expansion of approximately 56,529 square feet with two-storys to increase the network space and infrastructure at their existing facility located at 500 W. Dove Road. 2 The future land use designation is mixed use. 3 The current zoning is “NR-PUD” Non-Residential Planned Unit Development 4 The following is an aerial of the site with the area with the are of the expansion outlined by the yellow 5 This is a view looking west with the area for expansion again being outlined in yellow 6 Original Concept Plan was approved by City Council on October 17, 1995. This approval established the “NR-PUD” zoning and allowed for C-3 General Commercial, O-2 Office, “HC” Hotel and “CS” Community Service uses on the property 7 The following is the existing site plan for the approximately 389,000 square foot facility. 8 This is the proposed site plan of an approximately 56,529 square foot two-story expansion which consists of a service yard area which will house and screen six generators and three cooling towers. The building expansion will house data and networking equipment, more information can be found in the applicants narrative letter under attachment ‘C’ of the staff report provided to the Commission. In addition, there are some parking spaces being added to the site to simply provide for additional parking. The applicant is required even with this addition to have a total of 491 parking spaces for the entire facility. They have provided 609 in total including the additional 38 spaces with this request. 9 This slide is simply the parking calculation discussed from the previous slide. [Here is the parking data summary chart showing an additional 55 spaces required for the expansion based on ratio of 1 space per 1000 square feet. The total number of spaces required is 491 with 609 spaces being provided.] 10 The following slide is the elevations for the north façade. A 20-foot wall will enclose the service yard area and the building height will be approximately 43-feet 6-inches. The materials being used will mainly consist of brick to match the existing facility. [The north expansion elevations are shown here with and without the 20’ service wall.] 11 This is the east and west façade elevations. The building expansion will be the same height as the existing facility. 12 And these are the elevations of the service yard 13 This is the plan for the proposed service yard showing the generators and cooling towers. 14 This is the proposed landscape plan. The applicant is proposing to remove five (5) existing interior landscape trees for the construction of the proposed expansion and additional parking spaces. An additional four (4) live oaks, eight (8) magnolia, five (5) crape myrtle, and one-hundred-ninety-seven (197) burford hollies are proposed to be installed with the new expansion. 15 There is a variance associated with this request to the vertical and horizontal articulation requirements of the Overlay zones section of the zoning ordinance. The applicant is requesting a variance in order to be consistent with the existing building as it was approved previously. 16 17 This concludes staffs presentation, the applicant is present to answer any questions the Commission may have, are there any questions of staff. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 This is the site data summary provided by the applicant from site plan. 25 26 27 28