04/25/2001 Env Bd Packet - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Search

YAH PARKING AND SITE CIRCULATION Parking requirements for the development are established per City Zoning Ordinance, Section 3 General Requirements, Subdivision 5 Off - street Parking. The site is zoned SC - Shopping Center and under Para. F - Number of Spaces Required item 16 states, "Shopping Centers. Five and one -half (5 1 /z) spaces per each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross leasable floor area (exclusive of common areas)." Para. F - Number of Spaces Required item 15 states "Retail Store and Service Establishment. At least one (1) off - street parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area." APPLICANT is proposing to provide 1,747 parking stalls for 306,400 sf of mixed use Shopping. Center or a parking ratio of 1 space per 175 square feet of floor area. Site internal circulation will be obtained via the Apollo Drive extension into the site and the secondary access off Lake Drive. Truck deliveries will be directed to enter and exit at the Lake Drive access points. Trash containers are proposed to be fully contained within the building footprints. The SuperTarget has an external cardboard bailer /trash compactor in the loading dock area. This area will be screened from the residents to the north by landscaping and a split face modular block screen wall. Pedestrian traffic between retail centers will be addressed by the installation of sidewalk along the front of each retail center and walkways will tie between shops and the SuperTarget Store. Applicant will continue to work with city staff to coordinate connections to neighborhood and local /regional bike trails. A regulatory sign package will be submitted for staff review and approval prior to issuance of a building permit. UTILITIES City services are available to the site. Presently, a sanitary sewer main parallels Lake Drive on the east side of the right -of -way. Applicant intends to construct manholes over the existing main and branch easterly with new 8" diameter main at two locations; one near the southwest corner of the parcel at Apollo Drive and the second at the secondary access point along Lake Drive. Existing city water main is also readily available to the site. A new 8" diameter site water main with fire hydrants will be looped around the proposed buildings. This new main will tie into the existing city main near the two sanitary sewer connections stated above along Lake Drive, as well as tie in to the 77th Street water main. City Engineer was contacted to provide hydrant flow tests near the site to APPLICANT'S engineer so that a determination on fire flow booster pumps will be needed for proposed building's fire protection sprinkler systems. Applicant will provide easements for the City over the new water and sewer mains. PARSONS TRANSPORTATION GROUP Barton -Aachm o • De Leuw. Lather. • Steinman Town Center Narrative Page - 16 - 04/ 09/ 01