CC PACKET 11221988 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

15 1 family housing closer to a single family environment which appears to 2 be very attractive today; 3 *indicated that by making each building three stories high in the 4 middle and two stories high on each side, the project could retain the 5 dormitory effect in the middle but provide separate entrances for the 6 units on the end which would get away from ,the long hallway and still 7 maintain the number of units on the site necessary to provide enough tax 8 base to retire the tax increment; 9 *said they had also been able to move the mass of the buildings away 10 from the boundaries of the property which with two of the buildings 11 dropping down to two stories at the ends would make the project more 12 pleasing to the eye from a distance; 13 *told Chair Wagner the 50 unit senior building would remain a three 14 story structure. The other senior building would have the dropped 15 roof effect and would have 66 units. The third building with the same 16 configuration would be 85 units of high quality general rental; 17 *indicated the new proposal provided one to one underground heated 18 parking in the buildings and matching 201 spaces of surface proof of 19 parking outdoors with perhaps only 144 constructed initially. 20 The Lang/Nelson representative told the Commissioners his firm perceived 21 the all and all sense of this plan was really designed with the 22 community in mind and would be a better appearing project than the one 23 they had presented before with interior parking. ., 24 Commission Reaction 25 Chair Wagner was concerned that the new plan hadn't provided for an 26 emergency vehicle access which the City had included in their original 27 project requirements. He was assured that would be worked into the 28 'plan. The Chair also noted the interior walkway did not appear on the 29 plans. 30 Commissioner Hansen expressed what appeared to be a common Commission 31 concern, that the plan included another curb cut off Kenzie Terrace 32 which they perceived would intensity what are already traffic flow 33 problems on that street in that particular area. The Commissioner 34 told the LaNel officials the City had already spent thousands of dollars 35 to provide a traffic signal in front of the Kenzington which was 36 designed to control traffic from this development and it was feared the 37 new entrance would only encourage drivers to make a U-turn to get into 38 the senior building. Commissioner Hansen pointed to the Nativity 39 Lutheran Church parking lot traffic as a prime example of drivers 40 ignoring traffic signs and said the same problems were being experienced 41 in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken farther south on Kenzie Terrace. 42 Chair Wagner said he was afraid another driveway in that area would 43 just create the need for another traffic light three hundred feet from