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10/16/2024
MEMORANDUM
TO: City Council
FROM: Bill Parsons, Current Planning Supervisor
CC: Bill Nary, City Attorney; City Clerk
RE: U-Haul Franklin Building B Access (CR-2024-0001)
History: In 2022, a request for a full access on Franklin Road was denied by City
Council with file #CR-2022-0008. At the time, the same applicant was seeking a full
access to Franklin Road and did not include a restriction to truck traffic only. ACHD
approved a full access but reserved the right to further restrict access at some point in the
future. Emergency services also requested that there be secondary access. Ultimately, the
Council granted the approval of a gated emergency access only and found the other
access farther to the west, which is shared with the abutting property, was sufficient to
serve the development in accordance with UDC 11-3A-3. This included a requirement of
a gate outside of the Franklin Road right-of-way.
Current Request: The applicant is requesting modifying the access limitation placed by
the City onto Franklin Road from emergency access only to U-Box truck access only. Per
the applicant, the request is based on safety concerns and a desire to provide general
public access on 12th Street while restricting the general public’s ability to access the
portion of the site serving the commercial U-Box trucks. In support of the modified
application, the applicant proposed a number of revisions to the site plan, including:
1. Constructing a westbound turn lane on Franklin Road;
2. Including additional signage showing the public access is limited to U-Box truck
traffic only;
3. Demarcating the site to separate the loading and unloading area for the U-Box
truck deliveries from areas used by the general public (for self-storage purposes).
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4. Alternative Compliance application to reduce the buffer width along Franklin
Road, with a requirement to provide enhanced landscaping in the areas near 10th
Street.
The Director acted on this modification and denied the applicant’s request based on the
previous Council decision on the matter (A-2024-0105). ACHD’s decision has not
changed and supports the proposed improvements listed below that would be located
within ACHD right-of-way.
Attachments
Exhibit 1: