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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNovember 6, 2003 P&Z MinutesMeridian Planning & Zoning November 6, 2003 Page 69 of 87 Rohm: And including a planter? Borup: Not a landscape buffer, but a decorative planter -- at least one on one corner of the building. Rohm: There you go. Perfect. I'll second that motion. Borup: Sounds good to me. Motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you. MOTION CARRIED: TWO AYES. TWO ABSENT. Item 11: Public Hearing: CUP 03-050 Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a new bank facility with drive up tellers in an OT zone for Farmers and Merchants State Bank by CSHOA - 703 North Main Street: Borup: Okay. The next item is number 11, CUP 03-050. Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, we have a request from the applicant that this be continued to the meeting of December 18th, 2003. Unless there is somebody here to testify, I would so move. Borup: We need to open it first. Zaremba: Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you did. Borup: I'm sorry. Wait a minute. Zaremba: I preempted you, didn't I? Borup: I don't know. I had forgotten. I didn't open it. I'd like to open Public Hearing CUP 03-050. Zaremba: Mr. Chairman, I move that this Public Hearing be continued to December 18th, 2003. Rohm: Second. Zaremba: At the request of the applicant. Rohm: Second. Borup: Motion and second. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: TWO AYES. TWO ABSENT. Meridian Planriing & Zoning November 6, 2003 Page 70 of 87 Borup: I'm just checking to see what we had. We had two subdivisions and a church. Rohm: It's time to go home. Borup: Was all we had. So, I think we are fine on -- okay. Zaremba: Okay. Item 12: Public Hearing: CUP 03-051 Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a coffee shop with auxiliary drive-thru in a C-G zone for Starbucks by Wenco, Inc. - northeast corner of South Meridian Road and East Corporate Drive: Borup: CUP 03-051, request for a Conditional Use Permit for a coffee shop with auxiliary drive-thru in a C-G zone for Starbucks by Wenco, Incorporated, at Meridian Road and East Corporate Drive. We'd like to open this Public Hearing and start with the staff report. Hood: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the Commission. Craig Hood. The applicant, Wenco, Incorporated, has requested Conditional Use Permit approval for the construction of a new Starbucks Coffee Shop with adrive-thru located on the northeast Corner of Meridian Street and Corporate Drive. The proposed coffee shop is proposed on Lot 2, Block 1, of Wenco Subdivision, and is located west of the Wendy's restaurant and north of the Taco Bell restaurant. I had a couple of other things that I was going to point out, but in the interest of time, I think the main outstanding issue is the landscaping adjacent to Meridian Road. I'd just like the Commission to know when this was o riginally I ooked --the Wendy's p arcel -- t his a II o ne p arcel w hen Wendy's was developed, a subdivision called Wenco was -- has subsequently been recorded and the Starbucks subject has been split off from that original pad site: Conceptually, Starbucks has always been there, even when Wendy's was approved and the landscaping adjacent to Meridian and Main Street was previously reviewed and approved by the city. The applicant has shown a 25-foot landscape buffer on Meridian Road. However, the landscape buffer is measured from the back of the sidewalk and not the property line and there has been ten feet of additional right of way that was has been dedicated to the highway district. So, in the future, if all that right of way is utilized by a future road or sidewalk, the landscape buffer could be reduced down to 15 feet and I guess there are some to the south of this site, some landscaping buffers, because this is an entryway corridor, the 35 feet is the standard requirement, has been reduced. However, the parcels just to the north of this are currently undeveloped and I guess we are -- staff, at least, had some concerns with reducing that buffer for this block of a gateway street, understanding that, you know, the developed parcel is further to the south, there is no going back to this -- I believe it would set a bad precedent for the next guys that come in and want to develop theirs, too. So, I'd just like to, as an issue, special consideration -- I also did that get a copy of -- it doesn't look like it's recorded and I don't have Exhibit A, which it refers to, but the applicant has provided me with a draft of the cross-access