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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes COM 02-02-21• Were there any other members of the public that provided comments or feedback? Nathan Chavez: There were no other letters from the public. Kevin Rider: • Can you pull up an aerial of the site? The building to the south, that is the Sherman Williams store? Rachel Keesling: There is a nail salon, Moe's, and something else. There are four tenants I believe. Kevin Rider: I understand our traffic connectivity, but I am worried about dragging people across a bunch of drive-thrus. I don't have heart burn either way. If the petitioner is willing, then so be it. I am not sure a lot of people will walk between the two properties. Alan Potasnik: • At Commission Brad Grabow mentioned to look at the pedestrian crossing, and I am assuming this is what you addressed as a part of your report? Rachel Keesling: Yes. This is the connection that Brad Grabow asked for and I spoke about. Alan Potasnik: I am assuming you would like to have that put into any motion that is made? Rachel Keesling: I would. I do think it would be beneficial. Kevin motions to approve Dockets PZ-2020-00198 & 206-208 subject to finalizing ProjectDox comments and adding pedestrian connectivity to south neighboring parcel, Joshua seconds, motion passes 4-0. 6. Docket No. PZ-2020-00210 DP Amend/ADLS Amend: Pennwood Office Park. 7. Docket No. PZ-2020-00225 V: UDO Section 3.17.A.1.b. — Secondary vehicular entrances shall not be through residential areas. Requesting emergency vehicle -only secondary access from Washington Blvd. The applicant seeks site plan and design approval for three, one-story office buildings to be constructed on 3.76 acres. The site is located at approximately 11505 N. Pennsylvania Street. It is zoned B-5Business and is located within the West Homeplace Commercial Corridor, High Intensity Overlay Zone. Filed by Kevin Buchheit of Krieg DeVault on behalf of the owner, SCB Home Office, LLC. Petitioners: Kevin Buchheit (Krieg DeVault), Steve Bodner (SCB Home Office, LLC), & DJ O'TooIe (Thomason & Associates): Kevin Buchheit: • I will be quick and review all the outstanding comments from Staff and how they have been addressed. • On the north side there is a Side Yard Setback originally shown as 5-ft. That has been increased to a required 10-ft. • On the west building there are three separate doors facing west. Pedestrian connections have been made to all three of them. • Engineering approval is a discussion that will continue after any action tonight. We accept that. • We have proposed soffit lighting at the entrances for security and illumination purposes. That is a nice way to provide illumination without a large illumination footprint. • The updated landscape plan provided to the Urban Forester, reflects discussions with him. It has been approved at least in writing. Once the revised drawings are uploaded the Urban Forester should be prepared to stamp them approved. • There was a question about a safe passage for pedestrians in the large parking lots. We have taken out two parking spaces and added the striping across the south aisle to a point that is about the middle and east building. This reduces our total parking space count to 115 spaces. 110 spaces are required so we still meet that requirement. • The emergency access onto Washington Blvd., the Carmel Fire Department (CFD) has recommended that it be asphalt. So, we will make that asphalt. We discussed initially using a treatment that is more environmentally friendly, but the CFD is worried about not sinking if they go through there. We will make sure it supports their large equipment. • The barrier at that access it yet to be determined, but that determination will be made with CFD and it will include a Knox box. • We looked into shifting the access point of Washington Blvd. a little to the south. That was part of the discussion at the January 19t` Commission meeting. If we tried to do that then we would lose one fairly significant tree on Washington Blvd. We are hoping that the access point will not be used and that there isn't any other fires or emergencies which require its use. I think any headlight intrusion that might occur by Commercial Committee Minutes 02-02-21 emergency access at that point is going to be subordinate and light from emergency vehicles responding. We would like to leave it where it is. • The sidewalk requirement for Washington Blvd., Mr. Bodner has agreed to pay in -lieu at this point. • We discussed the elevation for the garage storage building meant for site maintenance equipment. A revision is available (Dumpster Revision for COMin Laserfiche). Commissioner Brad Grabow was concerned about the gable, as it was presented, not being in harmony with the building structures. Now we have connected the west dumpster and the shed into a single building to save a little bit of cost with a common wall down the middle. We have been in discussion with Rachel Keesling the past few days. Her eagle eye caught a problem with symmetry at the middle section on the south elevation. Right now, the graphic is showing the structure coming to the middle of the common wall. We are going to move that to the west face of the common wall and will take care the symmetry problem without getting in the way of dumpster access and maintenance there. • The site plan has been updated. • The landscape plan has been approved. • The elevations have been updated. We will retain the elevation for the east dumpster as was presented earlier. • Signs will be present as tenants are confirmed. That will be the administrative ADLS Amend process. • The only outstanding issue is addressing any concerns that come out of the ongoing Engineering discussion. We feel many of those may have been already addressed in the revised drawings but will upload those and finish the TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) review comments. • We respectfully request your approval tonight. Alan Potasnik: Kevin, at the Commission meeting, Commissioner Nick Kestner brought up access to the third row of parking. Did you address that? Kevin Buchheit: Yes. We are taking out two parking spaces and adding a striped connection between them. That will empty the pedestrians from the far drive aisle to about the midpoint of the middle and east buildings. Department Report: Rachel Keesling: • As Kevin mentioned there were a few outstanding issues from the Commission meeting. • The front door pedestrian access from Pennsylvania St. has been added. • The Side Yard Setback on the north has been increased to 10-ft. as required by the UDO. • Nick Kestner's questions about a safe pedestrian access through the middle of parking lot was just addressed. • The Washington Blvd., Non -Reverting Throughfare Fund contribution for the sidewalk will be done. • The underlighting of the soffits on the building for illumination of the fagade and the walkways was mentioned. • The Urban Forester has approved the landscape plan. • The last comment was regarding Engineering Department approval which will be ongoing. • Staff recommends approval tonight. Jeff motions to approve Docket PZ-2020-00210 & PZ-2020-00225 subject to all Engineering Department comments being addressed, Kevin seconds, motion passes 4-0. 8. Docket No. PZ-2020-00119 OA: Sign Standards Amendments. The applicant seeks to amend the Unified Development Ordinance in order to amend Section 5.39 Sign Standards, Sections 7.11 & 7.12 Entryway Feature Standards, Section 5.66 Food Stand Use Standards, Section 1.29 Filing Fees, and Definitions for signage. Filed by the Department of Community Services on behalf of the Carmel Plan Commission. Petitioner: Nathan Chavez (Department of Community Services — Sign Administrator): • I am going to share my screen and review changes that have occurred since the January 51 Committee meeting. • I was first asked to review the fee of $0.25 for Construction wraps. I researched fee increases for the Department of Community Services. I found that fees increase based on the Consumer Price Index. At Commercial Committee Minutes 02-02-21