Title
A special use permit with development plan review for a convenience store/restaurant and a maximum of 12 gasoline fueling positions located at 1515 North Main Street. Petition 21SUP-05 PB (B)
Explanation
The petitioner is requesting approval of a Special Use Permit for the installation of 8 fuel pumps with 12 fueling positions and 3 underground fuel tanks for a newly constructed convenience store/restaurant to include a Lil' Champ and Quizno's. The City Commission reviews this petition because of the number of fueling positions requested.
The petitioner is proposing to raze the existing structures located on the 3.13-acre site. The existing structures were utilized by the Gainesville Dodge dealership for many decades until the Dodge dealership relocated to the 3000 block of North Main Street. The proposed site is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Northeast 16th Avenue and North Main Street, on property zoned BA (automotive-oriented business district). The property is located in the City's TCEA, Zone A.
The City Plan Board heard the special use permit and recommended that the petition be approved with staff conditions and the following modifications: Page 4, Screening and Buffering, Condition 4: Replace with a condition approved by the church and home owner, "The applicant shall install a 6-foot black aluminum picket fence in combination with the required vehicular buffer adjacent to the residential uses." Page 4, Screening and Buffering, Condition 5: Replace with "The applicant shall install a 9-foot wide vehicular buffer strip (containing hedge material and shade trees), curbing on both sides of the (21'-22' wide) landscape area, and a 5-foot wide sidewalk connection to the commercial site to the east." Page 6, Design Quality, Condition 9: Revise the condition to read "The petitioner shall work with Planning and Public Works Department staff, obtaining their approval to any proposal to narrow the internal driveway to as close to 40 feet as possible, or a suitable width for a fuel truck to enter the project." The Plan Board also recommended deleting Condition 11 on page 6, Design Quality. During discussion of the internal driveway, planning staff suggested it be reduced from 24 feet to 20 feet, the minimum width generally allowed by Public Works for a 2-way drive. The Plan Board supported the reduction in width, for that portion of the driveway located east of the entrance to the convenience/restaurant/gas station, and made it a condition.
It is staff and the Board's understanding that the existing asphalt sidewalk/bike path located along the north property line will be replaced with an 8- or 10-foot wide concrete sidewalk, depending on whether Northeast 16th Avenue is classified a collector or arterial by the County because the existing asphalt sidewalk/bike path will have to be altered in several locations during construction.
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on March 1, 2005. Letters were mailed to surrounding property owners on March 2, 2005. The Plan Board held a public hearing March 17, 2005.
Fiscal Note
None
Recommendation
City Plan Board to City Commission - The City Commission approve Petition 21SUP-05 PB, with staff conditions and with modifications to staff Condition numbers 4, 5, 9, deleting Condition 11, and adding a new Condition 11 under Section (E) Cross-access and Joint Driveway, reducing the width from 24-feet to 20-feet for that portion of the internal driveway located east of the entrance to the convenience/restaurant/gas station. Plan Board vote 5-0.
Staff to Plan Board - Approve the Special Use Permit and development plan, with conditions.