DATE: 10/13/2015
TO: Franklin Municipal Planning Commission
FROM: Josh King, Senior Planner
Bob Martin, Interim Director of Planning and Sustainability
Subject
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Williamson County Agricultural Exposition Center, Site Plan, Revision 1 (Parking Addition)
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Project Information
COF Project Number: 5851
Applicant: Jason Deal, Collier Engineering
Owner: Williamson County
Background/Staff Comments
The proposed parking lot addition is completely within the City’s Hillside/Hillcrest Overlay District. Per Section 3.4.8 of the Franklin Zoning Ordinance, development is not allowed in the Hillside/Hillcrest Overlay (HHO) District. The purpose of this overlay district is to ensure development does not create soil erosion, silting of lower slopes, slide damage, flooding problems, severe cutting, or scarring of hillsides. The applicant has redesigned the site to minimize the impacts to the hillside, however staff continues to recommend disapproval of this site because the proposed parking lot violating the purpose and intent of the HHO district.
Project Considerations
Project Considerations are not conditions of this approval, but are intended to highlight issues that should be considered in the overall site design or may be required when more detailed plans are submitted for review. These items are not meant to be exhaustive and all City requirements and ordinances must be met with each plan submittal.
The applicant for this project is Williamson County and can opt out of the City’s development regulations. The redesigned project presented here has notably less visual impacts and impacts the hillside less than the previous rendition. Should the FMPC choose to approve the project a Conditions of Approval list has been included in the Commissioners packets.
Recommendation
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Disapproval
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See attached pages for a list of staff recommended conditions of approval.
PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS:
1. In addition to uploading the corrected plan to the online plan review website (https://franklin.contractorsplanroom.com/secure/), the applicant shall submit one (1) complete and folded set and a .pdf file of corrected site plan to the Department of Building and Neighborhood Services (Suite 110, Franklin City Hall). All revisions to the approved plans shall be “clouded.” With the resubmittal, each condition of approval/open issue in the online plan review system shall contain a full response from the applicant as to the satisfaction or completion of that condition.
2. Once the corrected site plan has been approved, one (1) full-size and one (1) half-size copy of the final approved landscape plans shall be submitted to the Department of Building and Neighborhood Services for future landscape inspection purposes.
3. Once all conditions of approval related to engineering and tree preservation concerns have been met, the applicant shall submit one (1) half-size copy and four (4) full-size copies of the corrected grading/drainage and seven (7) full-size copies of the corrected water/sewer plans to the Department of Building and Neighborhood Services (Attn: Engineering Dept.) to be stamped and signed by city officials prior to the issuance of stormwater and grading permits and water/sewer approval, where applicable. It is also suggested that the applicant submit the stormwater and grading permit applications and stormwater maintenance plan and agreement in conjunction with the grading/drainage plan submittal.
4. The applicant shall upload complete building plans, including the approved, revised site plans, to the City's IDT site for Building and Neighborhood Services Department review and approval prior to the issuance of a building permit.
5. Prior to start of any excavation work, the developer and/or contractor shall notify AT&T and Comcast.
6. The city’s project identification number shall be included on all correspondence with any city department relative to this project.