Lewis Landing Industrial Site Plan

The applicant is requesting approval of the Lewis Landing Industrial Site Plan and Conditional Use Permit. The proposed site plan includes two warehouse buildings, a truck loading/unloading area, and parking. The warehousing and wholesale distribution with no outside storage use is a conditional use in the Heavy Commercial zone.

The site includes two 85,384 square foot buildings. The site will be accessed off 2100 North, Waterbury Drive, and Bramwell Court. The two buildings will be located in the center of the site with the loading dock in between the buildings. The loading dock will be in line with the Waterbury Drive and 2100 North accesses. The Connectivity Standards would typically require that the drive aisle between the building to be constructed as a street. The applicant is requesting an exception because of the addition of the trail located to the west of the site providing the pedestrian connectivity that would normally be supplied with the required sidewalks of a street. The Planning Commission will need to determine if an exception for the drive aisle is warranted. The parking for the site will be located on the outsides of the buildings. This site falls under the State Highway Design District, which allows for one module of parking between the building and the street. On the western side of the site, a 92-foot landscape buffer is being provided to separate the warehouse use from the residential subdivision. The buffer will include plantings and a trail that connects the 2100 North trail and the sidewalk along Waterbury Drive.

The proposed site plan falls under the State Highway Design District and the elevations will need to meet the requirements of this section. The building materials include tilt-up concrete, metal panels, and glazing. The buildings meet the hierarchy requirements with the increased glazing and parapet. The DRC did comment that each façade does not meet the building variation requirements. The rear elevation will need additional variations to meet this requirement. In addition, the State Highway Design District requires that buildings located adjacent to residential areas reduce the perceived scale of the buildings. This can be done through breaking up buildings into smaller individual buildings, setting back upper floors, dividing building area into smaller scale components, or another significant change in the wall plane. In this case, the proposed change in the wall plane will need to increase in width to a minimum of 2-feet to meet this standard.