Marwood Group (Bateman) Concept Plan

The applicant requests review and recommendation of the Marwood (Bateman) Concept plan to be located at 301 East State Street. The applicant recognizes that the site plan will need to address a variety of items, but they submitted this proposal to obtain a decision on the number of units.

The applicant’s intention is to build 30 total apartment units with one additional residential unit in the area of the ground floor retail on the 0.84-acre property, which comes out to a density of 36 units per acre. The zoning classification of MU dictates that the density is determined by Map 05.010. Maximum TOD and Mixed-Use Density Map. There are 250 units allotted to the State Street area and 74 of those are considered existing. That leaves 176 units of usable density for the area. The 31 proposed units do not exceed the remaining units allowed and Staff feels comfortable with the density number. The applicant worked with staff since the previous concept review to adjust the layout to reduce the unit count and increase the parking ratio. Part of this change stemmed from the need to resolve a critical issue raised by Engineering that the previous unit count overwhelmed the required one access per 50 ERU requirement.

The layout for the proposed concept plan consists of 30 residential units with one residential unit in the commercial space with access from 750 North. The breakdown of the units is 4 smaller two bedrooms, 18 larger two bedrooms, 4 smaller three-bedrooms, and 4 larger three bedrooms. The commercial space is 1,680 square feet of open/office space which could be converted to residential. The applicant has expressed interest in finding a commercial tenant but is concerned about the viability due to the setback location of the property. Unlike the TOD zone, the mixed-use zone and design district where this property is located do not require a percentage of commercial use which is why the unit is shown as being flexible depending on market conditions.

Indoor and outdoor amenities are shown starting on the second level of the building. Those amenities will need to be finalized at the time of site plan. A drive aisle accesses the site and then enters a one-level parking structure that serves as the ground floor and is connected to the commercial/retail space. For parking, 56 on-site stalls are shown within the proposed concept plan. This leaves them with a parking ratio of 1.86 parking stalls per unit.