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<br />.. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />LP-49 <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />3. parking requirements for restaurants are calculated on <br />the basis of one space for every two seats. <br /> <br />4. The indicated capacity for the proposed restaurant is 150 <br />seats requiring 75 parking spaces. 85 spaces are shown <br />on the site plan. <br /> <br />5. Access to the property would be via two driveway easements <br />of adjacent property. Such access is subject to Council <br />approval. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />As noted, the proposed use is for a Godfather's pizza Restaurant. <br />The restaurant would service both "sit down" and "take-out" <br />customers. Overall, the site layout appears to be adequate with <br />sufficient room for ingress, egress and internal circulation. <br /> <br />The compatibility of this proposed use with the adjacent <br />apartments is of prime importance. The comprehensive Plan <br />eypresses the desire that any commercial use be well buffered <br />from the apartments. The Zonir.g Code requires that a 15 foot <br />buffer strip be provided along the northern portion of the <br />restaurant property, and that that screening either in the form <br />of an evergreen hedge or fence be provided. The landscape plan <br />indicates the 15 foot strip would be provided and that the <br />screening would be a staggered, double-row of 5 - 6 foot planted <br />blue and green spruce trees. Our concern is that the intitial <br />screening effect may be insufficient. A suggestion perhaps <br />is that a 3 _ 4 foot berm be provided in the buffer zone <br />with the indicated spruce trees planted on top of the berm. As <br />the property owner of the subject parcel is the same for the <br />apartments, it may be poss ible to "spillover" the berm some"1hat <br />onto the apartment property. If such an agreement could be <br />made, we might also suggest that spruce trees also be provided <br />on the apartment property on the north side of the shared <br />apartment driveway. At present, the northeast corner of <br />the proposed parking lot is exposed to the apartments. <br /> <br />Access to the parcel may also be questioned. Access on the south <br />is via a permanent roadway easement attached to the property. <br />This would be <br />a shared entrance with the existing office building along <br />County Road D. Access on the north would be via the southern <br />apartment driveway on Old Highway 8. The restaurant would certainly <br />