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Minutes for the MAPC meeting on March 12, 2002.
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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Minutes, March 12, 2002
MEMBERS PRESENT: Beadles, Little, Damron, Street, Krennerich, Johnson, Farmer
MEMBERS ABSENT: Gott, Shaw
OTHERS PRESENT: Glenn Batten, City Planner; Claude Martin, City Engineer; Teddy Hooton, City Engineer; Brian Wadley, Planning Coordinator
The minutes of the February 14, 2002 meeting were approved as prepared.
#1 CU02-6 Muegge, Inc. requested approval of a conditional use to construct a mini-warehouse facility in the C-3 General Commercial District. The address of the property is 2213 W. Parker Road, and the general location of the property is on the southwest side of Parker Road, south of Strawfloor Drive.
Dr. Beadles excused himself from the meeting and Mr. Damron was acting chairman for this item.
David Conrad, representing Muegge, Inc. stated they wanted to build a 2,500 square foot office on the front side of the property and a 6,000 square foot mini-warehouse on the back side of the property.
Jack Moffitt, representing an adjacent property owner, stated opposition to the warehouse proposal stating that it would not be in keeping with the type of development the NEA Clinic has constructed next door. Mr. Moffitt further asked that this matter be tabled until such time as elevation drawings and complete landscaping plans have been prepared and reviewed.
Glenn Batten, City Planner, explained that an existing billboard on site would remain with the new development. The site is highly visible from Highway 63. The proposed office is a permitted use by ordinance but the warehouse addition in the back requires approval by the MAPC as a conditional use. A revised site plan with landscaping was submitted on March 7 or 8, well past the deadline for submission, but has not been reviewed in detail yet.
Mr. Batten suggested that the site be heavily landscaped with blended architecture as much as the developer is willing to do a...
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