Duke Lesley-CS070118
CITY OF COPPELL
PLANNING DEPARTMENT
STAFF REPORT
Case No.: PD-221-HC.. Duke Leslev Addition
P&Z HEARING DATE:
C.C. HEARING DATE:
STAFF REP.:
LOCATION:
SIZE OF AREA:
CURRENT ZONING:
REQUEST:
APPLICANT:
HISTORY:
January 18, 2007
February 13,2007
Gary L. Sieb, Planning Director
At the northwest corner oflli-635 and Beltline Road
78.5 acres of property
HC (Highway Commercial)
Zoning change from HC (Highway Commercial) to PD-221-HC
(Planned Development-221-Highway Commercial) to allow tilt-
wall construction and additional attached signage on office
buildings that are 50,000-square-feet or larger and to allow the
development of mixed uses, including retail, office and hotel on a
total of78.5 acres of property.
Duke Realty
Alex Bennett, P .E.
5495 Beltline Road
Suite 360
Dallas, Texas 75254
(972) 361-6700
Fax: (972) 361-6800
Council approved a zoning change on this portion of the Leslie
tract from A (Agriculture) to HC (Highway Commercial) on
December 12, 2006. At the same time, a plat was approved on the
entire 184-acre parcel to construct two major streets through the
property. Also at that time, the applicant indicated that a second
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zoning request to Planned Development would be made on 78
acres ofthe overall site in early 2007.
TRANSPORTATION:
BeltIine Road is a P6D major thoroughfare built to standard in a
120-foot right-of-way. LBJ Freeway is an interstate highway built
to federal highway guidelines. The extension of Dividend Drive, a
C4U, is being constructed through this property and will be a four-
lane undivided roadway contained within a 90-foot right-of-way.
A second road, Point West Boulevard, is also under construction
here and will be a local street of 32-feet width contained within a
50-foot right-of-way with five-foot easements along each side.
SURROUNDING LAND USE & ZONING:
North -middle school and warehousing; LI (Light Industrial)
South -developing commercial; City of Irving
East - vacant; A (Agriculture)
West - office, developing commercial; LI (Light Industrial), City of Irving
COMPREHENSNE PLAN:
The Cappel! Comprehensive Plan shows the property as
suitable for freeway office and commercial uses.
DISCUSSION:
As indicated in the HISTORY section of this report, the applicant
indicated to Council during the initial A to LI and HC zoning hearing that
he would be filing a zoning change from HC to PD to allow tilt-wall
construction (HC zoning does not allow it) and request that buildings over
50,000-square feet be allowed to have additional signage. The area
changing to PD, which would allow these conditions, basically runs south
of the extension of Dividend Drive and includes 78 of the 184-acre parcel.
The conceptual plans of building elevations submitted with this
application show structures that, although tilt-wall, depict some
imagination in their design and can be supported by staff.
The uses proposed to be allowed in the PD are currently recognized in the
Zoning Ordinance, and are generally allowed in more restrictive zoning
districts than the requested PD-HC. Hence, staff has no objection to their
inclusion in the PD document.
The applicant has also asked to modify our signage regulations in this
project. Basically, business zoning allows a maximum of 300-square feet
of signage per building. What this applicant proposes in his PD conditions
is four separate signs up to 300-square feet for each building over 50,000-
square feet in size. That seems a bit excessive, and the applicant will have
to justify this request at the Public Hearing.
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RECOMMENDATION TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION:
Staff is recommending APPROVAL of this request as it relates to a change of zoning
from HC (Highway Commercial) to Planned Development regarding tilt-wall
construction. We have some misgivings regarding the extent to which the applicant
wishes to alter our normal signage requirements. Although he wishes to limit the
additional signage to buildings over 50,OOO-square feet, we have any number of buildings
larger than that which conform to our current regulations with no apparent problem.
Unless staff has missed something here, the applicant will have to justify this condition to
the Commission.
AL TERNA TIVES:
1) Recommend approval of the request
2) Recommend disapproval of the request
3) Recommend modification of the request
4) Take under advisement for reconsideration at a later date.
ATTACHMENTS:
1) Zoning Exhibit
2) Conceptual Master Plan
3) Planned Development Conditions document
4) Conceptual Elevations of Structures (4)
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