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PD136-DR 950525 City of Coppell Development Review Committee Comments Planning Department ZC-573, D/FW TRADE CENTER, ZONING CHANGE FROM "A" (AGRICUL~) TO "PD-LI" (PLANNED DEVELOPMENT LIGHT INDUSTRIAL) DRC Date: May 25, 1995 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting: City Council Meeting: July 11, 1995 June 15, 1995 (1) Proposed text for PD-136 is attached for review. Note: A. B. Do Staff written comments will be faxed to each applicant. Please revise plats, landscape plans, and utility plans based on staff recommendations provide reasons why our comments should not be followed when you attend the June 1, 1995 Development Review Committee (DRC) meeting. Each applicant will bring one new set of revised plats and plans to the June 1st DRC meeting. Applicants will be asked to show, explain and defend any revision. An Engineer for the project or other representative is urged to attend the meeting. Applicant will have till noon Tuesday, June 6th to resubmit twenty-eight (28) folded copies of revised plans, three (3) reduced paper copies and one (1) transparency of each exhibit to the Planning Department. PROPOSED PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT 136 D/FW TRADE CENTER Pu_rpose: The purpose of the PD-136 District is to provide a unique zone incorporating commercial and industrial uses into one district with quality architectural and landscape design development standards. The PD-136 District allows a mixture of compatible commercial and industrial land uses with limitation of associated outside uses. All business operations and activities within the PD-136 District shall be conducted completely within an enclosed building, and in no instance shall any outside activity be permitted in this district, except for off-street parking or loading, refuse storage, drive-in or drive-through window at a financial institution, restaurant, prescription pharmacy or dry cleaning establishment; with gasoline sales, outdoor dining, and temporary outside display and sale of Christmas trees permitted only by Special Use Permit. Uses Generally: In the PD-136 District no land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be erected, altered, or converted to any use other than as hereinafter provided. All permitted uses listed shall be within a completely enclosed building or structure. A. permit~ Uses: Laboratories (scientific, medical, chemical), applied physics, mechanical, electronic, biological, genetic or other similar experimental research, product development or testing facilities. 2. Scientific or engineering school facilities or institutions. 3. Data processing. 4. Conference/convention centers. Professional offices which include the following professional and semiprofessional occupations: accountants, attorneys, dentists, engineers, insurance agents, real estate agents, personal or family counselors, chiropractors, physical therapists, physicians, public secretaries, surgeons, or any other offices or professions which are of the same general character as the foregoing, but specifically excluding veterinarians, veterinary hospitals, animal grooming salons, dog kennels, and funeral homes. 6. Computer programming and other software services. 7. Engineering, architectural, and design services. Processing or compounding of drags and other medical and pharmaceutical products. Manufacturing and assembling of electronic components, precision instruments and devices. Be 10. Office/showrooms. 11. Manufacturing, assembling or packaging of products from previously prepared materials, such as cloth, plastic, paper, leather, precious or semiprecious metals or stones. 12. Printing, lithography, publishing or similar establishments. 13. Vocational, trade, technical, or industrial schools. 14. Warehousing completely within an enclosed building, but specifically excluding mini-storage warehouses. 15. Hotels/motels. 16. Full service hotels/motels which includes dining rooms, personal service shops (i.e., beauty/barber shops, newsstands, retail and office space). Restaurants with inside dining. Health spas and physical fimess centers, excluding adults-only massage parlors. Airline ticketing counters, travel agencies. Banks, savings and loans, and financial institutions. Drafting services or quick copying services. Office supplies. Parking garages. AC~sso~ Uses: The following uses shall be permitted as accessory uses: 1. Off-street parking in conjunction with any use permitted herein. Provisions for parking of automobiles, provided that such provisions within 100 feet of a residential zoning district shall be separated from said residential zoning district by a masonry wall meeting the screening requirement of Section 33 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. 2. Signs advertising use on the premises, in accordance with the Coppell Sign Code, Ordinance 91503. 3. Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment located no closer than 120 feet to any residential zoning district. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Ce EJ o Screened refuse and garbage storage on a concrete pad and located no closer than 50 feet to any residential zoning district and not located between the front of the building and any fight-of-way. All refuse disposal and garbage storage areas shall be landscaped and screened in accordance with Section 33.1, paragraph 6, of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. All other mechanical equipment shall be located within a completely enclosed building and shall meet the Masonry Requirement of the Design Requirements stipulated herein (paragraph M, subparagraph 4). Retail sales, day care centers and personal services which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to office buildings. Special Use Permits: The following uses may be permitted, provided they meet the provisions of, and a Special Use Permit is granted pursuant to, Section 30 the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500: Planned business parks in accordance with the Planned Business Park Provisions herein (paragraph N). Retail gasoline sales or gasoline service stations and related convenience store and automated ear washes. 3. Restaurants with outside dining. 4. Temporary outside display and sale of Christmas trees. Limitation of Uses: The following uses shall not be permitted within the PD-136 District: The storage of equipment, materials or vehicles, including abandoned vehicles, which are not necessary to the uses permitted within PD-136. 2. Freight forwarding. PI~ R~_uirements: No application for a building permit for construction of a building or structure shall be approved unless: A plat, meeting all requirements of the City of Coppell, has been approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and recorded in the official plat records of the county in which the property is located. A site plan, meeting the requirements of Section 28 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500, has been approved. A landscape plan, meeting the requirements of Section 34 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500, has been approved. F. Density Requirements: The following bulk and intensity of use requirements shall apply: Minimum Lot Size: The minimum lot size in the PD-136 District shall be 30,000 square feet. Minimom Ot~en Space: At least twenty (20) percent of the building lot (as defined in S~ction 42 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500) shall be devoted to non-vehicular open space. (Non-vehicular open space is any area not devoted to buildings, driveways, parking, loading, storage or vehicular use.) Planned Business Parks permitted by Special Use Permit shall meet the Minimum Open Space Requirements of Planned Business Parks of the Planned Business Park Provisions stipulated herein (paragraph N, subparagraph 3). Maximum Building Coverag_e: The combined area occupied by all buildings and structures shall no exceed sixty (60) percent of the total area of the building lot (as defined in Section 42 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500). o Maximum Impervious Surface: The combined area occupied by all buildings and structures, driveways, parking, storage, loading and other paved areas shall not exceed eighty (80) percent of the total area of the building lot (aa defined in Section 42 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500). However, the percentage of maximum impervious surface may be increased to a maximum of eighty-five (85) percent of the total area of the building lot (aa defined in Section 42 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500) for Planned Business Parks permitted by Special Use Permit which meet the Minimum Open Space Requirements of Planned Business Parks of the Planned Business Park Provisions stipulated herein (paragraph N, subparagraph 3). G. Are~ Regulations: The following minimum standards shall be required: ~: Every lot shall have a width of not less than one hundred fifty (150) feet. 2. ~: Every lot shall have a depth of not less than two hundred (200) feet. e Front Yard: Every lot shall have a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet which shall be utilized aa a landscaped setback area. Front yards shall not be used for any building, structure, fence, wall or storage area, except that signs may be permitted in this area. Front yards shall be landscaped with grass, shrubbery, vines, or trees and no part shall be paved or surfaced except for minimum access, driveways and sidewalks in accordance with Section 34 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. Side Yard: Every lot shall have two (2) side yards, each of which shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet in width. Planned Business Parks permitted by Special Use Permit shall meet the requirements of the Minimum Yard Requirements of the Planned Business Park Provisions herein (paragraph N, subparagraph 1). Rear Yard: Every lot shall have a rear yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth. Planned Business Parks permitted by Special Use Permit shall meet the requirements of the Minimum Yard Requirements of the Planned Business Park Provisions herein (paragraph N, subparagraph 1). 6. Dist~ce between Buildings: None required. Buffer Area Regulations: Whenever the PD-136 District abuts a residential zoning district, an appropriate buffer screen shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 34 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500, and the Additional Buffering, Screening, Fencing, & Landscaping of the Design Requirements stipulated herein (paragraph M, subparagraph 5). In addition, no building or structure shall be located nearer to any residential zoning district than a distance of one hundred (100) feet. Any use other than open space or off-street parking proposed to be located within the one hundred (100) foot buffer shall be permitted only by Special Use Permit subject to the requirements of Section 30 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. No building or structure shall be ~ or altered to a height exceeding fifty (50) feet. For buildings or structures exceeding fifty (50) feet, a Special Use Permit must be obtained. In addition, the building height granted under a Special Use Permit shall not exceed one-half (%) the shortest distance between the structure and the nearest adjacent residential zoning district. Londscaping Rea_uirements: Landscaping shall be required in accordance with Section 34 of the CoppeH Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. Off-Street Parking: Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 31 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500, and shall be landscaped in accordance with Section 34 of the Copper Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. In addition, the following shall be required: No off-street parking area shall be located closer than twenty-five (25) feet to any residential zoning district nor ten (10) feet to any adjacent property line. Off-street parking for passenger vehicles, wherever practical, shall be separated from truck loading and maneuvering areas. Lo Mo Off-Street Loading: Off-street loading shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 31 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. Design Requirements: The following design requirements shall apply to all permitted and accessory uses and to all Special Use Permits: Outdoor Storage: No outdoor storage, except for refuse and garbage storage, shall be permitted. Refuse and garbage storage areas shall be landscaped and screened in accordance with Section 33.1, paragraph 6, of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. Mechanical F.~_uipment: Heating, ventilating, air conditioning and electrical equipment shall be designed, installed and operated to minimize noise impact on surrounding property. All such equipment shall be screened from public right-of- way. ~: Lighting facilities, if provided, shall be so arranged as to be reflected away from residential zoning districts. Lighting provided within parking facilities shall meet the requirements of Section 36 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. o Masonry_ Reo_uirement: Due to the development nature of the PD-136 District, it is recognized that all uses in the district shall have exterior fLre resistant construction having one hundred (100) percent of the total exterior walls, excluding doors and windows, eonsUueted of brick, stone or other masonry, or material of equal characteristics in accordance with the City Building Code and Fire Prevention Code, which may not allow for some business park type developments. A(l(litional Buffering. Screening. Fencing. & Landscaping: The Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend and the City Council may impose additional buffering, screening, fencing and landscaping requirements on any zoning change, Special Use Permit, or concept plan in addition to or in lieu of buffeting, screening, fencing, or landscaping requirements otherwise set out specifically, when the nature and character of surrounding or adjacent property dictate a need to require such protection for the general health, welfare and morals of the community in general. Planned Business Park Provisions: Each lot or parcel of land created within a Planned Business Park permitted by Special Use Permit shall comply with the following provisions: Minimljm Yard Requirement of Planned Business Park Provisions: The front yard requirements contained in paragraph G, subparagraph 3, herein shall be applicable to each lot or parcel of land within a Planned Business Park. A minimum fifteen (15) foot side yard and a minimum twenty-five (25) foot rear yard shall be required around the outside perimeter of a Planned Business Park. Minimum side and rear yard requirements of interior lots may be required if deemed necessary by City Council in order to meet the provisions of Section 30 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500. 1 ~ndscaping Re(!uirements of Planned Business Parks: The minimum landscaping requirements of Section 34-1-8(B)1 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500, shall be applicable around the outside perimeter of a Planned Business Park. For interior lots the minimum landscaping requirements of Section 34-1- 8fo)l of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500, may be required if deemed necessary by City Council in order to meet the provisions of Section 30 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, ordinance 91500. o Minimum Open Space Rea_uirements of Planned Business Parks: At least twenty (20) percent of the total area of the buildings lots (as defined in Section 42 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500) of the Planned Business Park shall be devoted to non-vehicular open space. (Non-vehicular open space is any area not devoted to buildings, driveways, parking, loading, storage, or vehicular uses.) The percentage of minimum open space may be reduced to fifteen (15) percent of the total area of the building lot (as defined in Section 42 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 91500) when the thirty-five (35) feet front yard requirement is met in accordance with paragraph F, subparagraph 2, herein. o Building Elevations: Building elevations of proposed structures shall be submitted with the site plan required by Section 30 of the Coppell Zoning Ordinance, ordinance 91500.