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April 19, 2000 ~~~g~~
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Assistant Planning D~rcctor
City of CoppcH
255 Parkway Boulevard
Coppc]], Tex~s 75019 Via Facsimile 972~304-7992
Re: Champion ~ndus~a] Development
Dca~ ~s. Diamond:
Thank you again for the time you devoted to our proposed project yesterday. Jim Stewart
and I know that you have much to prepare for before Thursday night and we appreciate
your being available to meet with us on such short notice.
During our meeting, we discussed a variety of issues and concerns that the Planning
Department had about our project. This letter is being sent in order to confirm and clarify
the statements we made during our meeting time. The following points summarize the
specific items we discussed.
· Champion commits to planting as many trees as is reasonable and practical along
Creekview Drive in order to improve the appearance of that area across from the new
park. In order to accomplish this, we will relocate some of the trees from the
detention pond area to the landscape buffer area along Creekview Drive.
· Champion will plant trees in the islands located in thc trailer parking areas. The trees
will have to be located in an area within the island that will not subject them to
damage from trailers, but should provide the visual "relief" that you desire. We will
also plant trees in the unpaved areas of the trailer court, next to any car parking areas,
if any, which might bc located in that unpaved section.
· While our plans currently reflect a 15' landscape buffer along Creekview Drive, we
will, in fact, have a 30' landscape area from the property line to the back of the curb.
CI-L-',,M PION PARINERS
15601 Dall~ Park~'ay Suite 500 Addison, Texas 75001
972/490-5600 FK~(972/,t90-5599
ww~championpanners.com
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Ms. Marcie Diamond
April 19, 2000
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You indicated that one 120 to 125 SF landscape wall feature that could also serve as a
sign and which "straddles" the property line between our two sites would be
acceptable to you. This will allow us to combine the 60 square foot sign limitation
per building in the current ordinance and construct a park entrance sign that will be
consistent with the high quality of the product we plan to develop on this site.
· Regarding parking, we again want to state that we have taken great care to ensure that
parking can be provided on site in order to meet the 1:1,000 ratio called for in the
ordinance and still meet the landscaping requirements. We have elected to go the PD
route in order to provide the flexibility desired by large corporate users of this type of
space. Please be advised that we are certainly prepared to provide parking in the
1:1,000 ratio if we are able to lease this speculative project to a tenant that has that
kind of requirement. We agree with you that the key to this will be in the final
drafting of the approved PD and we commit to the city that we will work diligently
with the staff in order to prepare a very workable, usable, understandable and
practical document.
If I have left out any major issue that we discussed on Tuesday, please let me know. I
hope that you now have a better understanding of what we are trying to accomplish with
our project. We acknowledge that it is complicated, but we believe that it is only
complicated because we are trying to provide flexible product for the type of large,
corporate users that the City of Coppell would like to see locate here. Thank you again
for your time, your assistance and your patience with us.
Sincerely,
Senior Partner
SMG:co