PD194-CS011009 5001 Spdng Valley Road
Suite 600W
Dallas, TX 75244
Phone: 972.774.2500
Fax; 972.991.4247
TRANSWESTERN www. transwestern.net
October 9, 2001
Mr. John Elias o.
City of Coppell
255 Parkway Blvd.
Coppell, TX 75019
Re: AmberPoint Business Park at Coppell
Planned Development 194 - LI
Tree Mitigation
Dear John,
As we discussed this morning, the initial Transwestem Building One (308,000 sf) shown in our
present Site Plan package is approximately 249 caliper inches short in mitigating the existing
trees. After Chris Russell's (Baldwin Landscape) review with you last Friday, we have increased
the caliper of trees on our Building One site plan to 6", and have also provided a line of 27 - 6"
trees along the south border of Northpoint Drive as an added improvement which was not
requested. We have included in our calculations 915 caliper inches of preserved trees on both
Lots 1 & 2 where we can take credit against 1557 caliper inches we are actually preserving.
Transwestem is asking for relief in meeting this full mitigation for the following reasons:
Transwestern has worked with City Staff to realign the path of NorthPoint Drive to save a
mature set of hardwoods for the benefit of the city park land, which also increased the
ROW dedication from our development. Transwestern is only getting a 38% caliper inch
credit for this cooperative agreement with the City.
· Our initial Building One (308,000 sf) has a heavier concentration of trees than the
balance of the overall planned 1,900,000 sf development. Except for one other building
site which may require further mitigation, the balance of the development will not be
faced with major tree mitigation issues. We are requesting that you allow Transwestem
to mitigate the 249 caliper inch shortfall that exists on the Building One site as we
develop the balance of land over the next 5 to 7 years.
· There are additional existing trees that were not recorded in the tree survey that can be
saved to make up an additional preservation total. We will be identifying these trees in
the next few days and would like to meet soon to discuss a final plan for presentation to
the P & Z Commission.
Your Partner Of Choice.
We will be happy to meet with your staff to discuss this issue prior to the Planning and Zoning
hearing in order to have your recommendation for Approval of our Development Plan.
Sincerely,
T~.A.NSWESTEP~ COMMERCIAL SERVICES
JaJnes L. Gaspard
~c,,e~resident
--'Development Services
cc: Andrea Roy- City of Coppell
Gary Sieb- City of Coppell
Henry Knapek- Transwestern Commercial Services