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Cpl HS 1P/PP-CS 870127UNIVEST DEVELOPMENT COMPANY January 27, 1987 Coppell City Council City of Coppell 255 Parkway Boulevard Coppell, Texas 75019 New Coppell High School Gentlemen: The Parks of Co~pell Joint Venture II (PCJV II) delivered to you a letter dated January 22, 1987 expressing support for the preliminary plat sub- mission for the new high school planned by the Coppell Independent School District (CISD). Subsequent to sending that letter, we received from the City of Coppell a notification outlining several variances that have been requested by CISD associated with their preliminary plat. We object to some of those variances because we feel that they will have an adverse affect on our adjoining property, and are writing_ this letter to make you aware of our objections, which are as follows: Lighting Intensity on Adjacent Property - The notice sent out by the City says that the intensity will be five foot candles on the west side of the high school site. The architects for the school district advised me by telephone that the lighting intensity will be four foot candles at the property line on the north side of the high school site which is our c~,,~n boundary line. Our adjacent proDerty is zoned multi-family and is plan- ned for that type of residential use. Our consultants advise us that the lightin(3 intensity recc~m~ended by the Urban Land Institute for a shopping center parking lot is a one foot candle. Your ordinance requires .25 foot candles. We, therefore, object to the lightin~.~ inten- sity Droposed by the school district and would ask that the City require the school district to decrease the ambiant light spill onto our property to a level of one foot candle at the property line, through the use of reflector hoods or other light directional devices on the lighting fixtures which will prevent such light spill. Another alternative, which may be less desire- able to CISD would be to lo~r the height of their poles. A third alternative might be to move the stadium more to the center of the high school site. 12770 COlT RD. · SUITE 1215. DALLAS, TEXAS 75251 · 214/233-5771 Coppel 1 City Counc i 1 January 27, 1987 Page Two ® Parking - This variance requests to reduce by 37 1/2% the number of parking spaces in the parking lot. This in turn raises a potential concern for heavy parking uses during ballgames on adjacent streets on our pro- perty, possibly resulting in traffic problems. We would request that no parking be permitted for these g~aes along Parkway Boulevard especially. We would further su.c~3est that, if this variance is granted at all, it should be granted on a temporary basis, thus allowing time to see if the number of parking spaces is actually workable or if they need to be expanded at a later date. ® Parking Surface -We object to the use of crushed ~cfravel on the visitors parking, lot. No private developer or owner would be allowed to do this in the City of Cop- pell. We are concerned that the use of crushed gravel will be unsightly and would result in blowinG dust on our residential property which is inm~ediately adjacent to the visitors parking lot. We would request that as a minimum, the visitors parking lot be paved with asphalt. We respectively request that the Coppell City Council make the appropriate adjustments in the requested preliminary plat to resolve our objections. Aside from the issues support the preliminary appreciated. that have been raised in this letter, w~ otherwise plat request by CISD. Your consideration is Yours very truly, PARKS OF COPPELL JOINT VEWiIIRE II Michael R. Allen MRA/sjp