Variance Request Letter%kh"NSPIRRS
November 6, 2018
Ms. Mary Paron-Boswell
City of Coppell — Community Development/Planning
265 Parkway Blvd.
Coppell, Texas 75019
765 CUSTER ROAD, SUITE 100 1 PLANO, TEXAS 75075
972.422,0077 1 FAX 972.422.0075
TBPE NO. F-2121 i TBPLS NO, F-10043100
RE: Samaritan's Purse Planned Development and Site Plan
Samaritan's Purse Fellowship Addition, Lot 1 Block A
SEI Project No. 18-111
Dear Ms. Paron-Boswell:
Please accept this letter as formal
request for a variance to
the City of
Coppell's Tree Mitigation
ordinance by waiving the $70,060.00
due to be contributed
to the City
of Coppell Reforestation
and Natural Areas Fund from this
project.
The proposed project is an approximate 85,000 square foot building that will be owned and
operated by Samaritan's Purse, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt domestic and international relief
organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Samaritan's Purse will use the building as a
staging location for Operation Christmas Child, an annual collection drive that gathers shoe
boxes full of Christmas gifts from all over the United States and ships them internationally to
children in less fortunate areas of the world. This location will be a hub for volunteers from all
over the country to come to in late November to assist in packing, preparing, and shipping these
Christmas gift boxes all over the world. Further, this facility will be the headquarters and staging
ground for North American Ministries, a domestic disaster relief group that deploys to areas
impacted by natural disasters.
Our request for a waiver of mitigation fees is based upon our assertion that the user of the
proposed property meets the spirit and intent of the ordinance's definition of a church. Per Sec.
12-34-2-6A of the Coppell Code of Ordinances, churches are not required to provide mitigation
fees assuming that no specimen or historic trees are eliminated, and 5% of total canopy inches
are preserved. Both of these criteria are met with this project.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Spiars Engineering, Inc.
David I Bond, P.E.