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Resolution to Approve AAA Ann Arbor Branch Office Site Plan, 1200 South Main Street - CPC Recommendation: Approval (6 Yeas and 3 Nays)
Memorandum
Attached is a resolution to approve the AAA Ann Arbor Branch Office (1200 South Main Street) Site Plan. Approval of this resolution will allow for the construction of a 14-space parking lot with required landscaping and screening.
Petition Summary:
· The Site Plan proposes to demolish the existing building and parking lot on the site and construct a 14-space parking lot with access from Potter Avenue. Two bicycle storage lockers will also be provided. Right-of-way screening is proposed on all three surrounding street frontages and a conflicting land use buffer is proposed along the rear (west) side of the site. The 14-space parking lot will cover the northern half of the site. The remaining half will be lawn turf.
· A separate site plan, AAA Ann Arbor Branch Office (1100 South Main Street), is proposed to construct a new branch office having 5,443 square feet in phase one and an additional 2,230 square feet in phase two. Twenty-one off-street parking spaces are proposed on that site, which when combined with the 14 spaces proposed by this petition, will provide a total of 35 off-street parking spaces. The total desired parking spaces is four more than the maximum permitted for both phases of the branch office. The petitioner wishes to install all 35 parking spaces as part of phase one of the development.
· A separate petition to rezone a portion 1200 South Main Street from O (Office District) to P (Parking District) has been submitted. Parking lots as a principal use are not permitted in the O district. Approval of the proposed AAA Ann Arbor Branch (1100 South Main Street) Site Plan and the proposed AAA Ann Arbor Branch (1200 South Main Street) Site Plan are subject to this rezoning approval.
The City Planning Commission, at its meeting of March 6, 2012 recommended approval of this reques...
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