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August 21, 2020
Project Narrative
Walton Homestead Medical Clinic
Site Plan Application
Project Narrative
A Medical Clinic is proposing to build a two-story building on the last undeveloped lot in the Walton
Homestead PUD. This brick and panel sided building with a combination of gable and flat parapet roofs
has been designed to fit amongst the existing commercial office buildings directly to the east across 15th
Avenue. This building will complete the west end of the commercial frontage of the Walton Homestead
PUD on Oak Street.
The clinic will house patient services on the ground floor and staff offices and meeting spaces on the
second floor. This second floor will be serviced by both stairs and an elevator. Parking will be situated
on the site directly south of the building with frontage on 15th Avenue. Two street accesses, one shared
with the car wash to the south, will allow easy flow into and out of the parking lot. A generous
landscape buffer has been designed between the parking lot and 15th Avenue. Bicycle parking for the
building has been located under cover on the south end of the building near the main entrance.
Access to the building from the vehicle parking area, bike parking area or walking will be gained via a
concrete sidewalk running along 15th Avenue to the main building entrance on its south east corner
which front 15th Avenue.
Construction is proposed to start late this fall and be completed in the late summer early fall of 2021
when the Clinic will take full occupancy of the building.
To facilitate this project timeline, we are also requesting concurrent review of both the Site Plan
Application and the Building Permit Application.
Parking Lot Location Departure Request
A departure to the Landscape Block Frontage Parking Lot Location Requirement is being requested.
As is demonstrated in the frontage calculations shown on the Cover Sheet of the drawings set, our
proposed percentage of parking frontage exceeds the maximum 50 percent allowed.
Due to the long and narrow configuration of this corner lot with double frontage, it is not possible to
locate the number of required parking spaces in a configuration that would satisfy the maximum 50
percent requirement.
The project does however, meet the purpose of the development standard by:
1) Keeping the parking to the side/rear of the building
2) Pushing the building up to the setback line
3) Providing a landscape buffer between the parking lot and the street.