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REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Allyson C. Bristor, Associate Planner
Chris Saunders, Interim Planning Director
Chris Kukulski, City Manager
SUBJECT: General Willson Building Site Plan/Certificate of Appropriateness
Application – #Z-09235
MEETING DATE: April 26, 2010
AGENDA ITEM TYPE: Action Item.
RECOMMENDATION: The General Willson Site Plan/Certificate of Appropriateness
application (#Z-09235) to be lifted from the table and scheduled for consideration at the City
Commission’s meeting date of May 17, 2010.
BACKGROUND: Property owner and applicant Delaney & Co., Inc. submitted a Site
Plan/Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) application to the Department of Planning in
December 2009. The application is requesting approval of the following exterior alterations to,
and adjacent to, the property addressed at 101 East Main Street: 1) expansion of the pedestrian
sidewalk into City right-of-way to accommodate a restaurant outdoor seating area, 2) elimination
of on-street parking on the east side of North Black Avenue, 3) addition of sidewalk/boulevard
trees and lights in the expanded sidewalk, 4) addition of a partial awning/canopy over the
outdoor seating area, and 5) addition of a doorway on the building’s west elevation.
The project was tabled to allow time for the City Commission to review and adopt Ordinance
1785, which includes amendments to Chapter 12.22 of the BMC (“Downtown Sidewalk
Encroachment Permit Program”). The application relies upon the revisions to Chapter 12.22. On
April 19th the City Commission gave preliminary approval to the revisions to Chapter 12.22.
Final adoption of Ordinance 1785 is scheduled for May 3rd. The property owner has requested
the item to be lifted and move forward. Please see the attached letter. The site plan will need to
be re-noticed and the proposed date for scheduling allows adequate time to do so.
UNRESOLVED ISSUES: To lift the application from the table or not.
ALTERNATIVES: The Commission may act to lift the application and schedule for further
consideration; or may leave the application on the table which will effectively deny the
application.
FISCAL EFFECTS: A Site Plan and Certificate of Appropriateness application fee was
submitted by the applicant and processed as revenue to the Department of Planning and
Community Development.
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Attachments: Property owner letter
Report compiled on: April 21, 2010
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