City of Wilmington - Project Tracking

 Comments from GIS/Addressing Division

Project address is revised from 2216 S. 17th St to 2238 S. 17th St.  Please update plans for future submittals accordingly.

• For future plan review submittals by your company, please include a contact email for your client or property owner so that everyone can be kept in the loop.
• Be sure to include the following stamp on all plan pages:

• Title block and site data table: Please correct the project address to 2238 South 17^th Street
• Is the dotted line between the existing structure and the proposed structure representative of the limits of disturbance? Please label this line for clarification.
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (5): Additional information is the site data table as follows: 
  • Setbacks of Building (required and proposed)
  • Total amount of acreage within the project boundaries
  • Building size with square footage
  • Number of units and Number of buildings – please be sure that this is consistent in terms of whether you are including the adjacent retail strip center.
  • Number of stories and square feet per floor – just add the square footage of each structure.
  • Off street parking calculations, including required amount of parking and proposed amount of parking and the basis for determination – please clarify the “medical retail” use. The parking requirements you gave are for a “medical office” but medical retail is classified the same as regular retail in our parking table.
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (7): Show location of existing and proposed property boundaries and lot lines. Are you proposing to create any new property lines?
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (8): Show location of on-site and proposed tie-in to existing public utilities (water, sewer, culverts, drains, etc.) showing size and direction flow, and soil erosion and sedimentation control measure.
  • Please include this information in the next submittal.
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (10): Show Location and dimension of on-site pedestrian and vehicular access ways, parking areas, loading and unloading facilities, designs of ingress and egress of vehicles to and from the site onto public streets and curb and sidewalk lines.
  • Please label and include dimension of new sidewalk along Glen Meade Drive
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (11): Show location and dimension of all fencing and screening.
  • What is the material/size of the fence to the rear of the subject property?
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (12) (13): Show names of property owners of adjacent properties, zoning, land use, owner and deed book for properties adjacent to subject property including across the street.
  • Please include properties across 17^th Street and across Glen Meade Drive
  • Be sure to note the owner and deed book information in addition to the other information provided.
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (14): Show current accurate topographical information based on mean sea level datum, with contour interval of 2.0 feet or less.
  • If you can determine where this information came from, please include it on the plans. If you cannot determine without a surveyor, you may hold off on this request until you are confident that the plan will be moving forward.
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (17): Please provide the following written statements:

• Show bicycle parking compliance. Each new commercial or office development requiring 25 or more auto parking spaces shall make provisions for parking a minimum of 5 bicycles. Each additional 100 auto parking spaces above the minimum 25 spaces shall require provisions for parking of 5 additional bicycles up to a maximum of 25 bicycles. Bicycle parking facilities shall be provided within 200 feet of the primary entrance to the facility.
  • Please show a minimum of 5 bicycle parking spaces.
• Sec. 18-448.(d) General standards for landscaping.
  • 15 trees per disturbed acre, 2-2.5’ diameter at breast height, are required to be planted or retained on the disturbed portion of the site, including trees located in the streetyard and bufferyard.
    • Please show table on landscaping plan indicating number of trees, total, to be planted on site to ensure compliance with this standard.  
• Sec. 18-504: Show compliance with screening of dumpsters with living and non-living material.
  • Screening shall be a minimum of 6 feet in height along the front or corner side of any lot and 8 feet in height along any side or rear property line.
  • This should be part of the landscape plan.
• Sec. 18-490. Foundation Plantings. For all portions of buildings which are adjacent to parking facilitiesor internal drive aisles, foundation plantings shall be required and located between the building’s façade and the parking or drive aisle curb. The minimum standards are required; however, it is encouraged that sites exceed the minimum whenever possible. The following minimum standards shall apply:
  • The area of the building face adjacent to the parking area or internal drive isle shall be computed and multiplied by a minimum of 12%
    • You are not required to have foundation plantings to the rear or along the portion of the building with the drive-through window; just along the front and the northern side.
• Sec. 18-498. Width of buffer yards. Buffer yards shall have a base width equal to at least 50% of the required setback. In all cases the base of the buffer yard shall be equal to or greater than 20 feet, except as allowed in this article. Where a utility easement occupies a portion of the buffer yard, sufficient buffer width must be provided outside the utility easement to meet the required opacity standards.
• Sec. 18-499. Site constraints. In the event that pre-existing conditions on an infill, re-development or expansion project within the City limits result in site constraints that prevent meeting the standard options for buffer yards as required in this section, the City Manager may alter the buffer yard requirements to no less than 10’ with an 8’ tall solid fence provided the spirit and intent of the ordinance is met. Such allowance shall only be made at the request of the applicant, who shall submit a plan showing how the proposed buffer would screen the intended use. The allowance will not be granted without documenting to the satisfaction of the City Manager that constraints on the site prohibit otherwise meeting the requirements of this section.
  • Please provide a written evaluation of site constraints and request in writing a reduction to the required buffer.
  • Please show compliance with the minimum 10’ buffer with an 8’ tall privacy fence.
• A tree preservation/removal permit is required prior to beginning any clearing and grading. The city will issue the tree permit once the site plan is finalized. The application is available from city zoning or I can e-mail you one if that works better. Are there any existing trees on site?
• Sec. 18-60 (c) (15): Show a proposed landscape plan.

• The interior area of a parking facility shall be shaded by canopy trees either planted or retained to provide twenty (20) percent or greater canopy coverage at maturity. For purposes of this section, a parking facility shall include any areas of a development devoted to pedestrian or vehicular use, including but not limited to parking areas, loading spaces, automobile sales lots, driveways and internal drive aisles. The following standards shall apply to interior parking area landscaping:
• (a)        All single planting islands measuring twelve (12) feet by eighteen (18) feet or having the equivalent square footage shall have at least one (1) tree. All double planting islands measuring twelve (12) feet by thirty-six (36) feet or having the equivalent square footage shall have at least two (2) small mature shade trees or one canopy tree. All larger planting islands will have additional trees in increments of one (1) tree for each additional two hundred (200) square feet if installing small shade trees or one (1) tree for every four hundred (400) square feet if installing canopy trees. All planting islands shall have additional ground cover or shrubbery from the approved plantings list to cover the entire landscaped island, subject to the walkway allowance as indicated below. At least seventy-five (75) percent of the trees required hereunder shall be of a large shade/canopy species as defined in the approved plantings list that have or will have at maturity a DBH of at least twelve (12) inches. Small maturing shade trees may be planted where overhead power lines would interfere with normal growth or for site design considerations, if trees are maintained in their natural form.
  • The landscape islands closest to the building appear to be smaller than the required 12’ x 18’ – or 216 square feet.
• For parking spaces within 50’ of a right-of-way, a low buffer shall be incorporated into the streetyard to provide protection from vehicle headlights within the parking lot.
  • The buffer shall be a minimum of 3’ in height and 5’ in width and shall contain adequate vegetation to protect from vehicle light spillover. This requirement is not in addition to the streetyard but may be incorporated into the streetyard requirements.