To: Galen Jamison
From: Kathryn Thurston, Associate Planner; 910-341-3249
CC: File;
Date: 8/15/14
Re: PWCS – 1 Shipyard Boulevard 1st Submittal Comments
The following is a list of comments for review from planning regarding the project. Please provide your corrections as listed below. Additional review will be required once all the needed documents have been provided. Items or documents not provided on initial submission will be subject to further review. Please contact me for any further questions.
Site Plan Comments:
- Be sure to include the following stamp on all plan pages; it is currently only on sheet C-101:
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (5): Additional information is the site data table as follows:
- Total amount and percent of impervious surface areas – please include calculations on the site data table in addition to the sheet provided.
- Off street parking calculations, including required amount of parking and proposed amount of parking and the basis for determination. Please note that LDC Section 18-528 permits manufacturing and warehousing uses containing at least 25,000 square feet and not dependent on walk-in trade for their business to reduce the required parking to 1.15 space per employee on the shift of the average greatest employment. This may reduce the amount of parking required for the site. Additionally, Industrial uses are only required a minimum of 1 space per 1,500 square feet rather than per 1,000 square feet.
- Setbacks of Building (required and proposed) – buildings in excess of 35’ are required to meet additional side and rear yard setbacks at a ratio of 6’ for every 10’ increment over 35’. As proposed, the plan complies with the required setbacks. Please update the site data table to reflect that the required setbacks are as follows:
- Front – 50’
- Interior side – 14.7’
- Corner side -64.7’
- Rear – 14.7’
- Calculations for building lot coverage – please provide amount of building lot coverage for leased area.
- CAMA – a portion of the overall site is located in a Conservation Area. Please specify that the limits of disturbance are outside the Conservation Area. Any conservation resource area identified requires silt fencing during construction.
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- Sec. 18-60 (c) (2): Show true North pointing towards the top of the map of both plan and location map.
- Please orient such that North is to the top of the map.
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (4): Show title block with name of development, name of owner and agent, name and contact information of the designer who prepared the plan and the address of the project.
- Please add the address of the project to the title block – 1 Shipyard Boulevard
- Please include a plan sheet that shows an overview of the area and includes the following:
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (7): Existing and proposed property boundaries and lot lines (or leased area).
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (9): Location and dimension of any easements, public rights-of-way, existing and proposed – or note that none were located.
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (10): 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.
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (11): Location and dimension of all fencing and screening, including along Burnette Boulevard.
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (12) (13): Names of property owners of adjacent properties, zoning, land use, owner and deed book for properties adjacent to subject property including across the street.
- Sec. 18-60 (c) (17): Show written statements by the applicant that shall consist of:
a. Method for handling solid waste disposal – any proposed dumpster must be screened with a minimum 6’ opaque fence or screen and vegetation.
b. The applicant’s evaluation of the availability of off-site public facilities including sewer, water and streets.
c. A description of any problems of drainage or topography, or a representation that, in the opinion of the applicant, there are none.
- 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 indicate ownership of all utilities.
- Please include Water and Sewer Capacity Needs table (current and proposed) with calculations in gallons per day based on state guidelines.
- The plans seem to show water and sewer capacity needs in gallons per minute.
- A tree preservation/removal permit is required prior to requesting clearing and grading approval from New Hanover County Erosion Control. There will be no fee for the permit, since there are no trees on site.
Landscape Plan:
- Pursuant to Article 8. Landscaping and Tree Preservation Division I. Sections 18-476. Purpose and 18-477. Applicability., landscaping is required for the purpose of: a) buffering adjoining and competing land uses; b) landscaping parking lots with five (5) or more parking spaces or those areas of 2,500 or more square feet devoted to vehicular use; and c) retaining existing trees.
- The adjacent land uses are the same as the proposed use and not competing land uses.
- Please re-evaluate the amount of parking necessary based on the standards provided above and indicate the amount of vehicular use area proposed and whether or not it is in excess of 2,500 square feet.
- Please note that there are no existing trees within the limits of disturbance.
- Please show the location of the proposed building in relation to the public right-of-way.
- If it is determined that the site meets any of the above criteria for applying a landscaping standard, please submit a landscaping plan.
To: Galen Jamison
From: Kathryn Thurston, Associate Planner; 910-341-3249
CC: File;
Date: 8/15/14
Re: Additional comments for landscaping
Pursuant to our phone conversation earlier, below is a list of additional comments from planning regarding landscaping requirements for your project. Additional review will be required once all the needed documents have been provided. Items of documents not provided on initial submission will be subject to further review. Please contact me for any further questions.
Based on a proposal of 45 employees per shift, a minimum of 52 parking spaces are required. Parking areas with 5 or more spaces, or requiring more than 2,500 square feet for parking and drive aisles have the following landscaping requirements:
- 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:
- Sec. 18-481 (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.
- For purposes of determining if the landscape plan meets the shading requirements of this section, each canopy tree of the type described in this section shall be presumed to shade a circular area of seven hundred and seven (707) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of fifteen (15) feet with the trunk of the tree as the center). When smaller shade trees are planted, each tree shall be presumed to shade a circular area of three hundred and fourteen (314) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of ten (10) feet). Perimeter trees shall be given credit for that portion of the circumference that intersects the parking area. Using this standard, twenty (20) percent of the parking facility area must have canopy coverage. For existing trees, credit shall be given for the actual canopy overhanging the parking facility. The trees counted toward meeting the shading requirement shall be indicated and calculations shall be shown on the site plan.
- Sec. 18-481 (f): All interior plantings shall be curbed or otherwise physically protected such as by wheel stops. If curbing is used, however; curb openings shall be installed to allow passage of stormwater into landscaped areas designed with depressed contours for infiltration.
- Sec. 18-482. Perimeter landscaping
- (a): A landscaped yard ten (10) feet in width shall be required along any side of a parking lot abutting a separate parking lot, driveway, or residentially-zoned property. Plantings shall consist, at a minimum of one (1) tree of the size specified in section 18-448 every eighteen (18) to twenty seven (27) feet. If a buffer yard or street yard is required in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance then the ten (10) foot width may be included as part of the buffer yard or street yard. The landscaped yard may be interrupted by driveway connections between parking lots.
- Sec. 18-483. Parking area screening.
- When a parking facility is within fifty (50) feet of a right-of- way, if the buffer yard provisions of this ordinance do not call for a planted buffer, a low buffer shall be incorporated into the street yard to provide protection from vehicle headlights within the parking lot. The buffer shall consist of shrubbery, a grade change or planted berm or any combination thereof that serves to shield traffic on the right-of-way from headlights within the parking lot. The buffer shall be a minimum of three (3) feet in height and five (5) feet in width and may be incorporated in a street yard, provided the street yard is fifteen (15) feet or more in width. Depressions and curb cuts shall be allowed for water quality protection.
- Sec. 18-490. Foundation Plantings.
- Sec. 18-490 (a): For all portions of buildings which are adjacent to parking facilities or internal drive isles, foundation plantings shall be required and located between the building's facades and the parking or drive isle 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 twelve (12) percent.
- Sec. 18-504. Screening for dumpsters and outside storage areas.
- Dumpsters and outside storage areas located within the view of any adjacent property or right-of-way, shall require a visual screen to shield the use from the view of any adjacent property or right-of-way. Screening shall be a minimum of six (6) feet in height along the front or corner side of any lot and eight (8) feet in height along any side or rear property line. Chain link fencing shall not be permitted as a screening alternative. The screening shall consist of living and non-living material as specified in this article.
- A minimum of 15 trees per disturbed acre, in addition to any trees required for the streetyard or interior landscaping areas must be planted on the site. (applies to leased area, not entire site)
To: Galen Jamison
From: Kathryn Thurston, Associate Planner; 910-341-3249
CC: File;
Date: 8/15/14
Re: Additional comments for landscaping
Pursuant to our phone conversation earlier, below is a list of additional comments from planning regarding landscaping requirements for your project. Additional review will be required once all the needed documents have been provided. Items of documents not provided on initial submission will be subject to further review. Please contact me for any further questions.
Based on a proposal of 45 employees per shift, a minimum of 52 parking spaces are required. Parking areas with 5 or more spaces, or requiring more than 2,500 square feet for parking and drive aisles have the following landscaping requirements:
- 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:
- Sec. 18-481 (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.
- For purposes of determining if the landscape plan meets the shading requirements of this section, each canopy tree of the type described in this section shall be presumed to shade a circular area of seven hundred and seven (707) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of fifteen (15) feet with the trunk of the tree as the center). When smaller shade trees are planted, each tree shall be presumed to shade a circular area of three hundred and fourteen (314) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of ten (10) feet). Perimeter trees shall be given credit for that portion of the circumference that intersects the parking area. Using this standard, twenty (20) percent of the parking facility area must have canopy coverage. For existing trees, credit shall be given for the actual canopy overhanging the parking facility. The trees counted toward meeting the shading requirement shall be indicated and calculations shall be shown on the site plan.
- Sec. 18-481 (f): All interior plantings shall be curbed or otherwise physically protected such as by wheel stops. If curbing is used, however; curb openings shall be installed to allow passage of stormwater into landscaped areas designed with depressed contours for infiltration.
- Sec. 18-482. Perimeter landscaping
- (a): A landscaped yard ten (10) feet in width shall be required along any side of a parking lot abutting a separate parking lot, driveway, or residentially-zoned property. Plantings shall consist, at a minimum of one (1) tree of the size specified in section 18-448 every eighteen (18) to twenty seven (27) feet. If a buffer yard or street yard is required in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance then the ten (10) foot width may be included as part of the buffer yard or street yard. The landscaped yard may be interrupted by driveway connections between parking lots.
- Sec. 18-483. Parking area screening.
- When a parking facility is within fifty (50) feet of a right-of- way, if the buffer yard provisions of this ordinance do not call for a planted buffer, a low buffer shall be incorporated into the street yard to provide protection from vehicle headlights within the parking lot. The buffer shall consist of shrubbery, a grade change or planted berm or any combination thereof that serves to shield traffic on the right-of-way from headlights within the parking lot. The buffer shall be a minimum of three (3) feet in height and five (5) feet in width and may be incorporated in a street yard, provided the street yard is fifteen (15) feet or more in width. Depressions and curb cuts shall be allowed for water quality protection.
- Sec. 18-490. Foundation Plantings.
- Sec. 18-490 (a): For all portions of buildings which are adjacent to parking facilities or internal drive isles, foundation plantings shall be required and located between the building's facades and the parking or drive isle 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 twelve (12) percent.
- Sec. 18-504. Screening for dumpsters and outside storage areas.
- Dumpsters and outside storage areas located within the view of any adjacent property or right-of-way, shall require a visual screen to shield the use from the view of any adjacent property or right-of-way. Screening shall be a minimum of six (6) feet in height along the front or corner side of any lot and eight (8) feet in height along any side or rear property line. Chain link fencing shall not be permitted as a screening alternative. The screening shall consist of living and non-living material as specified in this article.
- A minimum of 15 trees per disturbed acre, in addition to any trees required for the streetyard or interior landscaping areas must be planted on the site. (applies to leased area, not entire site)
To: Galen Jamison
From: Kathryn Thurston, Associate Planner; 910-341-3249
CC: File;
Date: 8/15/14
Re: Additional comments for landscaping
Pursuant to our phone conversation earlier, below is a list of additional comments from planning regarding landscaping requirements for your project. Additional review will be required once all the needed documents have been provided. Items of documents not provided on initial submission will be subject to further review. Please contact me for any further questions.
Based on a proposal of 45 employees per shift, a minimum of 52 parking spaces are required. Parking areas with 5 or more spaces, or requiring more than 2,500 square feet for parking and drive aisles have the following landscaping requirements:
- 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:
- Sec. 18-481 (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.
- For purposes of determining if the landscape plan meets the shading requirements of this section, each canopy tree of the type described in this section shall be presumed to shade a circular area of seven hundred and seven (707) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of fifteen (15) feet with the trunk of the tree as the center). When smaller shade trees are planted, each tree shall be presumed to shade a circular area of three hundred and fourteen (314) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of ten (10) feet). Perimeter trees shall be given credit for that portion of the circumference that intersects the parking area. Using this standard, twenty (20) percent of the parking facility area must have canopy coverage. For existing trees, credit shall be given for the actual canopy overhanging the parking facility. The trees counted toward meeting the shading requirement shall be indicated and calculations shall be shown on the site plan.
- Sec. 18-481 (f): All interior plantings shall be curbed or otherwise physically protected such as by wheel stops. If curbing is used, however; curb openings shall be installed to allow passage of stormwater into landscaped areas designed with depressed contours for infiltration.
- Sec. 18-482. Perimeter landscaping
- (a): A landscaped yard ten (10) feet in width shall be required along any side of a parking lot abutting a separate parking lot, driveway, or residentially-zoned property. Plantings shall consist, at a minimum of one (1) tree of the size specified in section 18-448 every eighteen (18) to twenty seven (27) feet. If a buffer yard or street yard is required in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance then the ten (10) foot width may be included as part of the buffer yard or street yard. The landscaped yard may be interrupted by driveway connections between parking lots.
- Sec. 18-483. Parking area screening.
- When a parking facility is within fifty (50) feet of a right-of- way, if the buffer yard provisions of this ordinance do not call for a planted buffer, a low buffer shall be incorporated into the street yard to provide protection from vehicle headlights within the parking lot. The buffer shall consist of shrubbery, a grade change or planted berm or any combination thereof that serves to shield traffic on the right-of-way from headlights within the parking lot. The buffer shall be a minimum of three (3) feet in height and five (5) feet in width and may be incorporated in a street yard, provided the street yard is fifteen (15) feet or more in width. Depressions and curb cuts shall be allowed for water quality protection.
- Sec. 18-490. Foundation Plantings.
- Sec. 18-490 (a): For all portions of buildings which are adjacent to parking facilities or internal drive isles, foundation plantings shall be required and located between the building's facades and the parking or drive isle 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 twelve (12) percent.
- Sec. 18-504. Screening for dumpsters and outside storage areas.
- Dumpsters and outside storage areas located within the view of any adjacent property or right-of-way, shall require a visual screen to shield the use from the view of any adjacent property or right-of-way. Screening shall be a minimum of six (6) feet in height along the front or corner side of any lot and eight (8) feet in height along any side or rear property line. Chain link fencing shall not be permitted as a screening alternative. The screening shall consist of living and non-living material as specified in this article.
- A minimum of 15 trees per disturbed acre, in addition to any trees required for the streetyard or interior landscaping areas must be planted on the site. (applies to leased area, not entire site)
Standard Fire Department comments must be shown on plans.
I do not see a fire hydrant within proximity to the building.
Standard comments:
FDC cannot be further than 40' from fire department vehicle access or placement
FDC cannot be further than 150' from hydrant.
FDC cannot be blocked by parking or landscaping
All weather access maintained around project for emergency vehicle access
Newly installed hydrants must be operational prior to combustible building materials utilized on site.
Fire hydrants cannot be further than 8' off curb.
Valves capable of turning water supply off from sprinkler system must have indicating valves and electrically supervised.
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