Green light, site plan-wise,
from FMPC for Dunkin Donuts west
Tammy Cheek farragutpress.com
Dunkin Farragut got a green light
from Farragut Municipal Planning Commission during FMPC’s meeting
Thursday, Dec. 21, on a site plan to build a Dunkin Donuts at 13038
Kingston Pike.
The property is just east of Dixie Lee Wines & Liquors, near the
intersection of South Watt Road and Kingston Pike and directly in front
of Cool Sports Home of the Icearium.
“The building is proposed to be around 2,200 square feet,” Community
Development director Mark Shipley said. “There’s a proposed full-in
access and a right-in, right-out access with a short taper/ The access
is within the platted access that was approved many years ago by the
Planning Commission, so they’re just basically staying within that.”
On the north side of Kingston Pike, “we’ll just try to work with those
property owners to align (the accesses for) what might develop on the
north side,” Shipley said. “The applicant was trying to work out some
cross-lot vehicular agreement with the property to the west, and they
were unable to work that out.”
However, Dunkin owners were able
to enter into an agreement with Cool Sports to tie into the Cool Sports
access, which also would provide a sidewalk connection.
“That would give patrons of (Dunkin Donuts) the ability, especially if
they are going west, to be able to get out onto South Watt Road to the
signalized intersection,” Shipley said.
“They do have a cross lot stubbed out to the east to whatever might
develop on this parcel, which hopefully would tie into to the (proposed)
Dollar General tract, which is east of that,” he added. “This is laid
out to where, some day in the future, if they were able to work out an
agreement with the property to the west you could go ahead and extend
that pretty easily into that property.
“Most of the parking lot will be permeable pavers. There’s no detention
basin, so that is being used to accommodate the stormwater and meet the
Town’s low-impact development requirements.
Though slightly under-parked for a restaurant, “the ratio for
restaurants is really kind of geared toward a sit-down kind of
establishment. This would really be geared toward mostly drive-through …
so staff was OK with having slightly a few spaces under the requirement
in this case,” Shipley said.
“The building itself is mostly
brick,” he added. “It’s about 77 percent thin brick that will be
mortared in place.”
Right-in, right-out
variances granted to new Dollar General, Advance Auto Parts
Tammy Cheek
farragutpress.com
Two developments to take
place in western Farragut near Dixie Lee Junction were granted
variances regarding driveway distances onto Kingston Pike from
Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen Thursday, Dec. 14.
A new Dollar General Store and Advance Auto Parts, planned to be
located on the south side of Kingston Pike northeast of the Cool
Sports Home of the Icearium, asked for a variance for a
right-in, right-out access.
“Originally, the site plan for this project included a full
access that did not line up with the Fast Pace Urgent Care
access on the north side of Kingston Pike,” Farragut Community
Development director Mark Shipley said. “The staff informed the
applicant that they could not support this proposed access
because the offset could potentially create conflicts in the
center turn lane.
“As a result, the site
plan was postponed at the October (Municipal) Planning
Commission meeting so the applicant could re-visit their
access,” Shipley added. “The revised site plan that was approved
by the Planning Commission in November provided for a full
access that would line up with the Fast Pace Urgent Care.
“As a secondary access from Kingston Pike, the applicant also
showed a right-in, right-out access near the western property
line. This access would provide eastbound travelers with the
ability to access the property before arriving at the full
access to the east.”
However, “the proposed right-in, right-out access would be
within the 400 feet of separation required for accesses onto
arterial streets as provided for in the Driveways and Other
Access Ways Ordinance,” Shipley said. “The access would be
roughly 317 feet to the west of the full access and roughly 209
feet to the east of a residential driveway on the north side of
Kingston Pike.
“Consequently, the applicant asked the Planning Commission to
recommend approval of a variance for the proposed right in right
out access,” he added. “The Town engineer reviewed this request
and recommended approval of the variance since it would provide
an additional access option that would not create conflicts in
the center turn lane.”
However, “the recommendation was conditioned on the raised
curbing being more pronounced to dissuade motorists from turning
left (westbound) from this access point,” Shipley said.
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