5201 COLBY AVE 2016-01-01 MF Import

_�. PLANNING DIRECTOR DETERMINATION Review Processl #03-003 Landscape Modification � �r�,t�� The City oi Everett Planning Department grants appruvai of a request by Alvin (�: Teri Kieiow, 5201 Colby Avenue, Everetl, WA 98203 for a landscape modification for the property �ocated at 5201 Colby Avenue, Conaway Motors, with ihe tollowing conditions: Provide a six-foot tall solid board tence along the southern propeny line. This fence shall be dropped to 36 inches in height within fifteen feet of the iront property line. • Install slats in the chain link fence that runs along the east properly line. Provide the landscaping as shown on the approved site plan dated March 7, 2003 on file with the Ciiy Planning Department. This shail include the following; • Instailing an 18' x 9' landscape island at the southwest corner of the site. This area shall be plated with Type III landscaping; • Installing a ten-foot wide landscape strip from the edge of the planter described above east to the security gate, which runs north/south on the property. This area shali be plated with Type III landscaping; • Installing a five-foot wide landscape strip from the security gate along the southern property line to ihe easterri property line. This area shall be planted with Type I landscaping; • Installing Type III landscaping along the northern property line. • Two copies oi the revised landscape plan must be submitted in order to update the building permit application on file with the City. The Planning Director's approval of the �andscape modification �vas based on tha tollowing: The subject property is located in the R-3 zone. The business activity has been certitied as a nonconforming use {NCU #2), since automobile repair is not a permitted use within the residential zone. A SEPA decision was issued on April 8, 1981 for an expar�sion o( the existing nonconforming use (SEPA �91-025); several conditions ot approval were included in this decision, including Iandscapirg and site development. However, ihis expansion was not completed at the time. In spring of 2001 a buiiding additior� was made to the existing ;iructure without the benefit of City permits. A land use approval was issued afler the fact ter the expansion o( a nonconforming use fRev11�01-010). Several conditions were included in this decision, including the need to bring the landscaping on .,ite into conformance �vith code req�irement:. The site is located in a residential zone, and abuts a residential develepment. Section 35.040 oi the Everett Zoning Code requires a minimum of ten feet of Type I or fifteen feet of Type II landscaping for commercial deve;opments, which abut residentially zoned property. Compliance with these code provisions would eliminate a significant amount oi ornsite paricing. Both the applicant and City understand the need for the preservation ef this parking. By installing five teet rather than ten, the parking can be maintained on site, and a bufter can be provided between the subject site and the residential neighbors to the south. In addition the � �� _i'