prelimsiteplanCity of Yelm
Community Development Department
P.O. Box 479
Yelm, WA 98597
(360) 458-3835
(360) 458-3144 FAX
Memorandum
To: Mike McKinnon
From: Tami Merriman, Planning Technician
Date: April 12, 2006
Re: Yelm Plaza
Mike:
To assist you in preparing your site plan drawings I provide the following comments:
This property is located in our Design Guideline area, and is on a corner lot. There are design issues that must be addressed in your Site Plan Review Application. I have included
a copy of the Design Guidelines and invoice with this memo.
Some areas of concern for the preliminary site plan are Section I.A.(2) - addressing street frontage, parking, and landscaping. I.E.(1) - Siting your stormwater areas at the street
front (pedestrian safety is important if the swale is next to the sidewalk. I.F.(1), Enhancing development on corners. Section II, pedestrian access from street, and through parking.
You need to show your loading area. Your preliminary site plan must also show road frontage improvements. A conceptual landscape plan is required with application. Please contact
Lemay about the placement of the refuse dumpster, you'll need to provide truck access.
The site plan that you provided me shows what looks like a connection to the complex to the east. It is good to have the complexes connected, but we will need to see how the connection
impacts their site.
Your traffic impact analysis can address your concerns about "lumping" Dairy Queen into the "fast food" category, and generating such a high number of pm peak hour trips. Jack in the
box used "Transportation Planning & Engineering, Inc." out of Bellevue. Theirs was a trip generation and traffic fee analysis only, it did not address traffic impacts as required for
your development.
I hope this helps to get your plans started. Please feel free to call me if you have further questions.