20120260 Habitat Ltr 09252012
City of Yelm
Community Development
105 Yelm Avenue West
Yelm, WA 98597
September 11, 2012
Caleb White, Regional Manager
South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity
415 Olympia Ave
NE
Olympia, WA 98501
Mr. White:
The Site Plan Review Committee for the City of Yelm has reviewed your request to modify the design requirements of the City of Yelm for the Yelm Habitat
for Humanity retail store at 412 Yelm Avenue East. Specifically, you have requested to retain the existing chain link fencing on the side property lines.
Because the fencing on the
western property line is effectively screened, the request along this property line is approved.
The request is approved alone the eastern property line with the condition that an 8
foot landscape buffer as required by the Zoning Code at Section 17.80.050 (C) Yelm Municipal Code be provided along the fence, as follows:
1 Purpose. Type II landscaping is intended
to provide visual separation of uses from streets, and visual separation of compatible uses so as to soften the appearance of streets, parking areas and building elevation. This landscaping
is used around the perimeter of a site and adjacent to buildings and may be augmented by the applicant with a Type III landscaping to provide interest along parking lot pedestrian corridors.
2. Desc
ription.
a. All plant materials and living groundcover must be selected and maintained so that the entire landscape area will be covered within five years.
b. Any combination of evergreen
and deciduous trees (with no more than 50 percent being deciduous), shrubs, earthen berms and related plant materials or design features may be selected; provided, that the resultant
effect is to provide
partial screening and buffering between uses and of softening the appearance of streets, parking and structures.
c. Trees shall be a minimum of one and one-half inches in caliper measured
six inches above the base at planting and shrubs must be capable of growing to a minimum of four feet in height, within five years.
d. When Type II landscaping is used to provide partial
screening between uses, a minimum planting area of eight feet in width shall be provided. When Type II landscaping is used adjacent to a building, a minimum five-foot planting area shall
be provided.
If you have any questions regarding this approval, please contact me at the Community Development Department.
Sincerely,
Grant Beck, Director
Community Development
Department