TOWN OF CARY

ACTIVITY CENTER REPORT

Parkway Pointe Activity Center

Concept Plan, 03-AC-002

Kilarney Pointe Sketch Site Plan, 03-SP-105

APPLICANT

OWNER

Hugh J. Gilleece and Associates

875 Walnut Street, Suite 360

Cary , NC 27511

Phone: (919) 469-1101

Fax: (919) 460-7637

Insignia Development, Inc.

7424 Chapel Hill Road

Raleigh , NC 27607

Phone: (919) 859-2269

Fax: (919) 859-2261

Location:

The property is located southwest of Southwest Cary Parkway , approximately 300' south of the intersection of Old Apex Road and Southwest Cary Parkway .

MAPS:

Kilarney Pointe Concept Plan

Planning & Zoning Board Recommendation:

In separate motions, the Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously to approve:

03-AC-002, Parkway Pointe Activity Center Concept Plan
03-SP-105, Kilarney Pointe, Sketch Site Plan Approval

Staff Recommendation:

Staff recommends approval of the plan.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS
TOWN COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING	September 11,2003
PLANNING & ZONING BOARD	October 20, 2003
TOWN COUNCIL	November 13, 2003

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The applicant is requesting approval of an Activity Center Concept Plan to construct approximately 60 nursing home units and 240 senior apartment units in five 2 and 3 story buildings. The plans also propose an 8,000 square feet 2-story office building containing 4,000 square feet of office space and 4,000 square feet of commercial space. The number of nursing home units would not exceed 80,000 square feet. The plan also includes the installation of sidewalk along Southwest Cary Parkway for the length of the property’s frontage. The property contains 13.61 acres and is zoned Office, Research and Development Conditional Use (ORD CU).

PARCEL INFORMATION
Parcel #	Realid #	Area
0753.18-21-7752, 0753.17-21-2529, 0753.17-21-1390 & 0753.17-21-1085	0111759, 0020275, 0034013 & 0094524	13.66 acres (calc.) 13.61 acres (deeded)

ZONING AND ACTIVITY CENTER COMPLIANCE

Current Zoning:Office, Research and Development (ORD)

Overlay District: Neighborhood Activity Center

Town Limits: [ X ] In

The property is located within a neighborhood activity center (NAC) intended to facilitate development at the neighborhood scale. Neighborhoods are contiguous areas, generally containing approximately 600 to 1,500

Dwellings or approximately 1,500 to 3,500 people. The NAC should contain facilities vital to the day-to-day activity of a neighborhood (e.g., a grocery store, a drug store, a church, a service station) located in close proximity to one another. The NAC should contain the neighborhood’s highest-density housing and its location should facilitate pedestrian travel between the two areas.

The ORD district regulations limit the number of allowable nursing home units to 20 units per acre. Residential and commercial development is not allowed in the ORD district. However, through the approval of an Activity Center Concept Plan, property zoned ORD located in an Activity Center may utilize alternative landuse designations such as multi-family and commercial uses. Within the Parkway Pointe Neighborhood Activity Center , the amount of non-residential square footage that which includes office, institutional, and commercial uses would be limited to the remaining amount of available square footage for the activity center. Any proposed residential development would be limited by the remaining amount of residential units available. As shown in the attached Parkway Pointe Neighborhood Activity Center chart, 95,127 square feet of non-residential development would be permitted and 1,370 residential units would be available for development.

LANDSCAPE

The landscape plan for this project would comply with all Town requirements. This project would provide an opaque type “A” buffer adjacent to Kilarney Subdivision located south of the site and would provide a 40' semi-opaque type "B" buffer adjacent to the mini-storage facility located north of Kilarney Pointe.

TRAFFIC

A community of 300 nursing home/apartment units, 4,000 square feet of office space and 4,000 square feet of retail space, the AM peak hour would generate 28 trips and the PM peak hour would generate 72 trips. The ADT volume is 861 trips per day.

No Traffic Impact Study is required

Staff Contact: Dick Moore, 462-3937, Email: dmoore@ci.cary.nc.us

ROADWAY DESIGN

Cary Parkway is required to have 14' wide outside lanes to allow for bike traffic. Per Town Council directive on August 23, 2001 , developers have the option of making a payment-in-lieu for the bike lane if their projects front thoroughfares built to full width per the Thoroughfare Plan.

Right-of-way along this section of Cary Parkway is approximately 200’ wide; therefore, no additional right-of-way dedication would be necessary.

Sidewalk is required along Cary Parkway .

Staff Contact: Tammy Spivey, 462-3933, Email: tspivey@ci.cary.nc.us

UTILITIES

The proposed water and sewer design meets Town of Cary standards.

Staff Contact: Shuyan Tian, 469-4381, Email: stian@ci.cary.nc.us

STORM WATER

This project meets all the requirements of the Town of Cary storm water section.

Staff Contact: Tom Horstman, 469-4347, Email: thorstma@ci.cary.nc.us

Staff Recommendation

Changes since Public Hearing:

No changes were made to the plan following the public hearing.

Protest Petition Information:

Valid [ ] Not Enough Signatures within 100 feet [ X ] None Filed [ ]

Analysis:

This property was previously submitted for rezoning approximately one year ago. The adjoining property owners had several concerns which have been addressed in the current plan. The concerns included building location, building height and appropriateness of buffers. As part of the Neighborhood Activity Center Concept Plan review process, the applicant conducted a neighborhood meeting and presented the current plan to adjoining property owners. The adjoining property owners have advised the staff that the current plan incorporates all previous concerns.

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PARKWAY POINTE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITY CENTER (NAC)
Location: SW Cary Pkwy and Old Apex Rd.
Date of Last Revision: 08/19/03
		APPROVED/EXISTING	MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE	AMOUNT AVAILABLE
SUMMARY INFORMATION
	NUMBER OF PARCELS	159
	VACANT PARCELS (AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL)	33.60%
TOTAL NON-RESIDENTIAL SQUARE FOOTAGE		154,873	250,000	95,127
TOTAL RESIDENTIAL UNITS		130	1500	1370
TOTAL PLAZA/PARK ACREAGE		12.67	N/A	N/A
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
	TOTAL SINGLE FAMILY UNITS	130
	TOTAL MULTI FAMILY UNITS	0
	TOTAL RESIDENTIAL UNITS	130	1500	1,370
	CURRENT RESIDENTIAL DENSITY (IN UNITS PER ACRE )	1.33
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
	AUTOMOTIVE COLLISION	5,000
	AUTO TRIANGLE INSTALLATION	5,913
	STORE BUILDING TYPICAL SINGLE TENANT	3,510