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Commission reviews Dream Center expansion plan including restrooms, shower building and buffering
Summary
City staff described a major modification to the Dream Center's initial use permit covering parcels between Fourth and Fifth streets, including a small restroom/shower building, a 2,000-square-foot mercantile expansion and buffering for dumpster and outdoor storage areas.
City staff described a major modification to the Dream Center's initial use permit affecting several parcels between Fourth and Fifth streets, roughly between Kells Avenue and Lincoln Avenue.
The modification includes a restroom and shower building (described as a small building of about 200 square feet in site sketches), integration of recently acquired parcels into the project area, a roughly 2,000-square-foot expansion to the existing mercantile building under site plan review, new dumpster pads and buffered outdoor storage and trash collection areas. Staff said the project will require off-street parking, buffering and landscaping, and that conditions will require certain improvements before issuance of future building permits, with some Mercantile-related driveway and buffering work required within 12 months of certificate of occupancy.
Staff noted that the proposed dumpster enclosures and outdoor storage areas are a recurring concern in neighborhood cleanup discussions and recommended screening and a view-blocking fence or wall along the western boundary that faces single-family residential properties. The presentation described phasing of required conditions to avoid obligating the applicant to complete all improvements at once because of financial constraints.
A commissioner asked whether a representative from the Dream Center (Mr. Cooper) would attend to answer questions; staff said Dream Center representation had been present at prior hearings and staff would confirm attendance for the next meeting. Commissioners also asked about the number of restrooms and showers; staff replied that the proposed building is small (about 200 square feet) and would include “a couple of each,” and that elevations would be adopted with the ordinance.
No formal motion or vote is recorded in the supplied transcript; staff characterized much of the work as undergoing site plan review and subject to conditions before permits issue.
