Architectural board critiques PNC Bank site plan; asks for design revisions before August meeting

The Architectural Review Board reviewed plans for SP2025‑03, a proposed PNC Bank with a single drive‑through on Lot 1 of a 10‑acre planned development south of Heath Hawk Drive and facing Lawrence Drive.

Board members and staff focused on building design, drive‑through circulation, lighting levels, and site connectivity. City planning staff said the site plan review is advisory and that the drive‑through will require a separate conditional use approval; the site plan will return for action after the conditional use is decided.

The project site is part of a recently approved plan development (PD) that established 10 lots for the overall property; staff said nine lots are developable and one is a detention area. The bank parcel is shown as roughly a 3,000‑square‑foot building with 24 parking spaces (the packet listed 15 spaces as the minimum requirement). Staff said the lot coverage is about 47 percent, leaving roughly 53 percent open space, and that 71 trees will be removed and mitigated on an inch‑for‑inch basis.

Planning staff flagged a technical lighting issue: “The ordinance…