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Architect and engineer describe screening, low traffic for proposed O'Reilly Auto Parts site in Franklin City
Summary
Architect and civil engineer told Franklin City officials the proposed O'Reilly Auto Parts site plan includes a masonry-enclosed dumpster, a six-foot fence, extensive landscaping, and an estimated traffic generation of fewer than 200 daily trips and about 20 peak-hour trips; a DOT permit comment was received the morning of the meeting.
Tom Lundberg, with the Office of the Architects, and Caleb Freeland, a civil engineer, described measures intended to limit visual and noise impacts from a proposed O'Reilly Auto Parts site, including a masonry-enclosed dumpster, a six-foot wood fence along the west property line and extensive landscaping.
Lundberg pointed to the landscape plan and said the dumpster will be located on the west side, directly behind the building, and will be enclosed in masonry and screened with trees and shrubs. “That is very, very, very well screened, if you will, with landscaping, trees, and shrubs, which will soften the any effect, I think, of that dumpster,” Lundberg said.
Freeland provided traffic estimates and permitting updates, saying O'Reilly typically generates low traffic volumes: “You're talking about less than 200 daily trips on a weekend, about 20 during a peak hour.” He also said the team received a comment from the Department of Transportation on the east driveway connection the morning of the meeting and that the proposed site layout allows trucks to turn into the east driveway.
Lundberg said the applicant had requested some landscaping waivers but emphasized that the plan nevertheless shows “an extensive amount of landscaping around all sides, specifically the South Side and west side of the property, which will, I believe, help buffer some of that sound and trucks coming into the the property.” He acknowledged deliveries and truck activity but said O'Reilly has national experience with such sites and aims to be unobtrusive; he added that deliveries would generally occur during normal business hours and that operations are handled by the tenant, not the project design team.
A resident had raised concerns about the dumpster and traffic; the architects and engineer addressed those issues in the presentation. The transcript excerpts do not show a formal vote or final decision on the site plan in the provided segments.
