Fairhope, Alabama
PARKING SHORTAGE CRITICAL
The planning commission approved the site plan for a much-needed additional 60 parking spaces on .84 acres of residentially-zoned property (R-4) on the south side of Thomas Hospital.
Parking is a permitted use for residential property in the medical overlay district; the lots are located at the end of Northrup Street.
There will be no access from Northrup and a privacy fence and vegetative buffer will be constructed adjacent the residential property along the cul de sac.
NUMBER OF SPACES REDUCED
There was some confusion during the planning meeting about whether a ten foot wide vegetative buffer called for by the city's tree ordinance applied in the medical overlay district: the plan was approved without the 10' buffer, but it was added later by the applicant; and the number of spaces reduced from 60 to 54, according to Planning Director Smith.
HMR is the engineer for the project.
The city council will still have to approve the plan.
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| Area in gray is the new parking lot |
PARKING SHORTAGE CRITICAL
The planning commission approved the site plan for a much-needed additional 60 parking spaces on .84 acres of residentially-zoned property (R-4) on the south side of Thomas Hospital.
Parking is a permitted use for residential property in the medical overlay district; the lots are located at the end of Northrup Street.
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| parking expansion here |
There will be no access from Northrup and a privacy fence and vegetative buffer will be constructed adjacent the residential property along the cul de sac.
NUMBER OF SPACES REDUCED
There was some confusion during the planning meeting about whether a ten foot wide vegetative buffer called for by the city's tree ordinance applied in the medical overlay district: the plan was approved without the 10' buffer, but it was added later by the applicant; and the number of spaces reduced from 60 to 54, according to Planning Director Smith.
HMR is the engineer for the project.
The city council will still have to approve the plan.
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| Northrup St. side |
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