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Case No. CD 05-08 May 2, 2005 Page 2 Overview ISD 728 is proposing to construct an elementary school at the southwest comer of Cleveland Street and Twin Lakes Road, in the River Park development. The site is 21 acres in size and was previously used as cropland. It is bounded by Twin Lakes Road on the north, Cleveland Street on the east, 1915t Avenue on the south and Hoover Street on the west. The city has a 2.6 acre lot adjacent to this site that will be utilized for a fire station/well house. The site includes two multi-use fields and a softball field. Analysis Site Layout The school is located on the north half of the site. There is a main entrance in the front of the building and a secondary entrance on the east side. The bus loading area is located in front of the school and a circular drop off area is located on the east side. Athletic fields are located in front of the school. A system of trails and sidewalks connects the school, athletic fields and the streets. Parking and Access The site plan includes 3 parking lots and a bus loading area that could also be utilized for event parking. There is a 28 space parking lot on the east side that will be designated for visitor parking. A circular drop-off area is adjacent to the east entrance of the building. There is a 66 space parking lot on the west side of the building that will be for staff and could be used by people utilizing softball field. A 37 space parking lot is located in the southeast comer of the site, adjacent to the multi-use fields and across from the fire station. There is sufficient parking on site to meet the parking requirements The main access into the site is from 191 5t Avenue; it will be shared with the fire station/well house. This driveway will service the bus drop off and load area, the visitor parking lot, the circular drop-off drive on the east side of the building and the parking lot adjacent to the multi-use fields. Most of the visitor traffic, all of the bus traffic and all of the drop off traffic will use this main entrance and should not impact the side streets. There are two driveways on the west side of the site, off of Hoover Street. One driveway provides access to the staff parking lot and the second provides access to the school's loading dock and the staff parking lot. A 20 foot fire lane is provided around the building. The site plan will be revised so that the fire lane will not connect with the drop off area on the east side, but will extend around the side of the building and connect with the bus loading area. The Fire Chief was concerned with the fire lane being blocked while parents are waiting to pick up students. Grading Drainage and Utilities Grading, drainage and utility issues are addressed in the City Engineer's memo. s: \pLANNING \ Case Files \2005 \ CD 05-08 Anderson-Johnson \ CD05-08CC5-2.doc