Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2011 04 14

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Planning Commission Bolder Tutor SRU April 14, 2011 BACKGROUND: The applicant, Michelle Thomas of Bolder Tutor, LLC, requests approval of a special review use (SRU) to operate a private school at 1371 Hecla Drive. The property where the school is proposed is controlled by the Alvenus Park Planned Unit Development (PUD). The Alvenus Park PUD was approved in July of 1994 and allows the following uses in the building located at 1371 Hecla Drive: Medical and dental clinics Any retail trade or service business Professional, business and administrative offices Financial offices, including banks and savings and loans Accessory structures and uses necessary and customarily incidental to the uses listed in this section Research, office and corporate uses, and facilities for the manufacturing, fabrication, processing, or assembly of scientific or technical products or other products, if such uses are compatible with surrounding areas. The Alvenus Park PUD does not explicitly permit schools in the development. Section 17.28.230 B.2 (Control of development after completion) of the Louisville Municipal Code (LMC) requires that “any uses not authorized by the approved final plan, but permitted in the planned unit development as a use by right under the provisions of this title or by special review in the zone in which the planned development is located, may be added to the final development plan under the procedures stated in chapter 17.40” (Special Review Use). The applicant is going through the Special Review Use process to permit a school as part of the Alvenus Park PUD. OVERVIEW OF PROPOSAL The proposed school would be located in an existing medical and office building at the intersection of Hecla Drive and Plaza Drive. The school would be one of ten tenants in the building which currently contains some medical and dentist offices along with a few financial management businesses. The proposed space for the school is located on the southern end of the building and has its own entrance area separate from the other office spaces in the building. The area to the north of the subject property is zoned Planned Community Residential/Commercial and is currently being developed with single and multifamily housing (North End Subdivision). The remainder of the area surrounding the proposed school is occupied on the west and south by the Balfour Retirement Community, and a legal office to the northeast across Hecla Drive. 2