Site Information:

Applicant: Greystone Construction

Site Address: 2941 Winner's Circle Drive

Property Owner: Canterbury DBSV Development LLC

Lot Area: 1.55 acres

Current Zoning: PUD

2040 Comp. Plan: Entertainment

Bryce Hotzler of Greystone Construction has submitted an application for a PUD Amendment to the Canterbury Southwest PUD to allow for the construction of a roughly 28,000 square-foot office building that the applicant has called the High Stakes Venture building. 

The initial Canterbury Southwest PUD was approved in June of 2020. The development of each lot requires a PUD Amendment, as the building and final site design / tenants were unknown at the time of the initial PUD approval. To date, the following developments have been developed in Canterbury Southwest:

• Greystone Construction corporate office
• Omry Apartments
• Badger Hill / Bravi's
• Next Steps Learning Center 
• Starting Gate Bldg: Mr. Pig's Smokery /OG ZaZa / Discover Strength (under construction)

After development of this site, the southeasternmost lot at the intersection of Vierling Drive and Eagle Creek Boulevard that was noted as a hotel will be the only vacant lot in the Canterbury Southwest PUD. 

The proposed use of the site as an office building and a small restaurant complies with the Entertainment land use classification of the 2040 comprehensive plan. The initial PUD plan noted this site for a retail / restaurant building.  

Building: 

The proposed exterior building materials are:

• Two colors of brick 
• Three colors / finishes of architectural metal panel 
• Pre-cast concrete sills

The character / materials of the proposed building are similar in character to the Greystone office and Bravi's / Badger Hill, and Omry and meet the materials / design requirements of City Code. Staff is recommending a minor revision to the east elevation such as adding a different color of brick and/or design features, such as a soldier course of brick to break up the large area of brick where the mechanical / trash room is located. 

The applicant has noted different locations and areas for wall signage and a freestanding sign on the site. Each site is permitted to have a monument sign by the original PUD, up to a maximum of six feet in height. 

Site / Parking: 

Vehicle access to the parking lot is via both Winner's Circle Drive and Suzanne's Way and aligns with the driveways to adjacent sites.  The applicant is proposing 73 parking spaces on the site. On-street parking is permitted along Shenandoah Drive. On-street parking is not allowed on Schenian Street, Suzanne's Way, or Winner's Circle Drive. 

The applicant is proposing pedestrian connections to the building from the trail along Shenandoah Drive and sidewalk along Suzanne's Way and proposes bicycle parking. 

At the time of the approval of the Starting Gate building to the west of this site (Mr. Pig's Smokery / OG ZaZa / Discover Strength), the only known tenant was Mr. Pig's Smokery that required 69 of the 94 parking spaces on the Starting Gate site. The PUD Amendment for the Starting Gate building required 30 parking spaces on this site be reserved for Starting Gate tenants. The number of parking spaces required for this site is 66 spaces and 73 spaces are provided, for a surplus of seven parking spaces.

The Starting Gate tenants, OG ZaZa and Discover Strength, have significantly less parking needs than Mr. Pig's Smokery.  Planning staff estimates that twelve parking spaces are required for Discover Strength for five staff and up to seven clients at a time, reducing the number of parking stalls on this site for the Starting Gate from 30 to 5. 

The applicant has a tenant for the entire upper level of the building that is a construction contractor with hours of operation of 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Approximately 25% of employees of the tenant leave the office in the early morning hours and are off-site the rest of the day, leaving their parking spaces available during the day. The applicant notes the potential for a 2,000 square-foot restaurant space in the northwest corner of the first level of this building, which would utilize parking spaces that are vacated during the day. Parking needs for a possible restaurant will be reviewed against other tenant's parking needs, amount of restaurant seating, and timing / operations of the tenants. 

Engineering staff has noted in their comment memo that traffic volumes will continue to be monitored for this development and the configuration of the intersection of Schenian Street and Eagle Creek Boulevard may be adjusted based on traffic volumes. 

The landscape plan proposes several trees in the drainage and utility easement along Shenadoah Drive, which will not be permitted. When required landscaping is not possible on a site, a contribution to the Tree Fund is required, which is used for planting of trees in boulevards and parks.