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File #: 2025-0071    Version:
Type: Project Status: Passed
File created: 2/7/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: Final action: 5/20/2025
Title: Request for Site Plan Approval - File PSP2024-0008 - for Old Orion Ct. Residential Development, a 32-unit apartment complex and related amenities on approximately 2.4 acres of land, located on the south side of Orion Road, west of Old Orion Ct. and Rochester Rd., Parcel 15-03-476-018 and abutting road right-of-way, zoned R-1 One Family Residential and a portion of the land has the FB Flex Business Overlay; Mark Bismack, Applicant
Attachments: 1. Staff Report 051425.pdf, 2. Reviewed plans Pt. 1 for 052025 PC.pdf, 3. Reviewed plans Pt. 2 for 052025 PC.pdf, 4. Reviewed plans Pt. 3 for 052025 PC.pdf, 5. Krieger Klatt letter 040825.pdf, 6. Public comment.pdf, 7. Applicant's presentation for neighborhood meeting.pdf, 8. Email to HOAs 050525.pdf, 9. Public meeting notice 052025.pdf, 10. PC Minutes 021825.pdf, 11. Applicant's presentation to the Planning Commission 021825.pdf, 12. Staff Report 021225.pdf, 13. Reviewed plans Pt. 1. for 021825 PC.pdf, 14. Reviewed plans Pt. 2 for 021825 PC.pdf, 15. Reviewed plans Pt. 3 for 021825 PC.pdf, 16. Krieger Klatt letter 011725.pdf, 17. Development application.pdf, 18. Environmental Impact Statement.pdf, 19. G2 Consulting Group letter 041124.pdf, 20. WRC letter 051024.pdf, 21. Email to HOAs 020625.pdf, 22. Public Meeting Notice 021825.pdf
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Resolved, in the matter of City File No. PSP2024-0008 Old Orion Ct., the Planning Commission approves the Site Plan, based on plans received by the Planning Department on April 9, 2025, with the following findings and subject to the following conditions.

Findings

1. The site plan and supporting documents demonstrate that all applicable requirements of the Zoning Ordinance, as well as other City Ordinances, standards, and requirements, can be met subject to the conditions noted below.

2. The proposed project will be accessed from Orion Road, via Old Orion Ct. and Maple Hill Road, thereby promoting safety and convenience of vehicular traffic both within the site and on the adjoining street.

3. Adequate utilities are available to the site.

4. The preliminary plan represents a reasonable parking, building and lot layout and orientation.

5. The proposed improvements should have a satisfactory and harmonious relationship with the development onsite as well as existing development in the adjacent vicinity given the split zoning of the property that allows for development consistent with the FB Flex Business District.

6. The proposed development will not have an unreasonably detrimental or injurious effect upon the natural characteristics and features of the site or those of the surrounding area. The proposed encroachments into the identified wetland are limited in nature and the applicant has proposed the inclusion of a culvert to maintain hydrological flow between the two wetland areas.

7. The applicant has revised the plans in an acceptable manner to eliminate the need for a landscape buffer modification, maintain adequate parking onsite, conduct a meeting with neighboring residents, and provide increases to the overall size and number of plantings onsite.

Conditions

1. Address all applicable comments from other City departments and outside agency review letters, prior to final site condominium approval.

2. Provide a landscape bond in the amou...

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