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May 3, 2022 Centerville Planning & Zoning Commission Page 13 of 14 RE: Banjo Distribution Center, PUD, Preliminary & Final Plat Findings of Fact for Approval of PUD 1) The proposed Banjo facility is a large, complex project which as submitted does not meet the City's zoning requirements for height of building, location of outside storage, and location of loading facilities. It is therefore appropriate and reasonable to process the request as a planned unit development (PUD) which allows numerous site and building issues to be negotiated under one approval and development agreement. 2) The applicants have supplied information on traffic conditions at the proposed facility and have prepared a traffic study which identifies certain issues associated with the development. It is reasonable and appropriate to address these issues within the PUD process and to require the applicant to adhere to certain conditions and to pay for improvements identified in the traffic study that are necessary to mitigate these issues. 3) The project will have several hundred employees on site who will reasonably have a desire to walk or bike in the vicinity. Providing for a future trail adjacent to the project on the north side of Fairview Street is a reasonable and appropriate condition of approval, and to have the project contribute to the cost of this improvement. 4) The future trail identified above should reasonably connect to other trails in Centerville on the west side of 20t" Avenue, to expand the network of trails in the vicinity. Being a busy county road, a safe crossing of 20t" Avenue for pedestrians and bicyclists for this trail connection is needed. Therefore, it is reasonable and appropriate to have the City and County cooperate on a study of the 20t" Avenue intersections with Fairview Street and Center Street to arrive at a safe crossing facility, which would connect to the future trail on Fairview Street in front of the proposed project. 5) The City has standards in the Zoning Code for landscaping and the provision of trees and shrubs on site. the proposed landscape plan does not meet this number requirement and it is therefore reasonable to have the applicant pay the difference so that the City can use these funds to provide similar improvements elsewhere. 6) The proposed truck loading docks on the west side of the proposed building are within about 500 feet of single family homes on the west side of 20t" Avenue, on Center Street, Eagle Trail, and Cottonwood Court. The project will have truck deliveries in the nighttime hours between 10 pm and 7 am. The nearby homes may be adversely affected by the noise of these trucks and loading activity and therefore some kind of noise mitigation is appropriate. The Planner's report of May 3, 2022 identifies a 10-ft wall that would reasonably interrupt some of this direct noise to the homes. 7) The proposed van loading area on the south side of the building is under an open canopy. The noise and activity of loading could also reasonably impact the quietude of the single family homes nearby, and some kind of noise mitigation is reasonable and appropriate as recommended in the conditions of approval.