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5.2 REVIEW OF SPECIFIC CONDITIONAL USE CRITERIA.- Section 1009.02D of the City Code establishes additional standards and criteria that are specific to drive-through facilities; they are as follows. a. Drive-through lanes and service windows shall be located to the side or rear of buildings and shall not be located between the principal structure and a public street. The drive-through lane and service window is proposed along the west side of the building which is the rear or the property, opposite of the Rice Street frontage. b. Points of vehicular ingress and egress shall be located at least 60 feet from the street right-of-way lines of the nearest intersection. The site entrance nearest to an intersection is on Transit Avenue,, 75 feet west of the rice Street right-of-way. c. The applicant shall sub it a circulation plan that demonstrates that the use will not interfere with or reduce the safety ofpedestrian and bicyclist movements. Because the proposed drive-through facility is at the back of the building, near service doors and away from customer entrances to the tenant spaces, Planning Division believes that motorists,, cyclists, and pedestrians will be able to co-mingle without safety issues. d. Adequate queuing lane space shall be pro vided without interfering with on-site parking/circulation. Based on the proposed plan, there is space for perhaps 5 vehicles, queued from the pick-up window, before the vehicles would cross into a drive easement along the western edge of the property. Planning Division staff anticipates that customer traffic will be relatively light since the coffee shop is almost an internal,, staff service for ACID. Homes,, owner of the property and provider of health care services in different locations. If the queue length or customer volume proves to be problematic in the future, staff can work with the property owner to resolve circulation conflicts through such means as modified signage and pavement markings or additional paved area. e. Speaker box sounds from the drive-through lane shall not be loud enough to constitute a nuisance on an abutting residentially zoned' properly orproperly in residential use. The proposed drive-through menu board would stand approximately 200 feet from the nearest residence,, but volume specifications for the speaker equipment will be monitored as any other potential noise nuisance to ensure that this requirement is met. L Drive-through canopies and other structures, where present; shall be constructed from the same materials as the primary building and with a similar level of architectural quality and detailing. The final design of the drive-through menu board and pick-up window has not been submitted, but building permits will not be issued unless the selected design and materials meet this requirement. g. A 10-foot buffer area with screen planting and an opaque wall orfence between 6 and 8feet in height shall be required between the drive-through lane and any property line adjoining a residentially zoned properly orproperly in residential use. This requirement is not applicable to this CONDITIONAL USE request, because business uses on Neighborhood- or Community Business-zoned properties lie directly west and south of the proposed drive-through facility, and the nearby residential property is presently screened with closely-spaced evergreen trees that appear to be at least 12 feet tall. Since the proposed drive-through facility may end up rather exposed to the residences across the wetland,, however,, additional evergreen trees of the same or PFI 1 -02 I—RCA-092611 (3).doc Page 3 of 5