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REQUEST: Appeal to Section K(2)(d) and K(2)(h) of the Driveway Access Location and Design
Policy to construct commercial driveways at less than the minimum spacings required on Deacon
Drive, a minor arterial street.
APPLICANT: Roy Hammons, P.E. for a major gas station chain.
LOCATION: Lot 1, Block 17 of Southwood Valley 4B located on the southwest corner of
Deacon Drive and the SH 6 Service Road.
ZONING AND LAND USE
Subject Tract: C-1, Vacant
North: C-1, Includes Rheas Car Wash and Laundry Mat, Apartments Plus, and a vacant
parcel with plans to be developed as a new Wing's & More Restaurant.
South:. C-l, Southwood Valley Turf
East: C-3, Diamond Shamrock Gas and Convenience Store (across Texas Ave.)
West: R-5, Developed as fourplexes
STAFF COMMENTS: The property in question has 100 feet of frontage on the service road
and 350 feet of frontage on Deacon. The applicant requests two curb cuts on Deacon spaced 118
feet apart. One driveway is located 145 feet .west of the service road and a second is located
about 100 feet east of an existing driveway fora 20 feet alley that serves numerous fou.rplexes.
By ordinance, only one curb cut for this tract would be allowed on Deacon due to the 230 feet
adjacent and 225 feet opposite spacing requirements for driveways on minor arterials. The
applicant feels that two curb. cuts are needed to provide internal circulation to the site in order to
render the tract commercially usable.
Staffs primary concern is for the adjacent drive spacing and most importantly the .close proximity
of the most easterly driveway to the service road and the traffic signal on Texas Avenue.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends denial of the request for the driveway
nearest Texas Avenue due to its probable conflicts with the operation of the Texas/Deacon signal.
There is already a problem. with the operation of this signal due to conflicts of north-south traffic
on the service road interfering with traffic on Deacon waiting for the signal at Texas. During peak
times, the queue on Deacon for the light stacks well past the service road. Adding a high volume
driveway for aconvenience-oriented use too close to the Texas/Deacon signal. will only
compound the existing problem.
Staff recommends approval of the request for a driveway approximately 100 feet east of the
existing alley to be aligned directly opposite an approved future driveway for the .new Wing's &
More Restaurant. Staff would also recommend approval of a secondary access to the site via the
public alley, if the section of the alley abutting the subject site were improved.