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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMiscellaneousRURAL COLLECTOR , ao' i i 23' 34' 23' ~ 2' 15' 15' 2' ~~ I I R ~ ~, ~ T ~..o aat Fx OPEN DITCH t1PEN DITCH 4:1 SLOPE 4:1 SLOPE Maxinun Maxlrturt MINOR COLLECTOR t 60' t i 11' 38' i 11' ~ ~ ~ e' 11' il' 8' 13 ~j l ~ ~ ~ ( d ~ ~ TQ ~ ~ 1 OR 3 0 .b 3 d tY 3 d a MAJOR .COLLECTOR ~o' g' S4' 8' 16' 11' 11' 16' 3 THRU THRU ° I ~ ~' THR Q . ~ DR ~o' 11° 48' 11` s T 11' 12' 11' T d BIKE THRU C2WLT Q' BIKE ~ I ~ THRU FIGURE 2 STANDARD STREET CROSS-SECTIONS Cities of Bryan & College Station, Texas P,,.,o 7-7 ''' ~ ~, ~^r .... f.~ y} ,g f~ c. ~rt+ t•- '~ ~ ~~ ~ t M. ~~~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ l ~ ~ f ~ P ~ f~ ~.~~ t (j ~. ~esta~rcz~rt~ G'c~te>''i~ NatalieThomas Ruiz City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 1101 Texas Avenue College Station, Texas, 77842 April 22, 1998 Ms. Ruiz, TM The purpose of this letter is to introduce you to Freebirds World Burrito Restaurant's intent to modify the exterior of our location at 319 University Drive in College Station. Because the store is located in the historical Northgate area, we could be eligible to receive 71-83% of the funding required to complete the work through the Facade Improvement Program. We not only wanted you to be aware of our intent to alter the store's exterior and seek financial assistance but we also wanted to establish an open dialogue for the exchange of ideas concerning the project. As the plan continues to develop, we would like to schedule a meeting where any ideas. can be discussed. Until that time, we feel it would be easiest to communicate through letters, e=mail, faxes and telephone conversations. Attached are some descriptions and illustrations of the direction we are headed at this time. Please feel free to comment on any or all of these ideas. Sinc rely, _--~ Dev n Hanna Design Manager cc: Dr. Julius Gribou (Northgate Revitalization. Board), Pierre Dube (proprietor of Freebirds) - Randy Brunley (Facade Improvement Program) Bill Boyett (Northgate Revitalization Board, building owner representative) Address: 1.10 Lincoln, Suite 107 College Station, Texas; 77840 Phone: (409)693-1205-work, (409)774-8956 -home Fax: (409)695-9468 Email: dev@freebirdswb.com 110 Lincoln, Suite 102 College Station, TX 77840 409.695.8427 Currently, the Patricia Street entrance of Freebirds World Burrito at Northgate is considered the ``back door". With the. improvements- to the Northgate District,, this door will essehtially become a front door. The following is a list- of changes we would like to make: • Storage: We need ah additional 32 square feet of storage space for the store to function .properly. In the past, additions were made to the exterior (extrusions) to facilitate growing business. These additions were .made without regard to aesthetics. Visibly, there are three obvious additions: service storage area, cooler and dry .goods storage. We propose to build the additional storage while unifying the entire extrusion by having a continuous shed roof and a continuous exterior wall covering. • Canopy: Installing a canopy would ease the transition between the. exterior and interior. The changes to our parking lot and the addition of a canopy would provide a convenient area for "drop-offs" during -bad weather. • Hide the mechanicalelements: The proposed shed roof would hide the air conditioning units over the cooler while making .them more efficient due to-the shade created. Large vents would need to be built into the .west facade of the addition to facilitate the needs of these units. We would prefer to hide the electrical and telephone wires as well. • Door: We propose to replace the current metal door with a .glass door. This would further ease the interior/exterior transition, allow natural light inside and restrain customers from hitting others on the other side. A glass door would also emphasize the shift from "back door" to "front door". • Mural: We think it would be fun to have a mural covering the vertical walls of the entire extrusion. The mural will continue on the corresponding wall inside the store to further ease the interior/exterior transition and create the illusion of the entire project piercing: through .the brick facade (see reference in red on Plan, next page). We have found an exceptional muralist in Chad Mallam, an architecture student at A&M. His work is colorful, sophisticated and busy. He has proven his talent in painting the restroom walls at our store on Texas.. Avenue. Currently, he is producing asmall-scale version of our intentions for ii fiS i i ~ufal. vvE vviii ~Ci iG you a ~oiJy ot~ SoOi ~ as ~i i~cCGmcs avciiiaiJit:. • Signage: We -feel ,our current signage is inadequate in portraying. the progressive but historical image outlined in Northgate Design Guidelines.. .Although signage doesn't seem to fall into the parameters of the Facade Improvement Program, we believe changing the design to satisfy the Northgate Design Guidelines while incorporating our own image- would be a definite improvement. We have no concrete ideas for the new signage as of yet. t . ~~:~ ~.~,;:~..w_ _ .. ,~ .~'~~ ,. .,, CURRENT REAR FACADE (~ CHa,IR COW HOP COW HOP KITCHEN COW HOP STORAGE STRG PATIO i - _- ---- -=- ~ --------------------------------r----------------i - --- - -1 --- ~ - --- -- ~-- ~ ~ ~ NtOP SINK i ; ~ '~ ;i `i I ~ PROPOSED ~ FREEBiRDS KITCHEN COOLER FREEZER '~. ~ EXPANDED STORAGE ~ ~, I ~ PROPOSED ' COWORKER ~ ! ' EXISTING i `~ STORAGE ~ I !i STORAGE'I ~ i ~, ~ HALLWAY ~ HAN MP ~ i l i ~ . ~ j ;. <, _.:.:: ~ ~~ I ~ I ----------------------------------------------~ r RESTROOM l OFFIGE I PLAN ~~ Mural surface --- - - COLLEGE STATION P. O. Box 9960 1101 Texas Avenue • College Station, TX 77842 Tel: 409 764 3500 Monday, May 18, 1998 Mr. Devon Hanna, Design Manager Freebirds World Burrito 110 Lincoln, Suite 102 College Station, TX 77840 RE: Letter dated Apri122, 1998 Dear Mr. Hanna: Thank you for keeping us informed of your on-going plans to add onto the Freebirds building in Northgaie. We hope to continue to support and encourage improvements to the area, and are therefore glad to see that your intent is obviously to provide additional amenities to the rear of the site. The following concepts are in line with the Northgate plans and. guidelines: 1. Consolidation of the storage areas into one. 2. Screening of mechanical elements. 3. Creation of a back entrance with a more attractive door. 4. Addition of a mural or other form of artwork. The written .description of the work you intend to do seems to be generally in conformance with the Northgate Guidelines. However, I am concerned that the graphic depiction may not gain NRB approval. If you will recall, the NltB had expressed the goal. of having the addition "look like it's been there" and "be an improvement to the existing conditions". To that end, I think that the addition should match or coordinate with the architectural style, materials, and colors of the existing building. The white building with a sloping roof does not seem to be similar to the brick building with a flat roof. Pflease let us know when you are ready to return to the NRB for review of your plans. In order for the Staff to set up a meeting, we will need to be in receipt of a site plan as well as mural details. Your proposed sign will need Nita approval as well, but. can be reviewed at a separate meeting if need be. ~/e hope to hear from you soon. Thank you. °ncerely, ~~ J e Kee ity Planner attachment o:~up~ae~c ser~janelfreebrds.doc Home of Texas A~fVI University FILE NOTE Freebird's Storage Building Addition Case #98-403 NRB Subcommittee: Julius Gribou, Charles Anderson, Cheryl Anz, Veronica Morgan & Jane Kee. City Staff Natalie Ruiz. On Wednesday, February 25, 1998 the NRB Subcommittee met to discuss the storage building addition at 319 University Drive. The Subcommittee did not have enough information to make a decision and gave the following suggestions to the applicant: A complete site plan should be submitted that shows the final parking lot configuration associated with the Patricia Street project. The Subcommittee needs to see where the existing storage building and the proposed expansion is located with respect to the adjacent parking. The expansion cannot interfere with the parking currently under construction. _ The proposed addition should be an improvement to the existing conditions. It should not look like it's been added; instead, the addition should look like it's been. there. _ The door to the storage building should not open out onto the promenade section. The applicant agreed to address the above mentioned.. suggestions and work with staff on a complete submittal,. Once everything is submitted to staff for review, another NRB Subcommittee meeting will be scheduled. /~ . Natalie Thomas Ruiz Assistant Development .Coordinator February 27, 1998 Monday, May 18, 1998 Mr. Devon Hanna, Design Manager Freebirds World Burrito 110 Lincoln, Suite 102 College Station, TX 77840 RE: Letter dated Apri122, 1998 Dear Mr. Hanna: Thank you. for keeping us informed of your on-going plans to add onto the Freebirds building in Northgate. We .hope to continue to .support and encourage improvements to the area, and are therefore .glad to see that your intent is obviously to provide additional amenities to the rear of the site. The following concepts are in line with the Northgate plans and guidelines: 1. Consolidation of the storage areas into one. 2. Screening of mechanical elements. 3. Creation of a back entrance with a more attractive door. 4. Addition of a mural or other form of artwork. The written description of the work you intend to do seems to be generally in conformance with the Northgate Guidelines. However, I am concerned that the graphic depiction may not gain NRB approval. If you will recall, the NRB had expressed the goal of having the addition "look like it's been there" and "bean improvement to the existing conditions". To that end; I think that the addition should match or coordinate with the architectural style, materials, and colors of the existing building. The white building with a sloping roof does not seem to be similar to the brick building with a flat roof. Please let us know when you are ready to return to the NRB for review of your plans. In order for the Staff to set up a meeting, we .will need to be in receipt of a site plan as well as mural details. Your proposed sign will need NRB approval as well, but can be reviewed at a separate meeting if need be. We hope to hear from you soon. Thank you. Sincerely, Jane Kee City Planner attachment o:\groupWeve_ser\jane\freebrds.doc PLANS FOR STORAGE FACILITY TM 77840 319 UNIVERSITY DRIVE COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS r W ~ _~ T '~ ,r, W _.__~ ''Q VJ ~\ W Q U W cr O U z O Z Q z 0 ~,~, m z ~o Q I m cv W O N N tll Cn t L_! W f"''\ Z LJ O W Q U W 0 ~ O C3 P ~ ~-- U O GL] ~ O .~, c~ (U N ([~ (D (~ U ~..J Z (a ~~U Q Z Q Z W' L .7-~ U ~_ 0 0 3~i i Z3 0 _~ 1. tll N U U Q) .~.~ 4- O r c '~ 0 -~ tag 0 00 J W J Q W Q W'' L~1.. ~ o Tff u N 1^' w ''Q VI 4C w U Q W 0 ~- z 0 Q ~ z. Q, z '~ w o: m _z I~~o~l age ;Sabine McCull - Re: freebirds correspondence:: __ __ From: Jane Kee To: Smccully@CITY OF COLLEGE STATION.CITY HALL Date: 5/14/98 2:12PM Subject: Re: freebirds correspondence Bring the. NRB stuff and we'll get something done. If we don't get to it before Council today then we'll do it Monday. »> Sabine McCully 05/14/9812:09PM »> natalie received a letter from devon hanna with freebirds - nat was at a bit of a loss as how to respond, and we thought maybe a response letter would be in order. apparently, he wants to keep us involved as to their latest design ideas. when i Took at what. they are trying to do, and look at the nrb report, i have my doubts that they are really meeting nrb expectations. but i was not at that meeting, an this is really the first i've heard of any of this. i started to write a letter but only got as far as addressing it. then i thought that maybe the letter ought to come from one of the cooks that. was in that soup. i don't mind- drafting one if you like, but i need to touch base with you first.