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DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
1101 Texas Avenue South, PO Box 9960
COLLEGE STATION College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
October 21, 2003
TO: Joel Ross, Via fax 776.6288
FROM: Bridgette George, Assistant Development Manager
SUBJECT: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP) - Site Plan
Staff reviewed the above - mentioned site plan as requested. The following page is a list
of staff review comments detailing items that need to be addressed. Please address
the comments and submit the following information for further staff review:
One (1) complete set of construction documents for the proposed
development with the revised site and landscaping plans attached
If you have any questions or need additional information, please call me at
979.764.3570.
Attachments: Staff review comments
cc: Michael McClure, McClure Engineering Inc., Via fax 693.2554 ✓
Glenn Brown, Assistant City Manager
Case file #03- 00500247
Home of Texas A &M University
STAFF REVIEW COMMENTS NO. 1
Project: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP) — 03 -247
PLANNING
1. Please call out the ownership and zoning of Crescent Pointe Lots 2, 3, and 4 Block
1.
2. As the "off- site" parking lot will be owned by the Adams Corp., please remove the
note regarding the parking agreement. The remainder of Lot 4 Block 1 may be
shown as a future phase.
3. The applicant may wish to consider 1) sidewalk connections across the medians
from the end of one - access parking rows to the sidewalk system on the First
American Boulevard circle, 2) sidewalks and a pedestrian crossing from the parking
lot to facilitate access to the one -story building, and 3) greater connectivity in the
parking lot so patrons will not be confronted with parking lot drive aisles with only
one access point.
4. Please add a fire lane sign for the driveway /parking area inside the circle.
LANDSCAPING /STREETSCAPING /BUFFER
Because landscaping needs to be clarified and landscaping /streetscaping calculations
have not been provided, the landscaping plan is a stop review. The following
comments do not constitute a full review. A full review will be made of the next
submittal.
5. The proposed landscaping is over and beyond the requirements for the
development of this project. The landscaping /streetscaping requirements only apply
to the areas proposed for development. Please clarify what
landscaping /streetscaping is being done as part of the First American site
development.
6. Please show the required point and tree calculations and the provided point and tree
totals for landscaping and streetscaping.
7. Please include point values in the plant list.
8. Please be aware that every project must expend a minimum of 50% of its point total
on canopy trees.
9. Please note on the site plan that all disturbed earth must be 100% covered with
established grass or groundcover prior to C.O.
10. Please provide an irrigation plan or a note on the landscaping plan that an irrigation
system to service all new plantings will be installed by a certified installer before a
certificate of occupancy will be issued.
11. Please take note: signage is permitted separately. The "potential project signs" are
not being considered as part of this review.
Reviewed by: Molly Hitchcock Date: October 20, 2003
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, will constitute a completely new review.
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ENGINEERING
1. A review of the engineering aspects of the project cannot be performed due to the
lack of sufficient information. The most recent set of review comments dated July
21, 2003 has been included for reference.
Reviewed by: Brett McCully, P.E. Date: 10/20/03
ELECTRICAL
1. Developer installs conduit per city specs and design.
2. Developer provides 30' of rigid conduit for riser poles. Developer installs
first 10'. City installs remainder.
3. Developer pours transformer pad(s) per city specs and design.
4. Developer installs pull boxes as per city specs and design.(pull boxes
provided by the city.
5. Developer provides digital AutoCAD 2000i version of plat and /or site plan.
email to rbolin(a�cstx.gov
6. Developer provides load data for project.
7. Developer provides temporary blanket easement for construction
purposes.
8. Developer provides easements for electric infrastructure as installed for
electric lines (including street lights).
Reviewed by: Ronnie Bolin Date: 10 -20 -03
MISCELLANEOUS
1. Irrigation system must be protected by either a Pressure Vacuum Breaker, a
Reduced Pressure Principle Back Flow Device, or a Double -Check Back Flow
Device, and installed as per City Ordinance 2394.
2. All BackFlow devices must be installed and tested upon installation as per City
Ordinance 2394.
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, will constitute a completely new review.
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CITY OF COLLEGE STATION
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
1101 Texas Avenue South, PO Box 9960
COLLEGE STATION College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
November 17, 2003
TO: Joel Ross, Via fax 776.6288
FROM: Bridgette George, Assistant Development Manager
SUBJECT: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP) - Site Plan
Staff reviewed the above - mentioned site plan as requested. The following page
is a list of staff review comments detailing items that need to be addressed. The
next submittal will be the third and final review by staff for this round of reviews.
If all items have not been addressed on the next submittal, another $200
processing fee will need to be submitted for the subsequent set of three (3)
reviews. Please address the comments and submit the following information for
further staff review:
One (1) complete set of construction documents for the proposed
development with the revised site and landscaping plans attached
If there are comments that you are not addressing with the revised site plan,
please attach a letter explaining the details. If you have any questions or need
additional information, please call Molly Hitchcock or Spencer Thompson at
764.3570.
Attachments: Staff review comments
cc: Michael McClure, McClure Engineering Inc., Via fax 693.2554
Glenn Brown, Assistant City Manager
Case file #03- 00500247
Home of Texas A &M University
STAFF REVIEW COMMENTS NO. 2
Project: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP) - 03- 00500247
LANDSCAPING /STREETSCAPING /BUFFER
Because streetscaping calculations have not been provided, the landscaping plan is a
stop review. A full review will be made of the next submittal.
1. Please show the required number of street trees and additional point requirements
for all rights -of -way, including First American Blvd.
2. Please clarify if it is desired for Development Services to review the landscaping for
the entire 55 acres, or only the lots currently proposed for development.
3. Please note on the site plan that all disturbed earth must be 100% covered with
established grass or groundcover prior to C.O.
Reviewed by: Molly Hitchcock Date: November 3, 2003
ENGINEERING
1. A TxDOT Permit was not submitted with this project. The driveway to FM 60 can
not be approved without one.
2. It has been conveyed to Staff that the storm sewer shown in the PUE along First
American Way will be accepted as public infrastructure within the PUE. As public
infrastructure the storm sewer must comply with City requirements as all
infrastructure does. The following comments are to ensure compliance and
acceptability as City infrastructure. If the designer wishes to make the storm sewer
private, it should be relocated out of the PUE and thus not required to meet City
requirements. Numerous comments already sent back appear to have not been
addressed.
3. The storm sewer crossing Copperfield Pkwy is at a 2.5% slope. This project
connects to that line at a different slope. A junction box is required.
4. Storm sewer along First American Blvd shows insufficient cover. Pavement section,
embedment detail, pipe type and storm sewer profiles appear to be incompatible in
not allowing enough space between the pavement section and stabilized sand and
pipe type specified. See previously returned Staff Comments #1 and #2 concerning
this issue.
5. The water report submitted for this project ensuring fire flow capacity is not
accepted. Therefore, water main sizes to the building can not be assured at this
time.
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, wit constitute a completely new review.
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6. The Drainage Report does not provide sufficient information to review for
compliance. Use either the SCS Method or the Rational Method but not both to
compare pre and post flows. Show calculations, flow lines for time of concentration,
etc. The report does not correspond to the submitted plans for the ponds. Drainage
areas do not agree with the report and the exhibits. Please explain why there is a
storm drain line that bypasses Pond #1. Please arrange the report in a fashion that
is more explanative. Compliance with the DPDS is not clearly evident. Please see
page 94 of the DPDS for Report compliance. Provide sample calculations.
Spreadsheets are not sample calculations. Show weir and orifice calculations. The
follow -up report may be reviewed by an outside source due to shortage of City staff.
The more readable and clarifying the report is the quicker the report can be
approved.
Reviewed by: Spencer Thompson Date: November 13, 2003
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, will constitute a completely new review.
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CITY OF COLLEGE STATION
‘j DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
1 101 Texas Avenue South, PO Box 9960
COLLEGE STATION College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
TO: Kirby Chadwell, HKS, Inc., Via fax (214) 969 -3397
FROM: Natalie Thomas Ruiz, Development Manager
SUBJECT: First American Plaza
Staff performed a cursory review of the above - mentioned site plan and associated civil
plans. Due to the number of staff comments that could significantly impact the site plan
and the information missing from the plans, staff could not perform a complete review.
The following page is a list of staff review comments detailing items that need to be
addressed. Please address the comments and submit the following information by any
Monday at 10:00 a.m. for further staff review:
$200 site plan application and review fee.
$200 development permit fee.
$600 public infrastructure inspection fee.
Completed site plan application with site plan checklist designating that all
items are included in the revised site plan.
Three (3) copies of the revised civil plans with revised site plans attached.
If there are comments that you are not addressing with the revised site plan, please
attach a letter explaining the details. If you have any questions or need additional
information, please call me at 764 -3570.
Attachments: Staff review comments (Electrical layout to be mailed separately)
Site Plan Application & Checklist
cc: Glenn Brown, Assistant City Manager
Case file - CS Hotel /Conference Center
Home of Texas A&M University
STAFF REVIEW COMMENTS NO. 2
Project: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP)
PLANNING
The following comments represent a cursory review of Sheet No. C -1, Overall /Site Plan
and sheets P -1 through P -33 received June 11, 2003. A complete site plan review will
be performed once all required information is provided.
1. Please include the phone numbers with the consultants' /contacts' information.
2. Please show the zoning for Diane Peter's property to the east and the ownership of
property to the south.
3. Please draw a phase line 20 feet beyond the planned improvements in Lot 4 and
identify the undeveloped portion as a future phase. Also show a phase line for the
future day care site.
4. For clarification, is the footprint next to the high rise for a one -story building? Should
there be sidewalks and a pedestrian crossing from the parking lot to facilitate access
to this building?
5. The applicant may wish to consider sidewalk connections across the medians from
the end of one - access parking rows to the sidewalk system on the First American
Boulevard circle.
6. The applicant may wish to consider greater connectivity in the parking lot so patrons
will not be confronted with parking lot drive aisles with only one access point.
7. From the public right -of -way, there should be a 24 -ft landscape reserve where no
more than 1134 sq.ft. of asphalt at a time may be arranged as parking.
8. The minimum required square footage for interior islands has not been met.
LANDSCAPING
9. Please show the required point and tree calculations for landscaping and
streetscaping.
10. Please provide a legend of plantings identifying their species, type (canopy, non -
canopy, or shrub), size, and point value.
11. Please show an overall plant layout plan.
Reviewed by: Molly Hitchcock Date: June 16, 2003
ENGINEERING
1. Site drainage and detention improvements can not be fully reviewed at this time as
necessary report(s) have not been submitted. This is a repeat comment.
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, will constitute a completely new review.
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2. Storm drain, water distribution and sanitary sewer collection infrastructure can not
be fully reviewed until clarification is made where the public lines are intended to
end and private line ownership begin. This is a repeat comment.
3. Tree wells shown in parking area interfere with required 9x18 unobstructed parking
space. Please provide a larger detail that is to scale. This is a repeat comment.
4. Easements for proposed public utilities beyond those dedicated by plat are not
shown. This is a repeat comment.
5. Variances will be required for adjacent spacing and throat depth for the motor bank
driveway. These variances will need to be requested by the applicant, and
approved prior to site plan approval. This is a repeat comment.
6. Offsite modifications will be required to the median in Copperfield Parkway to
provide a left turn pocket for southbound entrance into the bank/day care driveway
entrance. These modifications are a condition of the approval of the motor bandk /
day care facility driveway to Copperfield. This is a repeat comment.
7. Please revise the utility crossing detail to reflect the correct spacing between lines
treated in such manners to meet TCEQ requirements.
8. The drainage conduit embedment detail cannot be constructed in some locations
due to insufficient cover. There are locations where the pipe itself projects into the
pavement section. It also appears that the combination of the embedment and the
pipe strength class will not be adequate to handle the direct traffic loading in these
locations. We are also concerned that the lack of load distribution will cause point
loading of the paving section, which in turn will cause reflection cracking of the pipe
and /or trench limits. Please revise the detail to address the shallow installations
designed, and make necessary revisions to the paving sections that lie directly over
the pipe. This is a repeat comment.
9. Please provide notes and /or details where water valves are located in TAS ramps.
Valve boxes are to be installed vertically to allow for proper valve operation,
however the horizontal lid becomes an obstruction within a sloped ramp. This is a
repeat comment.
10. Several severe low points are shown without blow off assemblies. Use of nearest
hydrants, combined with the orientation of those hydrants will cause operational
interruptions of the plaza buildings. To avoid these business interruptions, it will be
necessary to include blow off assemblies, shift nearby fire hydrant connection points
to the low segments or adjust the water line profile. This is a repeat comment.
11.As a general reminder, approval, construction and occupancy of this development
will be contingent on approval, construction and completion of several access,
drainage and utility improvements included on hotel /conference center project.
This project may not receive site approval on it's own due to it's reliance on offsite
access and utility requirements.
Reviewed by: Brett McCully, P.E. Date: July 21, 2003
TRANSPORTATION
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, will constitute a completely new review.
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Reviewed by: Dale Picha, P.E. Date:
ELECTRICAL
1.
Reviewed by: Tony Michalsky Date:
FIRE
1. Please identify the fire lane sign locations or identify painted fire lane locations as
discussed with Jon Mies (meeting between Mies and McClure at McClure's office
May 13, 2003). If Fire experiences enforcement problems because of fire lanes
painted on the drive surface, they reserve the right to require the fire lanes to be
painted on curbs, as per Chapter 6 of the City's Code of Ordinances.
2. Please clearly identify if there is a proposed fire hydrant by the fire department
connection for the main building.
Reviewed by: Jon Mies Date: May 19, 2003
MISCELLANEOUS
1. Irrigation system must be protected by either a Pressure Vacuum Breaker, a
Reduced Pressure Principle Back Flow Device, or a Double -Check Back Flow
Device. All BackFlow devices must be installed and tested upon installation.
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out
to the City, will constitute a completely new review.
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CITY OF COLLEGE STATION
_ SERVICES
1 101 Texas Avenue South, PO Box 9960
COLLEGE STATION College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
December 16, 2003
TO: Kevin Clark, Via fax 214.528.7600 ✓
FROM: Bridgette George, Assistant Development Manager
SUBJECT: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP) - Site Plan
Staff reviewed the above - mentioned site plan as requested. The following page is a list
of staff review comments detailing items that need to be addressed. Please address the
comments and submit the following information for further staff review:
One (1) landscaping plan.
If there are comments that you are not addressing with the revised site plan, please
attach a letter explaining the details. If you have any questions or need additional
information, please call Molly Hitchcock or myself at 764.3570.
Attachments: Staff review comments
cc: Michael McClure, McClure Engineering Inc., Via fax 693.2554 V
Joel Ross, Via fax 776.6288 '"
Glenn Brown, Assistant City Manager
Case file #03- 00500247
Home of Texas A &M University
STAFF REVIEW COMMENTS NO. 3
Project: FIRST AMERICAN PLAZA (SP) - 03 -247
LANDSCAPING /STREETSCAPING /BUFFER
Because streetscaping calculations have not been provided, the landscaping plan is a
stop review. A full review will be made on the next submittal.
1. Please show the required number of street trees and additional point requirements
for all rights -of -way, including First American Blvd.
2. Please remove plantings from the public rights -of -way.
Reviewed by: Molly Hitchcock Date: December 12, 2003
NOTE: Any changes made to the plans, that have not been requested by the City of College Station, must be explained in your
next transmittal letter and "bubbled" on your plans. Any additional changes on these plans that have not been pointed out to the
City, will constitute a completely new review.
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