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Consider the request for a Detailed Site Plan amendment for a college including but not limited to construction of a new building and renovation of an existing building for an Early College Center, on a 191.94-acre site located at 3939 Valley View Lane; and take appropriate action.
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Farmers Branch has received a request from Briar Glenn, AIA Glenn Partners, on behalf of Dallas College Brookhaven Campus, for a Detailed Site Plan amendment as it relates to the construction of an early college center. The early college center will consist of a new 42,480-sf, two-story building, located east of the main academic complex on Windmill Circle. The existing workforce and continuing education building will be renovated and become part of the early college center as well. The early college center will include classrooms, laboratories, student common areas, administrative offices and a nurse’s clinic. High school students will take college credit courses in the building and in the evenings the building will primarily host night classes.
The subject site is zoned Planned Development District No. 20 (PD-20), which allows for the current college use and proposed improvements, subject to detailed site plan approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the proposed Detailed Site Plan.
ACTIONS:
1. Recommend approval of the Detailed Site Plan.
2. Recommend approval of the Detailed Site Plan with the following modifications…
3. Recommend denial of the Detailed Site Plan.
4. Motion to continue discussion at the next meeting.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Aerial Map
2. Location Map
3. Staff Report
4. Detailed Site Plan
5. Landscape Plan (Black & White)
6. Landscape Plan (Color)
7. Building Elevations (Black & White)
8. Building Elevations (Color)
9. Site Photographs