Planning 2012-09-27 COMPLETE AGENDA PACKET

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FINDINGS VICINITY INFORMATION The proposed site is in the McMicicen Neighborhood along Tuk ila's border with the City of SeaTac. The project fronts South 16-4"' Street and lies just east of Militai Road South and -42 Avenue South. This site and the site directly to the north are the only parcels in the area zoned Residential Commercial Center (RCC). They are surrounded bv Neighborhood Commercial Center (NCC) zoning with commercial businesses to the north and west and single family (LDR) zoning to the east. While the RCC and NCC zoning allows buildings up to 3 stories or 35 feet, the commercial construction adjacent to the site is all single story. The existing housing stock in the area consists of one and one- and -a- half stoi homes built 50 to 100 rears ago. PROJECT INFORMATION The proposal is to develop a nearly 14,000 square foot, three- stoi mixed use building on an existing .62 acre vacant lot in the McMicicen neighborhood. The building will contain eight 2- bedroom market rate apartment units on the two upper floors with a ninth accessible unit and three commercial spaces on the ground floor. Access to the site is off of South 16-4"' Street. Access is shared via an easement on this property to a daycare center abutting the northern property line. Parking for the daycare is included on this site and subject to a previously recorded easement on the project property. The site is currently a vacant lot with some paving Used by the daycare for parking and some limited vegetation, principally a grass" field surrounding one significant hemlock tree. Site improvements will result in 38 parking stalls plus a loading zone, 1,800 square feet of improved outdoor recreation space, perimeter landscaping along three sides along with landscaping of the parking lot, and curb, gutter, sidewalk and planting strip along South 16.1"' Street. sM Page 2 of 10 09 20 2012 A DCD n Cleit's PC Lasubehe Packet 09 -27 -12 L12 -019 Design Review staff Report FINAL.doex 51 Residential and commercial Uses are located to the south and Rest in the City" of SeaTac, a Safeway grocer" store and strip mall anchor the corner of 164 and Militan Road South. Crestview Park is located to the north of the project with two entrances, to the north and to the west, both 1 /10"' of a mile away. There are no sidewalks to the park or the grocery store on the Tukwila side of the streets, there are We payed shoulders to all of these destinations from the project site.