HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Joint Use Parking Agreement for 4540 Mortensen Road RESOLUTION NO. 08-248
RESOLUTION APPROVING JOINT USE PARKING AGREEMENT
FOR 4540 MORTENSEN ROAD
FOR THE CITY OF AMES
WHEREAS,Kinneer Land Development owns the property at 4540 Mortensen Road and is planning
to develop the Perfect Games Family Entertainment Center; and,
WHEREAS,this property is south of Mortensen Road between South Dakota Avenue and Dickinson
Avenue; and,
WHEREAS,the north,one-acre portion of the site will be developed by others as a restaurant or other
appropriate commercial use, and next door to this site on the west is the Ames Pet Hospital; and,
WHEREAS,the Council has established this area as the Southwest Gateway Overlay Zoning District
in order to enhance and define it as a community entry; and,
WHEREAS,to reduce parking and increase landscaping,collective parking is allowed,which reduces
minimum required parking by 15%while requiring 25%more landscape area; and,
WHEREAS,this provision requires two or more projects to be planned together; and,
WHEREAS,Kinneer Land Development believes that the 244 parking spaces normally required for
its family entertainment center are unnecessary and is using the collective parking provision to reduce the
required total to 207 parking spaces, and the site plans for the family entertainment center and the future
restaurant include 190 parking spaces on the family entertainment center site; and,
WHEREAS,the Perfect Games Family Entertainment Center is requesting that the Council approve
a Joint Use Parking Agreement allowing the use of 21 existing parking spaces at the Ames Pet Hospital to bring
the total spaces provided for this use to 211 parking spaces(which is four more than the required minimum);
and,
WHEREAS, when acting upon an application for approval of a Joint Use Parking Agreement, the
Council may approved the plan if it finds that the criteria described in Section 29.406(17)(b) of the Zoning
Ordinance are met by the application.
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council ofthe City of Ames,Iowa,that the Joint
Use Parking Agreement for 4540 Mortensen Road between Perfect Games Ames Pet Hospital is hereby
approved.
ADOPTED THIS 10 h day of June,2008.
Diane R. Voss, City Clerk Ann H. Campbell, Mayor Ir
Introduced by: Mahayni
Seconded by: Rice
Voting aye: Doll, Goodman,Larson,Mahayni, Popken,Rice
Voting nay: None Absent: None
Resolution declared adopted and signed by the Mayor this 10t'day of June,2008.