Tuesday, December 18, 2007
New Sam’s Club attracts new businesses nearby
In their last meeting of 2007, the Auburn Planning Commission approved two annexations of more than 716 acres into the city limits, plat approvals for a five-lot subdivision, and conditional uses for a Goo Goo Car Wash and a Wendy’s fast food restaurant with a drive through.
December 14, 2007
In their last meeting of 2007, the Auburn Planning Commission approved two annexations of more than 716 acres into the city limits, plat approvals for a five-lot subdivision, and conditional uses for a Goo Goo Car Wash and a Wendy’s fast food restaurant with a drive through.
With a mid-January opening of Sam’s Club, a series of conditional uses for new businesses were considered for the nearby island of property bordered by East Glenn Avenue, Hilton Garden Drive and Bent Creek Road.
Access and cross access within that island of property was discussed by the Auburn Planning Commission during their regular meeting Thursday.
Discussion included proposed access from East Glenn Avenue for a fast-food restaurant, cross access to a land-locked piece of property at the corner of East Glenn Avenue and Bent Creek Road and access to and through another Goo Goo Car Wash.
The members approved:
- A road service use for a car wash (Goo Goo Car Wash), on Bent Creek Road north of the existing Waffle House,
- A road service use for a fast-food restaurant with a drive through (Wendy’s), on the south side of the intersection of Hilton Garden Drive and East Glenn Avenue with entrances from both public streets.
- Preliminary and final plat approvals for a 10.69-acre, five-lot conventional subdivision for commercial development, the Bent Creek Commercial Park, for property along East Glenn Avenue, Hilton Garden Drive and Bent Creek Road.
For a look at maps of the proposed developments, check out the planning packet and agenda online at http://www.auburnalabama.org.
Other Business:
One of five parcels involved in an expired “Memorandum of Understanding” between the city of Auburn and West Pace LLC was approved for annexation into the city limits.
The approximately 36.46-acre property, Lot B-1, is an administrative subdivision of the Tommy Pace Subdivision, redivision of Parcel B.
A second annexation of 679.7 acres by Saugahatchee Lands LLC along Lee Road 081 and west of Camden Ridge was approved by planning commission members at the request of JA Conner Jr. The property, the Samford Hills Annexation, is comprised of two parcels with Saugahatchee Creek at the southern boundary.
The Donahue Ridge LLC application for rezoning from a Rural (R) zoning that has not been approved by the Auburn City Council was approved for a recommendation to city council to consider changing that pending zoning to Development District Housing (DDH).
The Donahue Ridge involves 13.61 acres of a total of 47.87 acres of vacant land, and is located off of North Donahue Drive, east of Camden Ridge Subdivision and south of West Farmville Road.
The commission approved a conditional use for a road service use (equipment rental/sales) at the old location of the Jubilee Junction behind the Hampton Inn off of South College Street.
Members granted a preliminary plat approval to Cleveland Brothers Inc. for a 55-lot performance residential subdivision, The Summit, Phase 3, in a Planned Development District (PDD) with a Limited Development District (LDD) underlying located south of Shell Toomer Parkway and east of Mill Creek Road. A waiver to the design speed of a street there was approved from 35 mph to 25 mph.