Board okays Carrot Top parking and landscape changes; pond volume to increase

Tim Brown presented a less-than-minor developer application from Nautilus Civil Engineers to modify the Carrot Top showroom site. The changes include adding eight permeable parking spaces, increasing pond volume by 1,423 cubic feet, lowering the outfall weir, removing a block retaining wall along the loading area, adding a freestanding retaining wall along the dry pond perimeter, and eliminating the northern landscape buffer on a 1.24-acre site.

Staff told the board the northern buffer removal is tied to a zoning change north of the property; because adjacent zoning no longer requires that buffer, the applicant is removing it. Applicant Curtis Smith confirmed the landscape plan provides one tree and three shrubs on each side of the added parking as required. Board members asked about mapping of symbols on the plan legend and requested the applicant clarify plant locations on resubmittal drawings.

No public speakers addressed the item. Unidentified Speaker 4 moved to approve the landscaping plan as proposed; the motion was seconded and carried by voice vote. The approval covers the revised landscape elements; other permits and construction staging must be coordinated with the building department and comply with life-safety and OSHA requirements indicated by staff.