Land Use Action Details

Description

Application Summary: An application for proposed alterations to the Marion Parkade to enhance the structure's usage, with improvements to increase safety, visibility, and accessibility, and to extend the usable life of the structure. Request: A consolidated application for proposed alterations to the Marion Parkade. The application includes: 1) Class 3 Site Plan Review for the proposed alterations to the structure, including removing the four existing enclosed corner stair towers and replacing them with new open-air covered stair towers; adding feature walls to the upper floor facades at the corners adjacent to the new stair towers to visually anchor the roof canopy and highlight the building corners; installing solar array canopies over parking stalls on the third-floor parking deck; replacing the existing ground-level pony walls on the perimeter of the parking garage with perforated metal screen panels to improve visibility and safety while still concealing parked vehicles; and installing vertical perforated metal fins with lighting on the second and third floor facades to enhance the structure's appearance; and 2) Class 2 Adjustments to: a) To eliminate the minimum required 10-foot accessory structure setback from the street for the proposed solar array canopies on the third floor of the parking garage adjacent to Liberty Street NE, Marion Street NE, and High Street NE (SRC 524.010(c)); b) Allow the percentage of existing windows on the ground floor facades of the parking garage facing streets to be reduced; thereby dropping them further below the minimum required 65 percent (SRC 524.010(f)(5)(A)(ii)); c) Allow the percentage of existing windows on the upper floor facades of the parking garage facing streets to be reduced; thereby dropping them further below the minimum required 30 percent (SRC 524.010(f)(5)(B)); and d) Allow the existing ground-level brick pony walls on the perimeter of the parking garage adjacent to Liberty Street NE, Marion Street NE, High Street NE, and Union Street NE to replaced with perforated metal screen panels, where ground level parking is otherwise required to be screened from the adjacent right-of-way by a minimum three-foot-tall brick, stone, or finished concrete wall (SRC 806.035(c)(2)(D)). The subject property is approximately 2.65 acres in size, zoned CB (Central Business District), and located at 445 Marion Street NE (Marion County Assessor Map and Tax Lot Number: 073W22DA12400).