Shoreline
Come next spring neighbors and those who pass by the Ronald Wastewater District on North 175th Street and Linden Avenue North will begin to see something new.
And they will see several more new things if they look a little closer.
The district is planning to add two storage facilities on the 41,617 square-foot site. The new buildings will consist of one high bay and one low bay storage and be comprised of 5,232 square-feet. Both storage facilities will include metal siding, composite panels, metal roofing and vinyl windows. The use of green materials and exterior colors were chosen to help the addition blend into the neighborhood according to principal in charge Charlie Kato and project design lead Mark McCarter, both with TCA Architecture Planning, Inc.
“This project sits in a residential neighborhood and we really wanted to pay attention to the scale of the buildings nearby, the materials and styles of the existing buildings in comparison,” McCarter said during a public meeting to inform residents about the project on Dec. 5 in the district’s conference room.
Kato, McCarter and district commissioners were in attendance at the meeting but few others.
The district has been looking to add the storage space for over a year, according to Michael Derrick, general manager at Ronald Wastewater. Two hundred residents were informed of the meeting, Derrick said. Charts and information will be available for neighbors to view at the district.
Although not required to perform the particular study, Kato said he hired a lighting expert to make sure the exterior lighting on the new units would not distract nearby neighbors.
“We’re trying to keep the glare off the residential site,” he said.
The overall plan was chosen primarily so the district’s long Vactor truck could easily maneuver in and out of the site, McCarter explained.
“We worked with a civil engineer and definitely took a real close look at how they would be circulating through the site,” he said.
The design includes a ten-foot setback on Linden Avenue North as well as new landscaping. New trees will be planted in front of the site but one of two Evergreen trees in front of the existing building will have to be taken down per code to make room for a driveway to the site, according to McCarter.
The additions also include 13 parking spaces onsite and bike racks.
The design team expects to obtain a permit later this month. Support in engineering and landscape design for the project has been provided by Bush, Roed &Hitchings, Inc., Nelson Engineering, CeGG Engineering, Elcon &Associates, and landscape architect Glenn Takagi.
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