Walgreens Site Plan Approved
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
With the entrances and exits changed on paper, the preliminary site plan for Walgreens was approved Wednesday by the Warsaw Plan Commission.
The design shows an entrance with a right-turn-only for southbound Argonne Road traffic. There is no exit onto Argonne. Two weeks ago this was both an entrance and an exit, with traffic able to turn both ways onto Argonne.
A new ingress/egress is shown on Market Street, 117 feet west of Argonne Road.
Attorney Steve Snyder, representing the developers, said delivery trucks would enter Argonne from Center Street, unload at the back of the 14,560-square-foot Walgreens building and proceed west to Roosevelt Street. At Roosevelt, they are to turn right and return to Center Street.
The changes to the traffic patterns were part of the plan commissioners' conditions set at the June 9 meeting.
According to commission president Joe Thallemer, traffic issues were the only matter to be discussed by the board for a secondary, and final, approval of the site plan.
However, with the petitioner's permission, he opened the meeting for public comments.
Dee Young, who lives on the east side of Argonne Road, said she still wants shrubs planted in her yard to screen headlights and traffic sounds, a request agreed to by the Walgreens representatives.
Warsaw Police Department Capt. Kip Shuter said he and WPD Chief Steve Foster approved the new plan.
Shuter serves on the city's traffic commission.
Commissioner Jeff Grose voted against the site plan, as he did during the June 9 meeting. Thallemer, Jim Gast, Lacy Francis, Richard Keeven and Alan Clingan voted in favor of the plan. Dewey Lawshe was absent.
Thallemer said he had other concerns. He asked that the big trees on the block be incorporated into the landscape plan if possible.
He also asked that a request to zone the entire area commercial-3 be requested.
Snyder said the designers may be able to use the trees there, but the mounding would be reduced or eliminated.
Regarding the rezoning suggestion, Snyder asked why, saying it is a special exception only for Walgreens now.
Grose said it would be zoned commercial. "It should be rezoned. It's a commercial activity. It doesn't get any more commercial than this and the zoning should reflect that activity." [[In-content Ad]]
With the entrances and exits changed on paper, the preliminary site plan for Walgreens was approved Wednesday by the Warsaw Plan Commission.
The design shows an entrance with a right-turn-only for southbound Argonne Road traffic. There is no exit onto Argonne. Two weeks ago this was both an entrance and an exit, with traffic able to turn both ways onto Argonne.
A new ingress/egress is shown on Market Street, 117 feet west of Argonne Road.
Attorney Steve Snyder, representing the developers, said delivery trucks would enter Argonne from Center Street, unload at the back of the 14,560-square-foot Walgreens building and proceed west to Roosevelt Street. At Roosevelt, they are to turn right and return to Center Street.
The changes to the traffic patterns were part of the plan commissioners' conditions set at the June 9 meeting.
According to commission president Joe Thallemer, traffic issues were the only matter to be discussed by the board for a secondary, and final, approval of the site plan.
However, with the petitioner's permission, he opened the meeting for public comments.
Dee Young, who lives on the east side of Argonne Road, said she still wants shrubs planted in her yard to screen headlights and traffic sounds, a request agreed to by the Walgreens representatives.
Warsaw Police Department Capt. Kip Shuter said he and WPD Chief Steve Foster approved the new plan.
Shuter serves on the city's traffic commission.
Commissioner Jeff Grose voted against the site plan, as he did during the June 9 meeting. Thallemer, Jim Gast, Lacy Francis, Richard Keeven and Alan Clingan voted in favor of the plan. Dewey Lawshe was absent.
Thallemer said he had other concerns. He asked that the big trees on the block be incorporated into the landscape plan if possible.
He also asked that a request to zone the entire area commercial-3 be requested.
Snyder said the designers may be able to use the trees there, but the mounding would be reduced or eliminated.
Regarding the rezoning suggestion, Snyder asked why, saying it is a special exception only for Walgreens now.
Grose said it would be zoned commercial. "It should be rezoned. It's a commercial activity. It doesn't get any more commercial than this and the zoning should reflect that activity." [[In-content Ad]]