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REVIEW COMMENTS 7. B. 1. NEW SITE PLAN COOKER BAR & GRILLE RESTAURANT PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM #97-205 SITE PLAN REVIEW STAFF REPORT FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND CITY COMMISSION May 13, 1997 DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT Project Name: Cooker Bar and Grille restaurant Applicant: Cunningham-Limp of Florida, Inc. Agent: David A. Donaldson Owner: ASK Ventures, Incorporated, Boca Raton Location: West side of Congress Avenue, just south of Boynton C-16 Canal File No.: NWSP 97-007 Land Use Plan Designation: Local Retail Commercial (LRC) Zoning Designation: Community Commercial district (C-3) Type of Use: Restaurant Number of Units: Not applicable Area: Site Area: Building Area: 1.68 acres 7,886 square feet Surrounding land uses and Zoning District: (see Exhibit "A" - location map) North - Boynton C-16 Canal right-of-way and farther north is the Catalina Center Holiday Inn complex, zoned C-3 South - Republic Security Bank, zoned C-3 East - Congress Avenue right-of-way and farther east is undeveloped land, zoned R-1AA West - Boynton Beach Mall, zoned C-3 Existing Site Characteristics: , ' The west part of the site is developed and contains the following structures ancillary to the adjacent Republic Security Bank Building: . pump house, · emergency generator building, and . dumpster The above structures are served by a paved access drive leading from the adjacent bank property and parking. / Page 2 Site Plan Review Staff Report Memorandum #97-205 Cooker Bar and Grille Restaurant Proposed Development: Concurrency: a. Traffic b. ~rainage- Driveways: Parking Facility: Landscaping: Building and Site Regulations: f)U~~f The developer is proposing construction of a 7,886 sq. ften a 1.68 acre parcel of land south of the Boynton C-16 Cana and west of Congress Avenue (see Exhibit "B" - proposed site plan). The restaurant will contain 224 seats. The parking associated with this development will contain 136 parking spaces, including five handicap accessible spaces, as required by the ADA. A traffic statement was prepared and sent to the Palm Beach County Traffic Division for evaluation. It was determined that the traffic generated by this project meets the Traffic Performance Standards of Palm Beach County and no off-site improvements are warranted as a result of this construction. According to the applicant's engineer, the site drainage, as a part of the Boynton Beach Mall drainage system, was presented to, and approved by the South Florida Water Management District. Certification by the developer's engineer is required stating that the drainage system complies with all applicable city codes and standards. The Engineering Division is recommending that this be postponed to time of permit review. There is an existing 24 feet wide ingress/egress access drive onto Congress Avenue just south of the restaurant property. The access drive will be used as a shared access between the proposed restaurant and the existing bank located south of the restaurant. The off-site access drive provides a connection to a loop-shaped parking aisle serving the parking facility for the bank and restaurant. There are 136 parking spaces to be provided for this use including five handicap accessible spaces as required by the ADA. This meets the minimum standard of 90 parking spaces required by the Land Development Regulations, Chapter 2 - Zoning for the size and use of the building proposed. There are trees and a hedge located on the adjacent property already in place that the applicant wishes to receive credit for with respect to pl;!rimeter landscape buffer requirements. The petitioner needs to verify that this material meets the city requirements and design standards. Also, minor modifications are needed to properly screen the proposed dumpster. Landscaping will fully meet the code requirements when staff comments are incorporated. Building and site regulations will fully meet the code requirements when staff comments are incorporated. Community Design Plan: The building is facing a major arterial street, Congress Avenue, providing good exposure and visibility of the business. The building walls are finished with a combination of beige stucco and red- brown brick. The entrance and the belvedere structure are covered with a dark green, standing seam metal roof. The balance of the ~ Page 3 Site Plan Review Staff Report Memorandum #97-205 Cooker Bar and Grille Restaurant restaurant is covered with a flat roof. Windows adjacent to the seating area are decorated with canvas awnings having a red- green striped pattern. The architectural character of the building, as well as the use of the combination of stucco and brick as a wall finish, makes this building architecturally compatible with the adjoining buildings, especially with the architecture of the Catalina Shopping center located north of the Boynton Canal. Signage: Signage, although requested by staff and required to be submitted at time of site plan approval, was not submitted with this site plan. It is recommended that signs be approved administratively, subject to compliance with the Land Development Regulations. RECOMMENDA liON: The Planning and Zoning Department recommends approval of this site plan request, subject to the comments included in Exhibit C - Conditions of Approval. The Technical Review Committee recommends that the deficiencies identified in this exhibit be corrected on the set of plans submitted for building permit. JL:bme xc: Central File J:\PROJECTS\COOKER\P&D STAFF REPORT-cook,doc ,3 EXHIBIT "A" C( COOK~R BAR AND GRLI_LE LOCATION MAP ~ft~i~ .7' TV'I \ '--/ II '-I t:I( ~ r 'eI' ~ ---/' '1 /': "MEL~J ,~R I ~~c: ~ ~ r: I i ~ ;'" ";~' ..., --- ~r ~r:~' /T ': ,~- 7 " - r:::1 . .~ ........ t-,.. - - --....., - .: ' ~ ,'_ I~'-. - 0 .: __ ; 'v ' - []~ ~~,~ '. /~--- :;:a: a l ~, ti::, w j ,." - ':,::~.\ L:J L :,:,j ..'~' 'u'~\ p~\r'~ ~~'\l \ 1;.1 . ' ~~~~-..~'1\ \ ;;~v'~ y ~QI- J .'-- ~ (0. ,_.:' \ --- 1..:,:,'('- Lm ~ ( , / (': ;,' l~' ~ - i\-.-1.J.. .: ~.- . I I. I I ,,\ r'" ~ j : /. - ' : - I~ . - -.n d 0 I, 'l~ - CD. I In- ~~-"-"'v"91";l ~=~~= i~):!:: i:~l! ":~ROLA,/I-- ~],':\\I~ -, .J- I I ;... 0 .' \:::"" c. I' ~\m\ -~ 'LJ. 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DEPARTMENTS INCLUDE REJECT PUBLIC WORKS Comments: None UTI L1TI ES 1. Plan shall specify meter size and location, (Sec. 26.16)). 2. A capacity reservation fee will be required within thirty (30) days of City Commission approval, or upon request for Utility Department signature on the HRSIDEP permit applications. The fee amount will be determined based upon meter size or expected demand, (Sec. 26-34[E]. 3. Palm Beach Health Department permit will be required, (Sec. 26- 12). 4. City water will not be supplied for irrigation. Please show source and location on your plans, (City Compo Plan, Policy 3C.3.4). 5. Utilities requests a meeting with the project engineer to discuss alternate locations of the proposed water main to minimize conflicts with the proposed landscaping. FIRE Comrr.ent..>: 6. No portion of any building shall be over 200' from a fire hydrant. Insure all turns have a 50' radius so that fire apparatus can maneuver around the building. POLICE Comments: 7. Show pavement stripings for traffic control (stop bars, stop signs, etc.). DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT Comments: 8. All plans submitted for specific permits shall meet the city's code requirements at time of application. These permits include, but are not limited to the following; site lighting, paving, drainage, curbing, landscaping, irrigation and traffic control devices. Permits required from agencies such as the FOOT, PBC, SFWMD and any other permitting agency shall be included with any permit request. Chap. 1 , Art.!, Sec.6, pag.A, pg.1-3. 9. County road entrance sign requires PBC approval and state road entrance sign requires FOOT approval. 10. Provide certification by developer's engineer that drainage plan complies with all city codes and standards. Chap.6, Art.V, Sec. SA, pg.6-7 and Chap.23, Art.IIF, pg.23-8. 11. Provide details for pavement, grates, pipes, catch basins, etc. Chap.6, Art.V, Sec.4B2e, pg.6-20. 12. Stormwater shall be contained on site. Provide for the retainment of the first one-half inch of stormwater runoff prior to conveyance to offsite receiving waters. Chap.23, Art.IIF, pg.23-8 and Chap.6, Art.IV, Sec.5B, pg.6-8. 13. Specify clear sight triangles at all driveways and adjust landscape plan if needed. Chap.7.5, Art.II, Sec.5H2, pg.7.5-17. 14. Align access paths from sidewalks with HIC accessible paths including stop bars and signs. Chap.23, Art.I, Sec.1B5, pg.23-1 q Page 2 Cooker Bar and Grill File No. NWSP 97-007 DEPARTMENTS INCLUDE REJECT and Section 4.3 of the Florida Accessibility Code, pg. 23. 15. Provide stop signs and stop bars in accordance with the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices". Chap.23, Art.IIB2, pg.23-7. 16. It is recommended that the width of the perimeter sidewalk be increased from 5' to 7' and the wheel stops be eliminated. 17. It is recommended that the width of the H/C access path on the southernmost H/C stall be reduced from 8' to 5' and standard stalls made slightly wider. (The 12' wide H/C stall and 5' wide path meets criteria of a "universal stall" which includes "van accessible stalls"). Also the wider 8' path creates the impression of being a separate parking stall. PARKS AND RECREATION Comments: None FORESTER/ENVIRONMENTALIST None PLANNING AND ZONING " Comments: 18. Any roof top equipment will have to be screened from view at a distance of 600 feet. If such equipment is planned, indicate its location and the height of the equipment above the roof level. Provide elevations of the structure showing the roof top equipment and the required screening (all reduced to a small scale) and draw in on these elevations the lines-of-sight connecting the highest point of the equipment with eye level from a distance of 600 hundred feet from the building (LDR, Chapter 9, Section 11.E). If no roof top equipment is planned, make an ~ appropriate notation on sheets A-4 and A-5. ICV Provide a detailed drawing of a dumpster enclosure meeting the design standards as described in LDR, Chapter 9, Section 10.C and Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.J. The dumpster walls shown on sheet A-4 indicate a height in excess of the allowed 6 feet. Correct the drawings to depict the appropriate height of the dumpster walls of 6 feet. 20. Eliminate inconsistencies between the landscape plan and the site plan with respect to dumpster location and its configuration on the site. 21. Lighting shall be shown on the landscape plan to eliminate potential conflicts with landscape material and existing on-site and/or proposed easements. 22. Indicate the use of the building in the northwest corner of the property. 23. On the Landscape Plan, Sheet 2 of 2, provide a tabular summary of the planting material to include a "landscape material required by the code" category. Also, provide relevant calculations for this category. For the landscape buffer adjacent to rights-of way and along abutting properties, provide perimeter distances of the parcel for which the landscape buffer material is being calculated (Chapter 7.5, Article II - Landscape Code). 24. Incorporate the above calculation into the tabulation of the landscape material provided for the site. All native species shall be distinguished from non-native species with a recognizable symbol. The native requirement is fifty percent of the required landscape planting (Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6). 25. Eliminate back lit awnings and lighting fixtures directing lighting on the awnings (LDR, Chapter 9, Section 10.F.5). 26. Provide information regarding size, design and color of proposed signs on the property. It is recommended that signs I() Page 3 Cooker Bar and Grill File No. NWSP 97-007 DEPARTMENTS INCLUDE REJECT be approved administratively, subject to compliance with LDR. 27. Remove the proposed sign from the 20 feet wide utility easement along Congress Avenue. 28. Provide for staff review a cross easement and parking agreement to allow shared common access from Congress Avenue for both properties: the subject property and the property located immediately to the south of the subject property. 29. The above ground transformer structure located south of the restaurant building shall be screened, as a service area, at minimum, with an 18 inch high hedge (at the time of planting) and, after reaching its maturity, maintained at a height of six feet. 30. Vehicular use areas shall be screened from adjacent rights-of- way with a vegetative buffer, as required by LDR, Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.E. If such landscape material already exists on adjacent lots, the on-site buffer requirement can be waived, but only when this existing landscape buffer meets the city standards. Existing vegetative buffers along the east, north and west property lines do not meet the fifty percent native species requirement as mandated by Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6. In addition to the existing off-site landscape material credited towards the required peripheral, vegetative buffer provide sufficient, on-site, landscape material (for both trees and hedge) to meet the 50 percent requirement. 31. Verify on the permit set of drawings that the "back-up" space for the parking stalls located south of the proposed restaurant meets the minimum city standard of 27 feet. ADDITIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD CONDITIONS 32. To be determined. ADDITIONAL CITY COMMISSION CONDITIONS 33. To be determined. /bme s:\projectslcooker\cond of appl\ M~~ ~Jf!, ~ .,-0 ~ ~ \ ~ . Ft&L'( }o\~ 4v 2~.~~~~ ~ ~ Zfp. ~lo~ cD ~ /~4 W:~.J "27, ~~7 ~ ~f gj;~ fA rm/!J!' ""'I. { / Marshall Gage Bob Eichorst Charlie Frederick John Guidry Tambri Heyden William Bingham Police Chief Public Works Director Recreation & Park Director Utilities Director Planning & Zoning Administrator Fire Chief BUILDING DIVISION MEMORANDUM NO. 97-252 TO: Technical Review Committee Members FROM: Don Johnson, Deputy Building Official DATE: October 7,1997 RE: ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY COOKERS GRILLE - 97-2193 1333 N. CONGRESS AVE. CUNNINGHAM LIMP --' 'I ~/I / . "'" ~_.,--) The above referenced project is nearing completion. Prior to the Building Division issuing the Certificate of Occupancy, I would like to ensure that you do not have any outstanding or pending conditions concerning this site that must be rectified (excluding issues that are covered entirely with a city approved surety) . If any outstanding conditions are related to permits issued by the Building Division, please provide this division a memorandum containing a description of the unresolved conditions. If the unresolved conditions are not permit related, please notify the owner or the owner's agent to ensure that the matters are rectified. Please respond to me, within ten (10) days in order that we may proceed in a timely manner to issue the Certificate of Occupancy. No response is necessary if your department is satisfied with the current state of the above referenced site. Thank you for your cooperation. D1?::~ CC: Kerry Willis. City Manager Kevin Hallahan, ForesterlEnvironmentalist Ken Hall, Engineering Plan Check Inspector/Technician TRC MEMO 1 0 DAY LETTER.doc TRACKING L~~ - SITE PLAN REVIEW SUBMI.~~L P RuJ 1::<::'1' 'l'l'I'LE: iJI:::tH':RIf''l'ION: 'l'~f'E::: NWSP DArl'E REC I D: COOKER BAR & GRILLE NEW SITE PLAN NE'W SITE PLAN 3/19/97 AMOUNT: FILE NO.: NWSP 97-007 MAJOR SITE PLAN MODIFICATION kl::CEIPT NO.: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TWELVE (12) SETS SUBHITTED: COLORED ELEVA1'IONS RECI D: (Plans shall be pre-assembled. The Planning & Zoning Dept. will number each sheet of their set. The PlanniIlg Dept. set will be used to check the remaining sets to ensure the number and type of sheets match.) * * * * * * * * * *.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * APPLICATION & SUBMITTAL: DATE: ACCEPTED DENIED DATE: DATE OF LET'fER TO APPLICANT IDENTIFYING SUBMISSION DEFICIENCIES: 2nd SUBMIT'I'AL : DATE: ACCEPTED DENIED DATE: DATE OF SUBMITTAL ACCEPTANCE LETTER: REVIEWER'S NAME: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I (Label TRC Departments on each set of plans) DATE AND MEMO NUMBER OF MEMO SENT TO TRC TO PERFORM INITIAL REVIEW. DATE SEN'l': RETUkN DATE: 4/1/97 MEMO NUMBER: 97-109 1st REVIEW COMMENTS RECEIVED y ~ MEMO * I DViE I IICII Q1-CFt).1 q I~ c.rr-05'b I~' I ~ B' /Q::?" ." / / , . i-* i~ PLANS PLANS C,rJ' util. E' .W. ... Parks 41,'; E'ire l'olice Planning · auilding Engineer Engineer J:"'ores tel- y . MEMO * / D~'l'E i IICII '1'1- f?:X I Y.t.1 I u . I /~ 71"003 /~/~ / 1- cr1, (35 / i..f1'7 / ---t!L- '/ ~YP~ OF VARIANCE(S) DA1'E OE' MEETING: DA'l'E OF LETTI::R SENT TO APPLICANT IDENTIFYING TRC REVIEW COMMENTS: (Aesthetic Review App., dates of board mtgs. ~ checklist sent out wI comments NINETY DAY CALENDAR DATE WHEN APPLICATION BECOMES NULL AND VOID: DATE 12 COMPLETE SETS OF AMENDED PLANS SUBMITTED FOR 2nd REVIEW: (Must be assembled. Reviewer shall accept amended plans & support documents) COLORBD ELBVATIONS RBC I D: MEMO SENT TO TRC TO PERFORM 2nd REVIEW. DA'l'E SENT: MEMO tt: RETURN DATE: 2nd REVIEW RECOMMENDATION/DENIAL PLANS HBHO ft I DATS /"R/D" PLANS HEHO tt I DATE IUR/D" Util. I I planning I I P.W. / / BUilding I / Parks / / Engineer / / Fire / I Engineer / I Police / / Forster / / LETTER TO APPLICANT RBGARDING TRC APPROVAL/DBNIAL AND LAND DBVBLOPHmNT SXONS PLACED AT THE PROPSRTY DATS SBNT/8IONS INSTALLBD: SCHEDULE OF BOARD MEETINGS: PAD CC/CRA DA'l'li: API'ROVAL LE'l'TER SENT: A.: 'l'kACk.lNG. Sf' MEMORANDUM Utilities # 97-082 rD)~.~. ~ ~ UUL=-_~~ PlANNltJG i\ND ZONING DEPT. TO: Tambri Heyden. Planning & Zoning Director John A. Guidry, \\ '" / Director of Utilities ~ V)f April 8, 1997 FROM: Date: SUBJECT: Cooker Bar & Grill, New Site Plan, First Review Staffhas reviewed the above referenced project and offer the following comments: 1. Plan shall specify meter size and location, (Sec. 26.16 (c)). 2. A Capacity Reservation Fee will be required within thirty (30) days of City Commission approval, or upon request for my signature on the HRS/DEP permit applications. The fee amount will be determined based upon meter size or expected demand, (Sec. 26-34[E]. 3. Palm Beach Health Department permit will be required, (Sec. 26-12). 4. City water will not be supplied for irrigation. Please show source and location on your plans, (City Compo Plan, Policy 3C.3.4). 5. Utilities requests a meeting with the project engineer to discuss alternate locations of the proposed water main to minimize conflicts with the proposed landscaping. It is our recommendation that the plan proceed through the review process. If you have any questions regarding this subject, please contact Skip Milor at 375-6407 or Peter Mazzella at 375-6404. sm/ cooker 1 xc: Clyde "Skip" Milor Peter Mazzella File TO: Tamb t ~ rn~ffiUwrn ill RECREATION & PARK MEMORANDUM #97-1 >>./ Jl ~ .. 8 ,gg( ri Heyden, Planing & Zoning Director PLANNING AND Wildner, Parks Superintendent ZONING DEPT. FROM: John r Cooker Bar and Grill - New Site Plan RE: Date: April 8, 1997 The Recreation and Park Department has reviewed the new site plan for the Cooker Bar and Grill. There are no recreation issues on this project. The plan may continue through the normal review process. JW April 8, 1997 DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 97-063 "----:jl:[~:~6E.~'~.:..; TO: Tambri Heyden, Director of Planning and Zoning FROM: Al Newbold, Acting Director of Development RE: COOKER BAR & GRILL - 1ST SITE PLAN REVIEW We have reviewed subject project and have the following comments: En~neerine: Division 1. All plans submitted for specific permits shall meet the City's code requirements at time of application. These permits include, but are not limited to the following; site lighting, paving, drainage, curbing, landscaping, irrigation and traffic control devices. Permits required from agencies such as the FDOT, PBC, SFWMD and any other permitting agency shall be included with your permit request. Chap. 1 , Art.I, Sec.6, par.A, pg.I-3 2. County road entrance sign requires PBC approval & State road entrance sign requires FDOT approval. 3. Provide certification by Developers' Engineer that drainage plan complies with all City codes & standards. Chap.6, Art.V, Sec.5A, pg.6-7 and Chap.23, Art.IIF, pg.23-8 4. Provide details for pavement, grates, pipes, catch basins, etc. Chap.6, Art.V, SecAB2e, pg.6-20 5. Stormwater shall be contained on site. Provide for the retainment of the first one-half inch of storm water runoff prior to conveyance to offsite receiving waters. Chap.23, Art.IIF, pg.23-8 and Chap.6, Art.IV, Sec.5B, pg.6-8 6. Specify clear sight triangles at all driveways and adjust landscape plan if needed. Chap.7.5, Art.II, Sec.5H2, pg.7.5-17 7. Align access paths from sidewalks with HlC accessible paths including stop bars and signs. Chap.23, Art.I, Sec.1B5, pg.23-1 and Section 4.3 of the Florida Accessibility Code, pg.23 8. Provide stop signs and stop bars in accordance with the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices", Chap.23, Art.IIB2, pg.23-7 Recommendations 1. Increase widths of perimeter sidewalk from 5' to 7' and eliminate requirement for wheel stops. 2. Reduce width ofHlC access path on southernmost HlC stall from 8' to 5' and make standard stalls slightly wider. (The 12' wide HlC stall and 5' wide path meets criteria of a "universal stall" which includes "van accessible stalls"). Also the wider 8' path creates the impression of being a separate parking stall. Department of Development Memo. 97-063 RE: Cooker Bar & Grill - 1 st Site Plan Review AprilS, 1997 Page Two Recommend the project proceed to the Planning & Development Board and Commission for approval. Buildim~ Division The Building Division has no comments and recommends that the project be forwarded to the Planning & Development Board and City Commission. #~ AINe b KH & AO:ck & bg XC: Anthony F. Occhiuzzo Ken Hall C:\BOYNTON\DOCUMENTS\TRC\COOKERBAR&GRILL.DOC PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 97-138 TO: Tambri J. Heyden Planning and Zoning Director FROM: Jerzy Lewicki DATE: April 7, 1997 SUBJECT: New Site Plan - 1 st Review Project: The Cooker Bar and Grille restaurant Location: West of Congress Avenue and south of Boynton Canal Agent: David A. Donaldson File No.: NWSP 97-007 The following is a list of 1 st review comments regarding the site plan review of the plans for the above-referenced project. The applicant shall understand that all documents and plans submitted for site plan review are subject to additional comments. I recommend that the applicant/agent contact me regarding questions related to the comments. If the applicant is not intending to correct code deficiencies, he should contact me regarding the procedures, application forms, fees and submittal deadline dates for seeking relief from the code requirement. 1. Any roof top equipment will have to be screened from view at a distance of 600 feet. If such equipment is planned, indicate its location and the height of the equipment above the roof level. Provide elevations of the structure showing the roof top equipment and the required screening (all reduced to a small scale) and draw in on these elevations the Iines-of-sight connecting the highest point of the equipment with the eye level from a distance of 600 hundred feet from the building (LOR, Chapter 9, Section 11.E). If no roof top equipment is planned, make an appropriate notation on sheets A-4 and A-5. 2. Provide a detailed drawings of dumpster enclosures meeting the design standards as described in LOR, Chapter 9, Section 10.C and Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.J. The dumpster walls shown on sheet A-4 indicate the height in excess of allowed 6 feet. Correct the drawings to depict the appropriate height of the dumpster walls of 6 feet. 3. Eliminate inconsistencies between landscape plan and landscape plan in respect to dumpster location and its configuration on the site. 4. Lighting shall be shown on the landscape plan to eliminate potential conflicts with landscape material and existing on-site and/or proposed easements. 5. Indicate the use of the other building in the northwest corner of the property. 6. On the Landscape Plan, Sheet 2 of 2, provide a tabular summary of the planting material to include a "landscape material required by the code" category. Also, provide relevant calculations for this category. For the landscape buffer adjacent to rights-of way and along abutting properties, provide perimeter distances of the parcel for which the landscape buffer material is being calculated (Chapter 7.5, Article II - Landscape Code). 7. Incorporate the above calculation into the tabulation of the landscape material provided for the site. All native species shall be distinguished from non-native species with a recognizable symbol. Note, that the native requirement is fifty percent of the required landscape planting (Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6). Page 2 Memorandum No. 97-138 1 st Review - New Site Plan The Cooker Bar and Grill Restaurant NWSP 97-007 8. The submitted traffic statement shall be approved by the Palm Beach County Traffic Division prior to the City Commission meeting. 9. Eliminate back lit awnings and shine-on lights directing light on the awnings. 10. Provide information regarding size, design and color of proposed signs on the property. It is recommended that signs will be approved administratively, subject to compliance with LOR. 11. Remove proposed sign from the 20 feet wide utility easement along Congress Avenue. 12. Provide for city staff review a cross easement agreement in regard to a common access from Congress Avenue for both properties: the subject property and a property located immediately to the south of the subject property. 13. It is recommended that the above ground transformer located south of the main restaurant structure be screened, as a service area, at minimum with a 1.5 feet high hedge (at the time of planting) and, after reaching its maturity, at the height of six feet. 14. Vehicular use areas should be screened from adjacent rights-of-way with a vegetative buffer, as required by LOR, Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.E. If such landscape material already exists on adjacent lots, the on-site buffer requirement can be waived, but only when this existing landscape buffer meets the city standards. Existing vegetative buffers along east, north and west property lines do not meet the fifty percent native species requirement as mandated by Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6. In addition to the existing off- site landscape material credited towards the required peripheral, vegetative buffer provide sufficient, on-site, landscape material (for both trees and hedge) to meet the 50 percent requirement. xc: Central File S:\.,. \cookers\-1 STREVIEWCOMMENTS rn rn@~uw~ ill APR ..11991 RECREATION & PARK MEMORANDUM 97-135 PLANNING AND ZONING DEPT. TO: Tambi Heyden, Planing and Zoning Director Kevin John Hallahan ,Forester I Environmentalist t;Jr Cooker Bar and Grill-New Site Plan_1st Review FROM: RE: April 7, 1997 DATE: There are no existing trees on the site. The project should continue in the normal review process. kjh FIRE PREVENTION DIVISION /fDJ Memorandum No. 97-231 1I11 ~ @-<~. , ~ ~~__ 41997 :llll jU PZLAONNNING ANO ING DEPT. DATE: Tambri Heyden, Director Planning & Zoning Department ~illiam D. Cavanaugh, FPO IIfj fl.." /1. A..' / Fire Department / vv r c.d-t~~"-L!~ April 4, 1997 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: NWSP 97-007 Cooker Bar & Gri II 1333 N. Congress Ave. No portion of any building shall be over 200' from a fire hydrant. Insure all turns have a 45' to 50' radius so that fire apparatus can maneuver around the building. CC: Deputy Chief Ness FPO II Campbell File TO: THRU: FROM: SUBJ: DATE: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM #97-056 Tambri J. Heyden, Planning & Zoning Director Carel Fisher, Acting Public Works Director W' Larry Quinn, Sanitation Superintendent New Site Plan - Cooker Bar & Grill March 26, 1997 - ~r~ @ ~ n Wi ~ Iil 'uU ~ 2 11991 ~ The Public Works Department has no problems with the new site plan referenced above. The plan ld proceed to the Planning & Development Board and City Commission for // Larry Quinn Sanitation Superintendent LQ/cr CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: T AMBRI HEYDEN, PLANNING & ZONING DIRECTOR DATE: 24 MARCH 97 FILE: FROM: SUBJECT: COOKER BAR & GRILLE - 1 st REVIEW \Mt.- NEW SITE PLAN SGT. MARLON HARRISI1/H REFERENCES: 97-0019 POLICE DEPARTMENT ENCLOSURES: I have reviewed the above plans and have the following comments: 1. Plans do not show pavement stripings for traffic control ( stop bars, stop signs, etc.) ~ PROJECT NAME: COOKER BAR & GRILLE CONTACT PERSON: NAME: DAVID A. DONALDSON 10682 AIRPORT ROAD NORTH, SUITE #23 NAPLES, FL. 34109 PHONE: c)41-'111-1?OO FAX: 941-')11-1210 CORRESPONDENCE MAILED TO: CUNNINGHAM-LIMP OF FLORIDA, INC. 10681 AIRPORT ROAD NORTH, STE.#23, NAPLES, FL 34109 TYPE OF APPLICATION: NEW SITE PLAN FILE NO: NWSP 97'::'007 1ST REVIEW COMMENTS DUE: 4/1/97 PUBLIC NOTICE: ADMINISTRATIVE TRC MEETING: 3/25/97 TRC MEETING DATE: 4/8/97 RESUBMITTAL DATE: 2ND REVIEW COMMENT DUE: LAND DEVELOPMENT SIGNS POSTED: PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEETING: "'1/"1 -~ - CITY COMMISSION MEETI NG: 5/20/97 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT MEETING: A:PROjECT .FRM PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 97-138 TO: Tambri J. Heyden Planning and Zoning Director FROM: Jerzy Lewicki DATE: April 25, 97 SUBJECT: New Site Plan - 1 st Review (amended) Project: The Cooker Bar and Grille restaurant Location: West of Congress Avenue and south of Boynton Canal Agent: David A. Donaldson File No.: NWSP 97-007 The following is a list of amended 1 st review comments regarding the site plan review of the plans for the above-referenced project. The applicant shall understand that all documents and plans submitted for site plan review are subject to additional comments. I recommend that the applicant/agent contact me regarding questions related to the comments. If the applicant is not intending to correct code deficiencies, he should contact me regarding the procedures, application forms, fees and submittal deadline dates for seeking relief from the code requirement. 1. Any roof top equipment will have to be screened from view at a distance of 600 feet. If such equipment is planned, indicate its location and the height of the equipment above the roof level. Provide elevations of the structure showing the roof top equipment and the required screening (all reduced to a small scale) and draw in on these elevations the lines-of-sight connecting the highest point of the equipment with the eye level from a distance of 600 hundred feet from the building (LOR, Chapter 9, Section 11.E). If no roof top equipment is planned, make an appropriate notation on sheets A-4 and A-5. 2. Provide a detailed drawings of dumpster enclosures meeting the design standards as described in LOR, Chapter 9, Section 10.C and Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.J. The dumpster walls shown on sheet A-4 indicate the height in excess of allowed 6 feet. Correct the drawings to depict the appropriate height of the dumpster walls of 6 feet. 3. Eliminate inconsistencies between landscape plan and landscape plan in respect.. to dumpster location and its configuration on the site. 4. Lighting shall be shown on the landscape plan to eliminate potential conflicts with landscape material and existing on-site and/or proposed easements. 5. Indicate the use of the other building in the northwest corner of the property. 6. On the Landscape Plan, Sheet 2 of 2, provide a tabular summary of the planting material to include a "landscape material required by the code" category. Also, provide relevant calculations for this category. For the landscape buffer adjacent to rights-of way and along abutting properties, provide perimeter distances of the parcel for which the landscape buffer material is being calculated (Chapter 7.5, Article II - Landscape Code). 7. Incorporate the above calculation into the tabulation of the landscape material provided for the site. All native species shall be distinguished from non-native species with a recognizable symbol. Note, that the native requirement is fifty percent of the required landscape planting (Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6). 8. Eliminate back lit awnings and shine-on lights directing light on the awnings. Page 2 Memorandum No. 97-138 1 st Review - New Site Plan The Cooker Bar and Grill Restaurant NWSP 97-007 9. Provide information regarding size, design and color of proposed signs on the property. It is recommended that signs will be approved administratively, subject to compliance with LDR. 10. Remove proposed sign from the 20 feet wide utility easement along Congress Avenue. 11. Provide for city staff review a cross easement agreement in regard to a common access from Congress Avenue for both properties: the subject property and a property located immediately to the south of the subject property. 12. It is recommended that the above ground transformer located south of the main restaurant structure be screened, as a service area, at minimum with a 1.5 feet high hedge (at the time of planting) and, after reaching its maturity, at the height of six feet. 13. Vehicular use areas should be screened from adjacent rights-of-way with a vegetative buffer, as required by LDR, Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.E. If such landscape material already exists on adjacent lots, the on-site buffer requirement can be waived, but only when this existing landscape buffer meets the city standards. Existing vegetative buffers along east, north and west property lines do not meet the fifty percent native species requirement as mandated by Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6. In addition to the existing off- site landscape material credited towards the required peripheral, vegetative buffer provide sufficient, on-site, landscape material (for both trees and hedge) to meet the 50 percent requirement. xc: Central File S:\... \cookers\amend1 STREVIEWCOMMENTS DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 97-063 April 8, 1997 TO: Tambri Heyden, Director of Planning and Zoning FROM: Al Newbold, Acting Director of Development RE: COOKER BAR & GRILL - 1sT SITE PLAN REVIEW We have reviewed subject project and have the following comments: Ene:ineerine: Division 1. All plans submitted for specific permits shall meet the City's code requirements at time of application. These permits include, but are not limited to the following; site lighting, paving, drainage, curbing, landscaping, irrigation and traffic control devices. Permits required from agencies such as the FDOT, PBC, SFWMD and any other permitting agency shall be included with your permit request. Chap. 1 , Art.I, Sec.6, par. A, pg.1-3 2. County road entrance sign requires PBC approval & State road entrance sign requires FDOT approval. 3. Provide certification by Developers' Engineer that drainage plan complies with all City codes & standards. Chap.6, Art.V, Sec.5A, pg.6-7 and Chap.23, Art.IIF, pg.23-8 4. Provide details for pavement, grates, pipes, catch basins, etc. Chap.6, Art.V, Sec.4B2e, pg.6-20 5. Stormwater shall be contained on site. Provide for the retainment of the first one-half inch of stormwater runoff prior to conveyance to offsite receiving waters. Chap.23, Art.IIF, pg.23-8 and Chap.6, Art.IV, Sec.5B, pg.6-8 6. Specify clear sight triangles at all driveways and adjust landscape plan if needed. Chap.7.5, Art.II, Sec.5H2, pg.7 .5-17 7. Align access paths from sidewalks with H/C accessible paths including stop bars and signs. Chap.23, Art.I, Sec.1B5, pg.23-1 and Section 4.3 of the Florida Accessibility Code, pg.23 8. Provide stop signs and stop bars in accordance with the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices". Chap.23, Art.IIB2, pg.23-7 Recommendations 1. Increase widths of perimeter sidewalk from 5' to 7' and eliminate requirement for wheel stops. 2. Reduce width ofH/C access path on southernmost H/C stall from 8' to 5' and make standard stalls slightly wider. (The 12' wide H/C stall and 5' wide path meets criteria of a "universal stall" which includes "van accessible stalls"). Also the wider 8' path creates the impression of being a separate parking stall. Department of Development Memo. 97-063 RE: Cooker Bar & Grill - I st Site Plan Review April 8, 1997 Page Two Recommend the project proceed to the Planning & Development Board and Commission for approval. Duildin!! Division The Building Division has no comments and recommends that the project be forwarded to the Planning & Development Board and City Commission. #~ AINe b / KH & AO:ck & bg XC: Anthony F. Occhiuzzo Ken Hall C:\BOYNTON\DOCUMENTS\TRC\COOKERBAR&GRILL.DOC H~~- 8-97 TUE to:42 p.et MEMORANDUM Utilities # 97-082 1\O1~ ~ @ ~ U W ~ ill \ \ n ~ ~- U iuu ~~q 8 1 PLANNING AND \ ZONING OEPT. TO: Tambri Heyden. Planning &. Zoning Director 10hn A. Guidry, \\ l /' Director of Utilities \ \JY April 8, 1997 FROM; Date: SUBJECT: Cooker Bar & Grill, New Site Plao. Fint Revtew Staft' has leviewed the above referenced project and oft'er the following comClt:nt~: I. Plan shall specit}' meter size and location, (See, 26.16 (c)). 2. A Capadty Reservation Fee will be required within thirty (30) days of City Cwunission approval. OIupDn requc~t for my signature on the HRS!DEP pcmlit applications. The fee amount will be determined based upon meter size or expected demand, (Sec. 26.34[EJ. 3. Palm Beach Health Department permit will be required, (See 26.) 2), 4. City water will not be supplied for irrigation, Please show source and location on your plan~, (City Comp, Plan, Policy 3C.3.4). 5. Utilities requests a meeting Wilh the projcct engineer to d:scuss alternate locations of the proposed water mai" to minimize contlicts with the proposed landscal'ing, It 1$ our recommeudation that Ihe plan proceed through the review process. (fyou have any questions regarding this subject. please contact Skip Milor at 37S-6407 or Peter Mazz.:lla at 37$-6404. sml cLloker I xc: Clyde "Skip" Milor Peter MazzdJa File (r TO: RECREATION & PARK MEMORANDUM #97-1 FROM: Tambri Heyden, Planing & Zoning Director John Wildner, Parks superintendenr Cooker Bar and Grill - New Site Plan RE: Date: Apri I 8, 1997 Ul U \'II rn rn 8100( APR - ,".;..; I PLANNING AND ZONING DEPT. The Recreation and Park Department has reviewed the new site plan for the Cooker Bar and Grill. There are no recreation issues on this project. The plan may continue through the normal review process. JW t r RECREATION & PARK MEMORANDUM 97-135 TO: Tambi Heyden, Planing and Zoning Director FROM: Kevin John Hallahan ,Forester / Environmentalist t})-r Cooker Bar and Grill-New Site Plan_e. Review RE: DATE: April 7, 1997 ill rn@rn~w~ 001 APR . 7 1997 PLANNING AND ZONING DEPT. There are no existing trees on the site. The project should continue in the normal review process. kjh PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 97-138 FROM: Jerzy Lewicki Q(J(. TO: Tambri J. Heyden Planning and Zoning Director DATE: April 7, 1997 SUBJECT: New Site Plan - 1 st Review Project: The Cooker Bar and Grille restaurant Location: West of Congress Avenue and south of Boynton Canal Agent: David A. Donaldson File No.: NWSP 97-007 The following is a list of 1 st review comments regarding the site plan review of the plans for the above-referenced project. The applicant shall understand that all documents and plans submitted for site plan review are subject to additional comments. I recommend that the applicanUagent contact me regarding questions related to the comments. If the applicant is not intending to correct code deficiencies, he should contact me regarding the procedures, application forms, fees and submittal deadline dates for seeking relief from the code requirement. 1. Any roof top equipment will have to be screened from view at a distance of 600 feet. If such equipment is planned, indicate its location and the height of the equipment above the roof level. Provide elevations of the structure showing the roof top equipment and the required screening (all reduced to a small scale) and draw in on these elevations the Iines-of-sight connecting the highest point of the equipment with the eye level from a distance of 600 hundred feet from the building (LOR, Chapter 9, Section 11.E). If no roof top equipment is planned, make an appropriate notation on sheets A-4 and A-5. 2. Provide a detailed drawings of dumpster enclosures meeting the design standards as described in LOR, Chapter 9, Section 10.C and Chapter 7.5, Article II, Section 5.J. The dumpster walls shown on sheet A-4 indicate the height in excess of allowed 6 feet. Correct the drawings to depict the appropriate height of the dumpster walls of 6 feet. 3. Eliminate inconsistencies between landscape plan and landscape plan in respect to dumpster location and its configuration on the site. 4. Lighting shall be shown on the landscape plan to eliminate potential conflicts with landscape material and existing on-site and/or proposed easements. 5. Indicate the use of the other building in the northwest corner of the property. 6. On the Landscape Plan, Sheet 2 of 2, provide a tabular summary of the planting material to include a "landscape material required by the code" category. Also, provide relevant calculations for this category. For the landscape buffer adjacent to rights-of way and along abutting properties, provide perimeter distances of the parcel for which the landscape buffer material is being calculated (Chapter 7.5, Article II - Landscape Code). 7. Incorporate the above calculation into the tabulation of the landscape material provided for the site. All native species shall be distinguished from non-native species with a recognizable symbol. Note, that the native requirement is fifty percent of the required landscape planting (Comprehensive Plan Policy 4.4.6). e ~ PJ Cookers recipe for success relies on l{- \:0 '11 customer satisfaction. It hopes to open two Palm Beach County locations this year. Coolring ~p expanSIOn .....--.--- ~ ---.. .,.~ ; ',' .~_... ~ /l!!''''~/!i ,;'7ir:: ~!II(il,I,I,.IIIII'IHi"\n\\;\, 'lIt , ' -~...." ",I,r" .' ~ 1 ~':',":":.',,"',.,, " ....... . -.:' I . ~ : .. ~ ! ~ . - .. '-. - lc. ':..~ - _ '. i, ~~~~'i.~ I , t ALLEN EYESTONE/Statr Photographer oker restaurants do very little advertising, relying instead word of mouth from loyal customers. ALLEN EYESTONE/Staff Photographer itress delivers food to customers at the Cooker Bar and Grille in Melbourne. The company will open st Palm Beach County sites this year. Iriced to compete ooker Bar and Grille restaurants are on the same rder as T.G.I. Friday's or Applebee's. The company )uts from-scratch cooking and fresh ingredients. Average check per person $10.70 Lunch check $8.65 Dinner check $11,70 Lunches served: 40% of total sales Dinners served: 60% of total sales /, ...j./ Entrees j( under $8 'J~;" ) \, 69.2~_ , IfIl'i!/!/ ..~ .,/~;t'i: '~'-c''''''~--li~fl'. _: J J. f: I . :'"'-.""Y' /,,/, ',1 Entrees' ' -',,- , .--< 'Entrees .; $8-$10 :. over $10: 20.1% .....".10li7,%-;~...". -;.....,"""';; ""--~.. MARK HEMPHILL/Staff Artist By JULIE WARESH Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH - Since mov- ing its headquarters here in 1995, Cooker Restaurant Corp, has been quietly scout- ing the area for Cooker sites. What's a Cooker, you ask? You'll soon find out. The 52-restaurant chain has a contract to buy land on Congress Avenue near the Boynton Beach Mall. If all goes as ' planned, it will be the first of several Palm Beach County sites featuring a Cooker Bar and Grille. Well-known in the Midwest, Cooker is a casual dining chain on the order of T. G.1. Friday's or Applebee's, whom it counts among its competitors. But Cooker says its fresh ingredients and from-scratch cooking set it apart from those restaurants. And the company is so sure you'll like it that if you aren't 100 percent satisfied with your meal, you get it free. If that seems hard to believe, consider this: Cooker gave away $2.1 million in food last year, representing nearly 2 per- cent of its sales. "If you're not happy, we don't expect you to pay," President ;:nd Chief Operat- ing Officer Phillip Pritchard said. "We don't like to mess up," he added, "but when we do, recovery is what it's all about." Cooker does no advertising, aside from the occasional billboard or holiday newspaper ad. Instead, the company di- rects the money it might otherwise spend on promotion into the guarantee program. "The most efficient and effective way of advertising is by word of mouth," said Pritchard, who spent more than 20 years with the Red Lobster chain before joining Cooker in late 1994. Cooker's net income rose 52 percent to $6.7 million in 1996, while sales were up 20 percent to $110.3 million. The sales growth is attributable to new stores since same.store sales fell 1.6 percent for the year. Pritchard attributes the drop in same- store sales to the impact of three new Please see COOKER/3F Cooker plans to open 12 new sites this year COOKER From 1 F restaurants Cooker opened in Ohio, which initially drew sales away from existing Cooker sites that were close by. "We think it was the right thing to do to penetrate the mar- ket," he said. The company opened 11 new sites in 1996 and expects to open 12 this year, including two in Palm Beach County. In addition to the pending contract in Boynton Beach, it's looking at sites in Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. It' closed one restaurant last year in Palm Harbor, Fla., be~ause the company had an opportumty to make more money leasing the facility to another establishment, Pritchard said. Cooker's Florida restaurants arc in Gainesville, Orlando, Fort Myers, Tampa and Melbourne. The publicly traded company moved its base to Palm Beach County from Columbus, Ohio, be- cause several of its officers have homes in the area. Chainnan G. Arthur See\- binder has a home on Middle Road in Palm Beach, where his neigh- bors include billionaire John Kluge, founder of Metromedia In- ternational Group, and singer/ songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Seelbinder founded Cooker in 1984 with three others, including senior vice president of operations Glenn Cockburn, a trained chef who has created most of the items on the Cooker menu. Cooker, whose restaurants are all company-owned, stumbled in the early 1990s primarily because it grew too fast. While the company has always been profitable, same-store sales, the primary measure of a restau- rant chain's health, fell about 2 percent in 1993 and about 3 per- cent in 1994. "They pushed the pedal to the metal too hard and opened some restaurants that underper- formed," said Robert Derrington. an analyst with Equitable Securi- ties Corp. in Nashville, where Cooker opened its first restau- rants. The company's stock, which traded as high as $23.75 a share in late 1992, had fallen to $6 a share by the end of 1994. That's about the time Seelbinder hired Pritch- ard, who analysts credit with engi- neering a turnaround. , Same-store sales rose i~roughout 1995 and most of 1996. Eooker stock trades in the $10 range today. : Among the things Pritchard did was beef up training to make ~ure the company had capable ttlanagers in place before new stores opened. He also hired a new chief financial officer and a new director of real estate. Todd Sonin, the real estate director, who formerly handled Boston Market sites in South Vlorida, came to Cooker in Octo- ber. He's been busy looking for sites, a task formerly perfonned by Seelbinder himself. "Our game plan is to get four, tnaybe five in Palm Heach Coun- ty," Sonin said, "and the same in Broward and t!wn in Dade." That's another reason the company decided to move. It start- ed out in Nashville and later moved to Ohio when it was ex- panding in that area. Now its ex- pansion target is the Southeast. "It makes sense to be closer to the market you're trying to pene- trate," said Richard Wayman, an analyst who follows Cooker for The Ohio Co., a Columbus-based investment banking finn. Wayman, who was cOJ?1fortable with Cooker's modest stnp-center digs in Columbus, admits to being a bit wary of Cooker's move south. He worried the company would blow a lot of money on an ostenta- tious headquarters. But when he visited the offices at 5500 Village Blvd., just north of 45th Street, he was pleasantly surprised. Cooker bought the 32 OOO-square-foot building out of fo;eclosure for a bargain $1.9 mil- lion. Cooker, which employs about 25 at the site, occupies the second floor. The bottom floor is leased. But while Cooker is comfort- ably established in its new home, Palm Beach County consumers still haven't been able to sample the company's fare. What can they expect? "Cooker is like going to your parents' house to cat," Wayman said. "The decor is comfortable and subtle." A Cooker is quieter than say a Friday's, Wayman said. And the menu, with an average check of $10.70, features what Cooker calls regional American food: me~t1oaf, prime rib, salads and pasta dIshes. And if for any reason custom- ers are unhappy with their meals, they don't pay for them. That way, the company reasons, they're like- ly to come back. Restaurant broker Richard Lackey, of the Lackey Coso in Palm Beach, said while Cooker's satisfaction guarantee is good business it's not so different from . what m~st top restaurant chains do. "They are just using it as a marketing item," Lackey said. Cooker, which analysts say has more servers and seaters than most other chains at peak hours, had been criticized for over-staff" ing its restaurants. Since early 1994, the company has lowered its managers-per-res- taurant average from 8.3 to 5.5, which still is slightly above the industry average of 4-5. Serving lunch and dinner sev- en days a week, an average Cook- er restaurant employs about 100 people. According to a recent re- port by San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities, a Cooker general manager's salary and bo- nus can exceed $85,000. That's on par with most casual dining chains, analysts said. But Cooker spends a higher-than-av- erage percentage of sales on labor because it typically has more em- ployees per restaurant. Cookcr last year spent 34.5 percent of sales on labor and bene- fits. By contrast, Applebee's spent 31 percent and Chili's 27.6 per- cent, according to an Equitable Securities report. "We spcnd a lot more money 011 labor," Pritchard said. "That's on purnose." FIRE PREVENTION DIVISION II~ ~ @ ~. e~h Memorandum No. 97-231 un APR-4 ! ,:; ! L-,..,-' . :';':,f' ~'5r~~glgE~f.D DATE: Tambri Heyden, Director Planning & Zoning Department William D. Cavanaugh, FPO I /Jj Jr' /1. ~ ;/ Fire Department / (/V r r...d-vCwt. C""'-y' "------ April 4, 1997 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: NWSP 97-007 Cooker Bar & Grill 1333 N. Congress Ave. No portion of any building shall be over 200' from a fire hydrant. Insure all turns have a 45' to 50' radius so that fire apparatus can maneuver around the building. CC: Deputy Chief Ness FPO II Campbell File CITY OF uOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: TAMBRI HEYDEN, PLANNING & ZONING DIRECTOR DATE: 24 MARCH 97 FILE: FROM: SUBJECT: COOKER BAR & GRILLE - 1 st REVIEW \,,~ NEW SITE PLAN SGT. MARLON HARRISI1/H REFERENCES: 97-0019 POLICE DEPARTMENT ENCLOSURES: I have reviewed the above plans and have the following comments: 1. Plans do not show pavement stripings for traffic control ( stop bars, stop signs, etc.) PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM #97-056 TO: Tambri J. Heyden, Planning & Zoning Director , Carel Fisher, Acting Public Works Director W THRU: FROM: Larry Quinn, Sanitation Superintendent SUBJ: New Site Plan - Cooker Bar & Grill DATE: March 26, 1997 ~)l ~ @, ~ ~~c~ l~ uU Illhl\ 2 7 ,-:;::;! . ~ fLANNING AND -,'" ZONIN DEPT. The Public Works Department has no problems with the new site plan referenced above. The plan~~ld proceed to the Planning & Development Board and City Commission for ~aY." . - ///. ~/'/ / / Larry Quinn Sanitation Superintendent LQ/cr j ~ ~ I( o ~ z ~ o ! I- Z ~ t- o ,11l ~ ell...... ..... Ill. ~\ ;!ll -- ~ I :\1= 1+ 1= ~1 ~l I) -- Q ~I -i~ zll_ . r~c!L I~ 2R _~/-1O- ~l Ii i , ~ ,/- - - -/ U I ~~u'l: \ 2~ l / / /; / W . i~ ~ : ;:. ~~ I~v/ / ~i ~~ I II i. f~ I !!\ ~D ~ iL .~ h. @ I I!, I ~ ,.IIr'\l-;-~--@ I l~ I ; n : hI 2 . ~ I 11 I II ! I III I! 11! L--- ~ 111 ..r'~~--~ 1 ~l. 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