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Home My WebLink About26'0316-TB-Arlington_PJ26-0017_Review-TDG-RESPONSE-PADGI 18204 591h Avenue NE REVIEW COMMENT FORM Arlington,WA98223 360-403-3551 Project Name:Taco Bell Permit No.: PJ26-0017 Review Date: 1/28/2026 Contact: Fletcher Boll Phone No.: Land Use Review Phase: 1St Comments Report Date: Email: Reviewing Dept.: CED Applicant: DWG Issue Date: Response/Resolution City # Rev. Dwg.or Add'1 Comment S ec.Ref. Ref. Approved 1. Online The online application is missing the Real Property The Zoning Permit applieation was signed+y Application Owner's approval.Please update or provide a separate document with this approval. 2. Site Plan AMC 20.46.060(b)All drive-through windows and their The proposed configuration provides the driveways shall be screened so as to minimize visual maximum screening from the public right-of- impacts from public rights-of-way. way with the drive-thru ordering kiosk and The current site configuration does not provide screening queue on the backside of the building. The for the drive thru. The layout provided during the General drive-thru window will not be visible from the Information Meeting appeared to provide better screening street. options and may want to be reevaluated.Please update The early design was prepared before a full plans and explain how this requirement is met. review of the development design standards. The current layout solves several concerns and requirements.Rotating the building on the site orients the dining room to the street favade providing transparency and pedestrian connection to the street.This gets our primary pedestrian entrance closest to the street.The previous design had the freezer/cooler and kitchen facing the street which eliminates any transparency potential. Locating the drive through queue lane behind the building hides the cars from the street supporting pedestrian connection to 204'NE. The earlier site design had the drive through queue lane parallel to the street which could back up onto 204th,which would create non compliance with 20.56.050(a) (1)posing a danger to vehicles traveling in abutting streets. 3. Site Plan AMC 20.46.095(b)Accessory buildings shall be The trash enclosure has been moved to the subordinate to the primary structure and shall be set back northeast corner of the site and does not face a minimum of eight(8)feet from the face of the primary the street. structure. Page 1 of 3/16/26 - RESPONSE TO CITY COMMENTS 18204 591h Avenue NE REVIEW COMMENT FORM Arlington,WA98223 360-403-3551 Project Name:Taco Bell Permit No.: PJ26-0017 Review Date: 1/28/2026 Contact: Fletcher Boll Phone No.: Land Use Review Phase: 1St Comments Report Date: Email: Reviewing Dept.: CED Applicant: DWG Issue Date: Response/Resolution City # Rev. Dwg.or Add'1 Comment S ec.Ref. Ref. Approved The trach enclosure is considered an accessory building and is required to be set back from the face of the structure along 2041 St. 4. Site Plan 20.56.050(a)All driveway entrances and other openings The parcel is restricted to use the shared onto streets within the city's planning jurisdiction shall be driveway at 2041h Street NE. Shared constructed so that: driveways are encouraged to reduce the 1. Vehicles can enter and exit from the lot in question number of accesses onto the public right-of- without posing any substantial danger to themselves, way with the intent of reducing traffic pedestrians, or vehicles traveling in abutting streets, collisions. Locating the drive-thru in line with traffic flowing the We have modified our site plan to add internal opposite way to enter the site creates a potential hazard. lane channelization to use pavement markings, Please revise plans and show how vehicles will enter and a stop bar,stop sign and yield sign at the exit exist the lot without posing any substantial danger to from the site to the shared driveway to guide themselves,or other vehicles. traffic,separate opposing flow and manage vehicle movements on and off the site. The current layout keeps the drive-thru queue as far away as possible from the City r.o.w. Vehicles exiting the drive-thru would occur intermittently(4 min.per car). Taco Bell customers entering the site can flow freely to the east and then continue north to park,or queue into the drive through lane at the north end of the site.This layout eliminates the concern for a drive through vehicle queue backing up onto 204th NE.This layout also supports the design review goal of concealing the drive through queue behind the building. 5. Elevations/Site 20.68.010(b)A sign permit may be processed and issued Understood. The separate sign permit will be Plan concurrently with a requested zoning, special use or applied for. New sign has been omitted from conditional use permit however, a separate application is the plans. required. Page 2 of 5 3/16/26 - RESPONSE TO CITY COMMENTS 18204 591h Avenue NE REVIEW COMMENT FORM Arlington,WA98223 360-403-3551 Project Name:Taco Bell Permit No.: PJ26-0017 Review Date: 1/28/2026 Contact: Fletcher Boll Phone No.: Land Use Review Phase: 1St Comments Report Date: Email: Reviewing Dept.: CED Applicant: DWG Issue Date: Response/Resolution City # Rev. Dwg.or Add'1 Comment S ec.Ref. Ref. Approved Signs will not be approved with this Zoning Permit nor the Design Review approval.Please remove them from the elevations and site plans. 6. Site Plan AMC 20.72.110(b)Except in the Old Town Business A rack for two(2)bicycles has been added at District], where bicycle parking facilities are anticipated the SE corner of the building. to be provided as part of public/private redevelopment projects, all commercial and public uses shall provide "stalls"for bicycles at a ratio of ten percent of the required automobile parking spaces required for a business or group of businesses.After twenty "stalls"have been provided by any business or group of businesses, the ratio shall be five percent of the total required automobile parking spaces. Please show the required bicycle parking on the plans.This is rounded to the next full number,so for this proposal it would be parking for(2)bicycles. 7. Site Plan AMC 20.76-1:Resturanunts Side and Rear Property lines AMC 20.76.040(a)Opaque Screen,Type A. require Type A landscaping for all neighboring residential. A screen that is opaque from the ground to a The north property line abuts a residential development. height of at least six feet,with intermittent Please revise landscaping for the north. visual obstructions from the opaque portion to a height of at least twenty feet.The width shall be a minimum of five feet wide. Drought tolerant evergreen landscaping is proposed in order to meet this requirement. A Type A landscape screen along the north property line is now shown on the plans. Page 3 of 3/16/26 - RESPONSE TO CITY COMMENTS 18204 591h Avenue NE REVIEW COMMENT FORM Arlington,WA98223 360-403-3551 Project Name:Taco Bell Permit No.: PJ26-0017 Review Date: 1/28/2026 Contact: Fletcher Boll Phone No.: Land Use Review Phase: 1St Comments Report Date: Email: Reviewing Dept.: CED Applicant: DWG Issue Date: Response/Resolution City # Rev. Dwg.or Add'1 Comment S ec.Ref. Ref. Approved 8. Site Plan AMC 20.114.425 Buildings and accessory structures shall EV charging station calcs provided on the be provided with EV charging stations,EV-Ready parking plans. A total of two(2)EV/EV Ready stalls spaces, and EV-capable parking spaces in accordance are required. with Table 20.114.425T,per the International Building Two(2)EV charging stalls are provided. Code occupancy types. Calculations shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. Where a building contains more than one occupancy, the electric vehicle charging infrastructure percentages of Table 20.114.425T shall be applied to the number of spaces required for each occupancy Please provide calculation and update plans as necessary. 9. Site Plan Please provide recording number of access easement on Access easement information has been added. the north and south side of the property on the plans. 10. Landscape Development Design Standards 2.4.3.1(a)Provide a screen The trash enclosure has been relocated to the Plans/Site wall at least 2-112 feet high, of durable and attractive northeast corner of the site. An opaque Plan materials.Incorporate a continuous trellis ofgrillwork landscaped perimeter hedge at least 2.5-ft high with climbing plants. is now proposed along 2041h Street NE to The trash enclosure does not meet the intent of the screen the parking and trash area from the screening wall.Please see the type of screening walls used public sidewalk in accordance with DDS by recent developments.You can contact me directly for 2.4.3.1(b). examples. 11. Site Plan Development Design Standards 7.3.3.3, When possible, The trash enclosure has been relocated to the locate services for trash, recycling and loading in an northeast corner of the site. enclosed service room off an alley, side drive or within a parking garage. The intent of this section is not met. Trash services should be away from the front of the lot when possible.Please revise plans. 12. There may be additional comments on the next submittal due to the extent of necessary revisions. 13. Per AMC 20.16.240 an applicant has 60 days to submit the requested information.The resubmittal deadline is March Page 4 of 5 3/16/26 - RESPONSE TO CITY COMMENTS 18204 591h Avenue NE REVIEW COMMENT FORM Arlington,WA98223 360-403-3551 Project Name:Taco Bell Permit No.: PJ26-0017 Review Date: 1/28/2026 Contact: Fletcher Boll Phone No.: Land Use Review Phase: 1St Comments Report Date: Email: Reviewing Dept.: CED Applicant: DWG Issue Date: Response/Resolution City # Rev. Dwg.or Add'1 Comment S ec.Ref. Ref. Approved 30,2026.When you are ready to submit,please send all documents to ced@arlingtonwa.gov for prompt processing. 14. Per AMC 20.16.270(d),if the applicant informs the city,in writing,that the applicant would like to temporarily suspend the review of the project for more than 60 days,or if an applicant is nonresponsive for more than 60 consecutive days after the city has notified the applicant, an additional 30 days may be added to the time periods for the city to issue a final decision for each type of permit that is subject to this chapter. 15. Any written notice from the city to the applicant that additional information is required to further process the application must include a notice that nonresponsiveness for 60 consecutive days may result in 30 days being added to the time for review. 16. 17. 18. 19. Page 5 of 3/16/26 - RESPONSE TO CITY COMMENTS