Lindsey apartments, Adventure Subaru eye expansion

Planning Commission reviews east Fayetteville subdivision plans, too

FAYETTEVILLE -- One of the city's largest apartment complexes and one of its most popular car dealerships are expanding. Again.

Members of the Planning Commission's Subdivision Committee on Thursday approved a 60-unit addition to Lindsey Management's Links housing complex on the west side of town.

Fayetteville Planning Commission

The next Planning Commission meeting is at 5:30 p.m. June 8 in Room 219 of the City Administration Building, 113 W. Mountain St. The commission’s Subdivision Committee is next scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. June 11 in Room 326. Agendas will be posted online at accessfayetteville.….

Source: Staff report

Plans for a used car showroom, expanded service area and more parking at Adventure Subaru, 2269 N. Henbest Drive, will be up for approval at the commission's June 8 meeting.

Committee members also reviewed plans for a 17-lot, single-family subdivision at 4436 E. Mission Blvd., an 11-unit townhouse project at 335 E. Appleby Road and a 12-unit apartment complex at 3203 N. Warwick Drive. The apartment project, in a single-family neighborhood near Sweetbriar Park, was tabled until June 11. The other two projects will be considered June 8.

Thursday's action is the second time this year commissioners have approved more housing at the Links. Phase I of the project, which was completed in 2009, features 1,080 bedrooms in 604 units, along with a nine-hole golf course, near Wedington Drive and Rupple Road.

Another 826 bedrooms in 516 units are envisioned on undeveloped land north of the apartments. Commissioners approved plans for the apartments -- and 39 row houses along Rupple Road -- in January.

The 60 units Subdivision Committee members approved Thursday will be built in four two-story, New Orleans-style structures facing a central "town square," according to Andrew Garner, city planning director.

The structures were initially planned with commercial space on the ground floor, but, according to an engineer with Blew & Associates, Lindsey opted to remove the commercial areas because similar concepts had failed elsewhere.

Other phases of the Links development could include townhouses and commercial space along Wedington Drive and Rupple Road.

Adventure Subaru is expanding for the second time since it opened west of Interstate 49 in June 2012.

Planning commissioners allowed for more parking at the 8.4-acre dealership in 2013. David Nelms, one of the dealership's owners, said it sold about 1,175 new cars in 2013 and nearly 1,700 in 2014.

"With the amount of cars we're selling, we've exceeded the capacity of our current showroom," Nelms said.

The expansion will provide space for used cars, double the service building and add a detail shop. 95 parking spaces, for employees, inventory and service customers, will be added.

"Along with selling all of these vehicles, you need space to service and maintain them," Nelms said. "With that comes parking as well."

He said construction will likely be phased in over a two-year period.

Several residents came to Thursday's Subdivision Committee meeting to express concerns about a 27-lot subdivision called Remington Estates planned in their neighborhood west of Crossover Road and Manor Drive.

The 12.1-acre wooded hillside where the project is envisioned is owned by the William E. House Trust, according to Washington County land records.

Jay Greene, who lives next to Ridgely Drive, which would be extended to serve as the main entry road to the development, said he was concerned about tree removal and the density of the project as well as its potential to exacerbate drainage problems and add traffic to Manor Drive.

All three Subdivision Committee members said they thought the site, because of its topography, will be tough to develop to city standards. But all three voted to forward the development proposal to the full Planning Commission, where it will be heard June 8.

"Construction's going to be interesting and difficult if this goes all the way forward, but, you know, Fayetteville has a lot of that," Commissioner William Chesser said. "Some of the most beautiful houses in Fayetteville are built in places where people might have originally said, 'Wow, it's going to be tough.'"

NW News on 05/29/2015

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