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Design Review Board

Level 3: Construction of new building/structure

3-B-10-DT

Staff Recommendation

APPROVE Certificate 3-B-10-DT as submitted.

Location
100 S Broadway
Applicant Request
This proposal is to place a Clayton i-house on the property at 100 S. Broadway. The placement of this modular house will be at the top of the hill behind the former Budget car rental building (see attached location map). This portion of the site is accessed via Vine Avenue and the private driveway for the Summit Towers Apartments. There is also a proposed stairs that will connect the house with the sidewalk at Jackson Avenue. The stair treads will be made of concrete and wood, and have steel handrails.

The housing unit will be placed on what is now a gravel parking lot (see aerial map). There will be minimal site work needed to place this unit on the property. Once the unit is installed, the gravel lot will become a lawn and other landscaping, other than the demarcated parking area at the existing curb cut in the private driveway of the Summit Towers Apartments (see attached site plan). The unit will have a side yard setback of 20 feet.

The i-house is manufactured by Clayton Homes and is a modular house. The house will sit on an enclosed permanent foundation made of concrete block with a parge coat. The house has two components; the larger structure (i-core) is the main living quarters and the smaller structure (flex structure) is additional living space (see the attached plans). The i-core has a butterfly roof, with a standing seam metal roof. There are solar panels that lay flat on the roof. The siding on the upper part of the structure is corrugated vertical metal siding. The siding on the lower part of the structure is cemplank smooth cement siding. The windows and doors are clear and have a metal frame.

There are three deck surfaces on this plan. There is a deck that connects the i-core with the flex structure. This deck has an extension that can be seen on the floor plan. There is a stair from this deck extension to a roof top deck on the flex structure. This stair is made of aluminum. There will also be a deck off the bedroom. All the deck surfaces will be made of composite deck boards and will have aluminum railings.
Staff Comments
The Downtown Knoxville Design Guidelines do not directly address this type of construction, nor siting a structure in a location such as this. Staff feels the location and siting of this dwelling unit is appropriate because it does not have direct road or sidewalk access so it cannot address the street as typical structure downtown would.
Applicant

Sanders / Sanders Pace Architecture, LLC.

Planning Staff
Mike Reynolds
Phone: 865-215-3827
Email: mike.reynolds@knoxplanning.org
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