Earlier this month, Pete Patel of RevPAR Companies and Jordan Corbitt of Kimley Horn submitted plans for the Marietta Street Hotel challenge positioned at 329 Marietta Street to the City of Atlanta. The plans require variations from the present SPI-1 ordinance to realize the desired constructing and web site design, requested by the Special Administrative Permit Process.
According to the utility paperwork, the Downtown District challenge consists of the improvement of an 0.35-acre web site at the intersection of Marietta Street and Latimer Street. Marietta Street binds the web site to the west, Latimer Street to the south, and the current Hyatt Centennial Hotel to the north and east. The main elements of this challenge embrace the development of an roughly 113,000 sq. foot, nine-story, 190 room lodge on prime of 4 ranges of a valet-only parking deck, which incorporates sixty-three parking areas.
Active makes use of shall be supplied alongside the Marietta Street storefront on the floor ground and on degree 2 in the types of retail, foyer, and workplace house. In addition, the proposed web site plan consists of the lodge/parking deck, enhanced pedestrian entry on-site, and an on-street loading/rideshare zone.
The requested variations embrace:
- Variation from twelve toes to 14 toes for the most curb reduce for the one-way entrance and exit from the parking deck permits automobile circulation for the valet drop-off inside the parking deck.
- Variation for the loading house width to be lowered from twelve toes to eight toes to maximise the sidewalk clear zone alongside Latimer Street, the place the proposed loading zone is positioned. Latimer Street is at the moment eighteen toes huge, which is larger than required for a one-way road and will permit for autos to go throughout loading operations.
- Variation to take away the Street Furniture and Tree Planting Zone and cut back the Sidewalk Clear Zone to seven toes adjoining to the proposed loading/rideshare zone. Additionally, we’re requesting a variation to take away the road tree planting requirement alongside Latimer Street to permit entrance to the constructing parking deck and permit room for the loading/rideshare zone. Streetlights and road furnishings are nonetheless deliberate alongside Latimer Street the place house permits.
- Variation to scale back the depth of the lively use to 12 toes on the second ground of the constructing and the peak of the lively use supplied to twenty-seven toes, 4 inches above the sidewalk degree resulting from web site constraints and inner ramping and circulation of the parking deck.