Friday, January 25, 2008

P&Z member proposes Main Street bank


By TONY EVANS
Express Staff Writer

Hailey Planning and Zoning Commission member Owen Scanlon recused himself Tuesday night from a P&Z meeting long enough to present plans to the remaining commissioners for moving a building from Ketchum to Main Street in Hailey. The proposed re-location of a two-story building to 102 Empty Saddle Trail, directly north of the Big Wood 4 Cinemas in Hailey, is intended to provide space for a new bank complete with drive-through teller windows and a conference room.

Scanlon, who presented the plan for James D. McLaughlin Architects, got to experience the usual gauntlet of questions he often poses himself to developers when they come before the commission.

Under discussion were parking space requirements and traffic patterns around the proposed bank building, which includes a plan for two sidewalk curb cuts to accommodate drive-through traffic onto Empty Saddle Trail. Scanlon indicated that the developers of the site would likely pay in-lieu parking fees of $9,975 per parking space for two of the seven spaces required by the city.

Chairwoman Stefanie Marvel also took issue with the building design's lack of a Main Street entrance, a feature required by Hailey ordinance.

"I went to Ketchum recently, which I rarely do, and noticed how all the banks along Main Street have a deadening effect," she said.

The McLaughlin design Scanlon put forward calls for an entrance on Empty Saddle Trail facing the Big Wood 4 Cinemas, and a tinted conference room window facing Main Street.

"It isn't just this one window that matters," Marvel said. " It's when you add them all up. Then you have no activity on Main Street."

The commission voted to continue the Empty Saddle Trail proposal to its Feb. 4 meeting.




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