The specifics
The property that the auto repair facility plans to purchase is located south of Justin Road and east of Long Prairie Road, as previously reported by Community Impact. The existing building on the site totals about 29,000 square feet, according to Lexin Murphy, Flower Mound's director of development services.
Caliber Collision plans to have 53 public parking spaces and other parking spaces will be located south of the building in order to serve as storage for the vehicles that are being worked on, per town documents.
More details
The town’s calculation of the amount of required parking for the size of the property is 116 spaces, according to town documents. However, with the 20% reduction applied, that number would reduce down to 93 spaces and Caliber Collision is proposing 53 spaces. Murphy said out of the 53 spaces, 24 would be allocated to on-site parking and 29 would be allocated to offsite parking.
Murphy said the auto repair facility conducted a parking study with the results demonstrating that the property has sufficient parking spaces.
What they’re saying
Heather Rimmer, vice president of Cross Development, the firm representing the developer, explained the reasoning behind purchasing the Flower Mound property.
“There’s not a lot of opportunity for Caliber to get into Flower Mound and there’s quite a few people who work for the corporate office that would really love to have [a] presence in Flower Mound,” Rimmer said. “There’s that small section that has industrial zoning, which is what Caliber needs to be able to go in and put up a shop.”
Rimmer also said Caliber Collision is only open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., which would limit weekend traffic at the normally congested intersection near the location.
“My concern was the traffic that’s there but like you said, it doesn’t seem like it would impose on traffic,” Mayor Cheryl Moore said. “You don’t have a high volume of people coming there because they’re dropping off a car and then the car is there for like a week or two.”
