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Name: Land Use Plan Amendment — Granite Mountain / Sweet Home Planning
District
Location: SE of the 1-30, 1-530 and 1-440 Interchange in Section 23, 24, and 26 TIN
R12W
Request: Park/Open Space to Mining
Source: Haskell L Dickinson 11, McGeorge Contracting Company
PROPOSAL / REQUEST:
A Land Use Plan amendment in the Granite Mountain / Sweet Home Planning District
from Park/Open Space to Mining. The mining category provides for the extraction of
various natural resources such as bauxite, sand, gravel, limestone, granite or other.
Mining uses will include assurances that these resources be properly managed so as
not to create a hazard, nuisance or the disfigurement or pollution of the land. The use
will be for future mining activities.
Prompted by this Land Use Amendment request, the Planning Staff expanded the area
of review to include an area of land that is currently zoned Mining that is under that
same ownership as the property in question. Without that change, there would be an
island of PK/OS within the mining. This change would make the Future Land Use plan
more logical and representational.
EXISTING LAND USE AND ZONING:
The property is wooded and currently zoned PR Park and Recreation and is 178 acres
± in size. (34 acres is the expansion area that is already zoned Mining.) To the north is
Gilliam Park zoned PR Park and Recreation. To the south is land zoned 1-3 Heavy
Industrial, R-2 Single Family and M Mining all of which has mining activities on them. To
the west is Interstate 530 and beyond that is more areas shown as Mining. To the east
and northeast is land that is both zoned un -zoned and has a mixture of uses from small
commercial, single family housing and multi -family housing. That land is zoned is PRD
Planned Residential Development, R-2 Single Family and PR Park and Recreation.
Commercial uses are along Springer Boulevard. Those uses include a small grocery
store, a liquor store and vacant commercial buildings.
FUTURE LAND USE PLAN AND RECENT AMENDMENTS:
December 12, 2000, a change was made from commercial, Public Institutional, Multi
Family and Single Family to Low Density Residential between Gilliam Park Road and
Edge Street at Granite Mountain Circle one half of a mile to the northeast.
January 10, 2013
ITEM NO.: 3 (C
MASTER STREET PLAN:
FILE NO.: LU13-24-01
There are no roads classified higher than a local street in the area of the application.
The application does border Interstate 530, but there is no access to that interstate from
the property. There are no proposed streets listed in the Master Street Plan for this
area either. Access to the site is from the south through private property.
BICYCLE PLAN:
The closest bike route to this site is along highway 365 and East Dixon Road and is
shown as a Class II. A Class II bikeway is located on the street as either a 5' shoulder
or six foot marked bike lane. Additional paving and right of way may be required.
PARKS:
According to the Master Parks Plan, this areas is not in a park deficit area since it
boarders Gilliam Park.
HISTORIC DISTRICTS:
There are no city recognized historic districts that would be affected by this amendment.
ANALYSIS -
This application is part of a land swap between the applicant and the City of Little Rock.
That swap exchanged land with the City receiving land that is closer to the heart of
Gilliam Park on top of the hill to the north and the mining interest receiving land to the
south next to the active mine. This swap consolidates the north and west side of
Granite Mountain in the north half of Sec 23 to be in City control. This amendment and
land swap, effectively pushes the mining interest further away from the downtown core
and further from the bulk of the residents in the Granite Mountain community and
replaces it with the land for a nature center.
This swap would increase the area to be used as parkland for Gilliam Park, but even
more, reduces the use of mining the land in the future. This land, that the city received,
is also adjacent to the Fourche Bottoms urban wetland park and is in the view shed of
that park. City of Little Rock Resolutions numbers 13,330, 11,190, and 11,099 refer to
Audubon Arkansas operating a nature center utilizing this property that is ecologically
sensitive. Sensitive areas such as the Fourche Creek and Gilliam Park as noted.
This area has a proliferation of mining uses on adjacent parcels to the south and
southeast. While the use is already there, it is important to protect the view corridor
entering and exiting the city via 1-530. The freeway is currently lined with a buffer of
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ITEM NO.: 3 (Cont.) FILE NO.: LU13-24-01
trees and forest and that buffer should remain on the newly acquired land that is the
subject of this amendment.
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS:
Notices were sent to the Granite Mountain neighborhood association.
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Staff believes the change is appropriate..
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (JANUARY 10, 2013)
This item was placed on the consent agenda for approval and was approved with a vote
of 9 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent and 1 open position.
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Case: LU 13-24-01 N
Location: S and W of Gillam Park
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Case: LU13-24-01 N
Location: S and W of Gillam Park
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CT: 40.01
TRS: T1 N R12W26