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Home My WebLink Aboutletter to Hazel with item April 2000City of Little Rock 13 Department o anning an eve opmen Planning Zoning and 723 West Markham Subdivision Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1334 (501) 371-4790 April 17, 2000 Fred Hazel Davis Development 250 Corporate Center Court Stockbridge, Georgia 30281 Dear Mr. Hazel, I thank you for your interest in the Land Use Plan amendment at Champlin Drive. Enclosed are a copy of the April 13, 2000 agenda and a copy of the sketch map that is for the May 11, 2000 meeting. If there are any questions, please call. If they are concerning the PCD, please ask for Monte Moore (501-371-4790). Sincerely, & AS Brian Minyard Planner II encl. \BRIAN%L00019-01 DOC April 13, 2000 ITEM NO.: 9 FILE NO.: LU00-19-01 Name: Land Use Plan Amendment - Chenal Planning District Location: 1801 Champlin Dr. Request: Office to Commercial Source: Jack McCray, Deltic Timber Corporation PROPOSAL / REQUEST: Land Use Plan amendment in the Chenal Planning District from Office to Commercial. The Commercial category includes a broad range of retail and wholesale sales of products, personal and professional services, and general business activities. Commercial activities vary in type and scale, depending on the trade area they have. The applicant wishes to build a mini -storage warehouse. EXISTING LAND USE AND ZONING: The applicant's vacant property is currently zoned 0-3 General Office and is approximately 4.4 + acres in size. The property is bounded by a vacant lot zoned C-1 Neighborhood Commercial to the north, a vacant tract R-2 Single Family Residential to the south, the Carrington Park Apartments occupy a MF -18 Multi -family zone to the east, while the 0-2 Office and Institutional zone to the west remains vacant. A vacant lot zoned Planned Commercial Development lying to the northeast of the applicant's property is the site of a future Texaco convenience store. A shopping center is located further to the west on the Rahling Road / Chenal Parkway intersection in a Planned Commercial Development zone. FUTURE LAND USE PLAN AND RECENT AMENDMENTS: On January 4, 2000 a change was made from Office to Commercial about a mile south of the applicant's property. On April 20, 1999 a similar change was made on another piece of property from Office to Commercial about a mile south of the applicant's property. April 13, 2000 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont. FILE NO.: LU00-19-01 On December 15, 1998 a change was made from Single Family to Public Institutional about :h of a mile southeast of the applicant's property. On September 1, 1998 a change was made from Single Family to Multifamily and from Multifamily to Single Family about 1,000 feet northwest of the applicant's property. On May 6, 1997 various changes were made from Single Family, Public Institutional, Neighborhood Commercial and Park/Open Space to Single Family, Low Density Residential, Public Institutional, Office, Neighborhood Commercial, and Community Shopping. The changes resulted in the current designation of the applicant's property as Office on the Land Use Plan. The applicant's property is bounded on two sides by Office to the north and west. Multi -family land uses lie to the east and south of the applicant's property. MASTER STREET PLAN: Champlin Drive is shown on the Master Street Plan as a proposed Minor Arterial. Rahling Road is shown on the Master Street Plan as a Minor Arterial and is a segment of the proposed West Loop. PARKS: The Park System Master Plan does not show any parks in the vicinity of this proposed change that will be affected. CITY RECOGNIZED NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PLAN: This property lies just outside the boundary of the area covered by the Rock Creek Neighborhood Action Plan on the northwest corner. Nevertheless, the neighborhood action plan has a Traffic and Transportation goal containing an action statement that recommended the completion of Champlin Drive. ANALYSIS: The applicant's property is located in a neighborhood commercial node characterized by undeveloped land centered on the Rahling Road / Champlin Drive intersection. The existing PZD and the C-1 zoning should provide for Pa April 13, 2000 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont. FILE NO.: LU00-19-01 neighborhood services and goods. The Office future land use along Champlin Drive is acting as a buffer surrounding the developing commercial node and residential areas. Expanding commercial uses south and east along Champlin Drive will erode the buffer between residential areas. In addition, the commercial node at the Chenal Parkway / Rahling Road still has vacant land shown as Commercial available for development. The Chenal Parkway / Kanis Road intersection has vacant land available in an area shown as Mixed Office Commercial on the Future Land Use Plan. NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS: Notices were sent to the following neighborhood associations Aberdeen Court P.O.A., Bayonne Place P.O.A., Carriage Creek P.O.A., Eagle Pointe P.O.A., Glen Eagles P.O.A., Hillsborough P.O.A., Hunters Cove P.O.A., Hunters Green P.O.A., Johnson Ranch N.A., Marlowe Manor P.O.A., and St Charles P.O.A. Staff has received no comments from area residents. STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Staff believes the change is not appropriate. Approval of this amendment will result in the erosion of the Office buffer around the commercial node at a time when undeveloped land shown as Commercial on the Future Land Use Plan exists within surrounding commercial nodes. E�3 Gornplin Drive CP. 42.06 TRS: '12NR14%96 0 400 800 Feet Ads MF MF N C ..-MF F SF KJO MF O MF 0 Plan Amendment case 4 LAluu- i Y -u i N Champlin Drive otoc CT: 42.05 TRS: T2NR13WI8 0 400 800 Feet PD. I Vicinity Map Ward 4 item 4 9 FROFOSED- LANDSCAFING FROFOSED PAVEMENT FEREMITER SCREEN FENCE FROPOSED PAVEMENT TK5 TM14W36 CT 42.06 pD 19 WARD 5 1p nc TOP05ED 13UILOING A Tyr 1 251.68 SHORT FORM f D -C Z-6829 WEST SIDE OF CHAMFLIN DRIVE SOUTH SIDE OF RAHLING ROAD FROF05ED LANDSCAPING FROFOSED PAVE M ENT 0 N LD FEREMITER SCREEN FENCE FROPOSED LANDSCAPING ITEM N0. 11 NORTH