HomeMy WebLinkAboutstaff reportFebruary 19, 1998
ITEM NO.: 8 FILE NO.: LU98-18-01
NAME: Land Use Plan Amendment - Ellis Mountain
LOCATION: 14703 Kanis Road
REQUEST: Single Family and Transition to Service
Trades District
SOURCE: Bennie Jean White
PROPOSAL/REQUEST:
Land Use Plan amendment in the Ellis Mountain District from
Transition and Single Family to Service Trades District. STD
provides for a selection of office, warehousing, and industrial
park activities that primarily serve other office service or
industrial businesses. The district is intended to allow support
services to these businesses and to provide for uses with an
office component. A PZD is required for any development not
wholly office.
RECENT AMENDMENTS:
August 1994 amendment from Low Density Multifamily to
Suburban Office on Kanis/Pride Valley and Low Density
Multifamily to Single Family on Woodcreek Drive.
MASTER STREET PLAN:
Kanis Road is shown as a minor arterial on the plan.
CURRENT ZONING AND ACREAGE:
The property is zoned POD and is 2.92± acres.
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS:
Notices were sent to Parkway Place and St. Charles
Neighborhood Associations. No comments were received by
print time.
STAFF REPORT:
Transition is shown on the Land Use Plan along each side of Kanis
Road. The Public Institutional to the north of the site is Baker
Elementary School. There is some Low Density Residential shown
on Kanis across from the school. There are existing single and
multi -family units around the site and an existing office on the
property.
February 19, 1998
ITEM Na.: 8 (cont.) FILE NO.: LU98-18-41
In the fall of 1996 the Board of Directors directed the Planning
Staff to undertake a study of the Kanis corridor. This site was
contained within that area. A Study Committee was formed and met
for a nine month period concentrating on three primary issues:
land use, roadway design and funding alternatives. Three land
use options were developed by the committee. A fourth option was
to maintain the current plan. None of the options recommended an
increase in intensity for this site; two depicted the area as
residential. The options were presented to the Planning
Commission in October 1997. A vote on preferences was taken by
the Commission but no option received the six votes needed to
recommend an option to the Board of Directors. The Board of
Directors has taken no action on the Kanis Corridor Study at this
time.
This site was submitted to the Planning Commission on September
12, 1996 to rezone from a POD to a PCD. Planning staff
recommended against a plan change from Single Family and
Transition to Commercial. The Commission denied the request for
a PCD with a vote of 2 ayes, 8 nays, and 1 absent.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends denial of the land use plan amendment from
Single Family and Transition to Service Trades District.