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From: cOSTON@adeq.state.ar.us
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 10:54 AM
To: vhustead@littlerock.state.ar.us
Subject: Land Use Change Request
Dear Mr. Minyard:
As Chairman of the Otter Creek/Crystal Valley Neighborhood Action Plan Steering
Committee, I am writing to let you know that we oppose the land. use change from Single
Family Residential (SF) to Service Trades District (STD) that has been requested on
acreage adjacent to the Texaco Station and'shopping center at the intersection of
Stagecoach Road and Baseline. It is our understanding that an STD will allow
development of anything from small offices to warehouses and industrial parks. This type
of development directly conflicts with our plan for the future in our neighborhood, and
we respectfully request that the application be denied.
Our steering committee is reviewing the Land Use Plan for our planning area, and if our
requested changes are approved, there will be areas which allow Service Trades
development, but we have limited them to outlaying areas closer to major thoroughfares.
We have attempted to concentrate heavier commercial and light industrial uses to
outlaying areas as well.
Our vision for our community is that of a quiet, rural, residential neighborhood with a
"village" atmosphere, human -scale and resident friendly. We welcome commercial and
office development in our planning area, but we will endeavor to limit this development
mostly to the Stagecoach Road corridor, and to restrict overgrowth of commercial
development relative to residential development. The "heart" of our planning area,
roughly located between Crystal Valley road and Otter Creek Road, is primarily
residential, with frontage on both sides of Stagecoach Road. Commercial and office
development in this area would be that which primarily serves the neighborhood while
attracting enough business from other areas to be profitable. We do not believe that "big
box" developments fall within those parameters.
I believe that our planning area is at a critical stage of development where every planning
decision implemented in the next several years could effect residential property values,
either positively or adversely. I believe careful analysis of the "big picture" will be
necessary on each planning decision in order to protect and enhance the quality of life in
our neighborhood.
Sincerely,
Cathy Coston
Chairman
Otter Creek/Crystal Valley Neighborhood Action Plan Steering Committee