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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes augAugust 6, 1998 ITEM NO.: 9 FILE NO.: LU98-15-03 Name: Land Use Plan Amendment - Geyer Springs West Planning District Location: Johnson Lane east of Heinke Road Request: Single Family to Service Trades District Source: Bobby Jones PROPOSAL REQUEST: Land Use Plan amendment in the Geyer Springs West Planning District from Single Family to Service Trades District. Service Trade District provides for a selection of office, warehousing, and industrial park activities that primarily serve other office service or industrial businesses. This district is intended to allow support services to these businesses and to provide for uses with an office component. A Planned Unit Development is required for any development not wholly office. CURRENT LAND USE AND ZONING: The property and all surrounding areas are currently zoned R2 and shown as single Family on the Land Use Plan. The -site is approximately one-half acre in size. RECENT AMENDMENTS: November 4, 1997, numerous plan amendments in the Chicot West I- 30 South, but none in the immediate area of this proposed amendment. MASTER STREET PLAN: Johnson Lane is a residential street. Heinke Road, located to the west is shown as a Collector street on the Master Street Plan. The proposed South Loop lies just to the north of this application. BACKGROUND• This area was included in the Chicot West I-30 South Neighborhood Action Plan that was adopted in November 1997. The neighborhood plan, which made numerous land use plan and zoning changes, kept this area as single family. While the neighborhood plan has stated that there is a desire to attract more light industrial uses to the area and four areas were changed to Light industrial on the plan to attract development, this was not one of those areas. Johnson Street is a two lane paved street with open ditches. At August 6, 1998 ITEM NO.: 9 (Cont.) FILE NO.: LU98-15--03 the split, Johnson Street and Johnson Lane are gravel drives. Johnson Lane is officially dedicated to the city. Johnson Lane is a cul-de-sac off Johnson Street, which is a cul-de-sac east of Heinke Road. Neither Johnson Street nor Johnson Lane is sufficient to carry any business traffic that would be generated by the mini -warehouse use. As stated before, this proposed site is totally surrounded by Single Family and Johnson Lane is a residential local street and is shown as such on the Master Street Plan. NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS: Notices were sent to the following neighborhood association: Rolling Pines. STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Staff believes the change is not appropriate. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (AUGUST 6, 1998) The applicant asked for a deferral in order to change his application. The planning commission approved his request for deferral with a vote of 8 ayes, 0 nays and 3 absent. 2