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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.
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