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ITEM NO.: A FILE NO.: LU98-15-03
Name e Land Use Plan Amendment - Geyer Springs West
Planning District
Location: Johnson Lane east of Heinke Road
Recruest: 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
September 17, 1998
ITEM NO.: A (Cont.)_ FILE NO.: LU98-15-03
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 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.
STAFF UPDATE:
Since the deferral of the item, the applicant has amended
his application from Service Trades District with a proposed
use of mini -warehouse to Mixed Use with a proposed use of a
"wood working shop and store". Mixed Use provides for a
mixture of Residential, Office and Commercial uses to occur.
A Planned Zoning District is required if the use is entirely
office or commercial or if the use is a mixture of the
three. In addition to the woodworking shop and store, noted
on his sketch and letter, the applicant has future plans for
a small apartment for himself. This request is consistent
with Mixed Use. The change in the application does not
change Staff's recommendation.
See attached letter from Norm Floyd, Advocate for the
Preservation of the Chicot West/I-30 South Neighborhood
Plan. His letter states that he is against the proposed
development for three reasons.
Staff has also received one call in opposition.
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