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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutesJanuary 10, 2013 ITEM NO.: 2 FILE NO.: LU13-15-01 Name: Land Use Plan Amendment — Geyer Spring West Planning District Location: 10700 blocks of Woodman St and Sardis Road Request: Suburban Office to Mixed Commercial Industrial Source: James Lawhorn PROPOSAL / REQUEST: Land Use Plan amendment in the Geyer Spring West Planning District from Suburban Office to Mixed Commercial Industrial. Mixed Commercial and Industrial provides for a mixture of commercial and industrial uses to occur. Acceptable uses are commercial or mixed commercial and industrial. A Planned Zoning District is required if the use is mixed commercial and industrial. The use will be for automobile storage of impounded cars. EXISTING LAND USE AND ZONING: The property is cleared and partially used for storage of cars and is currently zoned R-2 Single Family and is 1.17 acres ± in size. Immediately surrounding the application is R-2 Single Family. To the west is a large area of 1-2 Light Industrial land that is mostly vacant except for a textile rental company to the north of the application. To the northwest, is the area of small block development of Mabelvale. It has a mixture of uses from single family houses, churches, and some scattered commercial uses. The area to the south is primarily undeveloped along Sardis Road. FUTURE LAND USE PLAN AND RECENT AMENDMENTS: This property is currently shown as SO Suburban Office. To the north, east and south is also shown as Suburban Office. Across Sardis Road to the south as well as across Mabelvale Main to the east is Residential Low Density. To the immediate west is MCI Mixed Commercial Industrial. April 2, 2002, A change was made from Single Family to Public Institutional northeast of the site for a church. November 4, 1997, multiple changes occurred in the vicinity of the application area including this site from Multi -Family and Mixed Office Commercial to Mixed Use. The area immediately to the west was changed from Light Industrial and Mixed Office Commercial to Mixed Commercial Industrial also at this time. January 10, 2013 ITEM NO.: 2 Cont. FILE NO.: LU13-15-01 MASTER STREET PLAN: Sardis Road is shown as a Collector on the Master Street Plan. Eventually, the proposed Minor Arterial will be parallel to Sardis connecting Mabelvale Cutoff (just west of Mabelvale Elementary School) to Sardis Road south and west of the site. The primary function of a Collector Street is to provide a connection from Local Streets to Arterials. Woodman Street is shown as a Local Street. The primary function of a Local Street is to provide access to adjacent properties. Local Streets which are abutted by non-residential zoning/use or more intensive zoning than duplexes are considered as "Commercial Streets". These streets have a design standard the same as a Collector. Woodman would be considered a Commercial Street. BICYCLE PLAN: Any bikeway or proposed bike route is at least three blocks away from this application site. PARKS: According to the Master Parks Plan, this site is not in an service deficit area, meaning that there is a public park within 8 blocks of this site, namely Morehart Park and Pinedale Cove Park. HISTORIC DISTRICTS: There are no city recognized historic districts that would be affected by this amendment. ANALYSIS: This proposal would expand the Mixed Commercial Industrial to the east for a portion of one block. This proposal is to use the area as a vehicular storage yard, which would have minimal physical improvements to the site. The area requesting the change is part of a larger existing use to the west within the mixed Commercial Industrial area. This amendment is on the boundary of the Mixed Commercial Industrial and Suburban Office. The Future Land Use Plan shows Suburban Office for this area west of Mabelvale Main Street. However, the current use pattern is mixed. West of Mabelvale Main Street and surrounding this application is primarily single family houses with one exception: a textile rental company located due north of the application site. 2 January 10, 2013 ITEM NO.: 2 (Cont.) FILE NO.: LU 13-15-01 The Future Land Use plan is always considered to be a more general plan in nature and already envisions a change to non-residential for this southwest quadrant of Mabelvale. More intensive uses are shown, but not developed yet, along Sardis Road west of the Mabelvale areas. Suburban Office has been shown for this quadrant to help transition hack to the Residential Low Density in the southeast quadrant and areas south of Mabelvale. After the proposed expansion of Mixed Commercial Industrial, there would remain a Suburban Office area both to the east and south to help buffer the proposed Residential Low Density areas shown on the plan south of Sardis Road and east of Mabelvale Main. NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS: Notices were sent to the following neighborhood associations: Mavis Circle, Pinedale, Shiloh and SWLR UPS. STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Staff believes the change is appropriate. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (JANUARY 10, 2013) This item was placed on the consent agenda for approval and was approved with a vote of 9 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent and 1 open position. 3 0 del RL 0 C RL p Fl� PK/OS ... RL 0 F", .- -.. 0 C Mx Pi X — E r' 1�1 cc> PPKIO 00 0 PK/OS R o MCI D 0 11RA-Z Land Use Plan Amendment Case: LU13-15-01 jU Location: 10700 Block of Sardis and Woodson Street SO to MCI Ward: 7 PD: 15 0 125250 500 Fcct CT 41.04 TRS: T1 R13W10 � �II � d R2 CUP Q Qb I.03 fIiI ore a y� C3 d o© PR a o oQ OS f— t cn Q Cu oL Area Zoning Case: LU13-15-01 �J Location: 10700 Block of Sardis and Woodson Street SO to MCI Ward: 7 PD: 15 0 125250 500 Feet CT: 41.04 TRS: T1S R13W10