HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutesAugust 6, 1998
ITEM NO.: 6 FILE NO.: LU98--12--04
Name: Land Use Plan Amendment - 65th Street West District
Location: An area bounded by Stagecoach Road, Herndon Road,
McPhearson Road, and Lanehart Road
Request: Single Family to Service Trades District
Source: Jim Hathaway/William Ellis
PROPOSAL / REQUEST:
Land Use Plan amendment in the 65th Street West Planning District
from Single Family and Neighborhood Commercial to Service Trades
District and Park/Open Space. 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. Park/Open Space includes all
public parks, recreation facilities, greenbelts, floodplains, and
other designated open space and recreational land.
Upon examination of the existing conditions and plans, Staff felt
that it was appropriate to expand the area of the application to
the west to include the existing auto salvage yard, the auto
repossession business and the residential uses. This would make
the line more logical and acknowledge existing uses. Staff also
proposed amending the application to include a 75, buffer strip
of Park/Open Space along the perimeter of the project area. This
75, buffer is shown on a preliminary site plan of the property
filed with the amendment. The PK/OS strip stops short of
Stagecoach Road because of the proposed entrance to the site is
off of Herndon and one cannot enter a site through a Park/Open
Space buffer.
CURRENT LAND USE AND ZONING:
The property is currently zoned R2 and is approximately 48.4 t
acres in size. Surrounding the property on the northeast, east,
south and southeast are areas zoned R-2 and are single family
dwellings and or wooded tracts of undeveloped land that is shown
as Single Family on the. Land Use Plan. Along StagPaoaah, to the
north is the Missionary Baptist Seminary and the Antioch
Missionary Baptist Church which area shown as Public
Institutional and zoned R-2. Abutting the property to the west
along Stagecoach are two auto related businesses, one an auto
repossession business and an auto salvage yard. These two are
also zoned R-2 and shown on the Plan as Single Family and
Neighborhood Commercial, respectively. The area zoned as C-1 on
Stagecoach on the west side of the road is vacant.
August 6, 1998
ITEM NO.: 6 (Cont.) FILE NO.: LU98-12-04
RECENT AMENDMENTS:
June 3, 1997, a change form Community Shopping to Single Family
on the west side of Marigold Drive and
A change from Single Family to Commercial at the southeast corner
of the intersection of Stagecoach Road, Colonel Glenn Road and
Asher Avenue.
MASTER STREET PLAN:
Stagecoach Road is shown as a Minor Arterial on the plan. Herndon
Road, McPhearson Road, and Lanehart Road are collectors.
BACKGROUND:
Recent petitions for changing the Land Use Plan in this area have
met with local resistance. The applications for the expansion of
the block plant on Brodie Lane and the mortgage company at the
David O. Dodd and Stagecoach intersection were denied earlier
this year. These sites are less than three/quarters of a mile
from this site towards the southeast.
The applicant has submitted a preliminary plat,.of the
development. It includes a buffer along the east, south and west
sides of distances of 50 and 751. This buffer would assist in
screening the "office park" from the residential uses along
Lanehart Road and McPhearson Road. This buffer area is not shown
as part of the lots for sale, and would be held as common area.
This application should be amended to show this buffer as
Park/Open Space which would virtually restrict all development in
the buffer zone and access across the zone.
A large tract that is developed in a comprehensive "campus like"
manner can be an asset to the neighborhood. Staff has reviewed
the preliminary site plan and has concerns with lighting,
setbacks, traffic generation, both internal and external
landscaping requirements, protection of buffers, etc. These
issues are of a resolvable nature. This is a sensitive site, and
it will only work if it is designed well.
A PUD is required for any development that is not wholly office.
This additional review can further insure the quality of
development.
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS:
Notices were sent to the following neighborhood association:
Pecan Lake. As of this printing, we have received one comment
from an owner of the expanded properties of a neutral nature.
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August 6, 1998
ITEM NO.: fi Cont. FILE NO.: LU98-12--04
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Staff believes the change is appropriate.
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (AUGUST 6, 1998)
Brian Minyard of staff presented the item. Mr. Minyard
referenced letters from Mr. Don Thornton supporting the item and
a letter from Mr. Henry Gilmore in opposition to the item.
The applicant, Mr. Jim Hathaway, spoke that discussion had
occurred between the applicant, the owner and Mr. Gilmore. Mr.
Hathaway spoke of the owner living in the neighborhood and of
buffering and other aspects of the development.
Mr. Hudson, President of the Pecan Lake Homeowners Association,
spoke in favor of the application and spoke of a neighborhood
meeting that the owner and applicant attended.
Mr. Gilmore spoke of meeting with the applicant and the owner in
the hallway and was presented with information. He stated that
he was in support of the plan.
Commissioner Hawn made a motion to approve the land use plan
amendment and was seconded. The item was approved with a vote of
8 ayes, 0 nays and 3 absent.
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