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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMUNICATION
JUNE 15, 2021 AGENDA
Subject
Land Use Plan Amendment
– Geyer Springs West
Planning District –
LU2021-15-01
Submitted By:
Action Required
√ Ordinance
Resolution
Approval
Information Report
Approved By
Planning and Development Bruce Moore
City Manager
SYNOPSIS To approve Land Use Plan amendment in the Geyer
Springs West Planning District from Residential Low (RL)
Residential Medium (RM)
FISCAL IMPACT None
RECOMMENDATION Staff recommended approval. The Little Rock Planning
Commission by a vote of 10 for, 0 against, and 1 vacancy
made recommendation to approve the change at the May
13, 2021 Hearing.
BACKGROUND The approximately 0.50-acre subject site is located on the
west side of North Chicot Road (7500 Block of N. Chicot
Road) between Mabelvale Pike and Mabelvale Pike, the
applicant requests a Land Use Plan amendment from
Residential Low (RL) to Residential Medium (RM).
The subject site, situated between Fourche Creek and I-30,
is located on the west side of N. Chicot Road in a small
node of the Geyer Springs West Planning District.
This land use amendment application is accompanied by a
zoning map amendment request. It is applicant’s intent to
rezone the site to a PRD Planned Residential Development
zoning designation (File No. Z-9529-A). The RM land use
category accommodates a broad range of housing types
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BACKGROUND
CONTINUED
including single family attached, single family detached,
duplex, town homes, multi-family and patio or garden
homes. Any combination of these and possibly other
housing types may fall in this category provided that the
density is between six (6) and twelve (12) dwelling units
per acre.
The applicant’s request would not significantly deplete the
amount of lands available for Residential Low
Developments in the Geyer Springs West Planning
District, or the City as a whole. While a significant amount
of nearby RL lands have been platted and developed, there
are opportunities in the southern portion of Geyer Springs
West Planning District and north of the site in the 65th
West Planning District for the development of single
family homes in the context of the RL land use
designation.
At the southeast corner of N. Chicot Road and Mabelvale
Pike is about ten (10) acres of wooded/undeveloped
Residential Medium designated lands, this swath of RM is
situated just north approximately ten (10) acres of
Residential High (RH) designated lands, which are also
undeveloped.
A change to allow for higher density in this area may be
appropriate as it allows more intense land uses to be
concentrated in the vicinity of the I-30 and North Chicot
Road overpass and outside of established lower density
residential neighborhoods north of Mabelvale Pike and
those areas southwest of the site. As the site is situated on a
collector street, between lands designated PI (Public
Institutional) and lands designated RH (Residential High),
the RM designation land use could compliment the area by
providing a small area of moderately intense development
served by parks and open space to the
north.
Notices were sent to the following neighborhood
associations: Town and Country and the South
Brookwood Association. Staff has received no comments
from area residents or from Neighborhood Associations.