HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-3750 Staff AnalysisSeptember 29, 1981
Item No. 7 - Z-3750
Owner:
Earnest and Claudia Faqin
Applicant:
Claudia Fagin
Location:
Southwest Corner of First and Elm
Streets, Mabelvale
Request:
Rezone from "R-2" Single Family to
"I-2" Light Industrial
Purpose:
Industrial Cleaning Plant
Size•
42,600 Square Feet +
Existing Use: Vacant
SURROUNDING
LAND USE AND ZONING:
North
- Missouri Pacific RR, Zoned "R-2"
South
- Single Family, Zoned "R-2"
East
- Single Family, Zoned "R-2"
West
- Vacant, Zoned "I-2"
PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS:
No adverse comments have been received from any reviewing
agency. All access to this property comes from Elm Street.
The town of Mabelvale is perhaps typical of small town
America with regard to its mixture of land uses. In town,
in a greatly scattered pattern, are single family dwellings,
mobile homes, churches, auto repair garages, welding shops,
small stores and public or quasipublic facilities. No
coherent zoning pattern would accommodate the adjacent land
uses or provide any equitable treatment of existing land
uses.
Staff has taken a hard look at the land use pattern and
determined that because of the single major street pattern
established by the Master Street Plan, which calls for
Mabelvale Pike, Main Street, East 3rd Street and Sardis Road
to be of one continuous arterial segment through town, Main
Street and 3rd Street can form a reasonable eastern and
southern boundary to the nonresidential development of the
property to the west and north of those two streets. Staff
insists that the appropriate form for this to take is one in
which zoning is approved for those properties which abut
existing similarly zoned property so that the nonresidential
zone is being expanded rather than permitting spot
districts.
September 29, 1981
Item No. 7 - Continued
Staff further feels that industrial zoning is more
appropriate than commercial. Significant commitments have
been made to larger tracts to the south and west for
industrial development, but there appears to be the need for
smaller tracts which will provide locations for service type
support industries. The industrial cleaning plant proposed
for this site is an example of that type industry.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval.
COMMISSION ACTION:
The applicant was present, and there were no objectors.
After a brief discussion, the Commission moved to approve
the application as filed. A motion was passed: 10 ayes,
0 noes and 1 absent.