HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-4463-A Staff AnalysisOctober 29, 1998
ITEM NO.: 1 FILE NO.: Z -4453-A
Owner: Coulson
Applicant: Rodrick Tidwell
Location: 8100 West Markham
Request: Rezone from C-1 to C-3.
Purpose: Remodel and expand existing
building for barber shop/beauty
salon, detail shop, quick -lube
facility and laundramat.
Size: .52 ± acres
Existing Use: vacant commercial building
(formerly a convenience store,
with gas pumps)
SURROUNDING LAND USE AND ZONING
North - Multifamily development; zoned R-5
South - Brady Extension Homemakers Club and overgrown
ball field; zoned R-4
East - Multifamily development; zoned R-5
West - veterinary Clinic, zoned 0-3 and Multifamily
Development; zoned MF -18
PUBLIC WORKS COMMENTS
1. Dedicate additional drainage easement for future City of
Little Rock project.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT
The site is located on a CATA bus route.
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NOTIFICATION
The Apache Crime Watch Neighborhood Association was notified
of the rezoning request.
LAND USE ELEMENT
The site is located in the West Little Rock Planning
District. The Land Use Plan currently recommends commercial
for the site. The site is located on an arterial street and
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is buffered from single family by an apartment complex. The
C-3 zoning request conforms to the adopted Plan.
STAFF ANALYSIS
The request before the Commission is to rezone this .52±
acre site from C-1 Neighborhood Commercial to C-3 General
Commercial. The property is occupied by a vacant, one-
story, brick and frame building which previously housed a
convenience store. A detached gas pump island canopy is
located between the building and the street, The applicant
proposes to expand the building slightly and use it for a
barber shop/beauty shop, detail shop, quick -lube facility
and possibly a Laundromat. Of those uses, only the barber
shop/beauty shop and Laundromat are permitted C-1 uses. The
quick -lube facility is a C-3 use and the detail shop is a
conditional use in the C-3 district. The applicant has
stated that he will file a conditional use permit for the
detail shop.
The convenience store with gas pumps was an existing
nonconforming use at the time the property was rezoned from
R-2 to C-1 in 1985. There had been a service station or
convenience store on the property since the site's
annexation into the City in the late 19501s. When the
property was zoned to C-1, the convenience store was still a
nonconforming use because convenience stores with gas pumps
are a conditional use in the C-1 district. Such uses are
first listed as by -right in the C-3 district.
Staff believes the C-3 zoning request to be appropriate for
this property. The property has a long established history
of C-3 usage. The property is 1 i/ blocks east of the
Markham/Rodney Parham intersection, in an area that has a
mixed zoning pattern containing a variety of uses ranging
from single family and multifamily to a school, offices and
retail businesses. A veterinary clinic is located on the 0-
3 zoned property adjacent to the west. A substantial
multifamily development wraps around the site on the north
and east. Additional multifamily is located west of the
veterinary clinic. An elementary school is located across
West Markham, to the southeast. An overgrown ballfield and
the Brady Extension Homemaker's club is located on the R-4
zoned property to the south.
The West Little Rock District Land Use Plan recommends
Commercial for the site. The property has a long history of
use by C-3 businesses. The site is located on an arterial
street in an area of mixed zoning and uses and is separated
from the nearest single family by multifamily developments
and institutional uses.
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October 29, 1998
ITEM NO.: 1 (Cont.) FILE NO.: Z -4463-A
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends approval of the requested C-3 zoning.
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (OCTOBER 29, 1998)
The applicant was present. There were no objectors present.
Staff presented the item and a recommendation of approval.
There was no further discussion.
The item was placed on the Consent Agenda and approved by a
vote of 8 ayes, 0 noes and 3 absent.
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