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Consider public testimony regarding, and an ordinance approving an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 2030 to modify the Future Land Use Map to allow industrial development on 13.32 acres located south of E. Old Settlers Boulevard and west of the Mokan ROW. (Second Reading)
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Proposal: The applicant, Metcalfe Wolff Stuart & Williams, LLP, is requesting to amend the FLUM (Future Land Use Map) for 13.32 acres from Residential to Industrial.
Comprehensive Plan: The FLUM (Future Land Use Map) of the Comprehensive Plan 2030 designates this site as Residential. The remaining larger portion of the tract has an Industrial designation.
Amendment Policies: According to the Comprehensive Plan 2030, amendments to the plan should consider several factors, including changing market conditions and surrounding land uses. In this case, the subject tract shares two property boundaries with existing light industrial uses and has for many years. The location and size of this tract is not desirable to a single family developer, in staff's opinion. None have come forward in well over a decade. However, the Comprehensive Plan also states that light industrial uses should not be adjacent to residential development. This policy, as well as the aforementioned criteria, are intended to serve as a guide for the land use decision making process. These policies are not legally binding. The desirability to consider a reasonable deviation is never out of the question for these criteria, or any other policy guide.
It is staff's position that a deviation is warranted here for this 13.32 acre parcel. This is due to several reasons. First, the majority of the larger parcel currently has an Industrial land use designation, which already presents a deviation from the current land use policy (no adjacent residential). As a result, if developed as currently designated in the Comprehensive Plan, Industrial would be adjacent to Residential. Second, staff has been unable to arrive at a defin...
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