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Consider an ordinance rezoning Lot 7 of Egger’s Southview Addition, approximately 0.51 acres located on the east side of S. Mays Avenue, from the SF-2 (Single Family - standard lot) zoning district to the C-1 (General Commercial) zoning district. (First Reading)*
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The General Plan designates the site as appropriate for commercial uses. The subject tract and the two adjacent lots to the south are the only remaining residentially zoned tracts on the east side of S. Mays between Gattis School Rd. and Logan Street. The adjacent businesses and the traffic volume on N. Mays make these tracts suitable for commercial use. The property contains an existing residential structure, which could be converted to a commercial or office use, or a new commercial structure could be built. The site has frontage on both S. Mays Avenue and Cushing Drive.
The property owner requests a rezoning to the C-1 (General Commercial) zoning district. The staff recommendation is for the C-1a (General Commercial - limited) zoning district, because it prohibits a car sales lot and other land uses which are not desirable at this location. The C-1a district was adopted in 2005 and is the City's most recent general commercial zoning district. It has been used for nearly all newly zoned general commercial properties since its adoption. The C-1a district prohibits certain uses, including: pawn shops, tattoo parlors, self-service storage, manufactured home sales, portable building sales, shooting ranges, truck service or repair, shooting ranges, and sexually oriented businesses. Other uses, vehicle sales, rental or leasing, including boats and campers, are allowed only on property which has IH-35 frontage. When the C-1a district was adopted, the C-1 (General Commercial) district was retained to avoid the need to rezone the many existing properties already zoned as C-1 and to prevent the creation of numerous non-conforming uses. Many properties in the City are zoned as C-1, incl...
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