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' AUG 211985 BOOK 61 treatment plant and vacant land zoned RS -6, Single -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre). East of the subject property is undeveloped land zoned C-1. Further east are single-family dwellings and vacant land zoned RS -6. South of the subject property are single-family dwellings and vacant land zoned RS -6. West of the subject property is a shopping center zoned C-1 and vacant land zoned RM -6, Multiple -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre). Future Land Use Pattern The Comprehensive Plan designates the subject property and the land east, south and southwest of it as LD -2, Low -Density Residential 2 (up to 6 units/acre). The land north and northwest of the subject property is designated as MXD, Mixed -Use District (up to 6 units/acre). When the staff originally recommended rezoning this area to single-family last fall, that rezoning request included the part of the subject property that contains single-family residences, businesses being conducted out of residences, and vacant land. Subsequently, a Comprehensive Plan amendment application and rezoning application were received for several noncontiguous parcels of land in this area. These applications were for an MXD land use designation and M-1, Restricted Industrial District, zoning. In reviewing this area, the staff determined that based on the fact that there are more commercial uses in this area than originally thought and the fact that there are several heavy commercial uses along 19th Avenue, the LD -2 land use designation does not seem to be appropriate. The Comprehensive Plan is set up to allow commercial uses only in commercial nodes or MXD areas. In order- to accommodate commercial uses in this area, then, the land needs to be resdesignated as either commercial or MXD on the land use map. One alternative would be to establish a commercial node for the area. Another alternative would be for this land to be included in the Oslo Road MXD which adjoins the subject property to the north and west. Because the subject property contains a mixture of uses and adjoins the existing MXD area, it seems more logical to extend the MXD area than to create a commercial node in this area. After discussions between the staff and the owners' agent, consideration of the Planning and Zoning Commission's direction concerning review of the land use designation of this area, and consideration of the heavy commercial uses along 19th Avenue, this proposed Comprehensive Plan amendment and rezoning request was determined to be the most appropriate solution for this area. Based on a second study of this area, subject property should be included in that, based on the heavy commercial property should be rezoned to CH, Heavy Transportation System staff does feel that the the Oslo Road MXD area and uses in this area, the Commercial District. The subject property has direct access to Oslo Road (classified as an arterial street on the Thoroughfare Plan) and to 18th and 19th Avenues (classified as local streets). The maximum develop- ment of the subject property under CH zoning could attract up to 1,823 average annual daily trips. 39