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r MAY 14 196 BOOK PACE 42 DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS The Planning Department has prepared two alternative amendments to the zoning ordinance which would allow general offices in selected residentially -zoned areas. On January 9, 1985, the Board of County Commissioners and Plan ning and Zoning Commission held a joint workshop to discuss the possibility of allowing offices as a special exception use in a few multiple -family zoning districts. The general consensus of individuals at the workshop was that the County should permit offices as a special exception use in multiple -family districts. abutting arterial streets. Moreover, some individuals felt that offices should also be allowed as a special exception use in single-family zoning districts that abutted arterial streetsland there was discussion about allowing offices along collector streets and permitting accessory retail sales in conjunction with some of these offices. On July 24, 1985, the Board of County Commissioners decided not to amend the RM -6, RM -8 and RM -10 multiple -family zoning di.s- tricts to -allow offices as a special exception use on properties abutting an arterial street. The Board stated that the proposed amendment was too broad and would allow offices along State Road A -1-A which they did not feel was appropriate. The Board in- structed the staff to look at this situation again and prepare another proposal that would be more restrictive. In addition, the Board wanted to know specific areas where this type of development would be permitted. On January 23, 1986, the Planning and Zoning Commission con- sidered these alternatives and voted 4 -to -0 to recommend that the County allow professional offices in some residentially zoned areas along arterial streets and that this be implemented through the creation of a professional office zoning district. On February 26, 1986, the Board of County Commissioners tabled action on this item until the Planning Department could provide maps of the areas which might be considered for professional office development. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The staff has prepared two alternative zoning ordinance amend- ments which would allow general offices to be established on properties abutting arterial streets on the mainland. The first alternative is to adopt a professional office zoning district which would be considered consistent with the LD -2, Low -Density Residential 2 (up to 6 units/acre), MD -1, Medi- um -Density Residential 1 (up to - 8 units/acre), and MD -2, Medium -Density Residential 2 (up to 10 units/acre), land use designations. The advantage of this alternative is that it would give the County discretion as to where this zoning district would be established. A disadvantage of this alternative is that it could result in spot zoning because of rezoning applications for small parcels that may be suitable for office development but surrounded by residential zoning. However, the spot zoning problem could be avoided if the County were to rezone appropriate areas for offices and grant rezonings only to contiguous areas. 24 � � s