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owners of over 1,000 units. He felt the Chairman hit the nail on <br />the head and that the main point is that OCR is a Tess intense <br />use. He then cited what the OR District is intended to do, <br />emphasizing that it is designed to be compatible with residential <br />areas and to be less intense than commercial. <br />Commissioner Wheeler asked how he could refute the statement <br />that with the various usages that can be put in there, OCR has <br />the potential of generating 11% more traffic, and therefore, how <br />can it be said it is a less intense use. <br />Attorney Barkett believed that what was presented was a worst <br />case office scenario compared to a best case commercial use - a 3 <br />story office building compared to a 1 story retail site. Sec- <br />ondly, he felt that Mr. Brandenburg backtracked a lot here saying <br />they are going to build an attractive office building, when at he <br />the P&Z meeting what he threatened was that as long as they have <br />to put in an office building there, it is going to be three <br />stories high, bulky, more of an eyesore and less aesthetically <br />pleasing than a commercial area would be. Attorney Barkett then <br />asked Director Keating to explain why OCR is a less intense use <br />than CL. <br />Director Keating noted that there are a lot of ways you can <br />look at the intensity of OCR versus CL, and he believed Mr. Byrd <br />will admit that they used traffic numbers generated at the worst <br />time of day as the average daily traffic count. Mr. Keating felt <br />one of the points we probably will be addressing in the new <br />Comprehensive Plan is that we don't have anything like floor area <br />ratios in our ordinances right now; what we do have is a lot of <br />other criteria that limits the total size. <br />Chairman Scurlock commented that if in our ordinances we <br />have provided you can do three times as much in OCR, he believed <br />staff will be getting instruction from the Board to change that <br />very quickly. <br />Attorney Barkett next addressed the traffic generated by CL, <br />citing "captive" traffic," where people see a shop in a retail <br />31 <br />DEC 6 1938 <br />L. <br />BOOK 75 FACE 282 <br />