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- M <br />Community Development Director Robert Keating advised that <br />staff is recommending denial on this request. The big issue we <br />see here is that this Comp Plan amendment request does not meet <br />any of the 3 criteria set out in Policy 1�.3 to change the land <br />use. Essentially, the applicants' contention before the P&Z was <br />that since the property to the south and to the west is <br />designated as commercial, their property should have that <br />designation also. However, staff's position is that the property <br />east and to the north has a residential designation, and if this <br />piece is rezoned to commercial, it would be a valid argument for <br />rezoning the adjacent property to the north and thereby causing a <br />domino affect. Staff feels that current ordinances and <br />requirements provide requirements for sufficient amounts of <br />buffering to try to reduce any adverse circumstances where zoning <br />district boundary lines occur, and that it is a fact of life that <br />there is going to be a point at which commercial and residential <br />meet, whether it is at this property or the property to the <br />north. Therefore, staff doesn't see an issue here that would <br />warrant a change in the land use designation. Given the fact <br />that this property has the highest residential density available <br />in the county, staff feels the present designation is appropriate <br />for this property. Therefore, staff is recommending denial of <br />this land use amendment request. <br />Commissioner Scurlock understood that there is commercial to <br />the south and to the west and that staff has chosen to recommend <br />going with the character of the land to the east and to the <br />north. He hoped that staff would remember that in the future <br />with regard to that whole corridor. <br />Commissioner Bird asked if the property in orange was <br />designated as commercial under the old Comp Plan and zoned that <br />way, and whether that was taken away now in the new Comp Plan. <br />Planner Cheryl Tworek explained that the property shown west <br />of the diagonal line had a commercial land use designation, but <br />DEC 111990 , , 3NOK , <br />k 1 <br />