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r APR - Go 1993 TO: James E. Chandler County Administrator DEPARTMENT BEAD CONCURRENCE Robert Z. Reat g, ,P THRU: Sasan Rohani e;•2 Chief, Long-Range/Planning FROM: John Wachtel Staff Plann , Long -Range Planning DATE: March 26, 1993 , BOOK 89 PmU ` 17 RE: Sharon Swezey and others Request to Rezone approximately 2.6 acres from RS -3 to PRO (RZON 92-12-0066) It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of April 61 1993. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS This is a request to rezone approximately 2.6 acres from RS -3, Single -Family Residential District (up to 3 units/acre) to PRO, Professional Office District. The subject property is located at the southwest corner of 43rd Avenue and 19th Street. It consists of five lots with six owners. The owners are Sharon B. Swezey, Ellen Mae West, Andrew Wayne Blanton, Donna R. Blanton, Paul R. Mathis, and Ethel L. Mathis. The purpose of this request is to secure the necessary zoning to develop the property with professional and medical office uses. As originally submitted, this request involved thirteen lots and 3.9 acres. Attachment 3 depicts the originally submitted 3.9 acre property, while Attachment 5 shows the property in more detail. At its meeting of February 11, 1993, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-0 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners approve the request to rezone the 3.9 acre property to PRO. Although the Planning and Zoning Commission did recommend approval of the original request, the Commission raised the issue of access during its deliberations. This issue was important because several individual lots had frontage only on 44th Avenue. Even though each of the lots having frontage only on 44th Avenue was owned in combination with lots fronting 43rd Avenue, the Planning and Zoning Commission correctly noted that nothing would prohibit the lots fronting on 44th Avenue from being sold off separately. If that occurred, the county would then be required to provide access to 44th Avenue for those lots having frontage on only 44th Avenue. The access issue is important because it affects the adjacent residentially zoned property. If professional or medical office uses were allowed on sites accessing 44th Avenue, the result would be an increase in traffic on 44th Avenue and a mixture of residential and non-residential traffic on that roadway. Such a mixture of traffic would not only impact the neighborhood, but also conflict with the county's policy of separating residential and non-residential traffic. - 20