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27 <br />Staff Analysis: <br />Lawrence Park <br />Proposed Zoning Atlas Amendment and <br />Special Use Permit for a Planned Development <br />After citizen input at the November 23, 1998, and February 22, 1999, public <br />hearings, planning staff prepared a revised recommendation which was <br />presented to the Planning Board on April 7, 1999. The staff recommended that <br />the board deny the PD -H -R3 zoning and approve the application with a PD -H -R2 <br />zoning (approve the Zoning Atlas amendment for 83.216 acres from R -1 to PD- <br />H-R2; approve the Special Use Permit for 181 residential lots (PD lot yield <br />allowed in a PD -H -R2 district.) Planning staff based that recommendation on the <br />following observations: <br />• The proposed lot widths of 65 feet and lot sizes of 7,500 square feet are <br />significantly smaller than surrounding development. If this property were <br />rezoned to an R -3 zoning district (not in a planned development), each lot <br />would require 15,000 square feet outside of road rights -of -way. The density <br />that could be obtained would be less than that proposed by the planned <br />development. If the proposed road network and the proposed recreation <br />and open space areas were included in the development, an R -3 zoning <br />district would yield approximately 177 lots. An R -2 zoning district, other <br />factors being held constant, would yield approximately 133 lots. The PD -H- <br />R2 zoning would allow 181 lots to be developed compared with the 237 lots <br />that are proposed. This is more in keeping with the R -3 density. <br />ZONING TOTAL ACREAGE ACREAGE MINUS ROW <br />AND RECREATION <br />AREA <br /># OF LOTS <br />R -1 <br />83.215 <br />61.039 <br />66 <br />R -2 <br />83.215 <br />61.039 <br />133 <br />PD -H -R2 <br />83.215 <br />181 <br />R-3 <br />83.215 <br />61.039 <br />177 <br />PD -H -R3 <br />83.315 <br />241 <br />• This area is designated as a 20 -year transition area in the Land Use Plan <br />that was adopted in September, 1981 (eighteen years ago). The Land Use <br />Plan category description of a 20 -year transition area is "Land located in <br />areas that are in the process of changing from rural to urban, that are <br />g:\plandev\pd398\analysis.rec\5-26-99\kI <br />