Agenda - 03-21-2017 - 8-a - Minutes

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17 1 Attachment 2. Excerpts of the approved minutes from the November 21, 2016 Quarterly Public 2 Hearing are contained within Attachment 4. 3 4 During the hearing, concerns were expressed by several property owners who live adjacent 5 to/near four parcels of property owned by Efland Real Property LLC that staff had 6 recommended be rezoned General Commercial (GC-4). 7 The Board voted to approve the rezoning on 11 of the subject properties, deferring action on the 8 aforementioned Efland Real Property, LLC properties until a future meeting, and directed staff to 9 meet with adjacent property owners to discuss the project in greater detail. 10 11 Staff met with local residents on December 14, 2016 and January 11, 2017 to review the 12 proposal, discuss development opportunities and constraints on the four properties, review 13 staff's recommendation on the rezoning of the parcels, and provide detail on the County's 14 planning vision for the area in general. Staff believes the majority of the residents who attended 15 the meetings, most primarily residing within the Ashwick neighborhood, were made comfortable 16 with staff's recommendation. 17 18 Staff is still recommending the parcels in question be rezoned to General Commercial (GC-4) 19 consistent with staff comments at the Quarterly Public Hearing. A summary of staff's 20 recommendation, including maps of the four parcels, is contained within Attachment 3. Planning 21 Director's Recommendation: The Planning Director recommends approval of the Statement of 22 Consistency, indicating the amendments are reasonable and in the public interest, contained in 23 Attachment 5 and proposed zoning atlas amendment package contained in Attachment 6 for the 24 four parcels of property owned by Efland Real Property, LLC. 25 26 As a reminder, at its November 2, 2016 meeting, the Planning Board voted unanimously to 27 recommend approval of the proposed rezoning as detailed herein and reported at the 28 Quarterly Public Hearing. 29 30 Michael Harvey, Planner III, said for the BOCC to rely on the replacement pages at their 31 places. He reviewed the background information, and showed slides of the four parcels of land. 32 33 PUBLIC COMMENT: 34 Kim Griffin said he is a realtor. He said there are four tracts here, and in order to market 35 the adjacent property for residential there should be some amenities in the neighborhood 36 nearby. He said the Planning Board's recommendation would be the right thing to do, and he is 37 supportive of it. 38 Kim Gush said she is a resident of the Ashwick Community, and she appreciated the 39 planning staff coming out to explain all of this to the residents. She said something about this 40 proposal is still a concern for her: 75% of these properties are currently residential, with the 41 exception of these four tracts that will cause the surrounding areas to be zoned commercial. 42 She said this change will affect their property values and quality of life. 43 Rob Gray echoed Kim Gush's comments, and noted there are concerns in the Ashwick 44 Community about the commercial re-zonings of these four tracts of land. He said the Planning 45 Department did a great job of explaining the issues, but the residents still see no benefit of 46 changing these parcels over to general commercial. 47 Commissioner McKee asked if the proposed zoning is no more intense than the two 48 parcels that are currently EC-5 and general commercial on the larger one. 49 Michael Harvey said the larger parcel is split zoned existing industrial. He said the first 50 consideration was to expand existing industrial to cover the whole property, but this was 51 deemed to not be the best use of the property, given the surrounding land uses. He said