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sepoember xooo The Homestead A Townhome Community Statement of Justification -Rezoning The applicant, C;EIVTSX HOMES, requests that an approximate 48-acre tract (7.24..16 and a portion of 7.24..12) located north of Homestead Road and east of the Univeasity Railroad line be rezoned from R-2 to R-4{G~- A rzzoning r~uest for a zoning map amendment must be based on one or more of the following reasons: 1) The amendment would coarct a manifest error in the map; 2) The amendment is warranted due to changed or changing conditions im the area ar in the jurisdiction generally; 3) The amendment achieves the purposes of the Comprehensive Plan. The applicant bases this rezoning request upon the third reason above. The requested zoning map amendment will achieve the purposes of the Comprehensive Plan, as demonstrated below. The property is identified on the Land use Plan ~ the rxeatly adopted Comprehensive Plan as an area suitable for medi~rdemsity iesidential devrdopment, 'KViedium ResideatiaC' is within the Co~mpmehensive Plan as a density of 4-S residential units per acre. As one of the conditions of the aP'P~t's RF(C) rrr~oning request. the applic~at is willing tv cap the density for the 48~ parcel ai 4.1 units per acre. This density is well itelow the b mnits per acre shown in the earlier C~pbual Plan for The Homestead and yet still in harmony with the Town's Comp~eheasive Plan Land Use Plan. Fie, the rezoanmg request is a~ by a Special Use Permit application which will further several other articulated goals of the ve Plan. Foe+emost among these is encauagemmt of a diversity of haasiag opparttmities with the amity, wh~e at the same fime preserving and p ousting traditional neighbo~toods. The proposed to~vnhom~e ca~tmity. which this rig application facilitates. will provide four distinct levels of home ownership within the coarnnunity, all below the average sale pricx for a home within Chapel Bill, Not only is this a different farm of housing from