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Approved 9.7.22 168 Ross Godwin: A portion of that site is zoned commercial and we are looking to rezone the rest of the parcel to commercial for 169 a general retail store. 170 171 Sue Hunter: Is there any other information you can provide? 172 173 Ross Godwin: Not at this time. 174 175 Melissa Poole: So they already own this property and part of it is zoned commercial and you are saying that the typical space 176 is 10,000 sq.ft. as an average, do you have a building plan already and can you give us a more definitive building size that is 177 going to go here? Is it going to sprawl or is it going to be multiple stories? 178 179 Ross Godwin: No,just one story and typically that average is about 10,000 sq.ft. 180 181 Randy Marshall: I believe that really goes beyond the scope of what we are trying to . . . . 182 183 Melissa Poole: I know, just for my sake, I wanted to know. 184 185 Randy Marshall: To some extent those questions are unfair of the developer because they are not required to give that 186 information and it makes it appear that they are hiding something if they don't provide that information. But it's not required 187 information that we need to take into account to approve or not approve the rezoning. 188 189 Statler Gilfillen: I differ with what you said. We are rezoning something for which they could put, regardless what they put on 190 there,there is a maximum size. They may say 10,000 now but it goes through the approval process, maybe it's going to be 191 20,000, maybe it's going to be a 30,000 sq.ft. building. I have to look at what is the maximum use of this property if we grant 192 them the rezoning. That I think is fair within our purview to look at. I am not disagreeing with you on principles like what are 193 you going to do now unless they want to tell us. Do they have an actual contract with the company if this succeeds? Which if 194 I'm hearing right,you don't right now. You have an interest but not a formal agreement with somebody, right? 195 196 Ross Godwin: Correct. 197 198 Statler Gilfillen: I think we need to consider that if this gets approved,what could they put on that property that maxes it out 199 which may or may not impact the neighbors that live there. 200 201 Charity Kirk: What are the sizes of the stores in the area? How much parking do they have? Is the potential of merging all 202 the lot going to allow for a building that doesn't match the character in the area.Allowing a large building on a single property. 203 What is the square footage of the buildings in the area? 204 205 Overlapping conversations 206 207 Charity Kirk: Based on reading the emails, people are pretty sure what is going to go in there and I think more of a concern is 208 the character changing in the area. 209 210 Staff reviewed on-line tax assessor information and determined that some of the commercial building sizes in the area were: 211 7,066;4,280;8,800;2,700; 1,680 square feet. 212 213 Charity Kirk: So 10,000 is large for the area but not out of character. The question for me and the neighbors is a very large 214 building or a larger building does not fit the character that they are looking for. If we allow this lot to be developed it would 215 max out the all of the LC-1 and NC-2 for that area rather than having separate small businesses. Is that what we want or is 216 that what the neighborhood wants. There is talk about the Goals and Objectives of the Comprehensive Plan so it's coming 217 down to the Goals and Objectives of the Comprehensive Plan is it to just continue to push development of any kind? 218 219 Cy Stober: No, in fact mitigating sprawl is an objective of the Comprehensive Plan and in general promoting consistent 220 character is also a thread throughout that Plan. However, in the Rural Commercial Activity Nodes,there is no distinction 221 between types of commercial or intensity of commercial. It simply is to encourage commercial in these areas of up to a certain 222 threshold so that is the basis for the staff finding. 223