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. , ti~ • CA5E STUDY NUMBER 3 Suburban Sho in Center Out-Parcel Redevelo ment Background: Yourare a plan~ng_°commissioner in a fully developed, first.tier.suburban.eity. Your community is actively involved ul redevelopment activities, and many of the items that. come before you are redevelopment related. Your community contains a regional shopping center that is -very successful, but it also contains a much older, shopping center. Both of these centers are zoned SC -Shopping Center District. Center District calls for "a The purpose and intent section of the SC -Shopping variety of commercial uses and activities made mutually compatible through integrated site and architectural design. This section gene for flexib~ty in importance of shared access and circulation and the po _- meeting internal setbacks to increase overall design continuity. On the site ofthe older shopping center. is anout-parcel that consists of less than I/2 • acre. It has never been owned by the owners of the shopping center and, in fact, pre-dates it: For more than 10 years, there has been a service station on this lot and just recently it went out of business. The use (service station) may be permitted in the SC District through the approval of a conditional use permit, how etba ks.l The which it sits cannot be developed in accordance with the SC Distract SC District requires minimum setbacks of 60 feet on the front, side, and rear, and these setback lines would literally overlap on this small lot. This lot sits immediately in front of one of the major entrances into the old center, separated only by an internal driveway. The center ha s wh re a numberd of buses face lift and struggled back to new hfe. This entrance ou s The owners of the come to drop off and pick up senioorsuanhase this land in the past. If they could buy center have teed unsuccessfully t p lot desi and add it, they would eliminate this eyesore and improve the parking gn significant landscaping in the front of the shopping center, along a major community collector street. The application before you is for a new conditional use permit for a quick oil change franchise. It also requires setback variances from every lot line for both building all size of the arcel and the generous SC District setback and parking, given the sin P standards. The two access drives that previously connected to the adjacent collector PAGED HYPOTIIF,TICAL CASE STUDIES