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Planning & Zoning Board June 13, 2001 Page 14 1. The proposed action's consistency with the specific policies and provision of the official City Comprehensive Plan. 2. The proposed use's compatibility with present and future land uses of the area. 3. The proposed use's conformity with all performance standards contained herein (i.e., parking, loading, noise, etc.). 4. The proposed use's impact upon existing public services and facilities including parks, schools, streets, and utilities, and its potential to overburden the City's service capacity. 5. Traffic generation of the proposed use in relation to capabilities of streets serving the property. Staff stated due to the limited application of the PSP Zoning Dist : ;_. t r om ehensive Land Use Plan seldom applies this land use category except where t i. us xis' r r where there was public ownership of the property. Recognizing this conditi.,, l ° °' 91 .1 d Use Plan and the Proposed 2020 Land Use Plan guides this site for industri e.� '� ning Commission and City Council must therefore determine the appropriat -. s o is z• ing change on the applicable policies of the 1987 Comprehensive plan and •osed 2020 Comprehensive Plan policies that relate to the rezoning request. Staff explained the School District's intere campus did economize an existing inve and was located in a manner that best proposed land use and zoning cha Staff indicated within the 2 the following recommend s ma shared elementary and middle school a greater utilization of existing facilities, ool District's residents. In this regard, the nt with the Comprehensive plan policies. omprehensive Plan under Staged Growth Area Rules, "In considerin ad the City will discourage the exchange of developable commercial or 1 • zoned land for a proposed residential development." Staff stated while the rez 'ning of the industrial land would not directly accommodate residential growth, the School District, in a related application, was requesting that the existing Birch Street parcel be rezoned from PSP to R -1X, Single Family Residential. The City must determine if this requested zoning change was inconsistent with this recommendation. It should be noted that this was a unique request in that it was driven by the facility needs of the School District rather than private development. Staff indicated industrial zoning would adjoin the site on the east and southeast. This area was preliminary platted in 1998 under the name of Lake Business Park. This preliminary plat revealed that storm water drainage ponds and a wetland physically separated the proposed site from most of the industrial area. The Lake Business Park preliminary plat relied on a 1,150 -foot long cul -de -sac to provide access to the westernmost lot. Long cul -de -sacs provide poor street access for industrial traffic and site access. • • •