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Hugo Estates Apartments and Manufactured Home Community Expansion Page 7 3. Existing public infrastructure is adequate to handle the development that can reasonably be foreseen on the site The property is adjacent and gets access from Highway 61. The site currently has four accesses onto Highway 61 and will be eliminating two with the project. The property can be adequately served with the access proposed. The property is served by city sewer and water. 4. The proposed zoning classification will not have unreasonable negative impacts on neighboring properties Industrial users in the industrial park are allowed exterior storage and buildings up to 50 feet in height. The proposed amendment to High Density Residential (HD) will provide a good transition between the properties guided Industrial (IND) and Medium Density Residential (MD). The proposed zoning will not have unreasonable negative impacts on the neighboring properties. 5. The floodplain designation on the official zoning map shall not be removed from floodplain areas unless it can be shown that the designation is in error or that the area has been filled to or above the elevation of the regulatory flood protection elevation and is contiguous to lands outside the floodplain. No floodplain areas are proposed to be impacted with the project. It is in staff’s opinion that all of the necessary requirements for approval of a zoning amendment are met. Conditional Use Permits The developer is requesting an apartment use and manufactured home community to be allowed on the property. Apartments and manufactured home communities are allowed in the R-5 zoning district with a conditional use permit. The Planning Commission must review the application for a conditional use permit with the standards provided in Section 90-37 of the City Code. Staff used these standards to review the application and found that the request meets all applicable standards as follows: 1. The proposed use is permissible by law. The proposed use is allowed by conditional use permit. 2. The proposed use is keeping with the spirit and intent of the ordinance. The proposed use is allowed in the R-5 zoning district and will keep with the spirit and intent of the ordinance, which is intended to allow an apartment building and manufactured home community with a CUP as long as they comply with the regulations.