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Hugo Estates Apartments and Manufactured Home Community Expansion <br />Page 6 <br />Rezoning <br /> <br />The applicant is requesting to rezone the property from Low Density Multiple Family <br />Residential (R-4) and General Industrial (I-3) to Medium Density Multiple Family Residential <br />(R-5). <br /> <br />Staff has analyzed this rezoning based on the four criteria in the City ordinance under Section <br />90-40, Zoning Amendments: <br /> <br />1. The requested amendment is in compliance with the city’s comprehensive plan <br /> <br />If the comprehensive plan amendment is approved, the zoning will be in compliance with <br />the comprehensive plan. <br /> <br />2. The proposed zoning classification is appropriate for the property given the topographic, <br />environmental and cultural limitations of the site. <br /> <br />The buildings and site area arranged to accommodate the proposed use in regards to <br />parking, access, and building placement. The proposed zoning classification is <br />appropriate for the property because there are no topographic, environmental, or cultural <br />limitation of the site. <br /> <br />3. Existing public infrastructure is adequate to handle the development that can reasonably <br />be foreseen on the site <br /> <br />The property is adjacent and gets access from Highway 61. The site currently has four <br />access onto Highway 61 and will be eliminating two with the project. The property can <br />be adequately served with the access proposed. The property is served by city sewer and <br />water. <br /> <br />4. The proposed zoning classification will not have unreasonable negative impacts on <br />neighboring properties <br /> <br />Industrial users in the industrial park are allowed exterior storage and buildings up to 50 <br />feet in height. The proposed amendment to High Density Residential (HD) will provide a <br />good transition between the properties guided Industrial (IND) and Medium Density <br />Residential (MD). The proposed zoning will not have unreasonable negative impacts on <br />the neighboring properties. <br /> <br />5. The floodplain designation on the official zoning map shall not be removed from <br />floodplain areas unless it can be shown that the designation is in error or that the area <br />has been filled to or above the elevation of the regulatory flood protection elevation and <br />is contiguous to lands outside the floodplain. <br /> <br />No floodplain areas are proposed to be impacted with the project. <br /> <br />It is in staff’s opinion that all of the necessary requirements for approval of a zoning amendment <br />are met.