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Minutes for the MAPC meeting on August 22, 2006.
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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Minutes, August 22, 2006
Commissioners absent: Harpole, Collins, Moore
Staff present: Spriggs, White
1. Text Amendments.
City planner stated that he made minor changes since the August 8, 2006, meeting. He has corrected the definition of accessory structure and taken out the language that stated that a separate entrance was needed. The definition of density was altered to not include public street right-of-way in that calculation.
Also retained the agriculture section as a designation however we have removed the R-0 designation. We went from 5 acre lots in AG-1 to 1 acre lot in the RS-1 designation. The current zones on our zoning maps will be maintained as is and no new applications will be allowed to be applied for or granted and they will be protected by the grandfathering clause. We will retain a current copy of the zoning resolution as it exists to date and they will be guided by those guidelines. There will be no time period for development for these properties but there will be a design review for the current zoning.
The design review board will be a board that we will ask City Council to appoint to review these matters. City planner suggests that we use this board for any commercial and multi-family structures for this board. For this board, most likely architects, home builders, etc.
C-5 district has been tweaked and will now be called CR-1, mixed use developments, for example, apartments above commercial. There is a density table on page 16 of the handout for the CR-1 district. There was also some concern over the 5,000 sq. ft. cap and the commission made the decision to raise that to 20% of the lot size so that larger lots can have larger buildings. Commissioners discussed the size of buildings and rent costs and parking regarding residential that may be in the same building. This section will be adjacent to residential so we didn...
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