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Minutes for the MAPC meeting on November 13, 2001.
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MINUTES
METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING COMMISSION
NOVEMBER 13, 2001
MEMBERS PRESENT: Beadles, Little, Damron, Gott, Street, Krennerich, Shaw, Phillips
MEMBERS ABSENT: Johnson
Other in attendance were Glenn Batten, City Planner; Phillip Crego, City Attorney; Claude Martin, City Engineer; Teddy Hooton, Engineering Department; Brian Wadley, Planning Coordinator.
The minutes of the October 9, 2001, meeting were approved with a correction to item #3, regarding participation in a street improvement agreement.
#1 RZ01-46 Herb Stallings requested approval of rezoning from the Residential R-2 Multi-Family Low Density District to the Commercial C-4, Neighborhood Commercial District, for Lots 9 and 20, Block B of Stallings 5th Addition. The address of the property is 2906 Stallings Lane and the general location of the property is on the north side of Stallings Lane, west of Stadium Blvd.
Opposition was expressed by some in the area stating that traffic was already very heavy through here because a lot of people use Stallings as a cut through. They further stated there were too many unknowns with what was planned for the property and rezoning this property to commercial would be setting a precedent for even more rezoning in the future. Opponents questioned if there wasn’t a more restrictive type zoning that they could use, preferably one that would limit uses to low volume, office type uses.
City Planner, Glenn Batten, pointed out that there is a single family residence currently on this property and the adjacent property. A lot of traffic is turning west off Stadium, both from the north and the south where there is a protected left turn, on to Stallings cutting through to Caraway Road. There is a very short distance between Stadium and where the necessary curb cut would have to be. This distance does not permit any stack up space for the turning movements off Stadium which would adversely affect the neighbor...
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