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Ordinance - Public Hearing and First Reading of an Ordinance Approving a Change of Zoning from C-2 Community Business District to PD Planned Development District for Apartment and Townhome Uses on Approximately 19.527 Acres out of the J. Grimsley Survey, Abstract No. 578, Generally Located at 2880 Matlock Rd.; Miller Sylvan of JPI on Behalf of Morreta A. & James A. Weatherford of Deblock, Ltd. (ZC#20-008)
Requested Action:
To consider the subject zoning change request.
Recommendation:
The Planning & Zoning Commission held a public hearing on August 3, 2020. A motion to recommend denial was made, which failed by a vote of 3-3 (Chairman Knight and commissioners Axen and Gilmore voting no), due to lack of a majority. After further discussion and an attempt to build consensus, a motion to recommend approval with conditions was made, which also failed by a vote of 3-3 (Commissioners Klenzendorf, Weydeck, and Groll voting no), due to lack of a majority; the conditions included staff’s recommendations to extend sidewalks to connect to the sidewalks along Debbie Lane and Matlock Road as well as to redesign the north side of the property to provide for parallel parking spaces along the shared access drive, in addition to a condition to increase the height of the masonry screening wall on the south property line from 6’ to 8’. After further discussion and an attempt to build consensus, another motion to recommend approval with the same conditions failed by a vote of 3-3 (Commissioners Klenzendorf, Weydeck, and Groll voting no).
Staff received 22 emails from residents in opposition to the zoning change request and there was one speaker opposed to the zoning request. Common concerns included density; the amount of multi-family housing in the community; potential impact to traffic, schools, crime, property values, and livability; and lack of landscape buffers and sight lines in relation to Cypress Crossing.
During the meeting, there was discussion regarding...
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