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~Lr.=,,,~lT '~r-,; indicated he has heard ther,,'~' w~ one from the owners. He sta~ed if:Z~i's is 5:~abte development, ~d :hey have been ~ing about ~is and working on it .flor' ~vo year~?he quesuoned why they have to go back and fomh when they could just-q:e~,e ~e zomng co~ercial. '- ' '~; Chaimerson Jonson stated chants ff back to commercial could be an Co~issioner Brauer asked what ~. E~ao' wants it to be zoned'. ' ' Mr. L~a~' indicated ~hey want it co~erciaL ~d untfl'-a ~%w months ago they thought t~ co~ercial. Co~issioner Brauer asked if i~ w~e no~ co~erci:~l':¢o the ffve~ ~ould that cause ~m a problem. : .':' ~:- Mr. L~a~' stated be did no~ ~ow if it would be a big problem, ~ they may come w~th a PL~ situation. -~. Assis:am Co~munJw Deveiop~ent' D~vector Tmd~eon stated ~hev-'~o~d talk all m~ht about what could be there, in&eating there are re'dj.or :problems with what ~i' Leaw is proposing, such ~ access issues and fiver regZiatio~, bm ~e feel-rs ~ey have had ~o ~revtous meetinzs on with public heannzs.~, and ~en abe ?la~ing Co~i'Ssi'0~..sent St to the City Council. ~e Ci~ Councii cave their proposal for ~e loW.er ~oi~ds to be r. es?dential, and t~az is what ~ev want Mr. Learn, stated 'he.al:ocs not disa~ee, but-~e reason he fs here is to see wha~ the land was going to be: howmuch residential and bow much eo~ercial He noted they could have pape~o2 readx, off' this uroue~ in~o mourns :~me. ~e.-mdicated if they ~e ~oing to have residential by the ~ve:. he wants to ~bw. ~%at he fails to'understand is fn 1999 someone dec~ded t~s should be fesJden, tial. The owmers ~bvfo.usN' did.~ot ~ n ever would be or they wouid ~ot have acne :~ou~h ~is pla~mg process. Ee ~di. cated tt ~s easy to change it to res:dential, but h~d to ' cnan,e baek. :-f ~ustin indicated, i~ auaarend¥ is not too df~cuh zo chan~e from residential to co~ercial. ' '- since ~h~y just did it ta~s 2mpe~,. He asked why :hey did not leave the t~ee parcels alone. Chai~erson. Jo~son a~ked how cheung the top third of ~. Austin's prop~' to co~ercial a~ects ~m. ~ff. Austin rated it arobabN does noL ~. :. _ ~ .Mx. Nahe'indicamd access is going to ~11 the Colby's, and if the CiW does not look at this ~d 'make. some changes to access they will ~i1 a ton of p~opie. He stated a~ the rate of speed on ~ay a lot of people wii] die. He indicated he had a policem~ tell him he does not pull people over unless ~hev are doing 80. ~d the Cfty needs to do more ~d look at the prope~, before they make these decisions. -226- Planning Commission/August 7, 2003 Page 12 of 19