Agenda - Planning Commission - 11/03/2005

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CASE #: ~ PUBLIC HEARING REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT REVIEW OF THE MEADOW; CASE OF GM HOMES, INC. By: Sylvia Frolik, Asst. Community Development Director ~ackground: (3M Homes has applied for preliminary plat review of The Meadow. The property is located in the southeast quadrant of C.S.A.H. #5 and Alpine Drive N.W. The following items are enclosed I:~)r your information: at) Site location map b) Existing Conditions c) Preliminary Plat d) l~reliminary Site Plan e) ?reliminary Grading Plan ~) Preliminary Tree Preservation and Tree List g) Dreliminary Landscape Plan h) City Council Work Session minutes dated July 19, 2005 i) Planning Commission meeting minutes dated September 1, 2005 j) City Council Work Session minutes dated September 20, 2005 k) Letter from Nichole O'Connell dated September 1, 2005 l) Letter from Nichole O'Connell dated October 21, 2005 tn.)City Staff review letter dated October 28, 2005 Notification: Staff attempted to notify owners of property within 700 feet of the subject property of the request thc preliminary plat review. O[}scrvations: Tile subject property is approximately 50 acres and includes the City Hall campus, three existing rer;idential lots to the south, and the Dental Office lot on the comer of Nowthen Blvd. and Alpine O~'iw:. The property has several different zoning classifications: the Dental Office lot is zoned B- i [¢c~siness, the City Hall campus is zoned Public/Quasi-Public, and the lots to the south are zc, ned R-I Residential. A Comprehensive Plan Amendment to reconfigure the layout of the existing land uses and a rezoning will be required as a part of preliminary plat review. Thc R-I Residential regulations for the MUSA allow a net density of 3 units per acre. As s[tbmittcd, the preliminary plat has a net density of 2.4 units per acre for just the residential p,_)rtion ol' the plat. The proposed lots do not meet R-1 Residential standards for area and width.