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SITES POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AND THE PLATTING & REZONING MORATORIUM Sylvia Frolik/Zoning Administrator 5/11/98 1. Jack Miller Property - Currently in the MUSA, zoned R-1 Rural Residential; subject to the current moratorium. Comprehensive plan draft retains a residential use on this property. A rezoning to R-1 Urban Residential and platting would probably not have an adverse impact on the outcome of the comprehensive plan, however, the property owner has launched a lawsuit pertaining to some recent charter amendments. The property owner will most likely not seek to submit development proposals until the lawsuit is resolved; so retaining the property in the moratorium may be of no great consequence unless the lawsuit is projected to be resolved rather quickly. It should however remain in the moratorium until development policies for urban abutting rural residential areas are established. 2. Rademacher/Egan Oil Property - Currently in the MUSA, zoned R-3 Urban Residential (up to 7 units per acre), and subject to the current moratorium. Comprehensive plan draft retains a residential use of this property; density not specified at this time. Developers are waiting in the wings to submit a plan for rental townhouse units. Since a great deal of the comp plan update has to do with residential development policies, this property should probably be retained in the moratorium. That would also give us more time to accomplish some traffic improvements on #47 before we add a lot more housing units to the already congested traffic corridor. 3. and 4. Miscellaneous Property at #47 and 153rd - Currently in the MUSA, zoned Business; and not subject to the current moratorium. Comprehensive plan draft projects a change to a residential use (density not specified), shopping node and environmental corridor. Lots of land use changes could take place in this area and it should be placed under the moratorium. 5. Laws Property - Currently in the MUSA, a majority of it is zoned Business with a ring of residential around the wetland; and the Business portion is not subject to the current moratorium. Comp plan update changes the land use to residential (density not specified at this time) and environmental corridor. This property should not develop until the details of the comp plan are worked out and implemented. Property is currently in probate court so placing it in moratorium should be of no great inconvenience to landowners. Adding it into the moratorium may be significant for the City if the southeast comer of the property becomes the prime site for a senior housing project. 6. Waste Management Property - This property is in the MUSA, is zoned Industrial, and is not subject to the current moratorium. However, the draft comprehensive plan identifies this area as a transitional edge and therefore some changes in land use may be pending. Perhaps the property should be put into the moratorium as the owner is gearing up to market the property.