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PLADaITG IlBPOR'I DATE: 12 February, 1992 CASE NUMBER: 2426 APPLICANT: Roqer Kolstad, Prof. Realtors, Inc. Filister Properties, owner LOCATION: Rosedale Es~ates Rice st. & Co. Rd. C-2 ACTION REQUESTED: Sketch concept PUD Approval PLADaITG COITSIDBRA'IIOITS: 1. BACKGROUND The Rosedale Estates apartments on Rice Street be~ween county Road C-2 and Woodbridge Street were built in the late 1960s after considerable discussion, neighborhood involvemen~, and a rezoning by the City. The land on which the apartments now si ~ was previously zoned SC - Shopping center, and R-3 - High Density Residen~ial. As a result of the 1968 approval, the land was rezoned to B-2 and R-7, with a 200-foot-wide buffer strip of vacant R-1 zoning along both Woodbridge and C-2 (see attached drawing of zoning history), at the insistence of adjacent neighbors who were concerned about the proximity of a large apartment complex. The current applicant wants to develop the R-1 buffer into single family lots, and is proposing a new Planned unit Development to do so. The project, consisting of 360 units in four 90-unit buildings, was approved in 1968 with a special Use Permit for a "planned residen~ial development" , the way that PUDs were administered before our curren~ POD ordinance. The approval gave a variance for density, using the area of the R-1 strip of land for density. The 1968 approval also noted variances to the side and rear setbacks, since the apartment buildings and parking areas were built right on the zoning line between the R-7 and the R-1 areas (technically, this may not be a variance since it is a zoning line, not a property line; the setbacks are more than adequate from the actual property lines). One condition of approval was that the R-1 buffer be a screen to the existing neighbors consisting of maintained, landscaped berms. A second condition of approval was an agreement with North Heights Lutheran Church, the neighbor to the south, for a privacy fence on