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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 5-28-96 Department Approval: ~/"f ITEM NO.: G-5 Manager Reviewed: Agenda Section: (~ct7 Hearing Bruce Kath request for a rezoning, conditional use permit, preliminary plat, and amendment to the Comprehensive Plan at 1912 Lexington Avenue to construct a gas station/convenience store/car wash. Item Description: Background Bruce Kath is proposing to construct a gas station/convenience store with a car wash at 1912 Lexington Avenue. The site is in the southeast quadrant of the intersection of Lexington Avenue and RoselaWll Avenue. The site is currently occupied by Ace's 66 Service Station and automobile repair and a single story building at 1080 RoselaWll Avenue, currently occupied by a real estate firm. If approved, the proposed uses will replace the existing uses on the site. The service station building was constructed about 1932 and the other commercial building was constructed in about 1956. The property is bordered on the north by RoselaWll Avenue, on the west by Lexington Avenue, on the south by 22 housing units within 2 apartment buildings, and on the east by single family residential land uses. Across (north) RoselaWll Avenue is Suburban Hardware and the newly approved 16 townhomes of Rose Villa. Across Lexington Avenue (west) is the ReMax Realty building. At the March 13, 1996 meeting, the Planning Commission continued the public hearing on the Bruce Kath request for a rezoning, conditional use permit, and preliminary and final plat at 1912 Lexington A venue to expand the hearing to include a comprehensive plan amendment as well. In order to address the proposed Comprehensive Land Use Guide Plan amendment and to modify the development proposal based on concerns raised at the March meeting, the applicant requested a continuation until the May 8, 1996 meeting. Development Summary The property under consideration is zoned B-3 General Business, B-2 Retail Business, and B-1 Limited Business. An automobile service station and car wash is a use permitted by conditional use permit in the B-2 and B-3 districts but is not permitted in the B-1 district. The applicant is requesting a rezoning of the entire site to B-2 Retail Business and a conditional use permit for a service station store with a car wash. The City's Comprehensive Land Use Guide Plan has the majority of the property designated as business purposes. The northeast comer of the property (that area zoned B-1 Limited Business) is designated low density residential in the Comprehensive Land Use Guide Plan. If the project is to be approved, the designation in this area of the Comprehensive Plan would need to be changed to Business. As originally proposed, the project would involve the demolition and removal ofthe existing structures and tanks on the site and the construction of a new 6500 square foot service station store and car wash. The car wash would occupy approximately 2000 square feet of the 6500 square foot building. There 1