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Regular Planning CommissionMeeting Minutes –Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Page 24 PROJECT FILE 0026, Twin Lakes Re-Envisioning d. 1167 Request by the Community Development Department for approval of 1168 COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN MAP CHANGE AND ZONING MAP CHANGE 1169 for the following addressed properties within the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area: 1170 1633 –1776 Terrace Drive (along the north side of Terrace Drive adjacent to 1171 Oasis Park) 1172 2830 Fairview Avenue (at the north corner of Terrace Drive and Fairview 1173 Avenue) 1174 2805 –2823, 2825, and 2833 –2837Fairview Avenue (the west side of Fairview 1175 Avenue adjacent to Langton Lake Park) 1176 Chair Gisselquist opened the Public Hearing for Planning File 14-009 at 10:05p.m. 1177 City Planner Thomas Paschke reviewed the request for proposed changes, as detailed in 1178 the staff report dated June 4, 2014, and Attachment B. 1179 Mr. Paschke reviewed the area north ofTerrace Drive, which had been designated High 1180 Density Residential (HDR) in the pastto serve as a buffer between single-family 1181 residential and park properties and business/commercial sues in the CMU District. 1182 However, over time and with other challenges, in addition to the requirement for an 1183 Interim Use for a unique situation as previously addressed tonight, Mr. Paschke advised 1184 that a number of non-conforming issues had come up, making management of that HDR 1185 designation more difficult each year and with those properties still not ripe for 1186 redevelopment. 1187 Mr. Paschke advised that the City Council had expressed their preference for no more 1188 than one CMU designation beyond the current one, but were of one mind that all of the 1189 Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area should be afforded the same flexibility for residential, 1190 commercial or light industrial uses.Therefore, Mr. Paschke advised that the City Council 1191 determined that re-designation of the property to CMU would better serve the community 1192 and allow for future redevelopment for which the creation of the Twin Lakes and CMU 1193 area had been created for.Therefore, Mr. Paschke noted the request to change HDR to 1194 CMU in that area, and change the Zoning designation of the same HDR-1 to CMU as 1195 well, and staff’s support for those recommended changes. 1196 Mr. Paschke summarized the open house held by staff related tothis request, as detailed 1197 in Attachment C to the RCA. 1198 At the request of Member Murphy, Mr. Paschke opined that before the subject properties 1199 were zoned HDR, with existing non-conforming uses, they were zoned Light Industrial to 1200 the best of his recollection; and that most parcels within the Twin Lakes Redevelopment 1201 Area were designated as some type of light industrial, but not heavy industrial. 1202 Mr. Lloyd displayed a zoning map –pre-2010 rezoning –showing General Industrial or 1203 Light Industrial, with several businesses designated Office Park and PUD; with the area 1204 immediately below Oasis Park (grey area) designated Light Industrial. 1205 Member Murphy noted that to-date there had been no development interest in this 1206 subject property toward HDR. 1207 Mr. Paschke noted that Light Industrial designation allowed for many different industrial 1208 uses; and clarified that the intent in this change in designation was not seeking to move 1209 into that realm, with only two uses to-date approaching the City with the intent for 1210 production/processing and/or warehousing/distribution, both defined as light in City Code. 1211 Mr. Paschke noted that this designation would also allow LIMITED manufacturing 1212 processes and distribution, but not the magnitude of former light industrial district 1213 allowances. 1214 Chair Gisselquist noted that it would not allow housing any longer, even though not 1215 developing as HDR today, with that original purpose intended to step down zones and 1216 density to the north from residential to apartments or other HDR, then into industrial 1217