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LARKIN, HOFFMAN, DALY & LINDGREN, LTD. <br />Mr. Craig Waldron <br />November 26, 1985 <br />Page 5 <br />EXISTING ZONING OF THE PROPERTY AND HISTORY <br />OF PROPOSED B-4 ZONING DISTRICT AND SPECIAL <br />MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IN THE B-4 DISTRICT <br />The Property is currently zoned I-2 General Industrial District, R-1 <br />Single Family Residence District, R-2 Two Family Residence District, <br />and B-3 General Business District. The applicant is proposing to <br />rezone the entire Property to B-4 Retail Office Service District to <br />allow construction of the Centre Pointe Development. <br />To implement the Redevelopment Plan, which proposes business use <br />throughout the majority of the redevelopment area, the City Council, <br />on January 11, 1982, adopted an ordinance establishing the B-4 Retail <br />Office Service District to "provide for a limited mixture of land <br />uses, made mutually compatible through controls and high quality <br />standards to facilitate more intensive and higher valued redevelopment <br />of areas convenient to the Metropolitan Market Area." (Redevelopment <br />Plan, pp. 21-22.) The Centre Pointe Development proposed for the <br />Property is consistent with the intent of the B-4 district and the <br />Redevelopment Plan. <br />The applicant has also requested approval of a special use permit for <br />a Planned Unit Development (PUD) pursuant to Section 17.010 of the <br />City Zoning Code. A PUD is a cluster development for residential or <br />business purposes on one or more parcels of land wherein traditional <br />rigid setback, side yard, density, and land use requirements of the <br />zoning code are relaxed to permit clustering of residential or <br />business structures and providing for common open space, ingress and <br />egress roadways, and parking. (Zoning Code, Section 17.010). Except <br />as otherwise noted on the development plans submitted in support of <br />the Application, the Centre Pointe Development generally conforms, <br />however, to minimum B-4 requirements regarding setbacks, exterior <br />materials, landscaping, outdoor storage, loading and service areas, <br />and parking areas and drives. <br />DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED CENTRE POINTE DEVELOPMENT <br />1. Pr02osed Uses for the Development on the Pro ert <br />As shown on the site plans submitted as part of the Application, the <br />Centre Pointe Development is a planned business development consisting <br />of 647,080 square feet of office and garden office/service uses. It <br />will be a high quality business environment compatible with the <br />neighborhood and consistent with the intent of the Redevelopment Plan. <br />Offices uses will include a three-story, 80,000 square.foot brick and <br />glass facility on the northern portion of the Property adjacent to <br />County Road D and an eight -story, 161,700 square foot glass curtain <br />and brick facility on the extreme south of the Property overlooking <br />