File #: 19-718B    Version: 1
Type: Report Status: Filed
File created: 8/12/2019 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/20/2019 Final action: 8/20/2019
Title: Receive the staff report for Tartan Highlands Subdivision located at 1001 S. Washington Street- PZC 19-1-049 (Item 1 of 4).
Attachments: 1. 7.17.19 PZC Minutes DRAFT, 2. Application Materials-Revised, 3. Development Petition, 4. Site Plan, 5. Landscape Plan, 6. Elevations, Signage, Screening, 7. Photometric Plan, 8. Traffic Study, 9. OCI and B1 Traffic Comparison, 10. OCI and B1 Zoning Code, 11. Letter from Petitioner on OCI and Site Plan, 12. Letter from Petioner addressing Neighbor Concerns, 13. PZC Public Comment, 14. CC Public Comment, 15. Tartan - CC Memo - PZC 19-1-049
Related files: 19-719B, 19-720B, 19-810
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM

ACTION REQUESTED:
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Receive the staff report for Tartan Highlands Subdivision located at 1001 S. Washington Street- PZC 19-1-049 (Item 1 of 4).

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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development

SUBMITTED BY: Scott Williams, AICP

BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
The Planning and Zoning Commission considered this matter on July 17, 2019 and voted to recommend approval of the request (Approved 9-0). Staff concurs.

BACKGROUND:
The subject property is located at 1001 S. Washington Street at the southeast corner of Sycamore Drive and S. Washington Street. The property is bordered by Washington Street to the north, Gartner Road and an abutting vacant site on the hard corner to the east, Catalpa Lane to the south, and Sycamore Drive to the west. The property is currently zoned OCI (Office, Commercial, Institutional District) and is approximately 3.5 acres in size. The petitioner has demolished the prior 2-story PNC bank and is proposing to redevelop the property with a mixed-use office and retail development and reconfigured parking lot. To do so, the petitioner requests approval of: a plat of subdivision to re-subdivide the property; a rezoning from OCI (Office Commercial and Institutional District to B1 (Neighborhood Convenience Shopping Center District); and several zoning variances, as further described below.

The East Sector Update (1998) identifies the future land use of the property as "Office/Research & Development." Given that the future land use of the adjacent property located at the southwest corner of Gartner and Washington Street (former gas station) is "Commercial", staff believes that the subject property's future land use designation of "Office/Research & Development" is largely reflective of the property's prior improvement as a bank. As a result, while the proposed retail component of the multi-use development deviates from this designation, it does remain generally complimentary with the character of th...

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