12-04-1974 Council Meeting Minutes with PC

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� ' MINUTES OF A COUNCIL MEETING HELD DECEMBER 4 , 1974 Page 30 property from the present uses which are basically �acant property and residential to a denser residential zone would not result in any changes in the present use of the property as zoned for commercial reasons. The present commercial properties would continue as nonconforming uses in the area. The development of this area as a denser residential area would provide an adequate buffer zone between the highway and the less densely developed residential areas immedi- ately to the north of the highway. Throughout the discussion of the zones known as L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, it has been stressed that general office use and commercial use and industrial use generate approximately 4 times the traffic per acre that residential dwellings produce. The traffic in this area is already too great for the roads. Additional traffic during those time � periods in the morning and the late afternoon when employees arrive and leave from these areas and during which shoppers would arrive and leave from these areas would only serve to make a. hazardous road more hazardous in the future. Residential traffic generated by these rezonings is spread a throughout the day and is more apt to be present in the early mornings as people are leaving for work and in the late evenings when people are returning from work. By rezoning these areas from commercial and industrial to residential , the City Council has attempted to eliminate a present traffic problem and preclude worse problems in the future. The discussion then shifted to that property marked AREA 0-1 as 0-1. That property is presently zoned B-1 B-1 to B-4 Commercial and will be rezoned to B-4 Commercial . The B-4 commercial would allow for the development of this property for office buildings but would prohibit the proliferation of the retail sales and service buildings which are present to the east of the property marked as 0-l. This property is contiguous to the county road and for the traffic reasons stated previously, it should not be allowed to develop to a high traffic generating B-1 business area. Moreover, it was noted that , the topography of this property is such that the lots are not very deep and that it is almost impossible to provide for off-street parking for any commercial uses which would be allowed under the present or proposed zoning code. It was noted that the property immediately north of the 0-1 area is developed for residential � purposes and that the property to the east of the 0 area will be developed as 1/2 acre residential .