Scott County and Scott Community Development Agency (CDA) are proposing reguiding, rezoning and platting of property located at the northwest corner of Eagle Creek Boulevard and County Road 18. The property is presently guided Parks and Open Space and zoned Rural Residential (RR). They are proposing a change to Suburban Residential guiding and Urban Residential (R-1B) Zone to allow development of a single-family subdivision. They also intend to Preliminary and Final Plat the property for a 10-lot residential subdivision.

Scott County and Scott County Development Agency have previously submitted a plan for this site that was a15-lot single family home subdivision that also impacted the woodland areas.  After community input and input at the Planning Commission, the County and CDA withdrew the application to redesign the development to reduce the number of homes to be more in keeping with the neighborhood layout and design. 

Reguiding

The request to reguide the property from Parks and Open Space to Suburban Residential is a use consistent with single family residential development that is adjacent to the property. The area outside of the proposed residential development will remain Parks and Open Space.  The application is only to reguide the proposed 10-lot subdivision. 

Rezoning

The applicant has provided a conceptual site development and plat that identifies parcels and potential home sites that comply with the R-1B design standards for lot sizes/density, setbacks and lot coverage and city code performance standard compliance with building materials, window coverage and parking requirements. The applicant has also conducted a traffic study to demonstrate the minimal impact of this subdivision on the surrounding roadway system.

Preliminary Plat

The proposed Preliminary Plat identifies 10 single family lots that are consistent with the Suburban Residential guiding and the R-1B zoning; therefore, staff recommends that the Planning Commission forward a recommendation of approval of the Preliminary Plat. The City Council will take the Planning Commission’s recommendation under advisement when they review both the Preliminary and Final Plat application.

City staff have provided comment on this proposed project, with recommendations supporting development as a single-family residential subdivision, conditioned on complying with their conditions of approval. SPU would condition approval that water utilities are available and would need to be looped, and underground electric utilities are available, with both subject to their standard terms and conditions. City Engineering has provided a memo which notes their conditions of approval, primarily addressing utility and traffic requirements should this request be approved.

Reguiding/Rezoning Considerations

 
The City Council may grant a zoning ordinance amendment when it finds that one or more of the following criteria exists:

1. The original comp plan and zoning ordinance are in error.

Staff believes this property should not be guided Parks & Open Space, nor zoned Rural Residential, as this is an area of the community that has public utilities available, which is not compatible with the Rural Residential purpose/design standards.

2. Significant changes in goals in community goals and policies have taken place.

Not necessary a change, but the intent has been that this area would be developed as expressed by the road and utilities stubbed to the property line in the original development.

3. Significant changes in city-wide or neighborhood development patterns have occurred.

The CDA's intent is to construct a single-family residential subdivision utilizing the same zoning/guiding as adjacent subdivisions.

4. The comprehensive plan requires another provision.

Staff believes that several of these criteria would be met with this proposal as noted above; therefore, staff support the requested reguiding and rezoning of the proposed subdivision. There is a stub street and utilities extended to this property, with the intent at the time of development of the adjacent subdivision that there would be development of this property.

The intended subdivision is generally consistent with the adjacent developments (single family residential).