13 - Zoning Change Request - Kenneth Winn - Single-Family District to a Four-Family Dwelling District - Block 222-B Lot 19 - 2508 E. Price Street

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Item No. 13 TO: Mayor & City Council FROM: Carla Easton, P.E., Community Development Director SUBJECT: ZONING CHANGE, 2508 EAST PRICE STREET DATE: September 5, 2019 BACKGROUND: Kenny Dority is requesting a change in zoning on a 0.258 acre lot from SF -2 to 4F to construct a quadplex. The subject property is a vacant lot located on the southeast corner of Price and 25th NE. There is a wide variety of different types of residential properties in the immediate area, including a few single family homes, many duplexes and triplexes, and immediately across the street, a group of apartments. The subject site is also diagonally across the intersection from Wade Park. Existing zoning includes MF -1 across 25th, 2F across Price, and Commercial adjacent and to the south. STATUS OF ISSUE: The comprehensive plan calls for the southeast quadrant of this intersection to remain low density residential (LDR), with medium density (MDR) elsewhere. It seems impractical that this corner could ever be developed as s single family house; however, so its best use would likely be medium density. As discussed before, we rarely want to go outside the future land use plan, but too many other properties have been developed at medium and high densities, and that is in fact the nature of this particular area. In -fill that might eventually convert the existing high and medium density to single family seems entirely impractical, especially because the medium density homes are newer than the few single family structures present. A triplex is somewhat preferred, but a quad works on this corner. The planning and zoning commission conducted a public hearing at its regular meeting of September 5 to address this request. The applicant spoke in favor. The commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval of this zoning change. RECOMMENDATION: Approve of a zoning change from SF -2 to 4F.