11 Conduct a public hearing to consider the petition on Paris Big Sandy Apartments

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M E M O R A N D U M TO: Chairman and Members of the Planning and Zoning Cnmmission Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council FROM: Lisa A. Wright, Director of Community Development SUBJECT: Zoning Change Request - Paris Big Sandy Apartments, LP 4000 block of Lamar Avenue DATE: June 2, 2008 The following zoning change request will be presented at the June 2, 2008, meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the June 9, 2008, meeting of the City Council of the City of Paris for consideration: Paris Big Sandy Apartments, LP is requesting that a 6.5 acre tract of land, a part of the Enoch Crow Survey, Abstract No. 208, being located in the 4000 block of Lamar Avenue, be rezoned from an Agricultural District (A) to a Multiple Family Dwelling District No. 2(MF- 2). The Comprehensive Plan recommends that this property be zoned Low Density Residential. Approval of this request would require an amendment to the Comprehensive Land Use Map. Additionally, on May 30, 2008, the City of Paris was presented with a petition from property owners adjoining the above-subject property in opposition of the zoning change request (attached). Section 21-105 of Zoning Ordinance No. 1710 states as follows: "Unless a proposed amendment, supplement or change has been approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, or if a protest against such proposed amendment, supplement or change has been filed with the City Secretary, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty (20) percent or more either of the area of the lots included in such a proposed change or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extending two hundred (200) feet therefrom or of those directly opposite thereto extending two hundred (200) feet from the streetfrontage ofsuch opposite lots, such amendment shall not become effective except by a three-fourths vote of the governing body." (emphasis added) After reviewing the petition, I have found that it contains fifty-six (56) signatures from neighbors in the vicinity of the requested change, with fifty-seven percent (57%) of adjoining property owners as described in Section 21-105 above having signed the petition. cc: City Attorney's Office . 0 OUO"7 6