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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN, FIGURE 3.2 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY
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Summary and Background Information:
The applicant wishes to make changes to the Future Land Use Plan to make the property respond more favorably to the current and future residential and commercial markets. The process to change the current land use designations is to amend the Future Land Use Plan, which requires approval from Planning Commission and City Council. The applicant would like to amend the existing land use designations and quantities of; residential acreage and designation to better reflect the current housing climate and market demand, and commercial acreages to adjust to the amount existing commercial which is immediately adjacent. The following changes to the Future Land Use Plan are proposed:
1. Decrease the amount of the Commercial area from 17.8 acres to 10.3 acres.
2. Change the 12.1 acres of Residential-High to Residential-Medium.
3. The remaining 5.5 acres that was Commercial is to be included in the Residential-Medium area for a total of 19.6 acres.
Staff Responsible (Department Head): Chris Cramer, Community Development Director
Staff Member Presenting: Robin Kerns, City Planner
Financial Impact: N/A
Funding Source: N/A
Planning Commission Recommendation:
On February 2, 2016, the Planning Commission held a public hearing, took testimony, and voted (5 to 0) to forward the Future Land Use Plan Amendment request to City Council with a favorable recommendation, subject to the findings of fact.