2012/07/25 Council Agenda Packet

zoning and Comprehensive Plan designation e consistent with each other, and that the zone fits in with the current and anticipated use. Mr. L sen presented a graphic of the site. The City purchased the property on Smith I and in 2000 and it is currently a mitigation area; however, the site is owned by the City but is current in Snohomish County. The property is located on Smith Island, south of 12th Street,west of Unio lough. The request is to amend the Comprehensive Plan map to show the City's Urban Growth Ar a overlaid on the subject 20 acre site. The objective is to eventually bring the subject area into t e City which according to the letter from Snohomish County should happen in 2015. The goal is to treamline permit review and provide police and fire protection to the area. Mr. Larsen presented a gr hic of the site. He asked Commissioners if there were any questions. 6:49:41 PM Chair Sosin asked if Commission had any questions regarding the docket items. 6:50:15 PM Commissioner Olivers asked if the City had any comments from the property owners regarding the two parcels located northwest of 23rd Drive. He wondered if the underlying Comprehensive Plan designation would be in their long term best interest. Mr. Larsen responded that the City did receive a letter from the property owner regarding the property owner's position. The use of the property is single family residential and not commercial. Commissioner Olivers commented that rarely does a proposal come before Commission to fit something to the current use,the request is usually for the highest and best • use of the property. Mr. Koenig responded that if those two parcels were part of the B-2 zone with contract and there was access from one parcel to the other that would make sense; however,the access is from an R-1 residential street so the property does not make sense as a commercial use. If the parcels took access off of 19th Avenue, a case could be made for the higher intensity use. 6:54:02 PM Chair Sosin mentioned that there was a predominance of R-1 zoning west of 23rd and north of 116th. Mr. Koenig added that the unincorporated area is also single family. 6:54:31 PM Commissioner Sand asked if the Code allowed for commercial access through a residential neighborhood. Mr. Koenig responded that there was no code requirement but something the City tries fto avoid. 6:54:59 PM Chair Sosin asked why the parcel designated 1.6 south of the Scr pps property was not included in the Comprehensive Plan amendment and rezone proposal. Mr. Ko ig referred to the graphic to explain that both the Scrupps property and the parcel to the south w t through an earlier"Intent to Rezone" process. The parcel to the south is currently developed and i consistent with both the Comprehensive Plan designation and zoning so the property was included in he Evergreen Way area-wide rezone which was approved by Planning Commission in February. The Sc pps property was not developed under the "Intent to Rezone" process which created the inconsistenc between the Comprehensive Plan designation and the zoning. Both properties are propose to rezone to E-1 MUO as a result of the Evergreen Way Revitalization Plan efforts. Chair Sosin as ed what type of development was located on the property to the North. Planning Commission Meeting Minutes Page 4 March 6, 2012