HomeMy Public PortalAbout1985-12-11 minutesTO: Plan Commission
FROM: Steve Manning
DATE: December 11, 1985
SUBJECT:, Case 139 - Wood Rezoning
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REQUEST
Presley Wood owns the vacant lot at 1061 Lockport Street and has requested
Village approval of a map amendment to change the zoning from A to I-1. He
is attempting to sell the lot and has not proposed any particular use of the
property.
LOCATION
The lot has 150' of frontage on Route 30 and is 325' deep including about 12 of
the Route 30 right-of-way. The lot is flat, without trees, and is surrounded
by the following: (See attached maps)
Subject Site North East South West
Land Use vacant vacant vacant cornfield restaurant
Zoning A I-I I-1. county B-3
Comprehensive service service service residential service
Plan commercial commercial commercial commercial
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I suggest that 3 tests of compatibility be used to evaluate any zoning request,
namely 1. Does the proposed zoning comform with the adopted Comprehensive
Plan? 2. Is the proposed zoning similiar to the trend of development in the
area? 3. Is the porposed use acceptible to the community?
The Comprehensive Plan shows the Wood property and all other property between
Van Dyke Road and Northbound bound Route-30.on the North side of Lockport Street
as Service Commercial. B-3 and B-4 zoning roughly approximates the Service
Commercial land use catagory in the Plan. The A, B-2, and I-1 zoning in
this area does not conform to the Comprehensive Plan.
,The trend of development in the area is commerical including restaurant,
hardware, auto repair, and residential including 5 houses at the Northwest
corner of Van Dyke and Lockport Street. The only industrial use is the Ash
Manufacturing Company which is small with no outdoor storage.
The existing zoning in the area is a mixture of residential, business, and
industrial which has no identifiable characteristics such as topography or
accessibility that would give reason for the particular zoning district
pattern now in place. One strategy often used to pattern zoning districts
is to zone the higher value and more visible.property along the main
thoroughfare for commercial uses and zone the larger parcels off the main
thoroughfare behind the commercial property which are isolated from residential
for industrial uses.
MEMO
DATE: December
SUBJECT: Case
RECOMMENDATION
11, 1985
139 - Wood Rezoning
It appears that the range of potential uses, as permitted in I-1 District
requested for the Wood property, do not pass the 3 tests for compatibility.
It is also an unwise practice, in my opinion, to grant zoning changes to
speculators. Better for the contract buyer of the Wood property .to request
a zoning change so that the Village can respond to a particular land use
proposed than for the Village to surrender much of its land use control by
granting zoning approval to an unknown user of the property.
This area of the Village is prominent because of its location along a main
thoroughfare and it is one of the main entry points into the Village. Since
there is a mixture of uses in this area and some uses are unsightly
(junk yard) and some uses are not well maintained, I would .therefore,
estimate that the property values are not as high as they could be and a
less than favorable impression Is made on people entering the Village.
Establishing and maintaining a consistant pattern of B zoning in the area
could help to promote orderly and beneficial growth over the long range
future of this area.
I recommend denial of the request.
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