1982-03-24 Joint Public Hearing and Special Called Meeting

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• • • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Special Called Meeting La Porte City Council, March 24, 1982, Page 6 feasible to jack any mobile homes ten (10) foot in the air, so we are asking to have this rezoned to commercial. We do have a potential purchaser who is in the environmental pro- tection business as an engineer and would be willing to put his office up in the air. But we do not have a contract at this time. It is impossible to use the land for residential, and to get it on the tax roll at its proper value, property values are quite high along McCabe Road, that we do need commercial zoning in order to sell the property. Simons: What's going to be put in out there? Dominy: We don't know for sure. But there is a car wash on the corner and there is a mobile home park. The rest of the property is vacant. The asking price is from $13,000 to $20,000 an acre, and we know that it cannot be residential. This was annexed, as T understand it, by the City, and every- thing got zoned residential until such time as it could be rezoned. It is just not an area that is conducive to single family or any kind of residential use, really, because of the elevation of the property. Tt is about 10 feet below ~- the flood plain. We feel like it's got to be some kind of commercial use. This particular potential purchaser, and T feel like it's about 50-50 or probably 30-70. I don't think he will buy it, but he wants to put his office in there to do whatever. He's an engineer. He wants his office in there and would also like to keep some of his other equipment there that he uses. We would. have to get a special use permit for him, I understand, if he did that, but we need it zoned com- mercial if possible. westergren: What kind of equipment are you referring to that would require a special use permit? Dominy: Well, I'm a little confused. Prior to the zoning hearing I thought there was a category of Commercial, Light Industrial, and I asked for that. And I understand that' not true. Just Commercial, and if you ask for anything other than commercial, .you got to come back and get a permit to use it. I don't think we are going to get a grocery store or a fast food service in there because of the location, but I understand you have to come back and get a permit to do it for anything else. I may be wrong about that. Maybe Mr. Askins can answer that question. Askins: That's essentially correct. Commercial would be • only for stores, shops and offices.