06-23-1988 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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r :~ ® • MINUTES OF THE P&Z COMMISSION MEETING JUNE 23, 1988 • PAGE 3 Mr. Gray said if that is what the Commission wants him to do, he is more than willing to have plans drawn up. Mrs. Graves said she sees it as a very difficult tract to develop commercially in an attractive manner and personally she did not care for what was there now. Mrs. Graves said she did not feel it was landscaped very attractively and that she had opposed it from the very beginning. Mrs. Graves said that she felt that before they consider anything they needed to know that it would be done attractively and that it could not be changed. Mr. Latimer asked if the Commission felt that Mr. Gray needed to do something like a "Mini-Plan" for the entire section? Mr. Blackwell said he" felt like that would be asking to much at this time and it would also be asking Mr. Gray to falsify a set of plans", and in a sense that what we would be asking him to do. Mr. Blackwell felt that on a realistic term Mr. Gray couldn't do this at this time, Mrs. Graves said that she agreed with that, but there are some things in general commercial that we would not want up against a residential zone and once we zone it, then we have lost complete control of it. Mr. Gray asked Mr. Blackwell if making up a plan of what may happen in the future was falsifing something? Whether it's done now or five years in the future it still would have some validity to it. Mr. • Blackwell said "that plans are like goals, any type of goal is better than none at all. I don't think you could sit down and do what Janet is asking at this point. Mr. Gray asked if this type of plan was not what was done on the Master Plan? Mr. Blackwell said that he hoped Mr. Gray could tell the difference in that and what the Commission was asking for here, if not both parties were far apart. Mr. Gray emphasized that the land is too expensive for them to put something in that would hurt them or the adjoining land. There is no incentive for them to pay 2 or 3 times what they could buy land for to put an equipment storage yard on somewhere else. Mr. Blackwell said he didn't think you could put this type of storage in a commercial area anyway, but Mr. Armstrong, Asst. City Attorney, said you could put outside storage as a conditional use. Ptr. Gray stated that whether you could or couldn't, they were not going to do it. Mr. Gray at this point wanted to reply on Mrs. Grave's earlier comments on what is out there now. He asked her if she could be more percise about what she didn't like out there now? He wanted to know if and what they could do to make it better. Mrs. Graves said she felt it needed more landscaping, more setback, she didn't like to see signs on public easements. She said she just saw it as a difficult piece of land to develop commercially in an attractive way. Mr. Latimer asked that if Mr. Gray presented a general plan for the • Commission to see, would that be what they wanted. Mrs. Graves said she guessed that was what she needed to see.