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Rezoning request for 6500 Taylor Road tabled after applicant seeks zoning-category change
Summary
A rezoning request to change 6500 Taylor Road from M-1 (light manufacturing) to GB (general business) was tabled after staff and the applicant identified a code provision requiring GB to be located on an arterial; the applicant said they will amend the request to PRO and return.
The Planning and Zoning Commission on April 2 voted to table rezoning application 0125001, a request to change the zoning for 6500 Taylor Road SW from M-1 (light manufacturing) to GB (general business), after staff identified a potential conflict between the GB district purpose and the city’s thoroughfare classifications.
Staff described the 0.72-acre property as occupied by a single-story office building with roughly 21 existing parking spaces and a small fenced area. The applicant’s stated intention was to use the building as the main office for a home health-care agency. Staff noted that the property’s future land-use category and the building’s current classification on the auditor’s site both align with office uses, but that Section 12.49.01 of the zoning code indicates the GB district "shall be located on an arterial thoroughfare" and that Taylor Road is classified as a collector in the most recent thoroughfare plan. Planning staff explained that the commission may recommend conditions but that placing conditions on a straight rezoning can amount to illegal contract zoning; because of the arterial requirement staff suggested the applicant consider a PRO zoning request instead.
Attorney Robert DiCuccio, speaking for the property owner (K Investments), asked the commission to table the application so the owner could amend the request to seek PRO zoning, which staff said would accommodate the proposed office use without the arterial requirement. "Admittedly, it got by me. It got by architect. I apologize for wasting the commission's time here," DiCuccio said, and requested the item be tabled so the applicant could refile under the PRO district.
Commissioners had asked about the parcel’s zoning history, noting earlier use-variance requests for a game store and a daycare in prior years when the property was in a different planning context; staff said earlier comprehensive-plan guidance that favored industrial uses previously made rezoning less likely and help explain past use-variance approaches. After the applicant’s request to table, a motion to table rezoning application 0125001 passed on roll call with all present commissioners voting yes.
The applicant indicated they will amend the application to request PRO zoning and return to the commission for consideration.
