MAPC tables rezoning request for 5349 1/2 West Carrier Road after neighbors raise access and lot-size concerns

The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission on its March meeting voted to table a request to rezone property addressed as 5349 1/2 West Carrier Road from A-1 (General Agricultural) to A-2 (Suburban). The applicant, Jeremy Dersham (on the phone), has also applied for a lot-split that would seek to divide the roughly 21.47-acre parcel into multiple residential lots.

Jacqueline Porter, community development director, told commissioners the rezoning would permit residential uses that are not allowed under the existing A-1 zoning and that the applicant had filed a separate lot-split application. "The subject property is roughly 21.47 acres," Porter said, and noted that "if he divides it into 9 lots it would create non conforming lots in the A-one zoning district where the minimum lot size requirement is 20 acres." Porter also summarized the site location as between North Oakwood and North Garland Road, with a private access to the vacant property.

Neighbors and the applicant…