Committee reviews comp-plan amendments, TIP updates and a land-use application proposing residential redesignation

At the April 16 Land Use Committee meeting staff summarized several city-initiated comprehensive-plan amendments and an application to change land-use designation for a cluster of parcels.

Jim Bisk, principal planner, told the committee there are three city-initiated amendments including reference to Blackjack Creek and incorporation of the Sherman Avenue Stormwater Park plan into an appendix so the city can adopt it by reference once developed. Bisk also said staff submitted corrections to the capital facilities element water tables to reflect revised expenditures and funding, noting a developer submitted a similar application and that both were aligned. He said the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) in the packet reflects the most recent version and will inform a traffic-impact-fee rate study staff is working on.

Bisk described a private application from Mike Diaz for 13 parcels currently zoned industrial with an industrial comp-plan designation; Diaz seeks a comprehensive-plan amendment to redesignate that area to medium-density residential (allowing R2 or R3 zoning). Bisk said the parcels are "up the hill from the old Clifton side of the stream" and are accessed by a private road off Anderson Hill Road. He said preliminary analysis found there is capacity to serve transportation, water and sewer for the existing parcels and that the land-use amendment would return to council for final action once the review process completes. A separate residential project on the opposite side of the stream was described as a distinct application.

One council member asked whether the Diaz application would come back to council; staff confirmed comprehensive-plan amendments require council approval. The committee did not take any final action on these items at the meeting.