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Auburn council denies rezoning of 13.7 acres in 5-4 vote
Summary
At its Feb. 18 meeting Mayor Ron Andrews reported the Auburn City Council rejected a rezoning request to change 13.7 acres from rural to comprehensive development district, a 5-4 vote. Conditional-use requests tied to the project were not considered later on the agenda.
Mayor Ron Andrews said the Auburn City Council denied a rezoning request for 13.7 acres, voting 5-4 to keep the property zoned rural rather than reclassify it to a comprehensive development district.
The vote, taken under the meeting’s ordinances section, effectively halted consideration of a planned-development district (PDD) rezoning and related conditional-use requests described during the meeting as part of a proposal referred to in the record as the Donna Cross in development. Council members did not consider the conditional-use applications later on the agenda after the rezoning was denied.
The council’s narrow margin — five votes to four — was the only numerical roll call reported for this item in the mayor’s minutes. The meeting record does not list individual councilmembers’ votes for this item.
The denial prevents the applicant from moving forward with a PDD rezoning tied to the property until and unless a new application is submitted and approved. The mayor’s minutes did not detail specific reasons given by councilmembers for the denial nor state whether the applicant plans to revise or refile the proposal.
The council discussed other business at the Feb. 18 meeting, including approvals unrelated to land use, but the rezoning denial was the only land-use matter recorded as decided under ordinances at that meeting.
This report is based on the mayor’s minutes delivered during the council meeting and filed with the record.
