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Council hears contested background on 350 Powerhouse Road rezoning; Planning Commission recommended buffer and mixed industrial-reserve split
Summary
City planning staff and council members discussed a rezoning application for the former Department of Energy parcel at 350 Powerhouse Road, where the Planning Commission recommended a split zoning that would place an RG-1 buffer zone along the Clinch River and IND-1 industrial zoning on the remainder, rejecting the property owner’s initial IND-1/IND-2 request.
City planning staff summarized a contentious rezoning application for 350 Powerhouse Road during the March 18 council work session, explaining the property's Department of Energy history, deed-use restrictions and the staff and Planning Commission recommendations.
Jennifer (planning staff) told council the roughly 365-acre parcel transferred from the Department of Energy to the community reuse organization and then to a private owner. The deed includes land-use restrictions that limit uses on the property to those permitted in the city's IND-1, IND-2 and IND-3 industrial districts and commercial/recreational UB-2 uses. Staff said the site is not vacant unconstrained acreage: there are easements, digging-depth restrictions and topographic limitations and…
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