Commission sets Nov. 5 public hearing for rezoning north of Ashersport Drive

The Planning Commission on Oct. 15 voted to set a public hearing for Nov. 5 on a rezoning request for approximately 9.6 acres north of Ashersport Drive. The applicant seeks a change from RS-6 (single-family residential, 6,000-square-foot minimum) to RS-A2 (allowing single-family detached and attached suburban townhome types).

Mr. Donovan presented three scenarios for how the parcel and its surrounding area would perform against the comprehensive plan’s auto-urban residential (AUR) thresholds (acreage devoted to attached units and percentage of total units that are attached). He said the applicant-provided yield estimates anticipate at least 49 attached units north of Asher Fork Drive and 26 detached units elsewhere on the larger parcel; those yields produce site-wide figures that in some scenario slightly exceed the plan’s 20% acreage or 40% unit share thresholds depending on the boundary analyzed. Staff recommended the commission evaluate whether a deviation from attached-home criteria is acceptable when the site’s overall density falls within the 4–12 units-per-acre AUR range.

Commissioners had no substantive objections and moved to set the public hearing for Nov. 5. The motion carried by unanimous roll call.