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ORDINANCE NO. 623 PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED January 16, 1979 Minutes - page 16 in the community or at least potential developments of substantial impact that the need for residential housing may very well increase from that which it used to be. We would indicate this entire change insofar as what the City of Louisville is going through right now, something that effects this property, that effects the surrounding properties and would justify the rezoning at this time. Again, we believe this is a modest request. It is a most restrictive zoning category to which this property is subjected to. The owners aren't seek- ing to put up duplexes, tri-plexes, apartments, they are not seeking to put in a May D & F. They're property owners in the City of Louisville that want to use their property for which they've been paying taxes for. That is a reasonable re- quest and I think it is unreasonable for this Council to say no, you may only use it for agri- cultural purposes. They're asking for Low Density Residential. It will allow them to make reasonable use of their property. We would hope you would consider our request favorably. Thank you. Do you have any questions. Mayor: I don'4 we'll wait until Council has, we'll go with regular procedure. Next, I would like to have staff remarks. Drumm: I would like to go into alittle background of this rezoning application prior to actually dealing with the application itself. In 1973 actually in 1972, the City began its current era of planning which included the development of a comprehensive plan and the development of a new zoning ordinance. This is very difficult to read. We do have a colored copy of this plan and I be- lieve it has been distributed and the applicant has a copy also. I would like to point out this area on the 73 comp plan was zoned industrial right here, this is the sewer plant right here, this is Highway 42. This area was residential, this area is greenbelt, and this area was left outside the plan. This is our Cemetery, this is the Aquarius land right in here. There is a note on that plan that states, if possible this area should be included in the golf course. So, based on the 73 plan, the Aquarius property was either outside of the greenbelt and was tentative the Lafayette - Louisville buffer or was designated as greenbelt. For numerous reasons it became apparent that the 73 plan was not addressing all the problems the City needed addressed in a satisfactory way.