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January 16, 1979 Minutes - page 9 ORDINANCE NO. 623 PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED It's also interesting to note that if you take a look at the zoning map of Louisville there is no low density residential zoned land east of Main St. in the City of Louisville. It is either medium density or higher density, or it's commercial or it's industrial. At this present time, at least the most current zoning map that I saw, there is nothing east of Main St. that provides for low density residential. There is one other zone that is less in- tense than the low density residential district and that is the estate residential zoning district. That also provides minimal lot size of 12,000 square feet as opposed to the 7,000 square feet permitted in the R-L zone. Well, the decision is up to this Council, but we would submit that even 12,000 square foot lots are fairly inefficient in terms of providing sewer and water utility services as well as affording police protection and other services that have to be provided to this kind of development. Also, 12,000 foot lots are fairly expensive. If its the desire of the City of Louis- ville to provide large lot developments and large price tags, well that might be an appropriate zoning category to provide for this property. We would like to underscore that this re- quested rezoning is a fairly modest one, of going from agricultural a questionable zoning district to a low density residential. Typically, zoning disputes involve changes from residential zones to commercial zones or residential to industrial and commercial to industrial. This is a fairly modest one from an agriGulturalzone to a typical re- sidential zone that one finds typically in urban communities. Insofar as effecting surrounding properties, we believe that a low density residential zoning is not going to intrude upon the industrial neighbor or the commercial busi- ness neighbor or even the apartment uses in the adjacent property in Lafayette. This is not going to adversly effect the neighborhood. An important point that some times, I think, in the consideration of this particular matter that you lose sight of if the fact that the comprehensive plan shows this as open space.