City Council Agenda and Packet 1979 02 06

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4- ,fir - , •.tT"R'T • • _' • _' ^• ♦ Op 79 page I • ~ • OMMANCS 1W. 623 It's also interesting to note that if To • TUC NSANINO taker • look at the sousing map of Louisville CONTINUUM ' there is no low density residential d land east of Main 3t. in City. of Louisville. It is either asdius .density or higher idensity, or it's l or • it's trial. At this present tom. at least the most current Boning map that I saw, there is nothing oast of Mein 8t. that provides for low density residential. There is one other sons that is less in- tense than the low density residintial district and that is the estate residential sowing district. That also provides minimal lot size of 12,000 square feet as opposed to the 7,000 square fest permitted in the R• . zone. Will, 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 fain eexxppensive. If its the desire of the City of- Louis'. f 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 esidential. 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 agricultural sone 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 spartment uses in the adjacent property in Lafayette. This is not going to adwrsly 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.