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Memo to Mayor/City Council/ZC 02-07 June 17,2002 Page 2 Existing Conditions The 109 acre parcel is located on the east side of Twin Lakes Road north of Trott Brook farms at the Twin Lakes Road/Tyler Street intersection. The property is a mix of open fields and woodlands. About 37 acres of the parcel is wetland. The site is also hilly and is bounded by Trott Brook in the southeast corner. Adjacent land uses include single family residential to the south, farmland and Trott Brook to the east, Twin Lakes Road and single family lots to the west and north. Analysis Rezoning Request The applicant is requesting to rezone 109 acres from R1c (Single Family Residential) to R3 (T ownhome District) in order to allow a mixed residential project. The underlying land use designation for this property is MR (Medium Density Residential), which would allow up to 7.92 units per acre. The proposed project has a net density of about 3.9 units per acre, which is consistent with the underlying land use designation of Medium Density Residential. Contingent on approval of the rezoning request is the preliminary plat for Twin Lakes Crossing. This plat includes a mix of 198 townhouse lots and 85 single family residential lots. An option that the Council should consider is rezoning only the townhouse portion of the project to R3 and leaving the proposed single family area as it is currently zoned, which is R1c and R1e. If the whole 109 acres is rezoned to R3 and the developer decides not to complete the project, the whole 109 acres could be developed by another developer into 109 acres of townhouses. Only preliminary and final plat approval would be required. Leaving the existing single family residential zoning in place in the area that includes the single family lots would have a minimal impact on those lots. The dimensional requirements for single family lots in the R3 district and the R1e district are the similar; both have a minimum lot size of 12,000 square feet and a minimum lot width of 80 feet. The R1e district also includes a minimum lot depth of 135 feet, the R3 district has no minimum lot depth. The dimensional requirements for the R1c district, which includes only a small portion of this project, are a minimum lot size of 11,000 square feet, a minimum lot width of 80 feet and minimum lot depth of 130 feet. Planning Commission Meeting At the Planning Commission meeting held on May 28th seven residents spoke. All seven spoke against the rezoning to R3 (Townhouse District). They felt that because of the wetlands, trees, slopes and the potential traffic generated by the townhouses, townhouses were not appropriate for this site. None of the residents spoke against the single family component. S:\PLANNING\Case Files\P 02-05 Twin Lakes Crossing\ZC02-07junecc.doc