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Jill: What type of residential — like how many residential units could go in there right now without a PUD? Zack: Right now it's zoned business park, so it would have to be rezoned to a residential district. I would say it would have to either be an R-3 to be townhome standards or R-4 high density residential, but it would have to be rezoned. Right now it's a business park with underlying land use of mixed use residential. So it could be different, it could be townhomes, it could be an apartment building, it could be other options but as it stands today, without some sort of change, it would only be a business park use. Jill: Okay. I was just thrown where it said that it's guided for mixed use and residential uses are permitted. But it isn't actually permitted right now, it would need to be rezoned? Zack: Correct, it's permitted under the land use guidance, not under the current zoning. Jill: The only comment I would want to add, we've had some experiences as a city where we've put PUDs in industrial parks, and then when those industrial locations look to expand or change or do anything different or request CUPS for themselves, it creates a significant amount of tension between homeowners and business owners. As I look at this, that's what I'm concerned about, I think about over by Casey's and the PUD we have over in that area and the sheer volume of high-tension issues that we've had between business and homeowners. I know we don't have a crystal ball to see the future but I'm a little bit concerned about this, going in there and just creating problems from here on out. Because it is right in the middle of business park, an industry, and those businesses have a right to expand and change and do things differently in the future as well. So that's my main concern with it Rob: I have to echo with Jill, that's kind of where I was headed with my question. Is the inconsistent businesses on each side of this, are we creating a problem where we're making another exception in an area it's not suited for? I know technically, but realistically, what's going to happen if someone else wants to put something in that's incompatible with both of the other two uses but we've already set a precedent for that. I just get concerned about shoving that many people in to that area and then expecting everyone to be able to get in and out of there. Eric: I guess to that too, both Jill and Rob bring up an interesting point, when you look at the property directly to the south, if a business park were to go in there, how would that affect all these residents having even something noisier closer by. Nate: In effect it's almost a spot zone. If you insert residential in between two industrials like that. Eric: Right. Well business park and industrial. Nate: Well yea, yea, exactly. That's a great point, Jill. Rob: But effectively we have done that with Xavier Circle down there already, but -- Eric: But to the south of that is also residential. It's not quite as boxed in as this development would be. But this is a lot more homes you're talking about, 29 verses whatever was there.