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<br />. <br /> <br />Development:TV\l9rT'l~in coQ9~rr~~ <br /> <br />.....c.. ...... . - -:..,...... . ":',~: '.;'. ,':' ,-.'- ..:.,.... - '-".., :-:-., <br />for thesit~ overtheyear~. .....imuclJ. ....~...... a. resUlt;o~.~~' <br />. "In .the..past...lI..... ~ot .{)f . the ..de\7'elo~ent..an~y..'.' ..... .................. <br />proposll.ls.. th~Jcame fo~..",.. .Acc()rdll).g to..,~ ."w~e: <br />ward \Vere too..dense," Wa.rii stu.d~tl.1.~..results ....9!'W~, <br />1. (Jo'Ul).cil. Member Jolin were. pr",sented. bY~8.l,'j.e'" <br />Dietzstrid. ..' "This. proposal Cote,. {)f$RF Con~wtiI\,gi'~ <br />seemettto strike all mem- the... .. n1J.1.t1.ber 'of~ripl!} <br />bers{)fthe council as b~ing .....throUgl)..Htlie '. inters",~ti~ll'! <br />neigp.b{)r1iood. fri~ndly.~' .....<.. ..... .'Would.. Q~Y' in(:rea.se .J>Y;'~'~' ..... <br />Klinzing said the develop- percent.as a result of the <br />ers. are proposing a devel- develoPttlent. <br />opment that has a density That..w()uld eq\lala~{)ut <br />dose to 74 percent. .'.572 trips per day in 2006, a <br />"They've g()ne over and year after the project is <br />beyond' -vvhat. anyone~ould scheduled to be ~ompleted: <br />1i~ve expected.outo! that All key intersections would <br />propert;y," . sp.e"said of remain within an acceptable <br />'. Morcon" "and.they're very . traffic movement range dur- <br />sincere about buildiiIg ~t to ing.peakhours, Co~.said, <br />'what they're.'$ayiD,g..~ and ~'road.s. would <br />Dietz . also said' he was not be negatively affected by <br />happy Morcon wasn'tPUIlJu- the development. , ..' <br />ing putting a big-box retail .Resiqen,ts'i1!.. .... the <br />.store iD.the developmeIlt Brentwood and RiclgewOOti <br />. . housing developments have <br />had differing.. ex:peetations <br />of how the property' would <br />be developed. <br />Covenants for .. the <br />Brentwood.. development <br />allow for the lot to be deVel.- <br />oped with a.1lSe OthE!!"' than <br />residential, but the property <br />remained zoned mediumres- <br />identialand many residents <br />~ it to ~ vacant. <br />Others, like JobnPolden, <br />who . . . mOVed.to .' .,' the <br />Brentwood . neigJ:iOOrhood in <br />1989, . told the Planning <br />Commission last July that <br />they were promiseciit would <br />be turned into spark. <br />Other residents,. dating <br />back to the mid 1990s, said <br />they were told the property <br />would be developed with <br />multi-family housing. <br />The PUD ~zoning, condi- <br />tional use permit and <br />approval ofMorcon's prelimi- <br />nary plat were all approved <br />by the council on 5-0 votes. <br />The council also revised the <br />land-use portion of the <br />revised comprehensive plan <br />to reflect the zoning change. <br /> <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. Objections <br /> <br />There were two PriIn~.' <br />concerns raised by. citi~~ns <br />who spoke.to the council. <br />and in January....tor the <br />Planning Commissi~n:.traf- <br />fie, in terms of both safety <br />and congestio~, . aJ;ld th~ <br />fact a commercial develop- <br />ment would bec~ming so <br />close to their homes. <br />The project calls for the <br />creatio:n ofa. service road <br />that would begin at 197th <br />Avenue and Irving Street, <br />head into the new develop- <br />ment and along Highway <br />169 before connecting to <br />the existing Holt Street. <br />"A lot of it was the same <br />type of. objections there <br />were with Elk Park Center, <br />and that worked out pretty <br />well," Dietz said. "Traffic <br />moves pretty nicely. I don't <br />think you have people cut- <br />ting through neighborhoods <br />to get (there)." <br />The traffic at the 197th <br />Avenue intersection isn't <br />expected to increase too <br />