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'"'4 ' , :1: TUESDAY AUGUST 23, 1977 In connection with Council's re-referral on June 28, 1977, to the Planning Commission, of Lanier Farm's May 10th petition seeking the rezoning of a portion of its property situated near the southeast corner of Spruce Street and Parkview Avenue from "R-6 Residential" to "C-l Commercial", on which the Planning Commission had submitted its report under date of June 24, 1977 recommending that the rezoning request be granted (with a certain stipulation as to reservation of an area for "screen planting"), the Planning Commission filed its ".~- report (dated August 22, 1977), again recommending the rezoning request be granted, subject to the aforesaid stipulation, which report was as follows: The Planning Commission at its meeting on Thursday, August 18, 1977, conducted a second Public Hearing with regard to a petition submitted by Lanier Farms requesting the rezoning of additional property from R-9 Residential to a C-l Commercial classification near the southeast corner of Spruce Street and Parkview Avenue to allow for the construction of a supermarket at that location. The rezoning petition as considered would leave a strip approximately 40 feet in width along the east margin on Parkview Avenue in the R-9 Residential classification for purposes of screen planting. Proponents and opponents were represented by attorneys and evidence was received from several sources concerning traffic counts and safety, the environmental effect of the project on the flow of water down stream from the project, the cost, relative safety and design advantages and disadvantages of alternate locations of this proposed store which would not require this rezoning, the economic benefit to the City if the store is built as a result of the rezoning, the potential effect of the proposed store on neighboring property values and the public demand for the availability of such a store in this general area. The petitioners, as a part of their presentation, offered to dedicate an additional twelve feet of land along the south side of Spruce Street for the purpose of alleviating potential traffic hazards and conditions of congestion, and also offered to assist the City in any reasonable way in opening Kilowat Street through to Brookdale, if this approach seems otherwise feasible. The Petitioner also stated a willingness to have a professional landscape contractor provide proper screening on the west and southwest sides of the property and to so install outside lighting as to have it properly shielded from nearby residential areas. Based on the foregoing evidence, the Commission voted to recommend to Council that this petition be granted with the reservation of a strip of land 40 feet wide along the east side of Parkview, the parcel being recommended for rezoning fronting approximately 110 feet on the south side of Spruce Street and running back to a depth of approximately 250 feet. Members of the Commission stated that they felt in making this decision that this store would contribute to the tax base of the City and would tend to preserve the present tax base in the immediate area, that the construction of a store as presented by the Petitioner would answer a need and desire for such a store --'~-'-'--'~'-"-'_.'-----""'-~----_.._.--_..-.__..,.----,---