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Update: “The Fairview”

• Fallonia06/16 04:13 PM

  One of the great pleasures of living in this previously undiscovered paradise of mixed residential communities has been going to Five Points to TCOB lo these many years. The pleasure component has varied widely as different places have come and gone. But it has always been the heart of the village.

  My last trip to the banks, drugstore, p.o. and coffee shop included the observation that whoever owns those houses is letting them go. That is not good for the community and is one of the worst neighborhood problems when a street becomes teardown expectant. SInce the homes were bought speculatively, I am sure they will not be returned to the market as fixer-uppers.

  Sad trend we have here. The personal preservation of some high-character places is impossible at these market prices.

  Interesting that the Fairview went down because of neighborhood input. Is that because it was a commercial plan which required more approval?

• Mark06/16 04:54 PM

  Due to the scale and nature of this project, it would be submitted for a Planned Development Conditional Use Overlay District which would require many, many more steps and requirements than a general use rezoning case. It involves the submission of a master plan showing conformity to the city’s Urban Design Guidelines, compliance with the Comprehensive Plan, meetings with the Neighborhood Citizen Advisory Council, notification of all property owners within 100 feet of the parcel, and a joint Planning Commission-City Council hearing,  in addition to a Planning Commission hearings and recommendation, and City Council final decision.
  In general, the Planned Development Conditional Use Overlay District is designed to allow mixed-use projects in order to promote urbanity and to protect against sprawl or poorly planned development. The Conditional Use (CUD) part of it is designed to allow upping the zoning to a more dense zone, but restricting the uses and parameters assigned to that zone in the code. In other words, it requires more restrictive measures to protect against future development on that property that could potentially seek to execute a maximization of what’s allowed in the zoning code. Imagine the Soleil Center next door to your single family house.

• Mark06/18 06:42 PM

  as defined by the city’s Comprehensive Plan:

  Conditional Use Zoning
  A request for rezoning may include conditions which restrict the use of the land further and more particularly than the basic zoning category does. Example: a property owner applies to rezone his property from R-10 (medium density residential) to O&I;-2 (office and institutional). This office zone has no building height limit. After discussion with nearby residents, who object to the construction of a tall building on this site, the property owner includes a condition with the rezoning request; the condition limits building height to, say 50 feet. The conditions are attached to the zoning and are enforced as zoning regulations. Conditional use zoning permits modifications of the zoning regulations, to fit the particular needs of a situation. It is often thought of as a bargaining tool.

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