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Department of Community Development
Reference:
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Manuel Esquibel, City Manager
Prepared By: Joshua M. Tetzlaff, Associate Planner
Date Prepared: February 9, 2016
PURPOSE
The City-initiated zone change application before the Council is for a portion of South Main Street, south of and adjacent to Jessup Street. The area proposed for rezoning is currently zoned I-1 (Light Industrial). City staff brought forward a proposal to change the zone district from I-1 (Light Industrial) to DT (Downtown District) on December 1, 2015. Historically, the first phase of this rezoning happened in September 2013. This zone change would be the second phase of the project, which was to allow this area of South Main Street to develop in a way that has been the expressed desire of the community.
Prior to the first public hearing before City Council, staff sent multiple mailings to affected property owners, posted signs for the public hearings, had notice published in the newspaper, and held a neighborhood meeting at Brighton Anythink Library on November 30, 2015. This zone change ordinance was first read on December 1, 2015. At that public hearing, after hearing both staff and citizens, the City Council decided to continue the first reading of the ordinance and the public hearing to February 16, 2016. This decision was made to allow City staff to hold a meeting with interested landowners to continue to vet the concerns of those affected property owners. Another neighborhood meeting was held on January 11, 2016, at the Brighton Anythink Library. At that meeting, property owners expressed concerns about the potential zone change and how they perceived such a change in zoning could negatively affect their property. Staff indicated to the property owners that the staff would ask the City Council to withdraw the zone change at this time.
Following the issues raised at the neighborhood meeting, as the cit...
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