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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes December 18, 1997 Page 18 that they do not oppose and are not opposed to carebally planned industrial development and understand the importance of industry in'commercial development to the County's tax base. I-Ie said the residents in this area do not oppose industrial development, in fact, many of them rely on that development, but it is their concern and ~v~LeoL belief that proposal is too large, too ~.tense, too in~a-as~_ve and will create intolerable congestion. Not just for the residents that are adjoining, but for the residents in the general area and ultimately for the very businesses that are trying to be attracted to the site. 1Vlr. Newton said the question that has been discussed in several ways is, what is the proper or healthy balance of residential to nonresidential development in a metro county? As noted in the staff' report, growth and development in the County .in a larger ~netr° area needs to be properly balanced. The balance is much more complicated than looking at just the value of permits. If residential development slows too quickly, new industrial development can very quickly collapse. Mr. Newton said the site can_onLy be s_uccessful with resolution of the road network. Without multilane additions to Derita Road a_nd Poplar Tent Road back to and through the interstate interchange, the entire road network being serviced by 1-85 and Poplar Tent' exits stands to become seriously bottlenecked. Whether the site is developed or not, Derita Road needs to be upgraded, Therefore, why worry about the many trips that are going to be added on with this site being'industrially developed. Mr. Newton said his response, anti the response that has been the County's for years, is that we should never knowingly create further problems when- it is in our abili~ to minimize that problem, 'to mitigate it and control it- The are~' plans, in the County and City zoning ordinance have been developed to try to balance the growth both locally as well as functionally. Mr. Newton said 'should some form Or portion of the rezoning be approved, they would strongly urge that double frontage iots be' l~mited in road access~' that-a .gradation of uses be added to the conditions, that the minimum lot size remain at least seven acres as shown on the development plan,, and that private deed restrictions be added for the developmentl Further they would ask that all conditional uses remain as conditional uses and that all permitted uses of warehousing volatile materials and .chemical manu~acbaring be eldL~.inated as permitted land uses. When you look at the intent where you locate general industrial,