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wash and laundromat facilities designed to primarily serve the residents ofthe apartments. The property will also include a rental office and include an on site manager 24 hours a day. It is anticipated that the car wash would be on the northern edge of the property Or alternatively on the eastern boundary. The laundromat will likely be designed toward the intersection of the two pods. The apartments will not have any direct highway frontage in keeping with the expressed desire of several persons in the area, In tact, the project scale has been reduced ti'om i 8 units pR acre to 8 units per acre. l?igt'ord Enterprises The apartments will be locally owned and managed by Bigford Enterprises. Bigf'ord Enterprises is based in Locust and is a national carpentry contractor in the multi-family business. They currently own 35 rental units in Stanly and Cabarrus County. As a national contractor they have built over 2,500 units and based on that experience have selected a building design for their own apartment community. Removal of Uses 9fthe Office/Limited Commercial for Parcels I and 2 Specific uses of the Office/Limited Commercial zoning district are expressly being limited from each of the parcels as so noted. With approval of the rezoning, we understand that these uses will not be permitted on the parcels as noted. Front parcel- exclucledfrom possible uses- Automotive supplies, civic organization facilities, colleges - & un/versities, convenience stores with and without petroleum sales, drug store, family care home, funeral home, group care facility, hospital, locksmith/gunsmith, mobile home retail sales, movie theater, public cultural facility, public use facility, religious institution of 35 I+ seating, retail sales -- greater than 15,000 square feet, taxi stand, automotive rental, automobile sales, bed & breakfast, catering, duplex, home occupations, landfill, mobile office, mu/ti-family, recyclable materials drop-off, repair garage(auto), repair shop for small engines, self-storage, townhouses, veterinarian hospital, - public service facilities, and outdoor recreation facilities. For the back portion, all uses will be excluded as noted above except for duplexes, townhomes, multi- families which shall be added to the remaining uses as allowed. By seeking the special use rezoning, we are requesting that all of those uses so noted to be reraoved and not allowed by the future zoning of the property. Relationship to Midland Area Plan and current zoning The Midland Area Plan, which was updated in October 1997, has no specific comments about these two parcels but does contain several comments that relate to the reasonableness ofrezoning this property. The future land use map shows that the adjoining parcels to the east and those fronting along Highway 24/27 as being Commercial. The text states that not all of the area along Hwy24/27 will be able to develop as illustrated and that much is hinged on the ability to extend sewer to those areas. The commercial and office allows limited residential. A zoning text amendment reduced the maximum number of multi-family units that could be put on the Limited Commercial zoning district to eight dwelling units per acre. Prior to that amendment, up to 18 units per acre could be built. By combining the parcels the extension of sewer can occur as encouraged by the plan. These end users of the sewerage system are also encouraged by the utility provider so as to increase the flow in the lines and