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STAFF ANALYSIS - PETITION 95-02 The request before the Board of Commissioners is the remaining portion of a larger rezoning petition initiated by the Planning and Zoning Staff. The majority of the petition was approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously and was not appealed, therefore their decision is final. BACKGROUND The staff initiated this petition for two reasons. The first is that the identification of a center line and approximate right-of-way for the Westside Connector permitted refinement of the zoning boundaries. The second reason is that the Chair of Board of Commissioners was contacted by a major property owner in the area, Mr. B.J. Barbee, who felt his property was incorrectly zoned Light Industrial during the County wide rezoning in December of 1993. It was Mr. Barbee's request that staff review zoning in the area. The Staff request included four types of zoning changes. These changes were from Limited Industrial (LI) to Low Density Residential (LDR), Medium Density Residential (MDR) to Limited Commercial (LC), Low Density Residential to Limited Industrial, and Medium Density Residential to Limited Industrial. On the north side of N.C. 73, the Westside Connector is proposed to be a boundary between Limited Industrial on the east and Low Density Residential on the west. On the south side of N.C. 73, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the proposed changes from Medium Density Residential to Limited Commercial and Limited Industrial for those parcels east of the proposed connector that fronted on N.C. 73. Mr. Barbee has proposed that Afton Run Creek become the zoning boundary. It is his request that his parcel be zoned Medium Density Residential. He has argued that this would permit the flood plain of the creek to be a buffer between residential and non-residential uses, and that the topography and other physical characteristics of his land do not support non-residential development. The Staff recommends that this area remain Limited Industrial for a number of reasons. There is an identified need for non-residential development areas in the County and this is a prime area for meeting that need. Water and sewer service is either available or can be made available to the property. In addition, N.C. 73 is a major corridor between 1-85 and 1-77 and links North Mecklenburg and the Concord/Kannapolis area. This property also lies directly on the route for the Westside Connector. Finally, because of watershed constraints in other areas, this is probably the highest priority area of industrial growth for the City of Kannapolis.