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STAFF REPORT COLD SPRINGS/HiGHWAY 73 SMALL AREA PLAN CORRECTIVE REZONING~ August 6, 1990 INTRODUCTION The purpose o! the following staff repot t ~s to fully explain the logic suppor ting. the only =lightly conlrover~iel rezoning suggested on the Cold Springs area plan, the rezoning of C-5 lands to C-1. The other rezonings of properly (from C-5 to ARR) bear little or no explanation other than to note that in each case, the rezoning is. requested by the owner, is contiguous to other ARR zoned larld, and, are rezonings which either match the actual use or thc proposed use. A more extensive discussion, however, of commercial zoning philosophy may now be appropriate in supporting Ihe rezoning of C-5 zoned land to C-1. Such · discussion follows. COMMERCIAL ZONING-A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE Con~ercial zoning is one of the four basic zoning classifications and is considered to be the most broad from the siundpoint tiler it conlains the largest number of number of co~ncrcial zones prescr ~bed, it is generally considered that commercial activity can be broken down into 1. Local retail, for neighborhood shopping on u more or less daily basis. 2. Restrictive central commercial, usually located at 3. General commercial, including the major and secondary centers which have gradually developed in built-up areas of large cities, the'downtown areas of most large towns, and most la'ge modern shopping centers. 4. Commercial amusement of the Coney island type. 5. Heavy commercial, including various nuisance- producing goods and services, and particularly aotomotive services. 6. Rudevelopmeflt areas, usually with a mixture of residential, commercial and manufacturing land use. 7. Office-~esidence distr~cts, excluding retail. 1 1 Nozman Williams, Jr., American ~and Planninq Law, (Chicago, 1975), Volume IV.* page 162.