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Planningand Zoning Commission Minutes June 14, 2022 There are existing encroachments of the primary building and parking areas into the 200-foot setback as the site is currently configured. Proposed improvements and features will also encroach in to the required 200-foot setback.The proposed features include, future parking areas, a playground, swimming pools and a walking trail. (See Site Planincluded in the packet) The applicant is also seekingforrelief from the required perimeter landscapebuffer in Chapter 9, Table 4. The existing facility does not encroach into the required perimeter landscaping buffers.However, the applicant is proposing new outdoor amenities that would encroach into the required perimeter landscape buffers. The encroachments include features such as, reconfigured parking areas, pool decking and a six-foot walking trail. The applicant is also requesting relief from the required eight-foot-wideperimeter parking area bufferin Chapter 9 Section 9.5,for the six-foot walking trail. The subject property is currently occupied by an indoor recreation facility. The main building is approximately 28,000 square feet in size. He said you see in the site plan thatitclarifies that it is actually27,850square feet anditsits in the center of the property. Parking areas surround the main building on three sides.An access easement crosses the subject propertythrough the existing parking lot on its east side.The access easement provides access to an existing Wireless Telecommunications Tower located to the north of the subject property.A 15-foot utility easement from Charlotte Water also straddles the eastern property line. The subject property is surrounded by residential usesand a wireless telecommunication tower to the north. The subject property iscurrentlyzoned Office Institutional-ConditionalUse(OI-CU). The zoning district is restricted to indoor recreational facilities and office uses only. The subject property is currently surrounded by LDRzoningto the east, Huntersville Rural Residentialto the north and west,OI and City of CharlotteSingle Family to the south. The current development proposal is classified under the Swim Club line item listed in Table 3-8 and the definition in Chapter 2(Definition provided in theStaff Report). The subject property was rezoned from Medium Density Residential (MDR) to Office Institutional Conditional Use (OI-CU) in 2005. The rezoning limited the uses permitted on site to Indoor Recreational Facility and Office Use.The zoning of the subject property is still OI- CU. The site has been used as an indoor recreational facility since it was rezoned.If the variance requests are approved by the Board of Adjustment, the applicant intends to proceed with submitting a rezoning request for OI, which permits a swim club by right, based on certain standards. 8