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PRESENTATION
Description of the surrounding area and existing buildings
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The presentation provides a detailed description of the surrounding area using a land use map.
- The rezoning block is outlined in black and white hash marks.
- Existing buildings include the WIN building, a warehouse, and low-rise residential homes.
- Nearby amenities include a park across the street and the Mark Twain School.
- The area contains a mix of building heights, ranging from 1-2 family homes to 14-16 story buildings.
Caroline Harris
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You can see on this land use map the block outlined in black and white hash marks is the block being rezoned.
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The tan portion is the existing wind building.
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There's a purple portion that's outlined in red, which is where the new development will be.
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Those two lots are owned by Helm or their affiliates, and they are a single zoning lot.
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The purple lot right adjacent to the creek is not owned by the client.
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It's owned by another entity that is the building is used as a warehouse and manufacturing use.
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They are not objecting to the application, but they are not involved in any way in the redevelopment of the site.
0:09:04
The reason we went for an MX District rezoning is so that they could remain zoning compliant as opposed to grandfathered.
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They could expand if they wanted to, but also because a really important feature is that there's this very important bakery in the existing building on the block.
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And I'll go into that more in a little bit.
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Across the street, the light purple is where the park is, and then the blue is the school.
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Diagonally across the street on the tan is where the first tall building is.
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It's 16 stories.
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And you'll see south of the project site in the light yellow is where there are a lot of one and two family homes.
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The design of this building, as you'll see, was sensitive to the fact that there are low rise buildings, and being that it's across the street from them and the particular design with setback, was purposely done in that way so that the local homes would not be overwhelmed by the new bulk.
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You can also go to the next slide, please.
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This is a view of the Wind Building, the blue, the one story existing manufacturing, and again, the low rise one and two family homes, and to the left, the existing tall building.
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Next slide, please.
0:10:26
On the zoning map, it's a little hard to see, at least for me, from this far away, but maybe you can see it better, looking at the screen behind me.
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The big red square is the proposed rezoning block.
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It's, been pulled out from the zoning map that's much smaller, but we put a little blue dot, on the upper portion of the site.
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The reason we did that is that's where Cropsey Avenue is.
0:10:52
During our public hearings, we learned from the community about a terrible congestion problem.