| | prejudice. For all these reasons the Planning Commission and City Council |
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| | are charged with the obligation of making sure their decisions regarding zoning |
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| | will allow for all possible uses in the zoning classification. The Planning |
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| | Commission does not ignore any possible uses in a zoning classification even if |
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| | the site could not accommodate a particular use. It is not part of the Planning |
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| | Commission's decision to say yes to a rezoning request because a project |
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| | looks attractive, or no because they don't like a project. |
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| | Darlene Janulis, 1651 Tacoma Dr., President of the Board of Education, |
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| stated that schools make a better neighbor than some of the other industrial uses that |
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| would be permitted in terms of traffic, pollution, noise, garbage. A bus garage is more |
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| suitable on major roads because parents would not want their children playing there |
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| anyway. Even if the bus garage goes there now and 15 to 20 years later a small |
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| industrial park goes there, for the people in the surrounding areas it would make more |
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| sense and impact them least as opposed to buying an executive home that is |
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| surrounded by an industrial park. Nobody wants to live next to a bus garage, but |
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| everyone wants transportation for their children. This is a difficult decision to make. |
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| | Richard Schoenherr, Executive Vice President of Elro Corporation, |
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| owners and developers of the proposed adjacent surrounding Clear Creek |
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| Subdivision to the north and east. They expect the 325 homes to sell in the range of |
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| $400,000 to $500,000, and they are not in favor of the rezoning requests, which are |
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| very objectionable and obnoxious. Obviously a community can be snookered; once a |
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| property is rezoned a proposed desirable use can be changed to a detrimental use, |
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| and there would be nothing the community could do about it. The magnitude of the |
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| proposed facilities is more intense and obnoxious than anything in single family |
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| residential areas. The other two high schools in the district are located at major |
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| intersections per ordinance requirements so that traffic volumes can be handled. The |
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| site plan does not comply with the intent of the zoning ordinance, and includes Elro |
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| Corporation property that is not part of the rezoning requests. The site plan contains |
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| additional acreage that the school district plans on condemning land out of the Clear |
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| Creek Subdivision in order to gain access to the internal subdivision street and in turn |
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| run traffic through the subdivision in order to gain access to Tienken Road. He finds |
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| this objectionable. The proposed football field sits directly across from the subdivision |
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| homes. Mr. Schoenherr distributed pictures taken just last Sunday showing the back |
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| of Hart Middle School where no attempt has been made to screen vehicles, |
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| dumpsters, and various materials. He emphasized since there will be no site plan |
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| review opportunity by the city for public schools if the rezoning is approved, the city |
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| should look carefully at the concept plan now. He suggested that the city pursue |
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| some sort of negotiated agreement between the school district and the city so that the |
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| city has input into the site plan process. He questioned whether the city could change |
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| the zoning on the 52-acre parcel since it was zoned by the court. |
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