DEPARTMENT: Development Services
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 2
SUBJECT:
Plan Amendment 15051
(Associated Zoning Case Number Z2015205)
SUMMARY:
Comprehensive Plan Component: Arena District/Eastside Community Plan
Plan Adoption Date: December 4, 2003
Current Land Use Category: Parks/Open Space
Proposed Land Use Category: Medium Density Residential
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Planning Commission Hearing Date: June 10, 2015
Case Manager: Shepard Beamon, Planner
Property Owner: Mary E. Pierson-Mackey
Applicant: City of San Antonio
Representative: City of San Antonio
Location: Lots 24, 25, and 26 in NCB 6057, located at 515 and 517 Moten Alley
Total Acreage: 0.129 acres
Notices Mailed
Owners of Property within 200 feet: 35
Registered Neighborhood Associations within 200 feet: Havard Place - Eastlawn
Planning Team: Arena District/Eastside - 22
Applicable Agencies: None
Transportation
Thoroughfare: Moten Alley
Existing Character: Local Street
Proposed Changes: None
Thoroughfare: St. Martin St
Existing Character: Local Street
Proposed Changes: None
Thoroughfare: Lockhart St
Existing Character: Local Street
Proposed Changes: None
Public Transit:
There is a VIA bus stop eight blocks south at the corner of New Braunfels and Hays Street.
ISSUE:
Plan Adoption Date: December 4, 2003
Update History: None
Section 2. Land Use Guiding Principles
2.1 Establish a land use pattern that is responsive to the existing context and is founded upon realistic market expectations.
2.2 Protect the neighborhoods by providing them with the necessary improvements to enable infill development and redevelopment.
Comprehensive Land Use Categories
Parks/Open Space: This category includes both public and private lands, should preserve neighborhoods and promote economic vitality by providing high quality opportunities to enhance overall attractiveness and livability, maintain property values, improve the health and wellness of the city's residents, encourage natural resource protection, and promote tourism opportunities. Recreational lands and open spaces should maximize use by surrounding residents and, where possible be located adjacent to proposed school sites, ensure optimum management and conservation of natural waterways, flood plains, and open space areas of unique environmental or historical value, and provide for noise control or visual buffer zones along road and highway rights-of-way using urban forest areas. Examples of this classification are lands that are available for active use (golf courses, playgrounds, and athletic fields), passive enjoyment (trails, plazas, and courtyards), natural areas and reserves, greenway linkages or parkways, greenbelts, urban forests, wetlands, drainages, and utility easements.
Comprehensive Land Use Categories
Medium Density Residential: This category includes small lot single-family development, accessory dwellings, duplexes, cottage houses, triplexes, fourplexes, and townhomes. Exhibiting a medium density, this category provides for a diversity of residential development while still maintaining an overall urban residential character. Typically, Low Density Residential uses are found within this classification, and should be located in the center of the neighborhood, with Medium Density Residential being located at the edges of the neighborhood.
Example Zoning Districts:
R-3, R-4, R-5, R-6, RM-4, RM-5, RM-6
Land Use Overview
Subject Property
Future Land Use Classification
Parks/Open Space
Current Use
Single-Family Residence
North
Future Land Use Classification
Parks/Open Space
Current Use
Single-Family Residence
East
Future Land Use Classification
Parks/Open Space
Current Use
Single-Family Residence
South
Future Land Use Classification
Medium Density Residential
Current Use
Single-Family Residence
West
Future Land Use Classification
Park Open Space
Current Use
Single-Family Residence
LAND USE ANALYSIS:
The applicant requests this Plan Amendment and associated zoning change in order to construct a single-family residence on the subject property. The subject property's current location adjacent to Medium Density Residential and current use as a single-family residence, along with the general surrounding conditions of single-family residences in either direction, makes it appropriate for the Medium Density Residential land use classification. Neither the current land use nor zoning are compatible with the current uses or the Arena District Plan. The current zoning is the result of the 1938 Zoning Districts, where it was designated as "L". Its conversion to "I-2" is the result of the adoption of the 1965 Zoning Districts. The Medium Density Residential classification supports the Arena District/Eastside Community Plan objectives of establishing a land use pattern that is responsive to the existing context.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. Recommend denial of the proposed amendment to the Arena District/Eastside Community Plan, as presented above.
2. Make an alternate recommendation.
3. Continue to a future date.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval. The proposed amendment to the Medium Density Residential use classification is consistent with the land use designation of the Arena District/Eastside Community Plan and compatible with the existing development pattern and proposed zoning.
ZONING COMMISSION SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Z2015205
Current Zoning: "I-2 AHOD" Heavy Industrial Airport Hazard Overlay District
Proposed Zoning: "R-4 AHOD" Residential Single Family Airport Hazard Overlay District
Zoning Commission Hearing Date: June 16, 2015