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STAFF ANALYS/S - PETITION 97-19 The petitioners are requesting a change in zoning for ten parcels along Derita Road in western Cabarrus County. The request is to change the zoning from Medium Density Residential ancO. Limited Industrial to General Industrial Special Use. There are approximately 440 acres total within the parcels requested for rezoning. The analysis that follows will include background information, factors affecting the zoning of these properties, and conclusions based on those two items. The important background items are the specific request, existing development and zoning, trends for both, and larger community issues. One of the factors that most directly affects zoning is infrastructure such as transportation facilities, water and sewer. Other items that will be reviewed are the area plan affecting this property, the effect on the area immediately surrounding these parcels, community needs, and the specific proposal. BACKGROUND The rezoning request is for a General Industrial Special Use zoning. The special use process allows petitioners to specify a single use, a group of uses, or to exclude some of the uses typically pe,-..dtted in the requested zoning category. It also petmits the submission of a concept plan and development conditions. Additional conditions may be considered if they are related to land use and the petitioners agree to them. This petition includes a concept plan, conditions included with that plan, and the exclusion of some of the uses typically petc. iitted within General Industrial. A reduced copy of the concept plan is attached for review. It shows the petitioners proposal to develop the property in a unified manner as an industrial park. It also shows the property being developed into lots of no less than seven acres with a main spine road to provide access, although there are rear access points from some of the lots directly to Derita Road. A list of requested excluded uses is attached as is a comparison of the requested .GI-SU zone to the Limited Industrial zoning districL It is important to note that the concept plan, conditions and possible uses will be binding on the petitioners if the rezoning is approved. Those items will remain binding on the property if it is sold to a single owner or developed separately by the individual owners. The area surrounding these parcels is predominantly residential, rural residential, or vacant at this time. To the east of the property are two subdivisions, Twin Creeks and Misty-wood, an industrial/business that has just