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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes December 18~ 1997 page 14 a s6uthern access. As Derita Road extends into Mecklenburg County and becomes Odell School Road, there will be an interchange with the outerbelt as that is constructed. An interest that was brought up in the area plan was a potential conflict. There was at the time we did the area plan, and are now, areas of potential conflicL The Western Area Plan shows that citizens, planners and elected boards clearly recognized there were going to be areas of conflict. It also addressed as we went through those, that those were the areas that we would need to look at specifically. It is again the staffs feeling that this property is not appropriate for residential development. We feel with the airport facility, the development and zoning trend, and the larger community needs, industrial use of this property is appropriate. Mr. Marshall said if the Board considers additional conditions that have not I~¢cn offered by the petitioners, they would have to agree to those for them to be part of this rezoning. One of the difficulties in doing that is there are eight petitioners. It would be difficult to get a response from them in a meeting such as this. Overall, again, the staff feels the most proper use of this property is nonresidential. The Rocky River would become the major boundary between residential areas and non-residential areas except on the northern part of this, and we feel that our buffering and screening requirements can address that issue. The rezoning would not however confoi-m to the Western Area Plan as shown so we would recommend if you chose to rezone this property that you consider three specific changes to the Western Area Plan. The changes we recommend are: 1) the area referred to as King's Grant should be changed to more accurately represent the retail and service emphasis of the development around and extending from the interchange. The map should also be altered to reflect the new alignment of the King's Grant Parkway between 1-85 and Derita Road as that will surely change traffic patterns in the area. 2) areas rezoned since 1992 that have varied from planned recommendations should be corrected on the land use map. These areas represent policy decisions by the elected boards based upon specific analyses of properties (as opposed to the general analysis of an area plan). 3) the residential area along the westside of Derita Road over to the Rocky River should be changed to Future Employment. This recommended change is the result of the specific analyses done to analyze a rezoning request and reflective