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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes December 18, 1997 Page l8 that- they do not oppose and are not opposed to carefully planned industrial development and understand the importance of industry in commercial development to the Count3Zs tax base. He said the residents in this area do not oppose industrial development, in fact, many of them rely on that development, but it is their concern and honest belief that proposal is too large, too intense, too intrusive and will create intolerable congestion. Not just for the residents that are adjoining, but for the residents in the general area and ultimately for the very businesses that are trying to be attracted to the site. Mr. Newton said the question that has l~ccn discussed in several ways is, what is the proper or healthy balance of residential to nonresidential development in a metro county? As noted in the staff report, growth and development in the County in a larger metro area needs to be properly balanced. The balance is much more complicated than looking at just the value of pei-caits. If residential development slows too quickly, new industrial development can very quickly collapse. Mr. Newton said the site can only be successful with resolution of the road network. Without multilane additions to Derita Road and Poplar Tent Road back to and through the interstate interchange, the entire road network being serviced by 1-85 and Poplar Tent exits stands to become seriously bottlenecked. Whether the site is developed or not, Derita Road needs to be upgraded. Therefore, why worry about the many trips that are going to be added on with this site being industrially developed. Mr. Newton said his response, and the response that has been the County's for years, is that we should never knowingly create further problems when it is in our ability to minimize that problem, to mitigate it and control it. The area plans in the County and City zoning ordinance have been developed to try to balance the growth both locally as well as functionally. Mr. Newton said should some for..~ or portion of the rezoning be approved, they would strongly urge that double frontage lots be limited in road access, that a gradation of uses be added to the conditions, that the mhnimum lot size remain at least seven acres as shown on the development plan, and that private deed restrictions be added for the development. Further they would ask that all conditional uses remain as conditional uses and that all permitted uses of warehousing volatile materials and chemical manufacturing be eliminated as permitted land uses. When you look at the intent where you locate general industrial,