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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Convenience Commercial Node at Stange/Bloomington RESOLUTION NO. 11-082 RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENT TO LUPP PERTAINING TO USE RESTRICTIONS FOR THE CONVENIENCE COMMERCIAL NODE FOR THE CITY OF AMES,IOWA WHEREAS, Kurt Friedrich of Friedrich Companies is requesting that the text of the Land Use Policy Plan (LUPP)be amended to eliminate the use restrictions under the exception criteria for the Convenience Commercial Node (CVCN) Zone land use designations; and, WHEREAS, the concept of convenience nodes was originally developed in 2004, and the intent under this concept was to provide nodes of commercial development in close proximity to, and for the convenience of, the immediate neighborhood, but in a manner and scale that would be compatible with the residential character of the neighborhood; and, WHEREAS, during the development of this concept,the development community proposed locational criteria that would allow convenience commercial nodes every one-half mile; and, WHEREAS,the locational criteria that were ultimately adopted required a spacing of two miles between nodes and two miles from village commercial centers; and, WHEREAS, in 2007, a proposal was submitted to amend the text of the LUPP to create criteria that provided an exception to the locational standards of the LUPP,.and the proposed criteria would allow a CVCN Node within one- half mile of a village; and, WHEREAS, that proposal was denied, because the City Council found that it was too broad and did not adequately protect the interests of the nearby village; and, WHEREAS,however, at the next Council meeting,the City Council reconsidered the issue and developed the existing criteria that limit uses allowable under the exception to just four: convenience store, grocery store, medical offices and clinics, and car washes; and, WHEREAS,the restrictions further stipulated that these uses were allowed only if they were not already present in the neighboring village,and if there was no additional vacant land remaining in the village suitable for said uses;and, WHEREAS, exception criteria were adopted to facilitate a customer's request to place a convenience node at Stange and Bloomington, and it appears,however,that many of the standards that were originally deemed necessary to both facilitate a node and protect surrounding commercial and neighborhood interests have proven problematic to businesses wanting to locate in the node; and, WHEREAS,to make the proposed LUPP amendments effective at the Stange/Bloomington node,the Council would need to support an amendment to eliminate the use restrictions from the developer's agreement associated with the approval of that node. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa, that the request to eliminate use restrictions in convenience nodes by eliminating the exception criteria in the Land Use Policy Plan altogether is hereby approved, and an amendment to the developer's agreement eliminating the use restrictions at the Stange/Bloomington node is further approved. ADOPTED THIS ls`day of March,2011. Diane R.Voss, City Clerk Ann H. Campbell, Mayor el Introduced by: Wacha Seconded by: Orazem Voting aye: Davis,Larson, Mahayni, Orazem, Wacha Voting nay: Goodman, Absent: None Resolution declared adopted and signed by the Mayor this 15`day of March,2011.