Title
Medela Rezone -- Recommendation
Staff Recommended Action
Move to recommend that the City staff forward the Planning Commission's recommendation of October 22, 2012 to the Hearing Examiner for consideration. (Option 1 below)
Report
Issue:
On January 14, 2015, the Medela Group, LLC, submitted a request (file 15-0010) to change the land use zoning of about nine acres south of Pacific Avenue and east of Boulevard Road from Single-Family Residential 4 to 8 units per acre (R4-8) to Multi-Family Residential 18 units per acre (RM-18). See attached map. This proposal will be the subject of a public hearing to be held by the Olympia Hearing Examiner before making a recommendation to the City Council. As described below, the City's development code provides that the Planning Commission may also make are recommendation.
Staff Contact:
Todd Stamm, Principal Planner, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.753.8597
Presenter:
Todd Stamm, Principal Planner
Background and Analysis:
History of the Proposal
On January 14, 2015, the Medela Group, LLC, submitted a request to 'rezone' nine acres from single-family to multi-family zoning as shown on the attached map. This is a separate but similar proposal to one that was submitted to Thurston County on November 12, 2009 to amend both the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map and land use zoning map for basically the same property. That proposal was denied by the Board of County Commissioners in May of 2014. On June 20, 2014, the site was annexed into the City of Olympia along with surrounding properties as part of the 'I-5/Boulevard Road' "island" annexation. In December of 2014 the City of Olympia's updated Comprehensive Plan was adopted, including - in part - designation of this site as part of the "Urban Corridor." The application now under review was received by the City the following month.
Procedural Background
Until the updated Comprehensive Plan was adopted in Dece...
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