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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-2582 REZONE PROPERTY AT 401 SOUTH 13TH AVENUE. ORDINANCE NO. 02572,- AN ORDINANCE rezoning property at 401 South 13th Avenue in the City of Yakima, Washington, from R-2, Two- Family Zone to Planned Development Zone. WHEREAS, pursuant to due and legal notice, the Yakima City Council held hearings on September 22, November 3 and December 8, 1981 on the appeal of Dentan Associates from the recommendation of the City of Yakima Planning Commission that the rezone application of Dentan Associates be denied, by which Dentan Associates applied for the rezone from R-2, Two-Family zone to Planned Development zone of certain real property described hereinbelow, and WHEREAS, as a result of its hearings, the City Council determined that the rezone request of Dentan Associates should be granted, and hereby makes its following findings and con- clusions: FINDINGS: 1. The property for which the rezone is sought consists of a parcel at 401 South 13th Avenue which is presently zoned R-2, Two-Family zone. The owners, Dentan Associates, applied for the rezone of that property to Planned Devel- opment zone to develop that property as a fifteen space off-street parking lot tc serve a proposed medical office building to be constructed by Dentan Asso on property owned by it at 402 and 404 South 12th 1,venue, across the alley from the proposed parking lot. The off-str2et parking lot for which the rezone is sought is to be used by employees of the new medical office. 2. An apartment house in the need of repair presently exists on the site. This building would be removed and a parking lot constructed. Land use and zoning on adjacent properties are as follows: Direction Zone Actual Use North R-2 Single Family Residential South R-2 Single Family Residential East B-1 Single Family Residential (proposed medical office. site) West R-2 Single Family Residential 3. Even though the north-south alleyway between 12th and 13th Avenues has unofficially been designated as the boundary between the residential development to the west and the medical center complex developed to 110 the east of the unofficial boundary, nevertheless, the construction of the proposed parking lot on the site will enhance and encourage use of the medical center complex which was developed at its location in confor mance with the City's General Plan. The development of the parking lot by means of Planned Development zoning, rather than by 'a business zone, allows the parking lot to be designed and installed so as to control growth in the area and so as to compliment the surrounding rather than intrude on it in an uncontrolled manner which could result from rezoning the site to a business zone; and the proposed rezone is in substantial compliance with the City's General Plan. 4.. The design of the proposed parking lot does not intrude on the privacy of surrounding residential prop- erty; the use of the lot for employee parking will not create nor contribute to an undue traffic hazard; nor will additional excessive noise or other inconveniences to the neighborhood result from the parking lot instal- lation. 5. Off-street parking, with the number of spaces avail- able and to be developed on the rezone site, is required by City laws to serve the medical offices to be constructed by Dentan Associates. No other off-street parking is available to allow Dentan Associates to comply with those legal requirements. The development of the parking lot is consistent with the continued use of the adjacent area as a medical service area, and specifically is consistent with the construction by Dentan Associates of its pro- posed medical office building. -2- 6. The owners of property in the vicinity of the pro- posed rezone are neither unanimously opposed to nor in favor of the rezone. Owners of property in the adjacent • medical center complex and a minority of owners of the adjacent residential property favor the rezone; the majority of owners of adjacent residential property are opposed to the rezone. 7. The Planning Commission recommended that the rezone application be denied. CONCLUSIONS: 1. The development of a parking lot as proposed by the development plan for the property for which the rezone is sought would develop that property in substantial conformance to the General Plan of the City. 2. The development of property as proposed would harmonize its appearance and use with the surrounding area, and with the potential future use of the property in the surrounding area. 3. The rezone application should be granted. now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. The following described real property situate at 401 South 13th Avenue in the City of Yakima, Washington, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Lot 16, Block 3, Highland Addition to North Yakima (now Yakima), Washington, recorded in Volume "A" of Plats, page 137, records of Yakima County, Washington, is hereby rezoned from R-2, Two-Family zone to Planned Development zone, all in accordance with, and to conform to, the final 411 development plan and program therefore, a copy of which is attached hereto and by reference made a part hereof. Section 2. The above change in zoning shall be included and depicted on the next regularly amended Use District Map prepared by and for the City. -3- Section 3. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to file with the Yakima County Auditor a certified copy of this ordinance. 41/ Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. PASSEL THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this . day of #, , 1981. S ?? — . Ot Mayor ATTEST: o AO ty Clero! 1 411 -4-