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Consider a request from Spotswood Country Club Inc. with club representatives Aki Heydarian and Ben Amoss and application representative Dick Blackwell to rezone a total of 8 acres located at 1980 Country Club Road, from R-1, Single Family Residential District to B-2C, General Business District Conditional
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Presented By: Adam Fletcher, Director of Planning and Community Development
Recommendation and Review
Planning Commission recommended approval (7-0) of the conditional rezoning request for the subject site which includes a 7.25-acre portion of tax map parcel 73-B-1 and the entirety of tax map parcel 73-B-3 (0.75 +/- acres). The proffers are as follows:
1. Only the following uses allowed in the B-2 General Business District will be allowed:
a. Mercantile establishments which promote the show, sale and rental of goods, personal service establishments, restaurants and other shops and stores customary to shopping centers and convenience outlets.
b. Governmental, business and professional offices and financial institutions.
c. Hotels, motels and similar types of transient accommodations. Nontransient housing facilities are not permitted nor may existing housing facilities be expanded.
d. Theaters, community rooms, museums and galleries and other places of assembly for the purpose of entertainment or education. In addition, customary recreational and leisure-time activities which are compatible with surrounding uses are permitted.
e. Religious, educational, charitable or benevolent institutional uses which do not provide housing facilities.
f. General service or repair shops permitted by right in the B-1 Central Business district but without the limitation as to the number of employees.
g. Pet shop or pet grooming establishment and animal hospitals however no outside space shall be permitted.
h. Public utilities, public service or public transportation uses or buildings, generating, purification or treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, telephone exchange and transformer or substations.
i. Public and privately owned parking lots and parking garages.
j. Research and development activities which do not cause any more smoke, dust, odor, noise, vibration or danger of explosion than other uses permitted in this district and which involve no more than fifteen (15) percent of the gross floor area in the assembling or processing of products. Any assembling or processing shall only involve products developed on the premises. All services and storage shall be conducted within the principal structure which is to be completely enclosed.
k. Plant nurseries and greenhouses provided any outside storage of materials, other than plants, must be screened.
l. Public uses.
m. Vehicle fuel stations. Vehicles excludes over the road tractors, their trailers, heavy equipment, manufactured homes, industrialized buildings, and agricultural equipment. No vehicle salvage, storage of inoperable vehicles, or sale of junk is allowed.
n. Concealed wireless telecommunications facilities, industrial microcells, distributed antenna systems, and macrocells. Telecommunications towers are permitted only by special use permit. Wireless telecommunications facilities are further regulated by article CC.
o. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above listed uses.
2. Special use permits shall be permitted as approved by City Council.
3. Traffic and street improvements as recommended by the Traffic Impact Analysis completed by Ramey Kemp, RKA Project 15175 dated October 2015, shall be constructed and implemented as required by the City of Harrisonburg. In addition, any traffic and street improvements recommended by revisions to the identified TIA or by future TIAs completed for planned uses on the subject property shall be constructed and implemented as required by the City of Harrisonburg.