Staff Recommendation

ADOPT RESOLUTION # 8-A-10-SP, amending the Northwest County Sector Plan to O (Office) and recommend that County Commission also adopt the sector plan amendment. (See attached resolution, Exhibit A.) (Applicant requested GC.)

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Amending the plan to office for this site will bring the sector plan into conformance with the existing OA zoning. The plan currently designates the site as LDR. The sector plan does not recognize the CA zoning to the east of the site, which is developed with a child daycare facility that could be permitted without commercial zoning. Commercial uses should be isolated to the west of this site around the intersection of Oak Ridge Hwy. and Byington Beaver Ridge Rd., or at other appropriate commercial nodes where collector arterial streets intersect with Oak Ridge Hwy. Approval of commercial land uses at this location could lead to future extension of those uses further east along Oak Ridge Hwy. or to the south into an established neighborhood. The current office designation is appropriate as a transitional designation between the arterial highway and the residential neighborhood to the south.

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Disposition Summary

ADOPT RESOLUTION # 8-A-10-SP, amending the Northwest County Sector Plan to O (Office) and recommend the Knox County Commission adopt the amendment.