Disposition Summary

Approve the sector plan amendment to MDR/O (Medium Density Residential/Office) because it provides a transitional land use for the adjacent single family residential areas.

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Staff Recommendation

Approve the sector plan amendment to MDR/O (Medium Density Residential/Office) because it provides a transitional land use for the adjacent single family residential areas.

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SECTOR PLAN AMENDMENT REQUIREMENTS FROM GENERAL PLAN (May meet any one of these):

CHANGES OF CONDITIONS WARRANTING AMENDMENT OF THE LAND USE PLAN:
1. Since the subject property was annexed into the City of Knoxville in the late 1990s it has remained largely undeveloped, except for a church building. However, the area immediately adjacent to the west is part of the Century Park Mixed Use Special District, which has developed primarily as an office park. A recent rezoning to commercial occurred within the office park area, which also must follow the TTCDA guidelines because of the proximity to the Technology Corridor along the Pellissippi Parkway.

INTRODUCTION OF SIGNIFICANT NEW ROADS OR UTILITIES THAT WERE NOT ANTICIPATED IN THE PLAN AND MAKE DEVELOPMENT MORE FEASIBLE:
1. Improvements along Dutchtown Road and Mabry Hood Road were completed around 2007. These improvements included sidewalks along Dutchtown Road, but not along Mabry Hood Road. However, these were present when the last sector plan update occurred in the Northwest County Sector.

AN OBVIOUS OR SIGNIFICANT ERROR OR OMISSION IN THE PLAN:
1. Though an error in the plan is not obvious, a possible designation of this area to MDR/O could have been considered to buffer the adjacent single family residential land uses from the more intensive mix of uses adjacent to the Pellissippi Parkway.
2. The MDR/O designation also allows consideration of the requested RN-6 zone district which can accommodate high density residential, which is appropriate near the large employment centers of the Pellissippi Parkway corridor and I-40 and Sherrill Boulevard medical facilities.

TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT, POPULATION OR TRAFFIC THAT WARRANT RECONDISERATION OF THE ORIGINAL PLAN PROPOSAL:
1. A 2013 rezoning to the County's CA (General Business) occurred on an adjacent property to the east that had been used as bus storage yard since 2007. However, additional commercial rezonings have not occurred east of Mabry Hood Road in this area since and it has remained mostly single family residential in character.
3. A rezoning to C-G-3 occurred in within the Century Park Mixed Use Special District within the Technology Corridor Overlay in 2021, however, this area is accessed by Century Park Boulevard and has frontage along Sherrill Boulevard. Any non-residential and multi-family development has to also follow the TTCDA guidelines within this area. These more intensive uses in the nearby C-G-3 zone, west of Mabry Hood Rd, could be buffered by the MDR/O land use designation, east of Mabry Hood Rd, to protect the adjacent single-family residential areas.