Disposition Summary

Approve the PR (Planned Residential) zone with up to 10 du/ac because it is consistent with the sector plan and is a suitable location for this residential intensity, subject to one condition.

1. Providing a Type B Landscape Screen along shared lot lines with A (Agricultural) zoned properties.

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Staff Recommendation

Approve the PR (Planned Residential) zone with up to 10 du/ac because it is consistent with the sector plan and is a suitable location for this residential intensity, subject to one condition.

1. Providing a Type B Landscape Screen along shared lot lines with A (Agricultural) zoned properties.

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PURSUANT TO THE KNOX COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE, ARTICLE 6.30.01, THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS MUST BE MET FOR ALL REZONINGS (must meet all of these):

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHALL BE NECESSARY BECAUSE OF SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGED OR CHANGING CONDITIONS IN THE AREA AND DISTRICTS AFFECTED, OR IN THE CITY/COUNTY GENERALLY:
1. Schaad Road has been undergoing an extension for the past several years. At the time of the 2016 Northwest County Sector Plan update, Schaad Road had been extended from Oak Ridge Highway to Olive Branch Lane. The remaining extension from Olive Branch Lane to Ball Camp Pike is underway with a target completion date of 2024. The extension is a 4-lane facility with 2 lanes on either side of a large median.
2. This property is along the newly completed section of Schaad Road, which is classified as a minor arterial.

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH THE INTENT AND PURPOSE OF THE APPLICABLE ZONING ORDINANCE:
1. The PR (Planned Residential) zone is intended to provide optional methods of land development which encourage more imaginative solutions to environmental design problems. Each planned unit development shall be compatible with the surrounding or adjacent zones. Such compatibility shall be determined by the planning commission by review of the development plans.

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHALL NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT ANY OTHER PART OF THE COUNTY, NOR SHALL ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT ADVERSE EFFECTS RESULT FROM SUCH AMENDMENT.
1. Since Schaad Road is a major thoroughfare, it will provide direct access to a development on this parcel and traffic would not be required through residential streets to reach this development.
2. A landscape screen would buffer adjacent single family residential properties from this development and would provide a level of separation.
3. The property is directly across the street from Amherst School and is in the Parental Responsibility Zone. Sidewalks have been provided on both sides of Schaad Road and increase safety for pedestrians.

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH AND NOT IN CONFLICT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN OF KNOXVILLE AND KNOX COUNTY, INCLUDING ANY OF ITS ELEMENTS, MAJOR ROAD PLAN, LAND USE PLAN, COMMUNITY FACILITIES PLAN, AND OTHERS:
1. This property is within the Urban Growth Boundary of the Growth Policy Plan and appears to be serviced by both water and wastewater.
2. The requested PR zoning with up to 10 du/ac is consistent with the MDR (Medium Density Residential) land use classification, which permits consideration of densities up to 12 du/ac in the Urban Growth Boundary, though it is recommended that such density be within 1/4 mile of transit service.
3. Sub-section 11.2 of the General Plan applies standards for residential density, and states that medium density from 6 to 12 du/ac in the County's Planned Growth and Urban Growth Areas is appropriate along collector or arterial roads, waterfronts, and as buffer zones between lower density residential and more intense uses.
4. Sub-section 10.11 of the Development Policies Section of the General Plan calls for allowance of higher densities, smaller yards and narrower lots for portions of planned developments that do not abut or face conventional suburban developments, but also states such developments should provide deeper setbacks, wider lots or landscape buffers where the new development abuts lower density housing.
5. The requested zoning does not appear to be in conflict with any other adopted plans.