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File #: AR CP 11-00482-A3MN21    Version: Name: 3611 Rio Vista
Type: Planning Case Status: Mayor's Office
File created: 3/1/2022 In control: City Council
On agenda: 4/26/2022 Final action: 4/26/2022
Title: A minor amendment to the Southwest Powers Boulevard and North Carefree concept plan allowing a car wash located at 3611 Rio Vista Drive. Related File: CPC ZC 21-00177 Presenter: Tamara Baxter, Senior Planner with Central Team, Planning & Community Development Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development
Attachments: 1. Concept Plan Minor Amendment, 2. 7.5.501.E Concept Plans
Related files: CPC ZC 21-00177

Title
A minor amendment to the Southwest Powers Boulevard and North Carefree concept plan allowing a car wash located at 3611 Rio Vista Drive.

Related File: CPC ZC 21-00177

Presenter:
Tamara Baxter, Senior Planner with Central Team, Planning & Community Development
Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development

Body
Summary:
Owner: ABBA Real Estate, Inc.
Developer: JB Partners CS, LLC
Representative: Baseline Engineering Corp.
Location: 3611 Rio Vista Drive

The project includes concurrent applications for a zone change and minor concept plan amendment to allow for a future automotive wash. The zone change request changes the zoning from OC/cr/AO (Office Complex with Conditions of Record and Airport Overlay) and R5/cr/AO (Multi-family Residential with conditions of record and Airport Overlay) to PBC/AO (Planned Business Center with Airport Overlay).

Background:
The proposal will rezone 1.279 acres, which includes the 1.16-acre project site and Tract A (access and utility easement) to the east consisting of .12 ac, from OC/cr/AO (Office Complex with Conditions of Record and Airport Overlay) to PBC/AO (Planned Business Center with Airport Overlay) specifically to lay the framework for a future automotive wash ('car wash') at this location.

The subject property and the property to the south were rezoned from R-5/cr/AO (Multi-Family Resident with Conditions of Record and Airport Overlay) to OC/cr/AO (Office Complex with Conditions of Record and Airport Overlay) in 2016 and was envisioned to be 'General / Medical Office. A development plan for an ABBA eye care center was approved however never developed.

The request to rezone the property to PBC/AO (Planned Business Center with Airport Overlay) will allow for the development of a future car wash, which is not a permitted use in the OC (Office Complex) Zone District. The envisioned car wash use is consistent with the automotive commercial developments to the north along North C...

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