portions of the subject property not currently developed or platted with cemetery use. The <br />property is surrounded by a developed low density residential neighborhood, a church and <br />Willamette Street. <br />The applicant's concurrent application materials address the necessary criteria noted above to <br />support the re-designation and zone change which will enable low density residential uses on <br />the subject site. The attached preliminary findings conclude that this request is consistent with <br />Statewide Planning Goals, the Metro Plan, and other applicable approval criteria. There are <br />several key points to note: <br />• The re-designation to low density residential adds approximately 46 acres of future <br />housing capacity to the city's land supply. <br />• Changing the PL Public Land zone to R-1 Low Density Residential eliminates the conflict <br />of a privately-owned property being zoned for public use. Additionally, this proposed <br />rezoning does not conflict or preclude cemetery use as some non-residential uses such <br />as cemeteries are conditionally permitted and regularly occur in R-1 zones. <br />• The proposal would bring the Metro Plan designation and zoning into better alignment. <br />In addition, the Low Density Residential plan designation and zoning matches the <br />designation and zone of the surrounding neighborhood. <br />• The re-designation/rezone allows for infill development and re-thinking of a property <br />where the planned use (cemetery) is no longer needed. <br />• The same re-designation and zone change proposed now was proposed by the City for <br />the property in 2013. However, the property owner withdrew their property from <br />consideration at that time due to the vehicle trip cap the City was proposing. The <br />applicant's current application includes a detailed traffic analysis that was not available <br />in 2013, demonstrating that even with the proposed build-out of the site and the <br />surround area, the streets in the area will not exceed the vehicle capacity for which they <br />are designed. <br />• The addition of an overlay zone or other tools to restrict future development (e.g. a <br />planned unit development overlay, refinement plan policies) is not required at this time, <br />nor is it supported by any applicable plan policies. As the attached findings describe, <br />determination of the type of land use application and applicable development standards <br />will be determined at the time of future development. <br />• Previously there has been concern raised from neighbors regarding whether re- <br />designation/rezoning of the property impacts any of the property's earlier land use <br />applications, such as the 1995 cemetery conditional use permit (CUP) and buffer <br />requirement or the 2002 CUP for controlled income and rent housing that is on hold. <br />The re-designation/rezoning of the property would not affect the status of these <br />permits. Additionally, as noted in the applicant's written statement, a new CUP would <br />be required before housing can be approved so that the new CUP only covers the <br />cemetery portion of the site and removes (or unencumbers) the remaining portion of <br />the site to enable other residential uses. <br />PC Agenda - Page 5 <br />