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2016-1001 94 Lee County Board of Commissioners and Planning Board Public Hearing Information Application 2016-1001 to Amend the Lee County Zoning Map October 17, 2016 APPLICANT & OWNER: Wake Stone Corporation REQUEST: Rezone from Residential Agricultural (RA) to Heavy Industrial (HI) district LOCATION: Deep River Road TOWNSHIP: Deep River TAX PARCELS: 9667-79-0094, and a portion of 9668-90-1067 ADJACENT ZONING: North: Heavy Industrial Conditional Use (HI -CU) South: Residential Agricultural (RA) East: Heavy Industrial Conditional Use (HI -CU) West: Residential Agricultural (RA) History Wake Stone Corporation has operated a rock quarry at this location since 1974. The operation closed temporarily in 1983 and reopened in 1988. The quarry operation was a legally established Special Use upon the adoption of countywide zoning in June 1990. In January 1993, the property was zoned Heavy Industrial Conditional Use District to allow quarry operations on all properties owned by Wake Stone at that time. In 2003, approximately 4 -acres was zone Heavy Industrial Conditional Use (HI -CU) for construction of a vegetated earthen berm, and in 2010 approximately 35.78 -acres was zone Heavy Industrial Conditional Zoning District for use in the quarry operations. Site and Area Description The property to be rezone consists of a total of 1.15 -acres of land that includes a vacant .98 -acre lot that was formerly addressed as 6631 Deep River Road, and a 0.17 -acre strip of land. The properties was combined as illustrated on a survey for Wake Stone Corporation recorded in Plat Cabinet 10, Slide 17F Lee County Registry of Deeds. The property lies north of Deep River Road and is west of and adjacent to Wake Stone's current rock quarry operation. The subject property also adjoins a 4 -acre tract that was rezoned for an earthen berm. The subject tract does not have public street frontage and will be access through the existing quarry site that has over 2,000 feet of public street frontage on Deep River Road. Surrounding Land Uses Wake Stone's existing rock quarry adjoins the property requested to be rezoned. To the south and being south of Deep River Road are residential lots with single-family homes. West of the site adjoins low-density single-family homes and a 386± acre tract is vacant. Staff Analysis and Information The subject property is zoned Residential Agricultural (RA) district. The Residential Agricultural (RA) district is established to provide areas for low-density single-family uses, low