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RECOMMENDATION OF THE LEE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 029 FOR A CHANGE TO THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF LEE COUNTY APPLICATION 2016-1001 The Lee County Planning Board, by a 5 to 2 vote, recommends the Lee County Board of Commissioners approve Application #2016-1001 submitted by Wake Stone Corporation to rezone 1.15 -acres of land formerly addressed as 6631 Deep River Road from Residential Agricultural (RA) district to Heavy Industrial (HI) district. The members who cast the two dissenting votes expressed concern over allowing the expansion of an existing use that has raised concern among the residential neighbors. LAND USE INFORMATION PRESENTED AT THE PUBLIC HEARING 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 intensity agricultural operations as well as agri-business and supportive industrial and commercial uses. The dimensional requirements of the RA district include a minimum lot size of 40,000 square feet (.92 acs.) and principal building setbacks of 30 feet front yard, 30 feet rear yard and 15 feet side yards. The Heavy Industrial (HI) district is established to provide for areas of heavy manufacturing, concentrated fabrication, manufacturing and industrial uses which are suitable based upon