The Hot Springs Board of Directors will consider three ordinances Tuesday to change the zoning classification for six tracts of land associated with Forest Lakes Garden Homes subdivisions.
The board will meet at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 133 Convention Blvd.
The various parcels have a total of 144.74 acres. The ordinances seek to change zoning on five tracts from the initial R-1, rural residential class, to R-4, medium high density residential, or commercial transitional, and from medium high density residential to commercial transitional on one parcel.
Planning Director Kathy Sellman said the rezoning requests of land initially zoned R-1 is to rectify the zone districts or amend the Zoning Map and Future Land Use Plan Map designations.
"When annexed to the city in 2007, the lands were initially zoned R-1, and neither the developer nor the city acted to change zoning and Future Land Use Plan Map," she said.
The board action request form notes that the applicant stated the zone changes "demonstrates compatibility with surrounding development or zoning."
The Hot Springs Planning Commission voted unanimously at its Aug. 14 meeting to recommend the city board approve the zoning change requests.
The board will also consider an ordinance amending the Hot Springs Sign Code regarding temporary signs, and three consent agenda items to approve the city's financial statements, award a contract for stator rewinding and purchase a sanitation transfer truck.
Local on 09/01/2014