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Application #PL2019-223 - COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT - Adopting Map Changes to Land Use Designations as an Amendment to the City of Lee's Summit Comprehensive Plan 2005, as Amended; City of Lee's Summit, Applicant.
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An application for development of an apartment complex was recently received and set for public hearing. The location proposed for the apartment development was located in a recently annexed area that did not have a land use designation associated with it through the Comprehensive Plan. The area being considered for development was to be included in a new Comprehensive Plan Text and Land Use Map being pursued in the FY2019 city budget. It was anticipated that the new Comprehensive Plan would be underway last August/September but the City Strategic Plan was on the same time schedule and it was decided to wait for the Strategic Plan to be well underway before the Comprehensive Plan would begin. Therefore the Comprehensive Plan may be delayed later in the FY19 budget year or beyond depending on the results of the Strategic Plan. The application for the apartments preceded efforts to provide appropriate land use designations for these recently annexed areas.
Following consideration of the apartment application at the public hearing, the Commission continued the hearing with instruction to staff to prepare a land use designation for the proposed property as an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. Since that time staff has held multiple meetings to consider proposed land use designations for all areas currently void of designation which included the proposed property associated with the apartment application. The first meeting was held with a group of property owners within the area of the proposed apartments. The next two meeting opportunties were much broader and included all propeties needing land use designations. Letters of invitation were sent to property owners being considered for land use designation, property owners within 185 feet ...
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