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CON2017-00012 - A COUNTY CONDITIONAL USE FOR A CEMETERY ON PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF WEST 69th STREET NORTH, 1,600 FEET EAST OF NORTH MERIDIAN STREET (2401 WEST 69th STREET NORTH).
Presented by: Dale Miller, Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Department.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the Conditional Use, subject to the conditions recommended by the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC), adopt the findings of the MAPC and authorize the Chairman to sign the prepared resolution.
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Background: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use in a SF-20 Single-Family Residential District (SF-20) to allow a cemetery on a 20-acre site on the south side of West 69th Street North, approximately 1,600 feet east of North Meridian Avenue.
The Unified Zoning Code (“UZC”) allows a cemetery to be considered as a Conditional Use, and defines a cemetery as “land used or intended to be used for burial of the dead, whether human or animal, including a mausoleum or columbarium. A funeral home may be included as an Accessory Use to a cemetery.”
The applicant explains that the cemetery would be developed in four phases, with each phase taking approximately 25 years to reach capacity. The first phase would be on the north side of the 20-acre site. Farming would continue on other areas of the property until future phases are implemented. Please see the attached letter from the applicant with additional details about the cemetery.
A site plan submitted with the Conditional Use indicates the location of access from West 69th Street North, a general phasing plan and areas designated for future parking and buildings. Fencing and landscaping would be provided for the cemetery with each phase of operation.
Analysis: There are single family homes north of the property on West 69th Street North, and large lot single family homes east of the site along Interurban Road. West and south of the cemetery site is agricultural land owned by the appli...
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