REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION
SUBJECT
Title
Consent: Action on Rezone for the property located at 908 Fremont Street
Report
BACKGROUND
The property owners of 908 Fremont Street, Todd and Kristy Rosenbaum, are requesting that their property be rezoned from the Downtown Commercial (CD) to the R1-6L Single Family zoning district. The Rosenbaums initiated the current process by submitting a letter requesting that the Planning Commission initiate a rezoning of their property. On March 13, 2019, the Planning Commission approved the request to initiate the rezone. An excerpt of the Planning Commission meeting minutes of March 13, 2019 is attached.
The property at 908 Fremont Street is currently developed with a single-family residence. The subject site is surrounded by single-family residences and residences that have been converted to office uses.
This property and portions of the surrounding neighborhood were rezoned to CD in the late 1950s and early 1960s to facilitate the City's vision for an urban downtown. That vision was not implemented for the subject property and it, along with other properties that were not redeveloped, did not return to their prior zonings. The City did not modify the General Plan land use classification for this property to reflect the downtown vision and it retained its current Very Low Density Residential General Plan designation intended for single-family development.
DISCUSSION
The owner's intent for the requested rezone is to establish a zoning district for the property consistent with the existing single-family residential use. Single-family residential is not permitted in the current CD zoning district. Rezoning to the R1-6L district would facilitate single family residential use of the site consistent with neighboring uses and allow for expansion of the existing single-family use and future construction of an accessory dwelling unit.
The subject property was constructed in 1939 in the Colonial Revival style. It is curre...
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