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E-mail StoryRehab centers, fire station, cemetery on zoning agenda
| Saturday, May 10 2008 12:00 PM
Last Updated: Monday, May 12 2008 8:57 AM
Public safety, rehab and room for the dearly departed are among the requests that will be weighed by the city’s Board of Zoning Adjustment Tuesday.
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The Board of Zoning Adjustment meets at 3 p.m. Tuesday at 1501 Truxtun Ave., in City Council chambers.
Applicant Isaiah Crompton proposes using a four-bedroom home as a drug and alcohol treatment facility that would house 14 clients and two staff members.
The home, at 1900 Clarendon St., is south of East California Avenue, in east Bakersfield.
City planners recommend the permit be denied because there’s a similar business nearby. Having two sites so close to each other could negatively impact the neighborhood, they say.
A second rehab-facility related request has a thumbs-down recommendation from planning staff.
Legacy Behavioral Services, near F and 21st streets, would like a zoning modification so it can have 10 off-site parking spaces for use with a proposed two-story, state-licensed home for men undergoing alcohol and drug rehab. It would house 57 residents, with up to five employees. But city planners believe 10 spaces isn’t enough parking.
Legacy maintains its clients, many of whom were recently incarcerated, don’t have vehicles, and they are allowed to have few visitors.
In addition to the proposed structure, Legacy owns two other nearby sites. In total, these three homes would have 87 residents, 8 staff and use of 16 off-street parking spaces.
City staff believe if these homes were used for different purposes, their limited parking could make it hard to find replacement tenants.
Although rehab facilities are allowed in commercially zoned areas without formal land-use approval, having potentially three homes so close to a neighborhood and small businesses could have detrimental effects, according to a staff report.
The board will also consider:
• A permit requested by the city of Bakersfield for a fire station in the southwest, on Mountain Vista Drive and Harris Road. Station No. 14 would be constructed on about 2 acres. It’s part of a larger 7.25-acre site that’s planned for a future city park.
• Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary Cemetery and Crematory would like a permit so it can expand operations on its 60-acre site.
The request includes four mausoleums and more burial areas along its eastern property line, adjacent to the southbound Highway 99 on-ramp.
• The Northwest Promenade, through its entity, Northwest Target LLC, requires permits to remedy code violations regarding 242metal storage containers.
There are 220 metal storage containers on 11 acres at the rear of the property, a narrow area that serves as a buffer between the shopping center and homes to the north.
Because no specific zone was designated when the development was approved in 2000, it’s a code violation. A city report notes the containers would be leased, sold or moved within two years.
The Target store uses an additional 22 containers on the western portion of the site, and zoning ordinances state two containers may be used in this area. That’s a second violation.
The containers are necessary because this particular Target does an atypically high sales volume, according to a city report.
Additional Targets are planned in the area and, once open, they could reduce sales at the northwest store.
If approved, these structures would be in addition to the two that are allowed by ordinance.
Lastly, developer Lee Jamieson would like to use a quarter-acre in the easement to indefinitely store landscape maintenance equipment to keep the shopping center nice and tidy.