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Public Hearing of 9/19/2006 Ordinance No. 2006-135 Planning Director Wenger answered the structures would be for utility purposes such as a CEI substation. It would be a conditional use. Councilman Miller inquired whether that would include cell towers. Planning Director Wenger said not specifically as there is a separate wireless telecommunications overlay. So, unless it qualified to be in the overlay, in and of itself it would not be a permitted or conditional use. Mrs. Givens inquired as to how many structure of single and two-family could be put on an acre. Planning Director Wenger answered that there is a minimum lot size under area regulations. For asingle-family dwelling unit, the minimum lot size criteria will be 13,200 square feet. It's roughly larger than a quarter acre. For atwo-family dwelling, the minimum lot size would be 14,700 square feet. Divide that by 43,560 to get the acreage. Probably about three on an acre. Janet Dorn, 30990 Bradley Road., asked if there were specific size requirements for hospitals, health centers, nursing homes. Planning Director Wenger answered it is indicated for all other uses that the minimum square footage would be 40,000 square feet, which is just under an acre. The conditional uses were taken under 1142.04. Many of them are conditional uses in Single Family Residential Districts, A, B and C. She will need to check and look back at those districts to see if there are additional size requirements that would be appropriate to include. But as those are conditional uses and more restrictive districts, it seemed appropriate to continue them in a less restrictive district. The short answer is 40,000 square feet unless it's determined the use does not fit a site that size. Mrs. Dorn asked the meaning of public/semi-public or office use within a major subdivision. Planning Director Wenger said, previously under permitted uses, it's broken down into (a) residential uses, (b) public and semi-public and (c) office uses. There was a concern that anon-residential use may locate in a residential major subdivision such as Timber Trails. What the committee did not want to happen is to have an office use or a semi- public use locate on a lot right in the middle of a residential subdivision without giving it extra scrutiny. So, in addition to saying that it's a conditional use, there cannot be an impact on surrounding properties. We have adouble-safe under development standards under traffic as it says, "any and all buildings used for non-residential purposes shall front onto or have access from a collector or arterial street." There may be a comer lot in a major subdivision, but it would have to access not through the local neighborhood traffic but onto the collector street. Any such use would need to front onto a collector or 2