The applicant is seeking to downzone his lot so it will be more marketable. M-H, Mobile Home District is  a more appropriate zoning designation for this lot. A majority of  this parcel was previously zoned M-H, Mobile Home District. A rezoning request in 2014 rezoned this area to C-1, General Commercial District.  Currently, there is a mobile home on the lot.  As such, very little impervious surface covers this parcel. Locating a business on this property would require several upgrades to this lot.  These upgrades would include creating a parking lot with an all weather surface and buffering this lot from the surrounding residentially zoned lots.

To the north of this parcel is Wigwam Boulevard, to the south is M-H, Mobile Home District, to the east is C-1, General Commercial District, to the west is C-1, General Commercial District and R-1, Single Family Residential District.  This lot has frontage along both Chickasaw Avenue and Wigwam Boulevard. However, this lot is currently accessed by Chickasaw Avenue, which is not  intended for commercial traffic. Every other lot that has access on  Chickasaw Avenue is of a residential zoning classification. Although this lot also has frontage along Wigwam Boulevard, accessing a commercial parcel off this street would not be ideal. Wigam Boulevard dead ends at this lot and intersects Crow Avenue, which feeds back into Highway 59. 

The rezoning of this lot is consistent with the goals and objectives listed in the City of Gillette Comprehensive Plan. The current Comprehensive Plan has designated the future land use for this parcel as residential. All utilities are already available to this lot.

An Amendment to the Zoning Map shall not take place unless at least one (1) of two (2) criteria exists as set forth in Section 12 of the City of Gillette Zoning Ordinance.

a. The zoning map may be amended when there is a need to correct an obvious error. In this case, there was no error.

b. The zoning map may be amended to recognize changing conditions within the City. This request does recognize changing conditions within the City by acknowledging the downturn in Gillette's economy. Undeveloped commercial lots are not nearly as viable as they were back in 2014.

Section 12 of the City of Gillette Zoning Ordinances requires that an area being rezoned M-H, Mobile Home District be a minimum of five acres. When combined with the adjacent parcels zoned M-H, Mobile Home District this request meets the minimum size requirements.