This vacant piece of property is generally located at 4800 S. Garner Lake Road. All utilities are available to this site and it has frontage off of Garner Lake Road. To the east of this lot is South Garner Lake Road, to the west is Butler Spaeth Road, to the south is  C-3, Business/Services District and to the north is M-H, Mobile Home District and a vacant lot that is zoned I-1, Light Industrial District. Once rezoned, the applicant intends to combine this lot with the vacant lot to the north that is already zoned I-1.

The City of Gillette Comprehensive Plan has designated the future land use classification of this parcel as General Commercial. As such, rezoning this parcel to I-1, Light Industrial District is not entirely in line with the goals and objectives of the current Comprehensive Plan. However, many of the parcels along South Garner Lake Road to  the north of this parcel are already developed and zoned I-1, Light Industrial District. Rezoning this parcel to I-1, Light Industrial District is congruent with the land use patterns which are already in place and will not change the general character of the surrounding area.

Development on this lot will require the appropriate approval of the Building  and Planning Departments. Aerial photos from the City's GIS Department indicate that the adjacent parcel which is zoned M-H, Mobile Home District is already sufficiently buffered from the surrounding I-1 zoning. However, any development on this lot will require a landscape buffer. This will help to ensure that any adjacent residential development is shielded from future industrial developments.

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.

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

(2) 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 expansion of I-1 zoning which has occurred to the north of this parcel.

Section 12 of the City of Gillette Zoning Ordinances requires that an area being rezoned I-1, Light Industrial District be a minimum of five acres. When combined with the adjacent parcels to the north that are zoned I-1, Light Industrial District, this request meets the minimum size requirements.