Bottom line

Commissioners are to review plans for a major new commercial area at Sixth Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway. The project, dubbed Mercato, proposes a mix of retail, office and residential uses on 122 acres immediately north and east of the interchange of Sixth Street and the trafficway.

Background

The development has created numerous questions for planning and city staff members. The planning department is recommending that commissioners defer the development requests until their July meeting to give planners more time to study the plan. Among the concerns are how much retail space would go on the site, road access and sewer issues.

The project is proposed by an ownership group that includes Lawrence developers Duane and Steve Schwada.

Other business

Regular agenda

¢ Rezone 4.9 acres from Agriculture to Single Family Residential. The property is generally located south of West Sixth Street and west of Stonecreek Drive, extended.

¢ Rezone 7.4 acres from Agriculture to Multi-Family Residential. The property is generally located south of West Sixth Street and west of Stonecreek Drive, extended.

¢ Rezone 4.2 acres from Agriculture to Residential Office. The property is generally located south of West Sixth Street and west of Stonecreek Drive, extended.

¢ Receive preliminary plat for Fox Chase at Sixth Street and Stoneridge Drive. The project proposes a mix of single family and multifamily development on 14.139 acres. The property is generally located south of West Sixth Street and west of Stonecreek Drive, extended.

¢ Annex 17.52 acres north of U.S. Highway 40 (Sixth Street) and east of Kansas Highway 10 (South Lawrence Trafficway).

¢ Rezone 61.64 acres from Agriculture to Planned Commercial Development. The property generally is located north of Sixth Street and east of the South Lawrence Trafficway.

¢ Rezone 19.89 acres from Agriculture to Residential Office. The property generally is located north of Sixth Street and east of the South Lawrence Trafficway.

¢ Rezone 29.10 acres from Agriculture to Single Family Residential. The property generally is located north of Sixth Street and east of the South Lawrence Trafficway.

¢ Rezone 4.21 acres from Agriculture to Duplex Residential. The property generally is located north of Sixth Street and east of the South Lawrence Trafficway.

¢ Rezone 13.05 acres from Agriculture to Multi-Family Residential. The property generally is located north of Sixth Street and east of the South Lawrence Trafficway.

¢ Receive preliminary plat for Mercato, a 122.65 acre project that proposes a mix of commercial, office and residential uses. The property generally is located north of Sixth Street and east of the South Lawrence Trafficway.

¢ Receive preliminary development plan for Park West Gardens, a 70-unit multifamily residential development on 5.652 acres. The property is generally located north of Overland Drive between Eisenhower Drive and East 1000 Road (Queens Road).

¢ Rezone 1.004 acres from Research Industrial to Residential Office. The property is generally located at 19th Street between 19th and Homewood streets and east of Bullene Avenue.

¢ Receive use permitted upon review to allow new equipment to be installed on an existing cellular telephone tower on school district property at 4700 Overland Drive. Verizon Wireless is the company seeking to add equipment to the tower.

¢ Consider revisions to Planning Commission by-laws that would change the meeting schedule format and clarify rules about ex-parte communications.