Opinion ID: 2011601
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Council agrees with the recommendations of the technical staff and the Planning Board.

Text: The staff, in addition to what we have already noted, said the Artery tract was bounded to the northeast by the R-20 [ Baker tract] zone. As has been said, this zoning reverted to R-90 on 14 January 1966, a month before the Council's resolution. The staff alluded to some difficulties of access to the Artery tract from Georgia Avenue but how this would have been alleviated by the rezoning was not explained. Oddly enough, the staff seems to have overlooked the fact that the proposed relocation and realignment of the 70 foot road (P-9) probably would have solved whatever difficulties of access there might have been. There is no doubt the staff was aware of this proposal because about 0.7 of an acre was withheld from the recommended rezoning for the area required for [the] right of way (if the proposed amendment is adopted). The realignment and relocation were approved by the Planning Commission on 10 March 1965, 11 months before the Council's resolution. Since the Planning Board did nothing more than approve the staff's recommendation as generally stating the Board's opinion it seems clear to us that the recommendations of the Board and its staff had lost whatever validity they may have had when the Council passed its resolution on 15 February 1966.