NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Cochise County Board of Supervisors hereby gives notice a public hearing will be held at or after 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 15^th, 2009, at 1415 Melody Lane, Building G, Bisbee, Arizona to consider the following:

Docket Z-09-06, Guerrero: This is a request to rezone two adjacent parcels near to incorporated Douglas from R-9 (Residential, minimum lot size 9,000 sq.-ft) to NB (Neighborhood Business, minimum lot size 3,600 sq.-ft.) to allow sale of hay to individual customers and to store hay on the premises for those customers. The NB Districts allow for a maximum retail sales floor area of 2,500 sq-ft. for permitted principal uses; the Applicant has proposed a sales floor area of approximately 1,600 sq.-ft. On September 9, 2009, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval to the Board of Supervisors to rezone parcel 408-22-020 from R-9 to NB in order to legitimize the aforementioned commercial hay sales activities. Parcel 408-22-019 will be considered for rezoning to NB by the Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday, November 18^th, 2009. The total site area of the two parcels proposed to be rezoned to NB is approximately 2.6 acres.

If this rezoning request is approved, the Applicant would apply for several variances from site development standards, including from Section 1103.04 which requires a minimum 40-foot setback from all property lines for the hay sales structure/area and a 50-foot setback from all property boundaries for livestock containment areas, per Section 1815. Furthermore, the Applicant would seek a waiver of the Section 1804.07.C requirement for modified pavement surface in Category B Growth Areas for their driveway and parking areas to retain the compacted native soil ground cover.

The subject parcels (tax id#s 408-22-019; 020) are located at 304 W. Crystal Ave., approximately ¼-mile west of incorporated Douglas. They are further described as being situated in Township 24, Range 27, Section 12 of the G&SRB&M, in Cochise County, Arizona. Applicant: Mr. Ramon Guerrero; Hector Hernandez, Agent.

Details of the above docket are on file at the Cochise County Planning Department, 1415 Melody Lane, Building E, Bisbee, Arizona, and may be examined during the office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Please contact Planner Michael Turisk at (520) 432-9240 or by email at mturisk@cochise.az.gov. All persons interested in said matter may appear at said public hearing at said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why said rezoning should or should not be granted.

Dated this day, November 17^th, 2009

Ann English, Chair, Board of Supervisors

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