[StBernard] do you oppose zoning changes in residential areas? microbrewery

[Westley Annis]

It is wrong and misleading to tell people "allow the brewery to stop
apartments";   it's simply not true.
it doesnot make any sense because the brewery could go forward with only 250
feet C2 zoning, but more apartments need the full 600 feet C2.  And I'm
pretty sure the council and property owner know this.  So why is the
property owner insistent on the full 600 feet?
 
C2 allows for apartments, trailer home courts, funeral homes, retail
manufacturing, auto repair, fix it shops and many other uses.  In the near
future, C2 will allow micro breweries. 
 
IF the council grants the zoning change and makes over 600 feet C2 general
commercial then any of these C2 uses are allowed.  It, including the so
called "APARTMENTS".  Allowing C2 for the brewery doesnot stop apartments.  
 
  IF the council rejects this docket and preserves all the R1 zoning, the
apartments cannot be constructed on R1 property.  
It may even be possible for the Board of Zoning Adjustments to grant a
variance for just the warehouse to continue commercial use without a zoning
change.   (in 1965 the warehouse had a variance of some sort to operate on
residential property and the variance continued in the later 1960's when the
apartments were built.) 
 
Another solution would be for the council to follow the existing prohibition
on commercial incursion which SHALL NOT exceed 250 feet, and only grant the
zoning change to that section of the R1 zoning which will bring the total
commercial zoning to 250 feet from St. Bernard Hwy. That solution was used
in a previous zoning change on Despaux Drive.  The commercial zoning was
restricted to 250 feet.  In this docket, that way, the brewery can go
forward in the existing warehouse and the owner can use his residential
property for single family residential.