The current property owner has proposed a creative strategy to allow for site  development to proceed. This involves abandonment of the adjacent City Canal  Right-of-Way (legal description attached) located to the north and west of this site, as  well as amending the current future land use designation and zoning designation  from Office to Commercial. The current City canal will be channelized by the  applicant through an underground pipe and the canal area will be filled in. A City  access easement will be recorded over the channelized area by the applicant to  provide for future City entry as required. This new surface area will be utilized for site  improvements, including, but not limited to surface parking.

As previously mentioned, the applicant is requesting approval of four items, in order  to construct five new buildings, approximately 31,286 square feet in total area, for  commercial uses; (1) Abandonment of City Canal Right-of-Way (AB-19-02); (2) Land  Use Map Amendment (LU-18-02); (3) Zoning Map Amendment (RZ-18-02); (4) Site  Plan approval (SP-18-13). All four items are interconnected, and approval of each  must occur in the numerical order provided, item 1 through 4, or the project cannot  proceed as currently proposed.