FAYETTEVILLE -- A neighborhood meeting is set for Thursday to discuss Rolling Hills Drive.
Planning staff members and city officials will gather with neighbors at 5:30 p.m. at Rolling Hills Baptist Church, 1400 E. Rolling Hills Drive, to clarify issues about plans for the area and get input on street connectivity.
Meeting
Rolling Hills neighborhood meeting
When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Rolling Hills Baptist Church, 1400 E. Rolling Hills Drive
Source: Staff report
Two issues have popped up in recent months -- a plan to extend Rolling Hills Drive and rezoning pieces of 50 acres privately owned at the dead end of Rolling Hills with Old Missouri Road. Extending Rolling Hills east would run through the acreage that has come up for rezoning.
Extending Rolling Hills to Crossover Road is part of the city's street plan developed in 2011. The city hired a consulting firm in spring 2016 to update the plan. An early draft released in May included the extension as a potential time-saver for commuters.
Numerous mobility plan workshops seeking public input have been held throughout the city since fall 2016. The city launched a web page, fayetteville-ar.gov/mobility, with an interactive map and submission form for comments.
The consultants are scheduled to present a developed mobility plan update during the March 20 City Council meeting.
Before then, a proposal to rezone about 20 acres east of Butterfield Trail Elementary School will be on the March 6 City Council agenda. The property is zoned for four single-family homes per acre. The request would rezone the property to a mostly residential district allowing up to 10 units per acre.
Another 10 acres south of the school already has been rezoned. The City Council in July rezoned the tract from single-family homes to a pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use type of commercial and residential development zoning district.
Both rezoning requests would sit on either side of a possible extended Rolling Hills Drive. Planners have said the rezoning requests were made to prepare the parcel for development, but no particular project is in the works.
For more information, call 575-8233.
NW News on 02/21/2018