January, 2002
The following amendments to "Preparing for Change: the Wichita-Sedgwick County Comprehensive Plan" (adopted in 1993 and amended in 1996 and 2000) were adopted by the Wichita City Council on January 15, 2002 and the Sedgwick County Board of County Commissioners on January 9, 2002:
a). Delete in their entirety, Strategies III.B5 and III.B6.
b). Revise the Commercial Locational Guidelines (pg. 35) as follows:
#1. Commercial sites should be encouraged to locate near arterial streets or major thoroughfares that provide needed ingress and egress in order to avoid traffic congestion".
#5. Allow local and collector residential streets to be used as access to adjacent commercial and mixed-use developments if such use will not negatively impact residentially developed areas.
#6. Guide auto sales lots and other types of infrequent purchase or non-neighborhood serving commercial uses to areas (existing or planned) containing similar uses, and away from neighborhood commercial areas.
c). Add the following strategy to pg. 11 under 1.C. OBJECTIVE: Enhance and encourage agricultural activities within Sedgwick County, recognizing that viable agricultural land exists within the County:
1.C2. As a means of maintaining contiguous farmland, develop subdivision standards that require rural lots throughout the county to meet a 20-acre minimum size requirement, with smaller lot sizes permitted only if they are bundled (either with unified ownership or with future improvements guaranteed by individual deed restrictions) or are clustered.
d) Replace the Wichita Land Use Guide and the Sedgwick County Development Guide with amended and updated maps identified as attachments "A" and "B" to the Resolution of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Metropolitan Area Planning Commission dated November 15, 2001.
Wichita Land Use Guide

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