Advance Plans Committee
Summary of Meeting
7:35 am, July 20, 2006
Attendance
Committee Members: 	Elizabeth Bishop, Morris Dunlap, Bud Hentzen, John McKay, 
Harold Warner
MAPD staff: 	Christy Askew, Stephen Banks, Dave Barber, Scott Knebel, Scott 
Wadle
Others:	Mitch Mitchell

Discussion Summary
1.	The Advance Plans Committee approved the minutes of the July 6, 2006 
Committee meeting.

2.	Scott Knebel initiated a Committee discussion of the K-96 Corridor Economic 
Development Plan and its consistency, or lack thereof, with the Wichita-Sedgwick 
County Comprehensive Plan. The following issues were raised in Committee 
discussion:
?	Differences between nodal and strip development approaches were 
reviewed. It was determined that the current Comprehensive Plan 
promotes a nodal approach consistent with the Study recommendations, 
through the designation of the 2030 Urban Growth Areas for all cities in 
Sedgwick County.
?	Whether or not the K-96 Plan is adopted, no commercial or industrial 
development would be allowed along the corridor under the existing RR 
zoning designation. A property rezoning would be required. Most of the 
Committee felt that the Comprehensive Plan designations and the existing 
RR zoning of the K-96 corridor sufficiently reflect the intent of the study 
recommendations. They also felt that strict agricultural preservation 
zoning would not be appropriate, or be supported by the affected property 
owners, the MAPC or the governing bodies.
?	The area north of K-96 to the Arkansas River falls largely within the river 
floodplain, which creates practical limitations for any commercial, 
industrial or residential redevelopment.
?	Access and signage control currently exists along the K-96 corridor. Strip 
development could only access the highway via frontage roads that tie into 
mile intersection points.
?	The appropriateness of TDR (transfer of development rights) and 
agricultural easements as tools to promote the preservation of agricultural 
land was briefly discussed. 
?	The Committee discussed the option of recommending approval of all or 
just potions of the Study. 

3.	The Committee directed staff to prepare a summary of the 'degree of consistency' 
of existing Comprehensive Plan policies and current zoning regulations with the 
implementation recommendations contained on Page 79 of the Study, and report 
back to the Committee.

4.	The next Committee meeting will be held on August 17th at 7:35 a.m. Meeting 
was adjourned at 8:45 a.m.