2019-07 Ordinance Amending PD Planned Development District Generally Bounded by East Marietta Street, North Water Street, East Wabash Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Community Care Campus

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Excerpts from Plan Commission Meeting of February 7,2019: Case No. 19-02 Petition of CROSSING HEALTHCARE, to amend the (PD) Planned Development District to allow additional accessory apartment buildings for the approved Community Care Campus generally bounded by East Marietta Street, North Water Street, East Wabash Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. It was moved and seconded (Frantz/Howley) to forward Case No. 19-02 to the City Council with a recommendation of approval as set forth in the staff report. Mr. Dedert discussed and presented slides of the site and surrounding properties (available for viewing upon request) along with staff's approval of the petition based on the staff report distributed to the Plan Commission prior to the meeting (staff report is on file and is available for reviewing by request)with the following conditions: 1. The permitted uses in this Planned Development District for a community care campus shall include health care center, food pantry, early childhood development center, outpatient medical/healthcare facility, inpatient medical/healthcare facility, dormitory for temporary patients, medical and professional offices, detox/residential rehabilitation facility, community gardens, apartments and accessory uses including but not limited to apartments for patients as approved by the Department of Economic and Community Development. 2. Provide traffic analysis to determine if improvements will be needed to the intersections of Water Street with King Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive with King Street. IDOT approval must be received for any changes within the North Water Street right-of-way. 3. A maacimum of eight percent(8%) reduction in the required overall number of parking spaces is allowed. Bicycle racks shall be provided in appropriate locations for employees and patients. 4. The access drive parking lot for the apartment buildings north of East King Street and the access drive to the parking lot south of East King Street serving the four buildings must be aligned. 5. A maximum of ten (10) buildings, the existing Crossing Healthcare medical care facility included, shall be allowed within this Planned Development District, with a combined total square footage not to exceed 161,000 square feet. No building shall exceed 32,000 sq. ft. in size. All buildings shall be one-story in height, with the exception of the dormitory and apartments which may be two-story. 6. Building elevations and construction materials primaxily of masonry for all permitted buildings shall be as approved by the Department of Economic and Community Development in conjunction with the final site plan review. 7. The overall development will be permitted to have no more than three (3) freestanding monument style signs — one (1) along the frontage of East Central Avenue and North Water Street, one (1) near the intersection of East King Street and North Warren Street, and one (1) along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive frontage. Wayfinding signs should not exceed four (4) square feet in area and shall not exceed three (3) feet in height each. 8. All lights facing residential uses shall be shielded.