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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STAFF REPORT Decatur City Plan Commission Hearing Date February 7, 2019 Case No. 19-02 Property Location Generally bounded by East Marietta Street,North Water Street, East Wabash Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Requested Action Amend the PD Planned Development District to allow additional accessory apartment buildings for the approved Community Care Campus. Petitioner Crossing Healthcare Representative Mary Cave, Chastain&Associates LLC BACKGROUND The subject site is approximately 22.7 acres and was recently approved for a Community Care Campus in the PD Planned Development District. Currently, it contains a community medical facility with a parking lot and a community garden (operated by Crossing Healthcare), a planned community service center development site (Northeast Community fund), and several buildings under construction as part of a Community Care Campus. Over the years this area has seen several changes. In 2002,the vacant northeast quadrant of the subject site was part of a much larger redevelopment project rezoned from R-6 Mixed Use Planned Unit Development to PD Planned Development District for construction of new homes. This redevelopment project, now known as Wabash Crossing/Near North/Hope VI development, is a mix of single-family and multi-family residences with Decatur Housing Authority offices. In 2014/2015, Crossing Healthcare (formerly Community Healthcare Improvement Center) constructed a community medical facility in the west-central portion of the subj ect site,after a rezoning petition of the property was approved from R-6 Multiple Dwelling District to O-1 Office District. In 2016, a site plan for a community service center (to be developed by Northeast Community Fund separately)was approved for the southwest corner of North Martin Luther King Jr.Drive and East King Street,within the east-central portion of the subject site. Most recently, some site preparation has undertaken. On September 4,2018, the City Council approved the vacation of certain public rights-of-way(streets and alleyways)as part of the planned Community Care Campus redevelopment area generally bounded by East Marietta Street, North Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, East Wabash Avenue, and North Water Street. On September 6, 2018 the Community Care Campus in the PD Planned Development District was approved by Plan Commission. It was subsequently approved by City Council on September 17,2018.