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STAFF REPORT <br /> Decatur City Plan Commission <br /> COMMON NAME: 2143, 2151 & 2159 East Wood Street <br /> GENERAL INFORMATION <br /> Hearing Date September 7, 2006 <br /> Calendar No. 06-57 <br /> Property Location 2143, 2151 and 2159 East Wood Street <br /> Requested Action Rezone from B-2 Commercial District to R 3 Single Family <br /> Residential District <br /> Petitioner Bennett, Johnson and Phillips <br /> LAND USE AND ZONING <br /> Direction Existin Land Use Zonin Co rehensive Plan <br /> Subject Residential B-2 Commerc al and Low Density <br /> Property Residenti 1 <br /> North Commercial and R-3 & B- Commerc al and Low Density <br /> Residential 2 Residenti 1 <br /> South Residential R-3 Low Den ity Residential <br /> East Commercial B-2 Commerc al <br /> West Residential R-3 Low Den 'ty Residential <br /> BACKGROUND � <br /> 1. The subject petition requests that the properties in questio be rezoned from B-2 <br /> Commercial District to the R-3 Single Family Residential Dist 'ct. There are three (3) <br /> properties at issue and three petitions were filed. They have sinc been combined into one , <br /> petition. Each tract is improved with a single family residence. he lots are approximately <br /> 5,000 square feet and measure 122.5 feet long by 38 to 42 feet w de. The tracts are owned <br /> by three different individuals. '� <br /> PROJECT DESCRIPTION I <br /> 2. Each of the three lots are currently improved with a house and used as residences. The I <br /> residences are zoned B-2 Commercial District and are therefo e non-conforming. The <br /> petitioners have requested the residential zoning so that the resid nces could be rebuild in <br /> the event they were destroyed, home improvements could be fin ced and that mortgages <br /> might be written in the event of refinancing or sale. <br /> STAFF ANALYSIS <br /> 3. The properties in question lie west of and adjacent to a gas statio on the southwest corner <br /> of East Wood Street and North 22nd Street and generally west of the B-2 Commercial <br /> District which surrounds that same intersection. The area north, est and south contained <br />