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STAFF REPORT <br /> Decatur City Plan Commission <br /> COMMON NAME: 1224, 1260, 1270, 1280 and 1290 West Grand Avenue and 1390 North <br /> Fairview Avenue <br /> GENERAL INFORMATION <br /> Hearing Date October 1, 2015 <br /> Calendar No. 15-43 <br /> Property Location 1224, 1260, 1270, 1280 and 1290 West Grand Avenue and 1390 North <br /> Fairview Avenue <br /> Requested Action Rezoning from R-3 Single Family Residence District and to B-1 <br /> Neighborhood Shopping District to M-1 Intense CommerciaULight <br /> Industrial District <br /> Petitioner Akorn, Inc. <br /> Representative Howard Miller and Steve Coventry <br /> LAND USE AND ZONING <br /> Direction Existing Land Use Zoning Comprehensive Plan <br /> Subject Property Parking Lots, Vacant R-3,B-1 Retail, Institutional <br /> North Residential R-3 Residential-Low Density <br /> South Residential R-3 Residential-Low Density <br /> East Industxial, Commercial M-1,B-2 Retail <br /> West Residential R-3 Residential-Low Density <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> 1. The subject site is approximately 4.7 acres and is located at 1224, 1260, 1270, 1280 and 1290 West <br /> Grand Avenue and 1390 North Fairview Avenue. The site is currently zoned R-3 Single Family <br /> Residence District and B-1 Neighborhood Shopping District and is developed with paxking lots. <br /> Recently, there has been the demolition of a church and two small commercial buildings. <br /> PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br /> 1. The petitioner proposes to rezone from R-3 Single Family Residence District and B-1 <br /> Neighborhood Shopping District to M-1 Intense CommerciaULight Industrial District to allow for <br /> all those uses permitted in the M-1 Intense CommerciaULight Industrial District. <br /> STAFF ANALYSIS <br /> 1. The surrounding zoning includes B-2 Commercial District and M-1 Intense Commercial/Light <br /> Industrial District to the east and R-3 Single Family Residence District to the north,south and west. <br /> The Macon County and Decatur Comprehensive Plan shows this area as Retail and Institutional. <br />