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STAFF REPORT <br /> Decatur City Plan Commission <br /> COMMON NAME: Wabash Crossing Rezoning to PD <br /> GENERAL INFORMATION <br /> Hearing Date October 6,2005 <br /> Calendar No. OS-51 <br /> Property Location Wabash Crossing <br /> Requested Action Rezone from R-6 Multiple Dwelling District to PD, Planned <br /> Development District, and subsequent approval of the development <br /> plan. <br /> Petitioner East Lake/Decatur LLC <br /> Property Owner City of Decatur, Decatur Housing Authority <br /> Representative Phil Cochran I� <br /> LAND USE AND ZONING I <br /> Direction Existing Land Use Zoning Comprehensive Plan I'i <br /> Subject Property Vacant, Longview Day Care R-6 Mixed Use, Planned II <br /> Center Development � <br /> North Wabash Crossing First PD Mixed Use,Planned <br /> Addition, Residential Development <br /> South Industrial M-1 Light Industrial �� <br /> East Railroad, Hope Academy R-6 Parks and Open Space � <br /> West Wabash Crossing First PD Mixed Use, Planned !i <br /> Addition,Residential Development <br /> BACKGROUND I� <br /> 1. The subject property containing 23.5 acres is currently unimproved and is the former site of ' <br /> Longview Place, a public housing project. The land to the west of Martin Luther King Jr. ', <br /> Drive is owned by the City of Decatur. The rest of the site is owned by the Decatur Housing � <br /> Authority. Redevelopment of the formerly blighted neighborhood that occupied the land is a !, <br /> major goal of the City of Decatur, Decatur Housing Authority and the broader community. ' <br /> The City intends to lease the property to the project developer and DHA upon approval of the I, <br /> planned development. li <br /> 2. The site is surrounded to the north and west by the first development phase of Wabash II, <br /> Crossing. The new Hope Academy School is located to the east across the Illinois Central <br /> Railroad tracks with light industrial uses to the south. <br />