99-05 REZONING PROPERTY - NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST CORNERS OF MCKINLEY AVENUE AND UNION STREET

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 99-09 January 13, 1999 TO: Honorable Mayor Terry M. Howley and City Council Members FROM: 7ames L. Williams, Jr., City Manager � Cecil A. Collins, Jr., Community evelopment Director�� Max Forgey, Senior Planner`�'W� Kathy Miller, Planner�--�`(`t� SUBJECT: Ordinance Rezoning Tracts Located at the Northwest and Northeast Corner of McKinley Avenue and Union Street The subject petition requests that a tract of land located at the northwest and northeast corner of McKinley Avenue and Union Street be rezoned from R-3 Single Family Residential District and R-6 Multiple Dwelling District to B-2 Commercial District. The tract currently zoned R-3 contains appro�mately 3.3 acres while the tract currently zoned R-6 contains 6.5 acres; both tracts are vacant at this time. The purpose of the proposed zone is to enable the lots to be developed commercially to construct the new joint use YMCA/YWCA facility. While said premises are adjoined on the west and the north by property zoned R-6 Multiple Dwelling District and used by a nursing home, a day care facility and St. Johns Lutheran Church, and R-3 single family to the east, it should be noted that property appro�mately 600 feet to the north is currently zoned B-2 Commercial and the property appro�mately 160 feet to the west is zoned B-1 and B-2 commercial districts. Upon review of the 1990 Comprehensive Land Use Plan, staff notes that the subject premises are earmarked for high density residential development. However, this plan failed to recognize the growing needs of the hospital. The updated Comprehensive Plan will designate this area institutional to reflect Decatur Memorial Hospital's strategy to move north. The proposed zone would be in keeping with the intent of the land use plan as updated. In view of this data, staff recommends approval of the petition as presented.