97-83 GRANTING SPECIAL PERMIT PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 97-107 : September 9, 1997 TO: Honorable Mayor Terry M. Howley and City Council Members FROM: James L. Williams, ., City Manager Debora L. Bean, A ng Director of Community Development/��j 8 � Robert A. McQueen, Senior Planner (�� _ SUBJECT: Ordinance Rezoning the Southwest Corner of Fulton Avenue and Albany Street and approval of a Planned Unit Development The subject petition requesu that a 17.5 acre tract of land located at the southwest corner of Fulton Avenue and Albany Street be rezoned from R-2 Single Family Residence District to R-3 Singie Family Residence District; petitioner further requests approval of a Planned Unit Development for said tract to allow multifamily construction. As submitted by petitioner, the development would be an assisted living facility for the elderly consisting of one structure housing 40 units with a central dining facility, and a total of seventeen structures housing four individual apartment units each for a combined totai of 108 units. While the immediate surrounding area is presendy zoned single family and accordingly developed, staff notes that property at the northeast corner of Fulton Avenue and Albany Street is zoned B-1 Neighborhood Shopping Disuict and developed as such with property further north on Albany Street and east on Fulton Avenue being B-2 Commercial District. Further, we note that existing residential development to the immediate south and west backs onto the subject tract. Vehicular access to this site would be only from Fulton Avenue, which is classified as a secondary collector street; Fulton Avenue would be improved along the frontage of the subject tract from the west property line easterly to Albany Street in accordance with City of Decatur consffuction standards for a residential street. • � Both City of Decatur water and sanitary sewer utilities are available to serve the proposed development. Storm water would be accommodated via a storm water detention basin located on the south side of the tract; this detention basin would discharge at a controlled rate into an existing tile system with an overflow discharge into the existing ditch along Albany Street. Recognizing the configuration of land use and zoning patterns as noted, staff is of the opinion that the proposed zone and development would not adversely affect or change the character of