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. � COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 96-184 November 12, 1996 TO: Honorable Mayor Terry M. Howley and City Council Members FROM: James L. Williams, Jr., City Manager George C. Weaver, Director of Community Development� Robert A. McQueen, Senior Planner (''-�� SUBJECT: Ordinance Rezoning the Northeast Corner of Mt. Gilead Road and Route 51 South The subject petition requests that a tract of land located at the northeast corner of Route 51 South and Mt. Gilead Road be rezoned from R-1 Single Family Residence District to B-2 Commercial District. Containing approximately six acres, the area in question is presently vacant and used for agriculture purposes. Prior to being annexed to the City of Decatur in 1990, this tract was zoned R-1 Single Family Residential under Macon County Zoning regulations with a special use � permit to allow development of a mobile home park. The purpose of the proposed zone is to allow future commercial development; no specific development plans have been presented at this time. A zoning petition has also been filed to change the classification of adjoining land to the east and north to PMR-1 to allow expansion of the existing Hyde Park Mobile Home Development south to Mt. Gilead Road. Properties further east and south are zoned County A-1 Agriculture while properties to the east across Route 51 are zoned County R-1 or A-l. !, The Comprehensive Land Use Plan calls for the area in question to be commercial development �� as well as property to the immediate south across Mt. Gilead Road. , With regards to municipal utilities, an existing City of Decatur water main is located just narth of �I this tract along Route 51, and a sanitary sewer is located approximately one half mile north of the , tract in question. This existing sewer could be extended to serve the subject tract. ' In view of the above data, staff recommends approval of the petition.