80-71GRANTING SPECIAL USE PERMIT RESIDENCE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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I .. . � ' i ` r ' , . .. page 10 - City Plan Commission - 6/5/80 , their property. There will be no buffer zone as there is ' now. Zt will destroy the area as a residential area, and � definitely destroy the buffer zone and make it easier to ' extend M1. This will be zight across the street from R3 . Mr. Suter said the offensive manufacturing was going to actually be a small woodworking shop. , Staff recommendations : Mr. Menzies stated that the property that is proposed for M-1 zoning was also the Illinois Terminal right-of-way. Much of the tract is steeply sloping, as the railroad was depressed to go under Harrison Avenue. To the west is M-1 zoned land, but to the east is a developed R-3 Single Family District. ; Van Dyke Street dead ends at the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad I, tracks. Al1 of the industrial land and business land use are west I of the old Illinois Terminal right-of-way. This right-of-way 'i is now overgrown in trees and brush to the point that the area makes an ideal buffer screen between the industrial uses to the west and the residential uses to the eas�. � It is staff' s opinion that encouragement of expanding the M-1 zone into the residential a=ea would have very detrimental effects on the stability of the residential neighborhood and would be incompatible with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan. Van Dyke, being a minor residential street, is the only improved accessway to the property. The possibility of having heavy industrial trucks and equipment traversing this street, as wel.l as Sawyer and other residential streets in the neighborhood, would also be a detriment to the residential character of the neighborhood. Therefore, staff recommends denial of the entire M-1 portion of the petition. It was moved and seconded (Grossman/Foster) that Cal . No. 80-8 be recommended for denial to City Council. A vote was taken, with Mayberry, Grossman, Likins, woodward, Wilmeth, Martin, Foster and Cusick voting for recemmending denial and King and Batterham abstaining. Cal. No. 80-39 Petition of Decatur Housing Authority to rezone certain tracts of land generally located east of and contiguous to North Poole Street between West Division Street and West Waggoner Street from R-3 Single Family District to R-5 Two Family Residence District, and including a Residence Develo ment Plan.