ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Community Development Director with a Request to Concur with the Recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission and Staff to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Amending an Existing SPECIAL USE, Ordinance Number 17,081, for ASSISTED LIVING (Formerly called Elderly Housing) in a Class R-3 (Single-Family Residential) District and a Class R-1 (Single-Family Residential) District for the Property Located at 6414 N. MOUNT HAWLEY ROAD (Parcel Identification Numbers 14-16-129-014 & 14-16-177-001), Peoria, IL. (Council District 3)
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BACKGROUND:
Petitioner Ralph Hodges of CLS, for Mark Peterson of Peterson Healthcare, is requesting to amend an existing special use for elderly housing for assisted living (a memory care facility) to obtain a waiver from the front yard setback to add additional parking, to obtain a waiver from the retaining wall requirements to increase the height beyond the allowed 3 feet, to extend the time to establish the Special Use, as it expired in March of 2016, and to allow a deck addition on the back of the property and a stairway addition on the south side of the building.
The Planning and Zoning Commission VOTED 5 - 0 TO APPROVE the request.
Note:
Following the Planning & Zoning Commission meeting, the petitioner agreed to change the parking configuration within the front yard, to remove 6 parking spaces on the north side of the parking lot in exchange for the 6 new spaces on the south side of the entry in the front of the building, in an effort to provide some green space within the front yard. This is reflected on the attached revised site plan.
For additional background information, please refer to the Staff memorandum to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: N/A
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: None expressed at the Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: The Special Use will be amended.
IMPACT IF DENIED: The Special Use will not be amended.
ALTERNATIVES: N/A
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: N/A
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL’S 2014 - 2029 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Attractive Neighborhoods with Character: Safe and Livable
2. Grow Peoria: Businesses, Jobs, and Population
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENT?
1. Reinvest in neighborhoods.
2. Grow employers and jobs.
DEPARTMENT: Community Development