ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Director of Community Development with a Request to Concur with the Recommendation from the Planning & Zoning Commission and Staff to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Approving a SPECIAL USE in a Class P-1 (Parking) District for an ACTIVE RECREATIONAL PARK, for Property Located at 112 W. NEBRASKA AVENUE, (Parcel Identification No. 18-04-128-037), Peoria, IL. (Council District 2)
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BACKGROUND: The petitioner, Laura Costic of Myah’s Children Connection Inc. requests a special use to establish a privately owned, active recreational park on a currently undeveloped parcel at 112 W Nebraska Avenue. The subject property is across the alley from a children’s daycare center, which would be the user of the recreational space. Both properties are under common ownership.
The active recreational park would include the following amenities: storage shed, playground equipment, bicycle track, and 11 paved parking spaces. The proposal includes perimeter fencing and new landscaping.
The Planning & Zoning Commission found that the request, in case number PZ 1272-2023, met the Findings of Fact and voted 6-0 to approve with the following conditions and waiver:
1. The playground equipment and bicycle track shall be as centrally located on the property as practical.
2. Fence material may be wood, composite, or vinyl but shall not be chain-link.
3. Parking surface must be a hard, dustless, all weather surface. Gravel is not permitted.
4. The use may have one pedestrian sign, no more than 6 square feet in area and located facing the alley.
5. Except for fences, and as permitted by waiver for parking, no structures are permitted in the required yards.
6. Waiver to eliminate the side yard setback for parking along the alley, as shown on the site plan.
See the attached staff memo to the Planning & Zoning Commission and meeting minutes for detailed information.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: NA
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS (at the Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting): None
IMPACT IF APPROVED: A new active recreational park can be established per the site plan.
IMPACT IF DENIED: An active recreational park would not be developed on the site.
ALTERNATIVES: NA
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: NA
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL’S 2017 - 2032 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Beautiful Peoria
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENT?
1. Grow employers and jobs.
2. Reinvest in Neighborhoods.
DEPARTMENT: Community Development