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 and Zoning Commission to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Amending an Existing SPECIAL USE for a Retirement and Nursing Home, Ordinance Number 13,392, as Amended, in a Class R-7 (Multi-Family Residential) District and a Class R-3 (Single-Family Residential) District, to Allow for a Building Addition on the Independent Living Facility, with Waivers, for the Property Located at 3415 N. SHERIDAN ROAD (Parcel Identification Nos. 14-29-428-002 & 14-29-428-004), Peoria, Illinois. (Council District 2). PZ 16-36.
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BACKGROUND:
The petitioner is requesting to amend the existing Special Use to add a 4 story addition, along the Florence Avenue frontage, which will add 10 two-bedroom units and an enclosed parking garage to be located at the ground level under the apartment wing. Access to the private garage is proposed to be via a new entrance drive off of Florence Avenue. An additional kitchen and dining room are proposed to be added on a new partial upper floor to be located above the addition. There will be a dining room with a seating capacity of approximately 50, a new satellite kitchen facility, as well as an outdoor dining area on a landscaped section of the new roof, on the Florence avenue side of the building.
The Planning and Zoning Commission VOTED 5 - 0 TO APPROVE the request.
For additional background information, please refer to the Staff memorandum to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: N/A
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: One resident, spoke on behalf of himself and other neighbors, expressing concern about construction traffic using Avalon Place and Biltmore Avenue. He indicated that those streets were used by construction traffic during previously Buehler Home expansions, which made it hard for residents to get to and from their homes. He hope that this time around the construction traffic would be concentrated on the north end of the site along Florence Avenue.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: The Special Use will be amended to allow for a building addition to the independent living facility as proposed.
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. Grow Peoria: Businesses, Jobs, and Population
2. Attractive Neighborhoods with Character: Safe and Livable
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