ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Director of Community Development with a Recommendation from the Planning & Zoning Commission and Staff to ADOPT the following:
A. ORDINANCE A Amending APPENDIX B, the Zoning Ordinance, Related to ELDERLY HOUSING; and
B. ORDINANCE B Amending APPENDIX C, the Land Development Code, Related to ELDERLY HOUSING.
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BACKGROUND:
Staff is continually working to simplify zoning regulations to improve customer service, encourage development, and allow for more economic development opportunities in Peoria. Review of the Zoning Ordinance and Land Development Code (LDC) found numerous terms related to the same type of use: elderly housing, nursing homes, congregate housing, full-time convalescent, life care center, assisted living facility and hospice. These terms currently require a special use in select residential and commercial districts. However, there are inconsistencies between the Zoning Ordinance and LDC and the numerous terms. For example, elderly housing is a special use in single family and multi-family residential districts while a nursing home is a special use in multi-family districts only. In the Zoning Ordinance, hospices are a permitted use in the N-1 Institutional zoning district; however, in the Land Development Code, hospices are not permitted in the N-1 Institutional zoning district.
In the past, senior housing facilities provided one form of service such as nursing home or assisted living. More recently, senior housing developments have sought to provide comprehensive housing services beginning with independent living and progressing to memory care. This is evident with Buehler Home, Lutheran Hillside Village, Liberty Village, Proctor Home, and Bickford Senior Living Facility. The inconsistency of current regulations and Codes make it difficult to provide complete housing services within one development.
To address the differences and simplify the code...
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