ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Community Development Director with a Request to Concur with the Recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission and Staff to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Granting a SPECIAL USE for Waivers from the FORM DISTRICT Requirements to Allow Temporary Banners and Planter Boxes Comprised of Composite Wood Material, for the Property Commonly Known as ONE WORLD CAF? and Located at 1229 and 1245 W. MAIN STREET (Parcel Identification Numbers 18-05-405-012, -013, & -019), Peoria, Illinois. (Council District 2). PZ Case No. 15-25.
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BACKGROUND:
Petitioner: Amy Sickinger, for Sam and Bob Eid of One World Cafe
Current use: Commercial uses.
Proposed use: The use of the building will not change. Per Appendix C, Section 2.17, if waivers of form district regulations are requested, such request shall be subject to the Special Use process.
The business owner is proposing to add outdoor seating at the back of the property and enclose the area with a wall containing a planter box comprised of composite wood material, which is inconsistent with the material requirements for street walls in the Form Districts and therefore a waiver is requested. Please note that a street wall is not triggered as a requirement by an expansion of use review; however, since a street wall is proposed, it is required to meet Land Development Code requirements. Per Appendix C, Article 6.6.6. a street wall is required to be comprised of native/regional stone and equivalent imitation stone, metal (wrought iron, welded steel and/or aluminum [electro-statically plated black]), brick, stucco on concrete block (or poured) only with brick or stone coping, a combination of materials (e.g. stone piers with brick infill panels or stone piers with brick base courses with a minimum of 2 feet in height and metal above), with the option for approval of equivalent or better materials. Further, stone or brick piers shall be us...
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