05-09-11 Council Agenda & Packet

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[ A _P ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1507, '15'13, 1517, 1521 SWYGART AND VACANT LOTS 246, 247 AND 249, COUNCILMANIC DISTRICT 6, IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT The subject property is composed of nine lots, north to south, zoned SF2, with one two- bedroom house at the south end of the property, currently rented, and is adjacent to nine lots to the west, which lots are currently zoned LI Light Industrial. With the exception of the two- bedroom house, all of the above described property presented for rezoning is vacant land and is enclosed by fencing, and for approximately fifteen years has been used as a towing and storage yard. The current tenant who operated the owing service has moved, and I wish to rent the above described property for storage of steel containers. The house will be vacated and torn down after rezoning. There are no residential homes north or west of the above property, and only two residential homes east on Swygart Avenue. NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana as follows: SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 9495 -04, is amended, which ordinance is commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance of the City of South Bend, Indiana, be and the same hereby is amended in order that the zoning classification of the following described real estate in the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana: Lots numbered Two - Hundred Forty -Six (246) through Two Hundred Fifty -Four (254), inclusive, as shown on the recorded plat of Oliver's' Second Addition to the City of South Bend. be and the same is hereby established as LI Light Industrial. SECTION II. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council, approval by the Mayor, and legal publication.