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Staff Report <br /> APC# 2595-11 <br /> Owner: Lincoln Park Development, LLC, et al <br /> Location: 423,425,429,431 Cottage Grove Avenue,and 426 Cushing Street <br /> Jurisdiction: City of South Bend <br /> Requested Action: <br /> The petitioner is requesting a zone change from MF I Urban Corridor Multifamily District and <br /> CB Community Business District to SF2 Single Family and Two Family District to allow single <br /> family residential. <br /> Land Uses and Zoning: <br /> On site: On site on the four Cottage Grove Avenue lots is an existing vacant duplex and <br /> three vacant lots. The lot on Cushing Street is vacant. <br /> North: To the north of the Cottage Grove Avenue lots is a vacant lot and the Colfax <br /> Cultural Center zoned MT I Urban Corridor Multifamily District and MU Mixed <br /> Use District, respectively. To the north of the Cushing Street lot is vacant land <br /> zoned CB Community Business District. <br /> East: To the east of the Cottage Grove Avenue lots is a parking=area for the Charles <br /> Martin Youth Center and single family homes zoned MU Mixed Use District and <br /> MF I Urban Corridor Multifamily District and MU Mixed Use District, <br /> respectively. To the east of the Cushing Street lot is a vacant lot and Louie's Tux <br /> Shop, both zoned CB Community Business District. <br /> South: To the south of the Cottage Grove Avenue lots are single family homes zoned <br /> SF2 Single Family&Two Family District. To the south of the Cushing Street lot <br /> is a vacant lot zoned CB Community Business District. <br /> West: To the west of the Cottage Grove Avenue lots are single family homes zoned SF2 <br /> Single Family & Two Family District. To the west of the Cushing Street lot is a <br /> parking area for the Charles Martin Youth Center and an abandoned home zoned <br /> MU Mixed Use District and SF2 Single Family&Two Family District. <br /> District uses and development standards: <br /> The SF2 District is established to protect, promote and maintain the development of single family <br /> dwellings and two family dwellings in the urban core of the City of South Bend as well as to <br /> provide for limited public and institutional uses that are compatible with an urban residential <br /> neighborhood. The availability of public facilities (e.g., public water,public sanitary sewer, storm <br /> sewer,natural gas, electricity, telephone, etc.) is required for development within this district. <br /> Site plan description: <br /> No site plan is required when rezoning to the SF2 Single Family & Two Family District. <br /> However, the petition indicates that new single family homes with three to four bedrooms are <br /> proposed to be constructed through a partnership between the petitioner and the South Bend <br /> Heritage Foundation. The existing duplex along Cottage Avenue will be razed. Those proposed <br /> new homes will be leased to low-to- moderate income individuals with an option to purchase. <br /> Zoning and land use history& trends: <br /> Per the historical aerial maps, residential structures were located on each of the four Iots on <br /> Cottage Grove Avenue and on the lot on Cushing Avenue in 1966. By 1986, two of the four <br /> structures along Cottage Grove were demolished, and another was demolished between 1993 and <br /> 2002. The structure on Cushing Avenue was razed between 1986 and 1993. Prior to 1996, the <br /> Lincoln Park Development, LLC, et at <br /> #2595-11 <br /> Pagel of 3 <br />