Special Exception - 618,622,626,636 Lincolnway East, Vacant Land Adjcanet to 701 South Street and 611,613,701 South Street and 514 and 518 Rush Sret

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10 contain existing residential structures that have been used for single family and multi-family dwellings. The recent previous owner, the South Bend Housing authority managed the properties and built a parking lot that crossed several property lines and was used to serve several of the homes. The existing property lines were created several decades ago and appears were done without the use of land surveys. This is apparent as several of the properties contain encroachments of buildings or walks over the existing property lines. The Petitioner desires to place the properties on the market for sale. They would like to give any potential buyer the option of maintaining some structures as multi-family dwellings or the possibility of turning the multi-family structures into single-family homes. The Petitioner is also taking some vacant land and creating buildable Iots for future home sites that are in character with the other home sites in this neighborhood. The Petitioner also desires to reconfigure the existing property lines to place the existing structures on individual lots without the structures or walks encroaching onto adjacent properties. In order to accomplish the goals of making the properties salable, the Petitioner had a meeting with the Building Department and Area Plan Commission staffs' to develop a plan for the parcels in question. The Petitioner wanted to work with the existing zoning classification in order not to create an island zoning that was inconsistent with the surrounding area. The result was to request approval of several developmental Variances for setbacks, frontages, lot size and flexibility from some landscape requirements. There was also a need to ask for approval of Special Exception to allow for the flexibility of using the home sites for either single-family dwellings or multi-family dwellings. A Special Exception request was also needed to allow for the continuation of the existing parking lot which crosses several lot lines. The parking lot would be considered an Accessory Use under the zoning guidelines. Based on this development plan, the following Special Exceptions and Variances requests, are being asked to be approved for a portion of this downtown neighborhood. More specifically the following Special Exceptions and Variances are being requested: PARCEL "A" (618 Lincolnway East) • SPECIAL EXCEPTION REQUESTS: A) . Approval of a Special Exception to be allowed to have the option to use property for a Single Family Dwelling for 618 Lincolnway East, South Bend, Indiana per Section 21-02.03 (a) (2) (F) of the City of South Bend Zoning Ordinance; B) . Approval of a Special Exception to be allowed to use a portion property at 618 Lincolnway East, South Bend, Indiana per Section 21-02.03 (a) (2) (D) of the City of South Bend Zoning Ordinance for an Accessory Parking Lot.