02-10-03 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING FEBRUARY 10, 2003 and Area. Access to the site is from Bartlett Street, Michigan Street, and Lafayette Boulevard. Water and sewer are available to the site. The drainage has not been addressed by the Petitioner. The total site to be rezoned is 10.7 acres. A check of the Agency's maps indicates that no flood hazards, wetlands or environmental hazard areas are present. A community well field is located east of the site. A site plan is not required for rezonings that are initiated by the Common Council. The Area Plan Commission, at its Public Hearing held on December 17, 2002, sent this petition to the Common Council with a favorable recommendation. This rezoning will aid in the efficient development of the Memorial Hospital campus and will benefit the community as a whole. In regards to Bill No. 91 -02, Mr. Myers advised that the Petitioner is requesting a zone change from "B" Residential, "C" Height and Area to "C" Commercial, "G" Height and Area to allow hospital /medical related uses and their associated uses. The property currently contains the YWCA. Located to the north is a school zoned "A" Residential, "A" Height and Area; to the east is an off street parking facility zoned "A" Residential, "A" Height and Area; to the south are hospital/medical related uses and associated off street parking facilities; and to the west are residential uses, including single family, two (2) family and multi - family homes zoned "A" Residential, "C" Height and Area and a park zoned "A" Residential, "A" Height and Area. Access to the site is from Lafayette Boulevard and Bartlett Street. Water and Sewer are available to the site. The total site to be rezoned is .96 acres. A check of the Agency's maps indicates that no flood hazards, wetlands or environmental hazard areas are present. A community well field is located northeast of the site. A site plan is not required for rezonings that are initiated by the Common Council. The Area Plan Commission, at its Public Hearing held on December 17, 2002, sent this Petition to the Council with a favorable recommendation. This rezoning will aid in the efficient development of the Memorial Hospital campus and will benefit the community as a whole. At this time Mr. Myers presented an overhead presentation indicating the proposed rezoning areas. Mr. Bruce Bancroft, Barnes & Thornburg, 100 North Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana, made the presentation for these bills. Mr. Bancroft noted that the property which Memorial Hospital, their client, is requesting be rezoned this evening is part of the main hospital block which is west of Michigan Street and is bounded by Navarre Street on the north. There are three (3) areas that they are asking to be rezoned to "C" "G" Height and Area. He noted that Mr. Foti explained the growth of Memorial and the need for more space and some new buildings. There is a need for flexibility in the hospital's planning so they can make each piece of ground count and they need to know that they can use it within the confines of the zoning ordinance. One section to be rezoned is where the main hospital is located. The other is the YWCA property which the hospital has a contract to purchase and will purchase sometime in September. The third area is a quarter block of parking which is immediately north of the present Bartlett Street parking garage. Those three (3) areas need to be rezoned so that the hospital can plan its future growth in those areas. Mr. Bancroft stated that they expect some development in those areas late this Fall or early next year when an agreement with the school corporation is placed in effect after the YWCA property is purchased. The hospital has in this area as they did in the area on the other side of Michigan Street talked with Mr. Aranowski and the neighbors and the hospital has agreed that Lafayette Street, opposite the area where the YWCA is located, will have a twenty (20) foot setback from the property line of Memorial and whatever is built there will be forty (40) feet from the edge of the pavement on Lafayette Street. This is the area of new development on