01-28-02 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING JANUARY 28, 2002 office and on the official City of South Bend website. RESOLVE INTO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Following a short recess in order to clear the Chambers and remove the video equipment, Councilmember Coleman made a motion to resolve into the Committee of the Whole at 8:10 p.m. Councilmember Varner seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. Chairman King presiding. BILL NO. 115 -01 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AS AMENDED FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1615 PORTAGE AVENUE IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Councilmember White reported that the Zoning & Annexation Committee met on this bill and sends it to the Council with a favorable recommendation. Mr. Jeff Myers, Staff Planner, Area Plan Commission, Room 1140 County -City Building, South Bend, Indiana, presented the report from the Commission. Mr. Myers advised that the petitioners are requesting a zone change from "C -1" Commercial, "A" Height and Area to "C" Commercial, "A" Height and Area to allow a video sales and rental facility. The property currently contains a vacant bank building. Located to the north is an office and single - family homes zoned `B" Residential, "A" Height and Area and single family homes zoned "A" Residential, "A" Height and Area; to the east are single family homes, offices and a fire station zoned "B" Residential, "A" Height and Area and "C" Commercial, "D" Height and Area; to the south are commercial businesses zoned "C" Commercial, "D" Height and Area and a parking lot zoned "A" Residential, "A" Height and Area and to the west are single family homes zoned "A" Residential, "A" Height and Area. Mr. Myers further advised that access to the site is from Portage Avenue, Kinyon Street and Bulla Street. Water and sewer are available to the site. The drainage has been addressed by the petitioner. The total site to be rezoned is 1.68 acres. Of that, the buildings will occupy ten per cent (10 %) of the site, the parking and drives will occupy forty -six per cent (46 %) of the site and forty -four per cent (44 %) of the site will remain as open space. A check of the Agency's maps indicates that no public wells, flood hazards, wetlands or environmental hazard areas are present. The site plan is preliminary. It was noted that in 1996 this property was petitioned for a zone change from "C -1" Commercial to "C" Commercial to allow video sales and rental and sales. That petition was denied. The Area Plan Commission, at its Public Hearing held on December 18, 2001, sent this petition to the Council with a favorable recommendation subject to a final site development plan. Since the previous rezoning was denied, this site has been vacant and continues to deteriorate. This rezoning would provide a retail facility that would be of service to the neighborhood. Mr. Mike Danch, President, Danch, Harper & Associates, Inc., 2422 Viridian Drive, Suite 201, South Bend, Indiana, made the presentation for this bill on behalf of the petitioners, Family Video, proposed purchasers of the property and Pullman Bank & Trust Company, present owners of the property. Mr. Danch advised that the site plan submitted shows the 1.6 acre site which is bound on the east by Portage Avenue, on the south by Bulla Street, on the west by Anderson and on the north by Kinyon. Family Video intends to demolish the existing Pullman Bank Building and replace it with a new Family Video store which will contain approximately seven thousand one hundred (7,100) square feet of area. Access to the site will be off of Kinyon Street, Portage and Bulla. The parking -3-