Submitted By
Tammie Grossman, Development Customer Services Director
Reviewed By
LKS
Agenda Item Title
Title
(*)Concur with the Plan Commission's Recommendation and Adopt an Ordinance Granting a Zoning Map Amendment for the Property Located at 533 Wenonah Avenue, Including the Abutting Vacated Alley, from R-3 Single Family District to H-Hospital District
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Overview
Overview
Rush Oak Park Hospital is requesting the zoning of 535 Wenonah Avenue (a property recently purchase by the hospital) from single family residential to hospital zoning to allow for the expansion of their existing ancillary surface parking lot. (Companion Agenda Items are ORD 17-264; Amendment to Special Use Ordinance 1999-O-52 & ORD 17-266; Vacation of remaining portion of the north-south public alley behind 535 Wenonah Avenue)
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Plan Commission unanimously recommends approval of this application.
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Staff Recommendation
Staff supports the Plan Commission's recommendation.
Fiscal Impact
N/A.
Background
In 1999 the Village Board approved a Special Use permit to allow the construction of a medical office building at 620 South Maple Avenue and ancillary surface parking lots. As part of that approval, the applicant requested the construction of surface parking lots on the 600 block of South Maple Avenue, 600 block of Wisconsin Avenue and the 500 block of Wenonah Avenue with the exception of those parcels owned by the Hospital and located at 622 South Maple Avenue, 621 Wisconsin Avenue and 533 Wenonah Avenue. The hospital also asked for the vacation of the public alley abutting the west side of the 500 block of Wenonah except for that portion abutting 535 Wenonah (which was privately owned at the time). Ordinance 1999-O-52 states that 533 Wenonah, which was (and is currently) owned by the hospital, shall be reserved in perpetuity for single family residential purposes "unless" a change is specifically approved by the President and Boa...
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