HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-5239-D Staff AnalysisFILE NO.: Z -5239 -
NAME: South Bluff Company - Revised Long -Form PCD
LOCATION: 300 East Roosevelt
APPLICANT:
Charles Owen
300 East Roosevelt
Little Rock, Arkansas 72206
374-1902
AREA• 10.4 acres
ZONING• PCD
PLANNING DISTRICT•
CENSUS TRACT• 4
VARIANCES REQUESTED:
BACKGROUND•
NUMBER OF LOTS: 2 FT. NEW STREET: 0
PROPOSED USES•
Central City
None
Revised PCD
This applicant proposes a revision of the once revised PCD
rezoning. The initial PCD request was approved in February 1991-
A revision in May 1991 added nursing home and hospital uses.
A. PROPOSAL:
The applicant wishes to revise the PCD for a second time.
He requests adding the following text in respect to
permitted uses:
"Apartments, teaching facility, and/or religious, charitable
or philanthropic office coupled with all appurtenant usages
associated therewith, in addition to usages previously
approved."
B. EXISTING CONDITIONS:
The site is the location of the former VA Hospital and
grounds. The main building is approximately 500,000 square
f eet .
C. NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS:
Staff notified the East Broadway and Downtown Neighborhood
Associations. There were also five neighborhood residents
who in July 1991 had asked the City to notify them of any
FILE NO.: Z -5239-D (Cont.
land use hearings on this site. These people were notified
in writing at the addresses provided to staff in 1991.
D. ENGINEERING COMMENTS:
PUBLIC WORKS:
No engineering review comments (based on the assumption that
no new exterior construction of consequence is proposed).
E. UTILITIES AND FIRE DEPARTMENT:
No Comments.
F. ISSUES/TECHNICAL/DESIGN:
Landscape: N/A
Issues• None
Planning Division: N/A
G. ANALYSIS•
This proposal is a request to amend the text of permitted
uses for this PCD. The following represents a list of uses
approved or requested for this site:
DATE
Approved March 19, 1991
Approved July 16, 1991
Requested May 1997
USES
Office, mini -storage, clinics,
cold storage
Nursing home and hospital
Apartments, teaching facility
et al (See Section A)
The mini -storage and cold storage uses initially approved
appear in conflict with the office, nursing home, clinic,
and hospital uses already approved. The proposed apartment
and teaching facility uses compliment the majority of the
exiting PCD uses.
H. STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVAL of a second revision to the approved PCD to allow
for uses listed in Section B of this staff report to be
added to the list of permitted uses. Maximum number of
persons allowed will be 500.
SUBDIVISION COMMITTEE COMMENT:
(APRIL 24, 1997)
This item was not heard by the Committee since it represents a
text revision to the approved PCD.
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TLE NO.: Z -5239-D
The case will be heard by the Planning Commission on
May 15, 1997.
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: (MAY 15, 1997)
Larry Jones presented the staff report which included a ceiling
of 500 persons for the proposed "apartments, teaching facility,
etc." use. Dr. George and Mary Schroeder explained the
"Institute in Basic Life Principals" program. They stated that
the group seeks to establish an operation in the old VA building.
Kathy Wells and Roger Lecy representing the Downtown Neighborhood
Association indicated that they supported the revision to the
PCD. They requested that Dr. Schroeder's group regularly meet
with the East of Broadway and Downtown Neighborhood Associations.
The applicant agreed. Commissioners Brandon, Wells and McCarthy
asked several questions about the organization.
Motion to approve the revised PCD as submitted by the applicant
with a limit 500 persons. Motion approved with 8 ayes, 0 nays
and 3 absent.
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