TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Dustin Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT:
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Ordinance Approving the Reclassification of 303 S. Ottawa Street from R-2 (Single-Family Residential) to R-3 (One- and Two-Family Residential) Zoning (Z-2-26)
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BACKGROUND:
The petitioner and property owner, Tomas Garcia, requests approval of the reclassification of the lot at 303 S. Ottawa Street so that it can be consolidated with the lot at 301 S. Ottawa Street. The petitioner owns both lots and wishes to add additional off-street parking spaces at the rear of 303 S. Ottawa Street to serve the existing residential units at 301 S. Ottawa Street. City staff requires that adjacent parcels be combined through the Will County lot consolidation process in order for a property owner to install parking or accessory structures on the lot that does not contain the principal structure. The City must sign off on the consolidation form but cannot sign if the lots have different zoning designations. 303 S. Ottawa Street is zoned R-2 (single-family residential), while 301 S. Ottawa Street is zoned R-3 (one- and two-family residential). Therefore, the petitioner requests this reclassification so that they may consolidate the parcels and install additional parking.
The subject site is a vacant lot in the Southside neighborhood near the southwest corner of Ottawa Street and Wallace Street. The lot currently serves as additional yard space for 301 S. Ottawa Street. Based on historical aerial imagery, 303 S. Ottawa Street does not appear to have contained a structure since at least 1965.
The adjacent lot to the north at 301 S. Ottawa Street contains four residential units and a commercial unit within two buildings. The property received approval of a Variation of Use and several Variations in 1996 to allow these uses in the R-3 district. 301 S. Ottawa Street currently contains five residential off-street parking spaces, four of which are along the west side of the lot. Th...
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