OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT PROPOSED
During a contentious meeting with several N. Greeno road property owners, the North Greeno Study Committee decided a community village center overlay zoning plan may be the best approach for the stretch of road roughly from Edwards Ave north to HWY 104.
Most of the property there is now zoned residential, R-1: village center zoning allows a mixture of various levels of residential and commercial.
Property owner/developer William Lewis (Seaborn Capitial LLC) : " ... in terms of the market ... you are going to have to set up a framework ... so that someone can build in it ... my property would be a good CVC ... you could include the whole section ... make the whole strip a CVC ... ." (Lewis owns the now-vacant 35 acre tract at the SW corner of Volanta Ave.)
Property owner Fred Hayek: "I think Dick (Lewis) just laid out a framework ... make it (all) a village center ... ."
Planning Director Johnathan Smith: "So -- use the community village guidelines already in the zoning ordinance in an overlay district there? ... that may be a good idea." (Smith said as a city employee he himself had to remain neutral at this point: could not officially support one proposal over another.)
Committee Chairman Dick Charles: "We just created a medical overlay district for the hospital ... there's no reason we cant do the same (village overlay) for Greeno."
OUTSIDE CONSULTANT MAY BE NEEDED
Calling it a good investment for the city, Planning and Zoning Board member Gary Moore asked if there was any money in the budget to hire a consultant who could come in and help facilitate plans for the north corridor.
Planner Smith: "I'll check into the availability of funds to possibly hire a facilitator."
Also, it was decided to ask the mayor to write a letter to Auburn University's School of Architecture to see if it could offer professional input (since the university owns property along the corridor) and another member (Russo) was to gather material from a similar project in Pascagoula, Mississippi (called Anchor Village).
The next meeting will be in March, according to Chairman Charles.
(Publisher's Note: AVillage Center already exists immediately to the north, consisting of the Fly Creek Village and Village North PUD's.)
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