YMCA Requests Rezoning of Residential Lots to Build Parking Lot and Play Area
Decatur Metro | May 20, 2013From the Staff Report for tonight’s Decatur City Commission Meeting…
YMCA, Inc. wishes to modify the existing master site plan to build a roughly 3,500 square foot addition onto the building and expand the current parking lot to add 56 new parking spaces. The new building will have approximately 51,000 square feet of gross floor area. They propose to rezone two lots [on Maediris Drive] developed with single family houses that are adjacent to the site so that they may demolish the houses to build parking, an expanded detention facility and play area.
As part of the project they will install landscaping and new sidewalks on Maediris Drive. The existing parking lot will be reconfigured to provide additional handicapped parking near the entrance.
In approving this land use change and rezoning, there are many questions that the commission must consider, most or all of which are listed out in the meeting materials.
The Planning Commission already approved these changes in their meeting earlier this month.