Plan Commission Recommends Two Rezonings

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Published on June 10 2015 6:03 am
Last Updated on June 10 2015 6:03 am
Written by Greg Sapp

The Effingham City Plan Commission Tuesday voted to recommend the City Council approve two requested rezonings.

One actually involves a realignment of a Planned Residential District for property owned by HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital. The parcel is west of Maple Street, north of Eden Avenue, and east of Medical Park Drive. Several properties along the tract are already developed for medical facilities. The major change recommended Tuesday is for a realignment of Heritage Avenue east and west through the parcel. The realignment shifts the proposed track of the street to include a slight jog to the north on the portion of the street that will intersect Maple Street.

Commission members also recommended the Council rezone a tract of land on the southeast corner of Evergreen Avenue and Outer Belt West. Huels Vet Clinic, already operating in Altamont, wants to open a clinic on the property. The tract would be rezoned from non-urban to light industrial district.

The Commission also recommended the Council approve a plat of Voyles-Utz Subdivision, a tract of land south of The Glenwood, and a plat of HSHS Subdivision, involving the hospital itself and the land north of the hospital that has been developed as parking area.