City of Aurora - File #: 15-00404

• File #: 15-00404
• Version: 3
• Name: Deerpath Commerce Center Unit 2 / Comp Plan Revision
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/6/2015
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 7/14/2015
• Final action: 7/14/2015
• Title: An Ordinance Approving Revisions to Aurora's Comprehensive Plan for Property located at the southwest corner of Orchard Gateway and Deerpath Road in the City of Aurora, Illinois, 60506

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/14/2015	3	City Council	adopted	Pass
7/7/2015	3	Committee of the Whole	(PLACED ON CONSENT AGENDA)
6/25/2015	3	Planning & Development Committee	recommended for approval	Pass
6/17/2015	2	Planning Commission	Forwarded	Pass
6/9/2015	1	Planning Council	Forwarded	Pass
5/12/2015	1	City Council

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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner

FROM: Planning Commission

DATE: June 18, 2015

SUBJECT:
An Ordinance Approving Revisions to Aurora's Comprehensive Plan for Property located at the southwest corner of Orchard Gateway and Deerpath Road in the City of Aurora, Illinois, 60506 (City of Aurora - L15-00404 / SG01/4-15.131-COMP - TV - Ward 5)

PURPOSE:
The purpose of the Ordinance is to approve a revisions to Aurora's Comprehensive Plan for the property located at the southwest corner of Orchard Gateway and Deerpath Road which replaces the Office land use designation with an Office/Research/Light Industrial land use designation on the eastern portion of the Subject Property and to reconfigures the Conservation/Open Space/Recreation/Drainage land use designation for the western portion of the Subject Property.

BACKGROUND:
The Subject Property is 47.66 acres located at the southwest corner of Orchard Gateway and Deerpath Road and is currently vacant with ORI(S) Office, Research, and Light Industrial zoning, which is part of the Orchard Gateway Corporate Centre Special Use Planned Development.

On May 6, 2015, the Petitioner filed a Plan Description Revision and Preliminary Plan and Plat Petition for a 304,560 square foot warehouse building with the ability for a 159,800 square foot building expansion located at the southwest corner of Orchard Gateway Road and Deerpath Road. Pursuant to that request Staff produced the attached report which takes a more comprehensive look at the southwest corner of Orchard Gateway Road and Deerpath Road.

DISCUSSION:
See Attached Report.

POLICIES AND GUIDELINES :
The Staff's Evaluation and Recommendation are based on the following Physical Development Policies:

11.0 To guide the growth of the City in an orderly and structured manner.

12.0 To plan and provide for the growth of the city through the integration of land use patterns and functions that promotes complimentary interactions between diff...