Aurora, Illinois

File #: 23-0637    Version: Name: JH Real Estate Partners/110 Cross Street/Final Plan
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/9/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/12/2023 Final action: 9/12/2023
Title: A Resolution Approving a Final Plan for property located at 110 Cross Street for a Restaurant/Food and Beverage Services (2500) Use and Multi-Family Dwelling (1140) Use
Attachments: 1. Exhibit "A-1" Final Plan - 2023-08-09 - 2023.343, 2. Exhibit "A-2" Building and Signage Elevations - 2023-07-07 - 2023.343, 3. Location Map -2023-08-09 - 2023.343, 4. Land Use Petition and Supporting Documents - 2023-07-07 - 2023.343, 5. Floor Plans - 2023-07-07 - 2023.343, 6. Staff Report - Final Plan - 2023-08-10 - 2023.343
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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin

FROM: Planning and Zoning Commission

DATE: August 17, 2023

SUBJECT:
A Resolution Approving a Final Plan for property located at 110 Cross Street for a Restaurant/Food and Beverage Services (2500) Use and Multi-Family Dwelling (1140) Use (JH Real Estate Partners, LLC - 23-0637/ AU21/4-23.343 - CUPD/Fpn - JM - Ward 4)

PURPOSE:
The Petitioner JH Real Estate Partners, LLC is requesting approval of a Final Plan for 110 Cross Street for a Restaurant/Food and Beverage Services (2500) Use and Multi-Family Dwelling (1140) Use which includes adaptively reusing the historic building for a brewery on the first floor with residential apartments above.

BACKGROUND:
The Subject Property is currently vacant with M-1 Manufacturing - Limited zoning. The Petitioner is requesting approval of a Final Plan for 110 Cross Street for a Restaurant/Food and Beverage Services (2500) Use and Multi-Family Dwelling (1140) Use. The details of the request include a Final Plan for an approximate 46-seat brewery with 56 seats in an outdoor patio and 15 apartments above. The site will be improved with a fenced outdoor patio area on the east elevation, a new exterior staircase on the east elevation, new seeded area all along Cross Street, and a ramp in the rear for accessibility. The site will be accessed from a curb cut on Cross Street and River Street and will include a new parking lot with 13 spaces. The second building on the site, 213 S. River Street, will remain in its current use and configuration.

The building is a contributing resource to the Middle Avenue National Register Historic District. As the developer is pursuing Historic Preservation Tax Credits, the main fa?ade had to remain mostly unchanged and the changes to the elevations still had to retain the historic character of the industrial building.

Concurrently with this proposal, the Petitioner is requesting the Establishment of a Conditional Use Planned Development, and to change the und...

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