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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Planning Commission
DATE: November 7, 2019
SUBJECT:
An Ordinance Establishing a Special Use Planned Development, Approving the Avalon Heights Plan Description and Amending Ordinance Number 3100, being the Aurora Zoning Ordinance and the Zoning Map attached thereto, to an underlying zoning of R-5(S) Multiple-Family Dwelling District, O(S) Office District, and P(S) Park and Recreation District with a Special Use Planned Development for the property located along Weston Avenue and Seminary Avenue between S. Lincoln Avenue and S. 4th Street (Fox Valley Developers, LLC - 19-0907 / AU27/1-19.063-SU/PD/Ppn/Psd - JM - Ward 4)
PURPOSE:
The Petitioner Fox Valley Developers, LLC is requesting the establishment of a new Special Use Planned Development, and to change the underlying zoning district from R-4(S) Two Family Dwelling District, R-4 Two Family Dwelling District, R-3(S) One Family Dwelling District, and R-3 One Family Dwelling District to R-5(S) Multiple-Family Dwelling District, O(S) Office District, and P(S) Park and Recreation District with a Special Use Planned Development on the property located along Weston Avenue and Seminary Avenue between S. Lincoln Avenue and S. 4th Street and commonly known as the historic Copley Hospital which will allow for a mixed use redevelopment of the site including the historic buildings.
BACKGROUND:
The Subject Property is currently comprised of vacant buildings and lots with R-4 (S) Two Family Dwelling District with a Special Use, R-4 Two Family Dwelling District, R-3(S) One Family Dwelling District with a Special Use, and R-3 One Family Dwelling District zoning. The property was the Copley Hospital complex and contained several buildings from different phases of the hospital expansion. The complex contains Aurora's first purpose-built city hospital, dating to 1888. As Aurora grew in population, the hospital added additional blocks in 1916, 1932, 1947, 1970, and 1980 to meet the ...
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