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PC 26-12 - Lakepointe townhomes (former Northern Seminary)
The petitioner, D. R. Horton, is the contract purchaser of the subject property, the former site of the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary campus at 600-670 E. Butterfield Road. The petitioner proposes to construct a 157-unit townhome development on the subject property.
The petitioner requests that the Village take the following actions on the subject property, located within the B3PD Community Shopping District Planned Development:
1. Approve a Comprehensive Plan Map amendment for the subject property from Public and Institutional and Mixed Use Commercial and Office to Low-Medium Density Residential;
2. Approve a map amendment to rezone the property from the B3 Community Shopping District to the R3 Attached Single-Family Residence District;
3. Pursuant to Section 155.408(C) of Village Code, establish a new planned development for the property, including relief from the following standards, as set forth more fully as follows:
a. Pursuant to Section 154.503(D) of Village Code, approve a variation to allow a local residential street with a right-of-way width of 60 feet, where a right-of-way width of 66 feet is required;
b. Pursuant to Section 154.506(D) of Village Code, approve a variation to allow lots without public street frontage;
c. The following deviations, which are required because all yards will be maintained by the homeowners’ association:
i. Pursuant to Section 155.408(D)(3) of Village Code, approve a deviation to allow attached single-family dwelling lots with lot areas of less than 3,500 square feet;
ii. Pursuant to Section 155.408(E)(3), approve a deviation to allow exterior lots for attached single-family dwellings with lot widths of less than 30 feet;
iii. Pursuant to Section 155.408(F)(3), approve deviations to allow yard setbacks of zero feet from the property line;
iv. Pursuant to Sections 155.408(H) and 155.510(A)(1) of Village Code, approve the calculation of open space as the...
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