Agenda Date: 12/16/2014
Subject:
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Ordinance on second reading approving the amended general planned development plan for the Safeway Oakbrook Shopping Center
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Presented By:
Glen Van Nimwegen, AICP Community Development Director
POLICY QUESTION:
Does city council support the amended general planned development plan for the Safeway Oakbrook Shopping Center?
BACKGROUND:
The applicant, George Swintz of Bonaventure, L.L.C., is requesting an amendment to Lot 5, Block 1 in the Safeway Oakbrook General Planned Development Plan (GPDP) located at the northwest corner of County Line Road and East Phillips Avenue. The amendment allows an assisted living facility to be developed on a lot on the east side of the existing shopping center.
The 17-acre Oakbrook Shopping Center was developed in the 1980's. Initially, the center included a row of inline shops anchored by a Safeway grocery store and four restaurant pad sites adjacent to County Line Road. Two lots at the northeastern portion of the property were planned for retail and office uses, but were not developed. Today, the retail space and restaurants are occupied and a furniture store is in the former grocery store space. A portion of the northeast area of the center is now utilized for employee parking for Courtesy Ford and the remaining lot, which is the property of this applicant, is vacant.
STAFF ANALYSIS:
Project Description:
The GPDP amendment proposes to develop an assisted living facility on the vacant lot within the northeastern portion of the shopping center. The facility will have 128 apartment units in a four-story building, 98,650 square-feet in size. The primary entrance to the building faces County Line Road. Parking on the property would be redesigned and expanded to serve the new facility. The primary vehicular access to the site is on County Line Road with a secondary access from East Phillips Avenue. Loading will occur on the northeast side of the site from ...
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