Planning Commission postpones complexes
The Mount Pleasant Planning Commission decided Tuesday it does not want to increase the number of apartment complexes in the city.
An 11.38-acre parcel of land on the northeast corner of Isabella and Broomfield roads, originally zoned as multiple family residential, will now be zoned as business and residential property.
The property is currently vacant, but when originally annexed by the city, it was intended for residential use.
“When we purchased the property, we realized that the community was slightly overbuilt with apartments. But today, we are seriously overbuilt,” said Mike Hofer, the property developer. “This is why we are not looking at being able to develop this as multiple family (housing).”
The property will now be divided into four separate parcels with different zoning.
The more than three acres on the west corner of the property was changed from M-1 multiple family residential property to OS-2, where it can be used for office services.
The middle section, more than six acres, will be divided into C-1 zoning for local business district use and M-1 multiple family residential property. The south portion of the property, which faces Broomfield Road, will be the business area.
“I am willing to offer an appeasement in the center of the property, which would provide a buffer between the business and residential (areas),” Hofer said.
The request for the western corner of the property to rezone as C-3 business district was denied.
The commission turned down this request because of the large amount of undeveloped general business property already located in that area. However, it did approve the more than two-acre section to be rezoned as C-1 local business district.
A C-3 zoning would permit development of almost any type of business, whereas the C-1 is limited to businesses that would serve local residents including drug stores, beauty shops, hardware stores and other similar establishments.
An agenda item addressing a request from United Apartments for a special use permit was postponed until the commission’s next meeting on Dec. 1.
