Council members voted Tuesday to approve a zoning change based on citizen input.
Joseph Molis, interim planning and development director, said SGSB Land Holdings requested a rezoning changing 10 acres of land near the southeast corner of Nola Ruth Boulevard and Old Nolanville Road from a single-family dwelling district (R1) to a mixed-use planned development district (PD-M).
“Staff recommends approval as mixed use,” Molis said.
The developer’s zoning request change was approved in 2008 and 2011, but zoned back to residential because of lack of development, Molis said.
The developer is now requesting the area be rezoned to include both townhomes and garden homes in the area, he said.
With 55 notices sent out to area residents, one response came back in favor of the project, and six opposed it, Molis said.
Constance and Dennis Duffey said they could live with garden homes in the area but not townhomes.
“They’d be a different change to what the neighborhood is,” Dennis Duffey said.
Dorothy Shiller said she thinks there are already traffic problems in the area, and adding 60 townhomes with the potential of two cars per home would impact traffic.
Shiller said she’s also concerned with sewage and water.