Town of Frederick is contemplating a zoning change that might replace guidelines for town’s mixed-use zoning districts, probably affecting the redevelopment of a shopping mall alongside town’s Golden Mile.
The proposed modification to town’s Land Administration Code would enable town’s Planning Fee or Board of Aldermen to deem current buildings as a conforming use when an space is zoned as combined use for redevelopment.
The Planning Fee is scheduled to debate the proposal at a workshop Tuesday.
The appliance for the modification was filed on behalf of MCB Westridge LLC, the proprietor of the Westridge Sq. procuring heart at 1011-1065 W. Patrick St., alongside the Golden Mile.
The corporate has a zoning map modification and a grasp plan software to redevelop the procuring heart.
Town’s planning workers are reviewing the map and software earlier than they go to the Planning Fee for consideration, in accordance with a metropolis workers report.
The plan would add some single-family and multifamily houses on about half the location, whereas retaining retail areas which can be house to companies resembling H Mart, Il Forno Pizzeria and Outback Steakhouse.
Town’s mixed-use zones are meant to create dense, compact and walkable environments, with buildings near the road and each other, in accordance with the workers report.
Because the Land Administration Code is at present written, having the property rezoned for combined use would trigger the remaining buildings within the procuring heart to be thought-about non-conforming makes use of, and restrict the power to rebuild them in case of a fireplace or different disaster, Bruce Dean, a lawyer representing MCB Westridge, mentioned Friday.
Nonconforming buildings must be rebuilt in accordance with the mixed-use necessities.
The modification would enable a modification for current buildings to be deemed conforming by both the Planning Fee or the Board of Aldermen, Dean mentioned.
“It’s not very elegant, however it’s the very best we may provide you with,” he mentioned.
Whereas benefiting the proposed procuring heart redevelopment, any modifications would apply to properties throughout town.
The proposed modification would additionally change the code’s definition of redevelopment from proposed growth, addition, or rehabilitation of any buildings or enhancements to land or buildings that “promotes reinvestment into the neighborhood” to a definition that features altering a property’s use from one kind of residential use to a different, or from residential to nonresidential use or vice versa.
