creates a district that changes the industrial use to a mixed use. Unless
they want to make an assumption that the State Hospital site will forever be
institution, this is the first step to allow different development to be
discussed there. You may want to incorporate some of the Housing Study
results on what actually ends up there. The first thing that they need to do is
establish that they don't want this to be an institution on site. She stated that
the city wants it to be something else and this is the first step. She does
think that the Housing Study results that they will have by the end of the year
will be able to be incorporated in the final design.
Ms. Ce Ce Gerlach stated in the Zoning rewrite too.
Ms. Vicky Kistler stated correct.
Mr. Robert DiLorenzo stated that they are working collaboratively with the
city's Planning Director Jennifer Gomez. They discussed that very topic and
how this new amendment will work with the rewrite that is being proposed
and will become public. Because it is a mixed-use overlay, it stands alone
as its own separate amendment. It is something that has been written in a
way that it has taken into consideration the fact that it is a Zoning rewrite
and they were able to get some insight on the Zoning rewrite so this will
marry up with the new proposed rewrite. It is also a mixed-use overlay.
This has been done once before in the city of Allentown on the Riverfront
Redevelopment. They are following the same process for developing the
site with a mixed-use overlay amendment. Just as they did on the
Riverfront. From a Planning standpoint, they will put together what is called
a tentative plan and it will be a Master Plan for the entire site that would get
approved once it is adopted. It would get approved by the Planning
Commission as sort of a Master Plan. Each Phase of that process, they
have to go back to the Planning Commission and get a formal Land
Development approval for each Phase. When they come back for each
Phase, anything that differs from what was approved on the tentative plan,
you have to amend the tentative plan which the process in that is to get it
pre-approved by the Planning Commission. It is a very multi-step process.
This is just the first step with getting the Zoning amended to allow different
types of mixed-uses on site.
Mr. Daryl Hendricks thanked Mr. Robert DiLorenzo for that explanation.
This in essence be a work in progress.
Mr. Robert DiLorenzo stated yes, absolutely.
Ms. Vicky Kistler stated absolutely. You can't technically discuss or accept
plans or discussions about a property that is not zoned appropriately for
those discussions. The first thing is to take it out of the institution and allow
the open discussion to happen about what should be there.