The petitioner, Robert McCorkle for DSCD Holdings LLC, is designate 1110 East 69th Street as Commercial-Neighborhood (File No. 19-006127-CPA), in conjunction with a request to rezone four (4) parcels from the existing RSF-6 (Residential Single-Family) and B-N (Neighborhood Business) Zoning Districts to the O-I (Office – Institutional) Zoning District on a subsequent Agenda Item (File No. 19-006044-ZA).  

However, the Chatham County-Savannah Comprehensive Plan, along with the Future Land Use Map, adopted by The Mayor and Aldermen on January 19, 2017, currently designates 1110 E 69th St, a 0.34-acre property, as Residential-Suburban Single Family.  Therefore, The Mayor and Aldermen have to review the Future Land Use Map request first.

If the related Zoning Hearing is approved and with unanimous consent of Council, this item is on First and Second Readings.

On November 19, 2019, the Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of both the request to amend the Future Land Use Map for 1110 E 69th Street and the requested rezoning because the block face on which the subject parcel is located on is bookended by office, retail and institutional uses.  Therefore, the interior of the block face may be better suited for office-type uses than detached single-family residential uses.

Section 5.15.2 of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Savannah allows the O-I Zoning District in the following Future Land Use Categories: Office/Institutional, Office-Transition, and Commercial-Suburban.  However, the Office/Institutional and Office-Transition Future Land Use Categories currently do not exist in the Chatham County-Savannah Comprehensive Plan.  Additionally, staff and the Planning Commission do not believe that the Commercial-Suburban Future Land Use Category is appropriate for the subject property.  The adjacent properties to the north and west are in the Commercial-Neighborhood Future Land Use Category and the property to the east is a church.

The existing Residential-Suburban Single Family Future Land Use Category is defined as “Areas identified for single-family detached residential dwellings at a density not to exceed five (5) units per gross acre”.

The proposed Commercial-Neighborhood Future Land Use Category is defined as “Nodal and strip business areas that are within predominately residential areas and are developed at a scale and intensity compatible with adjacent residential uses”.

Approval on the condition that the parcels be recombined into a unified parcel(s) through the Subdivision/Plat Process and the recording of the approved Plat.