Title
An Ordinance to Amend the Zoning Map, Being a Part of Section 5.10.2 of Chapter 55 of Title V of the Code of the City of Ann Arbor, of 1.3 Acres from C1AR (Campus Business Residential) to PUD (Planned Unit Development), 732 Packard PUD Zoning and Supplemental Regulations (CPC Recommendation: Approval - 8 Yeas and 0 Nays)
Memorandum
Approval of this ordinance will rezone 12 lots in the block bounded by Packard Street, South State Street and Arch Street with a combined total of 55,507 square feet fromC1A/R (Campus Business Residential) to PUD (Planned Unit Development) and adopt Supplemental Regulations to allow a high-rise, multiple-family building including sustainability features and required affordable housing. A site plan to develop a 14-story high-rise building with 376 apartments will be scheduled separately.
There are eight standards for PUD zoning district approval set forth in Section 5.29.11 of the Unified Development Code. Each standard is presented with analysis beginning on page 7 of the March 5, 2024 Planning Staff Report, attached.
In summary,
Staff find the use(s), physical characteristics, design features or amenities proposed have a beneficial effect for the City, one of the eight standards for approval. A zoning district that requires LEED certification, integrated solar panels, additional electric vehicle charging stations, limits on natural gas connections, increases housing density and diversity, affordable housing, public park, and streetscape activation are uses, design features and amenities that will have a beneficial effect for the City.
Staff find the beneficial effects could not be achieved under any other zoning classification and is not required to be provided by existing standards, one of the eight standards for approval. Other zoning classifications do not required the purported beneficial effects, either at all or to the degree required in the proposed district.
As a package, the beneficial effects of the 732 Pack...
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