The Gainesville Housing Authority (GHA) will be back before the city’s planning and appeals board next month with another proposal for a housing development on the east side of town.
At an earlier meeting a proposal to tear down an existing development at Jesse Jewell Parkway and Downey Boulevard and replace it with new units was continued until the board’s April 8 meeting. That’s also when the GHA is expected to seek rezoning another tract of land where another such development is planned, according to the board’s agenda.
The latest request is for a rezoning of four acres at the Myrtle Street/Osborne Street intersection. The property is now zoned Residential-II (R-II) and the agency is seeking a Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning for the construction of multi-family housing, the agenda says.
Another request the planners are being asked to consider is one from the developers of a Residence Inn, also on that side of town but in New Holland near the Kroger Shopping Center. They are asking for variances for the front yard setback requirement, frontage landscape strip requirement and minimum number of parking spaces required. The extended stay hotel is planned on one-and-a-half acres on White Sulphur Road near the Huntington Drive intersection.
Friday 97.5 GLORY FM reported that two items dealing landfills are also on the agenda: Landfill items on GPAB agenda