The Gainesville Planning & Appeals Board (GPAB) Tuesday is scheduled to consider a request for a group home for recovering drug addicts on the city’s northside – and the planning staff has recommended approval, but with a number of conditions.
The facility would be located in a house next to Riverbend Church on Park Hill Drive. More details about the proposal and who is behind it can be found in this earlier story posted Sept. 23: Group home for recovering drug addicts planned in north Gville
The planning staff’s recommendation is for a special use based on the Comprehensive Plan and the adjacent mixture of uses. Conditions:
- The proposed group home shall be limited to a maximum of four residents including
the resident manager. A separate public hearing by the Planning and Appeals Board
and City Council shall be required for a new or different group home. - The subject property shall be limited to the proposed group home, single-family
home and office uses such as medical, dental, clinical, CPA, attorney, business and
real estate office. - A resident manager shall be required to live on site daily to enforce program rules
and to assure that the property is being properly maintained. - The subject property shall be limited to the proposed group home, single-family
home and office uses such as medical, dental, clinical, CPA, attorney, business and
real estate office. - Any replacement structure, exterior facade changes, and/or future development
shall be of a single-family residential appearance. - The existing natural vegetation located along the north and west property boundary
adjacent to the homes shall remain and shall be regularly maintained. - The individual garbage containers shall be stored and appropriately screened
behind the existing home in a manner so as not to be visible from the adjoining
properties and roads subject to the approval of the Community and Economic
Development Director. A commercial dumpster shall not be approved for the
property. - All access point design for the subject property shall be submitted for review by
the Gainesville Public Works Director. The approval of said design shall be required
prior to issuance of a building permit. All required access / traffic / sidewalk
improvements associated with the proposed development shall be at the full
expense of the owner/developer.