Rezoning would allow apartment building

Rezoning of property at 100 E. 12th St. from commercial to residential is all right with the Rolla Planning and Zoning Commission.

Tuesday afternoon, the commission met and voted to recommend the Rolla City Council approve the rezoning requested by Roger and Nassreen Rome, who lives at 12601 Cardinal Point Rd., and want to construct an apartment house at the 12th Street site, which is near Missouri S&T.

There was no opposition to the proposal at the public hearing held during the commission meeting, and the Community Development department staff recommends the rezoning be approved without condition.

Community Development Director John Petersen told the commission the current zoning is C-1 (neighborhood business district), although the use of the property is residential, for a single-family, four-bedroom house sits on the 13,547-square-foot (.31 acre) lot.

Located on the south side of 12th Street between Oak and Elm streets, the property is in a neighborhood of apartments. S&T also owns property nearby and uses it for parking and storage.

The applicant submitted a rezoning petition and letter describing the proposed development which would permit the construction of a five-unit apartment building in addition to the existing single-family structure, Petersen told the commission in a memorandum. R-3 (multi-family district) zoning is required to allow the multi-family development as proposed and to permit multiple structures on a lot.

Petersen said the rezoning would not negatively affect the neighborhood, is consistent with the 2020 Comprehensive Plan Update and would not adversely affect traffic flow. Utilities are adequate and there is room for the 12 paved, off-street parking spaces that will be required.

Commissioners present for the meeting were Monte Shields, Russel Schmidt, Greg Sawyer, Robert Anderson and Dennis Bennett.

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