Permit sought for new building to serve adults in day program

A home health organization wants to build an administrative office off Houston and Walden roads in Macon, which will offer a day program for adults with developmental disabilities.

All Care Home Health LLC is seeking a conditional-use permit to build a 6,931-square-foot structure on about 3 acres to be subdivided from a 100-acre tract at 4790 Houston Road. The proposed 3 acres will front along Walden Road.

The matter is on Monday’s agenda for the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission meeting.

The application is a revision to a site plan presented when the entire tract was rezoned in 2006 and changed then from a single-family residential district to a planned development commercial district for a proposed retail center. That proposed plan never materialized.

All Care’s office building would be located about 2 miles north of a facility All Care now operates in a shopping center at 5797 Houston Road.

Besides an administrative office, the building would provide space for All Care’s YOUniversity program. Participants in the program are typically dropped off at the facility in the morning and picked up in the afternoon, according to the commission’s staff report. While at YOUniversity, individuals participate in outings in the community as well as work to achieve goals they help set for themselves.

All Care would have about 12 employees on site and the hours of operations would be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon on Friday.

The applicant says it would provide 43 total parking spaces, but this is in excess of the 31 spaces the staff suggests that’s needed.

“The parking area can be reduced by at least half, which will decrease the impact of the impervious surface by reducing storm water runoff,” the report said.

The larger tract is surrounded by single-family residential and agricultural districts.

“Staff does not anticipate any adverse effect to the comprehensive land development plan from the proposed use,” the report said.

The meeting begins at 1:30 p.m. in the 10th floor conference room, Willie C. Hill Government Center Annex, 682 Cherry St.

Other items on the agenda are:

CONDITIONAL USES:

3378 Brookdale Ave.: Conditional use to allow a shared kitchen space, C-1 District. Lauren Hightower, applicant.

321 McCallum Place: Conditional use to allow a pet boarding facility, A-Agricultural District. Michael Wuolukka, applicant.

996 Oglethorpe St.: Conditional use to allow a church, HPD-BH District. Cunningham & Co. Engineers Inc., applicant.

367 Orange St.: Conditional use to allow an additional dwelling on a single lot, HR-3 District. Scott Titshaw, applicant.

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS:

996 Oglethorpe St.: Certificate of Appropriateness to allow design approval of a new church, HPD-BH District. Cunningham & Co. Engineers Inc., applicant.

367 Orange St.: Certificate of Appropriateness to allow design approval of new dwelling, HR-3 District. Scott Titshaw, applicant.

564 Mulberry St.: Certificate of Appropriateness to allow design approval of a building addition, CBD-1 District. Samson Group LLC, applicant.

VARIANCES:

8801-8807 Knoxville Road: Variance to allow a flag lot for a single-family dwelling, A-Agricultural District. Chelsea Edwards, applicant.

100 Windmill Plantation Road: Variance in fence height and front setback requirements to allow a fence exceeding 4 feet and closer than 10 feet to the R/W, R-1AAA District. Johnny Patterson, applicant.

3902 Juanita Drive: Variance in detached accessory building setback and location requirements, A-Agricultural District. Carlos Garcia, applicant.

996 Oglethorpe St.: Variance to allow a reduction in parking requirements, HPD-BH District. Cunningham & Co. Engineers Inc., applicant.

RATIFICATION:

108 Briar Creek Court: Conditional use to allow a manufactured home with decks, A- Agricultural District. Oscar Goings, applicant.

2518/2520 Riverside Drive: Conditional use to allow a church, C-4- District. New Life Bible Fellowship, George Cribbs, applicant.

5670 Calvin Drive: Conditional use to allow a campus facilities expansion (tennis courts & cross country track), A-Agricultural District. Gregg Thompson, First Presbyterian Day School, applicant.

This story was originally published July 21, 2017 at 11:48 AM with the headline "Permit sought for new building to serve adults in day program."