Applicant Cozen introduces 289 Kent Avenue project team and rezoning rationale
Jeremy Cozen, land use counsel for Webb Holdings LLC, presents the 289 Kent Avenue rezoning with architect Toby Snyder of FX Collaborative. He describes the vestigial M3-1 heavy manufacturing site and the proposed M1-3A/R7X and M1-2A rezoning.
Thank you, Chair.
I apologize.
I'm a little under the weather, but thank you for giving me this opportunity and to the committee members as well to present 289 Kent Avenue and the proposed rezoning.
My name is Jeremy Cozen, Land Use Counsel to the Applicant, Webb Holdings, LLC.
I'm here with Toby Snyder, the project architect from FX Collaborative.
Next slide, please.
As I mentioned, the project team includes the applicant, Land Use Council, FX Collaborative, and the environmental consultant, AKRF.
Next slide, please.
So why are we here today?
We're here to, as Council Member Ressler mentioned,
and to rezone a vestigial 1961 zoning M31 heavy manufacturing site that has not been operated as a heavy manufacturing site in decades.
That three tax lots within the rezoning area would be rezoned to allow for residential use, including a significant amount of affordable housing, and a portion of the block, which has remained M31
since 1961 but has never operated as such, will be zoned to M12A to allow for a wider variety of uses.
In addition, as I mentioned, the portion of the rezoning area that will allow for residential use will be mapped as MIH.