The committee met on August 12, 2025, to consider several ordinances, including a controversial rezoning for Fairview Hospital expansion, updates to paid parking facility regulations, a landmark designation for a historic church, a development loan for a mixed-use building in Glenville, and a contract amendment for planning services. Public testimony was heard on the hospital rezoning.
Ordinance 860-2025 – Fairview Hospital Rezoning (Map Change 2679)
Ordinance 726-2025 – Paid Parking Facility Safety Amendments
Ordinance 818-2025 – Greater New Calvary Baptist Church (Former First Congregational Church of Collinwood) Landmark Designation
Ordinance 819-2025 – Famicos Foundation Loan for 1355 East 105th Street
Ordinance 800-2025 – Stantec Consulting Contract Amendment
Here. Here. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We're gonna jump right into it. Good morning, everyone. Or just number eight sixty dash twenty twenty-five by council member Slife, an ordinance changing the use area and height districts of parts of the land at north and south of Lorraine Avenue West of Rocky River Drive map changed two six seven eye. How about you? Good. I'll make sure you don't disappear today. Yes, yes. All right, the floor is yours. All right. Good morning, Chair. Good morning, committee. Shannon Leonard, Chief Zoning Administrator. This is map change 2679. And as you stated, it's changing the use area and height districts of parcels of land north and south of Lorraine between Rocky River Drive and Valley Parkway. It's to ensure future development meets the community's needs, and it's to align the institutional investments with the proper zoning that complements the residential and mixed use character of the neighborhood. And I'll talk a little bit about that. So what you can see here is the current zoning of the area. It's a mix of single family A1, multifamily C1, local retail C1, and C4. So what you see on the southern campus of Fairview Hospital is C4. Four height district is for 250 feet. And then the lines, yes. Can you speak directly to the mic as well? I'm so sorry. Yes. Let me turn this a little bit. Okay. Is that better? Okay. The lines that you see running along Lorraine, the brown line is a 15-foot specific map setback. And then the yellow line that you see also running along Lorraine is the current pedestrian retail overlay district. This is a current context. You'll see the Fairview Hospital to the south and to the north of the site of Long Lorraine between the Valley and Rocky River Drive. You also see the shopping center at the corner of Rocky River and Lorraine. And then you'll see a variety of mixed-use businesses the west of, I mean east of uh the hospital campus, as well as a few parking lots uh in residential dis uh neighborhoods. Uh the proposed zoning here, as we stated before, is to really consolidate a lot of the institutional uses that are actually happening into one district, uh, which is different height districts. Um, and that's really to complement as it moves down through closer to Rocky River to bring the height back down to match the context of the residential to the north and to the south. Uh the institutional research uh that you're seeing being proposed here on the north side of the campus. Um, you'll notice that it was split zone multifamily and single family, uh, but the entire parcel is institutional. Uh, and so the proposal is to change it to institutional research D3. Um the south side of the campus is local retail C4. So four height district allows up to 250 feet, whereas the three only allows up to 115 feet. Uh on the south side of campus, they are bringing down that parking garage, um, which was really the impetus, I believe, of the north side, as well as the expansion of the uh cancer center on the north side um of Lorraine here. Uh so the institutional research will allow uh well continue to allow multi-residential family buildings as well as educational medical developments, research facilities, professional offices, uh, museums, libraries, schools, places of worship, parks, playgrounds, and play fields as well. Uh what you see here currently is the context along this area of the institutional research that's being proposed on the north and south side, and really to consolidate those districts. Uh on the northwestern view of Lorraine at West 178th Street, you can see the current medical building. Uh, then you also see the southwestern view, Lorraine uh looking down at West 179th Street. On the lower uh building here, the uh picture here, you see the northwestern view is uh taking a picture from Lorraine at West 179th, and then in the far uh right-hand corner, you'll see the western view at 179th.