Council approves Neighborhood Christian Clinic rezoning to allow counseling services after deed restriction and neighbor negotiations

The Phoenix City Council voted to approve a rezoning request that will allow the Neighborhood Christian Clinic to provide professional counseling services on a parcel adjacent to the clinic, subject to a recorded deed restriction and multiple stipulations addressing neighborhood concerns.

The applicant said the request is narrowly tailored: it would allow professional counseling services (daytime hours) in a small 600-square-foot clinic building behind an existing single-family home that will remain as employee/volunteer housing. The applicant told council the counseling use would be limited in scale (at most a few therapy rooms, with no more than two patients receiving therapy at the same…