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Plan commission delays rezoning request for proposed East Toledo community health center
Summary
HealthPartners, a federally qualified health center, sought rezoning for a 23,000-square-foot clinic at 815 Navarre Ave.; commissioners deferred the request 60 days to allow direct neighborhood outreach and additional community meetings.
The Toledo City Plan Commission on Feb. 1 deferred a rezoning request from HealthPartners of Western Ohio that would allow construction of a 23,000-square-foot East Toledo community health center at 815 Navarre Avenue.
HealthPartners CEO Janice Sutterhouse told the commission the nonprofit, a federally qualified health center, purchased the site and has $200,000 already invested and funding in place to construct a clinic she said could serve about 6,000 new patients and provide roughly 15,000 primary-care visits annually. "Our goal is to be in the neighborhoods where poor people live so they actually have access to us," Sutterhouse said during her presentation.
Commissioners said they supported the mission but expressed concern that a zoning change to a mixed commercial-residential classification would remain if the clinic later…
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