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Planning commission denies conditional use permit for proposed senior group home at 3210 John L. Patterson
Summary
The Springfield Planning Commission denied a conditional use permit for converting a former church at 3210 John L. Patterson Street into a senior group home for up to nine residents, citing the property’s failure to meet the zoning ordinance’s minimum lot-area and parking requirements.
The Springfield Planning Commission on an unrecorded date voted to deny a conditional use permit to convert a vacant church at 3210 John L. Patterson Street into a senior group home that would house up to nine adults.
Planning staff told the commission the property is about 8,100 square feet but the zoning ordinance requires a minimum lot area for personal and group care facilities equal to twice the base lot size in that district — in this case about 14,000 square feet — and the ordinance contains no mechanism to waive or reduce that threshold through the conditional use permit process. "Based on the findings of…
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