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Zoning board backs Dive Right In Scuba plan to repurpose YMCA as multi-use recreation hub
Summary
The zoning board recommended that the city council approve Dive Right In Scuba’s plan to convert the YMCA facility at 749 Hobolt Road into a multi-use recreation center — including aquatics, indoor basketball and outdoor, unlit youth sports fields — approving required zoning variations and forwarding the proposal to council with suggested conditions.
The Joliet Zoning Board of Appeals voted to recommend that the City Council approve Dive Right In Scuba’s proposal to repurpose the Greater Joliet Area YMCA building at 749 Hobolt Road as a multi-use indoor/outdoor recreation facility known as the Flex.
Staff presented the application and said the petitioner seeks a variation of use to allow commercial recreation uses in the site’s RB restricted business district and a spacing variation to keep existing unlit outdoor athletic fields that lie within 200 feet of an R1 residential zoning district. Staff concluded the…
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