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Council denies rezoning request at 2600 Preston Avenue after neighbor opposition
Summary
Council denied a request to rezone 2600 Preston Avenue (approx. 0.73 acre) from R-2 to R-3 after multiple neighbors spoke against the change, citing concerns about property values and past mobile-home activity.
The applicant sought rezoning of 2600 Preston Avenue (approximately 0.73 acre in District 5) from R-2 (single-family) to R-3 (affordable housing/manufactured home). Several neighbors spoke in opposition during the public hearing.
LaSalle Hill told the council he wanted to put in a motion to deny because of concerns the change would "depreciat[e] my property value," and Deborah Harton, who said she has lived on Preston Avenue since 1985, described prior mobile-home placements and resulting property-maintenance issues: "And, we've had trailers there before and when the people just take up and leave, they just leave. Then we have homeless people, vagrants..." Council moved to deny the rezoning request and the motion passed by voice vote.
