NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Opelika will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, April 7, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 204 S. 7th Street, Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.
PURPOSE
The purpose of said Public Hearing will be to consider the adoption of an ordinance to amend Ordinance Number 124-91 (entitled “Zoning Ordinance of the City of Opelika”) adopted on September 17, 1991. At said Public Hearing all who desire to be heard shall have the opportunity to speak for or in opposition to the adoption of the following ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING
ORDINANCE AND ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF OPELIKA
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council (the “City Council”) of the City of Opelika, Alabama (the “City”) as follows:
Section 1. That Ordinance 124-91 entitled “Zoning Ordinance City of Opelika, Alabama”, adopted on September 17, 1991, and the Zoning Map of the City of Opelika provided for and referred to therein, as previously amended and/or modified, be and the same is hereby amended by rezoning or redistricting the parcel of land hereinafter in this section described, so as to change such parcel from one class of district to another class of district as follows, to-wit:
From a VC, GC District (Village Commercial, Gateway Corridor District), a I-1, GC District (Institutional, Gateway Corridor District) and a VR-1 District (Village Residential District) to a C-3, GC District (General Commercial, Gateway Corridor District), the parcel of land hereinafter described:
Commencing at the Southeast corner of Section 15, Township 19 North, Range 26 East, Lee County, Alabama; thence North 00° 15’ 40” West, a distance of 182.70 feet to a point on the southerly margin of the Westerly Railway of Alabama; thence North 00° 15’ 40” West, a distance of 104.19 feet to a point on the northerly margin of the Westerly Railway of Alabama; thence along said Railway North 00° 16’ 39” West, a distance of 26.00 feet; thence leaving said Railway North 00° 16’ 39” West, a distance of 500.50 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING of Parcel 3; from said POINT OF BEGINNING North 39° 31’ 49” West, a distance of 1149.30 feet; thence North 02° 52’ 33” East, a distance of 484.34 feet to a point on the southerly margin of US Highway No 29; thence along said southerly margin North 76° 35’ 52” East, a distance of 238.40 feet; continue North 79° 37’ 04” East, a distance of 219.00 feet to a point on the westerly margin of 30th Street ; thence along said westerly margin South 54° 32’ 48” East, a distance of 76.40 feet; continue South 50° 40’ 45” East, a distance of 91.17 feet; continue South 51° 09’ 46” East, a distance of 92.40 feet; continue South 51° 03’ 27” East, a distance of 91.91 feet; continue South 50° 41’ 01” East, a distance of 50.00 feet; thence leaving said westerly margin South 39° 07’ 32” West, a distance of 172.00 feet; thence South 50° 40’ 32” East, a distance of 62.32 feet; thence South 00° 17’ 44” East, a distance of 860.46 feet; thence South 00° 16’ 39” East, a distance of 128.26 feet; thence South 00° 16’ 39” East, a distance of 53.79 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING; said described tract containing 15.858 Acres, more or less.
The above-described parcel is located at the Southwest quadrant of the intersection of Pepperell Parkway (U.S. Highway 29) and 30th Street and was formerly developed and used as Smallwood Park.
Section 2. Any ordinance or part thereof in conflict with provisions of this Ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.
WITNESS my hand this the 6th day of March, 2015.
/s/ R. G. Shuman
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF OPELIKA, ALABAMA
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