NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Opelika will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 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 parcels of land hereinafter in this section described, so as to change such parcels from one class of district to another class of district as follows, to-wit:

From a C-3, GC-2 District (General Commercial, Gateway Corridor Overlay District) to a C-2, GC-2 District (Office/Retail, Gateway Corridor Overlay District) the following described property:

Commencing at the Southerly margin of East Avenue with the Westerly margin of Geneva Street in the City of Opelika, Lee County, Alabama, run thence South 23 Degrees 21 Minutes East, along the Westerly margin of Geneva Street, a distance of 816.5 feet to the Point of Beginning of the lot or parcel of land herein to be described:  from the said Point of Beginning continue intersection of South 23 Degrees 21 Minutes East along the Westerly margin of Geneva Street a distance of 80 feet; run thence South 70 Degrees 07 Minutes West a distance of 178 feet; run thence North 23 Degrees 21 Minutes East a distance of 80 feet; run thence North 70 Degrees 7 Minutes East for a distance of 178 feet to the point of beginning.

Being further described as 812 Geneva Street, Opelika, Alabama.

(b)  From a C-2, GC-2 District (Office/Retail,  Gateway Corridor Overlay District) to a C-3, GC-2 District (General Commercial, Gateway Corridor Overlay District) the following described property:

Commencing at the Southerly margin of East Avenue with the Westerly margin of Geneva Street in the City of Opelika, Lee County, Alabama, run thence South 23 Degrees 21 Minutes East, along the Westerly margin of Geneva Street, a distance of 600.6 feet to the a point; thence South 71 Degrees 15 Minutes West for a distance of 178 feet to the Point of Beginning; run thence South 23 Degrees 21 Minutes East for a distance of 207 feet; run thence South 70 Degrees 7 Minutes West for a distance of 163.2 feet to a point on the Easterly Right of Way of Central of Georgia Railway Co. thence run North 64 Degrees 30 Minutes East 210.3 feet; thence run North 71 Degrees 15 Minutes East a distance of 237.14 to the Point of Beginning.

Being further described as the rear portions of 804 and 806 Geneva Street, Opelika, Alabama.

Section 2.  This is a conditional rezoning of the above parcels subject to the use of the structure thereon for warehousing and storage (NAICS No. 493110).

Section 3.  Any ordinance or part thereof in conflict with provisions of this Ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.

Section 4.  This Ordinance shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.

WITNESS my hand this the 4th day of April,  2014.

/s/ R. G. Shuman

CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF OPELIKA, ALABAMA

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