Pleasant Ridge study sent for planning review

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The Pleasant Ridge market study has been sent by the Pleasant Ridge Community Council's (PRCC) Neighborhood Committee to the City's Department of City Planning for review.

The market feasibility study was prepared by Kinzelman Kline & Gossman as an update to the neighborhood's 1999 strategic plan.

The document is meant to help guide future business development, tenanting and recruitment for the neighborhood, specifically within the Montgomery/Ridge/Woodford "triangle" and along the Montgomery Road corridor.

Residents, business owners and stakeholders were all part of the planning process, which began in 2005.

Among some of the study's ideas:

* A village green with outdoor dining or a large, centralized office or residential building for the "triangle"
* Market-rate housing above ground-floor retail along Montgomery Road
* Development of medium- to high-density residential or a retirement community on the Ridge Club site
* A performing arts venue
* Inter-connected public parking, surface or decked
* Mixed-use infill
* Single-family detached homes on scattered sites
* Relocation and/or expansion of UDF and Mullaney's
* Redevelopment of Burger King site

A report from the planning department is due by the middle of March.

Katharine Powell, one of the vice presidents of the PRCC, estimates that the finalized plan will appear before City Council for adoption in June.

PC to consider hospital for vacant Pleasant Ridge building

On Friday the City Planning Commission will consider a zoning change that would allow an unidentified operator to open a diagnostic hospital in Pleasant Ridge.

The diagnostic hospital would provide behavioral health care for residents of nearby nursing homes. Patients would stay for seven to ten days.

The name of the applicant has not been made public. Attempts to reach City planning staff and the Pleasant Ridge Community Council were unsuccessful.

The applicant is seeking a zoning change to IR Institutional-Residential District. The current zoning of the site is RM-1.2, which does not allow hospitals.

The IR zoning designation would also prevent future owners of the property from developing it for commercial uses and would require any new construction to be buffered from the nearby residential areas.

The building at 5500 Verulam Avenue was last occupied by the Ridge Pavilion nursing home, which closed in 2004.

Work on the interior of the structure would provide between 21 and 28 large patient suites.

The Pleasant Ridge Community Council voted to support the rezoning on August 7.

The hospital would employ 85.

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