The Gainesville planning staff is recommending approval of a group home for men and an apartment expansion in the Cleveland Street area.
The recommendations are to be considered by the Gainesville Planning and Appeals Board at a meeting Tuesday at 5:15 at the city Justic Center on Queen City Parkway.
The group home would be located at 746 Cleveland Street. The applicant, Synergy Recovery Center, is asking for a "special use" for the half-acre tract where Cleveland Streeet Apartments, a 10-unit, one-story apartment complex, is now located.
Synergy wants to convert the building into a 9-unit group home for 36 men with substance abuse problems. The tenth unit would be used as an office and there would be an "on-site" manager, according to the application.
APARTMENT EXPANSION
Cobb Investments, LP, wants to demolish a single-family home at Cleveland and Myrlte streets and replace it with a two-unit apartment building that will be connected to an existing two-unit apartment building. The half-acre tract now contains the vacant house, the two-unit apartment building and a four-unit apartment complex.
The applicant is asking for a rezoning to Planned Unit Development.
