The Fayetteville Village Board has set a public hearing for 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, in the village office to discuss a proposed zone change that will allow plans to move forward for the Fayetteville Apartments project on 547 E. Genesse St. in Fayetteville.
Currently, the property is zoned as industrial and R-1 residential but, under this proposed zone change, it would be zoned as a Planned Residential Development (P.R.D.).
The project is being headed by O’Brien & Gere and will contain a total of 250 units comprised of six three-story apartment buildings, 14 two-story townhouse and brownstone-style apartments with interior garages and a community center with outside pool. A total of 12 buildings will have to be built for the units, which are a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.
Mark Costitch, the civil engineer for the project, said the apartments will be aimed to tenants who are “empty nesters and young professionals.”
A total of 536 parking spaces are planned for the project, including interior garages and a streetscape for parallel parking. This results in a 2.2 parking space-to-units ratio for the complex.
“It really will have that ‘village feel’ to it with the streetscape and the traditional building material we plan to use,” said James Fahy, the architect of the project, at the July 22 village board meeting. “I think from an architectural standpoint, this will be an asset to the village.”
If the project gains approval for the zone change, Mayor Mark Olson said the project still must go through site plan approval by the village planning board before any construction can start. Approval for the site plan will include a variance on building height because the planned project includes three-story apartment buildings, which is higher than the current village codes allow for, Olson said.
In June, the village received a submission for the P.R.D application after previously receiving a Planned Unit Development (P.U.D.) in March. Olson said this was because there were no commercial elements to the project and the village board and focus group felt P.R.D was a better fit. In the original plans presented in March, the project was to consist of 312 units contained in 12 three-story apartments.
Hayleigh Gowans is a reporter for the Eagle Bulletin. She can be reached at [email protected].
