There's always a need for quality housing for students when it's in a town that houses a Division I college like Mount Pleasant does. That type of housing may see an increase thanks to a decision by the city planning board last week.
Excerpt: The Gaylord Street project is being proposed by property manager Jeff Jakeway of Mount Pleasant. Jakeway and his company, Ames LLC, want to build a new rooming house on what is now a vacant lot at 313 E. Gaylord St. and expand an existing home at 401 E. Gaylord. The house in between, at 317 E. Gaylord, also is owned by Jakeway.
The property currently is zoned for single-family residential, but that's not the way it's developed, planners noted.
"It's been left in no-man's land," Jakeway told the plan board. "Families don't want to live there, and they don't want to rent there."
Jakeway proposed rezoning the land to a modified M-2 zoning, the type of zoning that permits student-type housing. He agreed to limit the occupancy of the three houses to 13, well above the four who live there now, but far below the 27 who could live there under a full-blown rezoning to the city's M-2 district.
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Source: Morning Sun
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