A proposal to change a single-family house into a medical office was given the go-ahead Monday night.
City council approved an application to lift a restrictive covenant on a 13th Avenue property that restricts its use to that of a residence.
The covenant was registered back in 2004, when the property was rezoned to a category that allows for a residence or medical or dental office. The site is part of the Crescents neighbourhood.
The plan for the area, approved in 2003, says that medical office use could be considered for blocks on 13th Avenue, near Edmonton, adjacent to the hospital.
This property, at 1964 13th Avenue, fits the neighbourhood plan's criteria for the conversion and would be used by a sleep apnea specialist.
According to the report to council, off-street parking will be provided from the laneway and "a landscape buffer will be in place to minimize the visual impact of the parking arena from adjacent properties."
The current zoning allows for a few commercial uses, but the applicant is proposing a new covenant that would restrict use to health service.
Last spring, city council rejected an application to turn a 12th Avenue residence near Lethbridge Street into a doctor's office.
The property, though only a couple of blocks away, was not in the area prescribed in the Crescents Neighbourhood Plan as having potential for medical offices.
Monday night's public hearing was held until the city had received landscape and parking and paving plans and security for 120 per cent of the cost of the work identified in those plans.
Final reading is recommended to be withheld until a new covenant is registered to restrict the used to a health service, minor.
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