GONZALES – The Gonzales Planning and Zoning Commission voted this week to recommend the City Council approve a rezoning request for a proposed high-end apartment complex on Veterans Boulevard.
The commission also received a rezoning request for a second high-end apartment complex that a different developer hopes to bring to the city, also on Veterans Boulevard.
Both pieces of property — 13 acres on the east side of Veterans Boulevard and 13.39 acres on the west side of the boulevard — are owned by Montan Landco, LLC.
In both situations, the owner is asking for a zoning change from C-1 commercial to a new, higher-density residential zoning, R-3-M25, which allows up to 25 units per acre.
The new zoning, adopted by the city earlier this year, also requires a number of amenities, along with a higher number of apartment units.
While no representative of the property owner spoke at Monday night's meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission, Jeremy Mears, with Houston-based Brownstone Ventures, spoke to commissioners about the 212-unit luxury apartments, The Legacy at Veterans Boulevard, which the developers hope to build on the east side of Veterans Boulevard.
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The apartments, he said, would have fitness centers, media rooms, a resort-style swimming pool with outside TVs and dog-walking areas.
Veterans Boulevard, where developers are hoping to bring the apartments, connects West Orice Roth Road with heavily traveled La. 30, a state highway that's been the subject of a recent study by the state Department of Transportation and Development for possible solutions to traffic congestion.
The Legacy at Veterans Boulevard proposal is a little further along in the city's building process than another new complex proposed for the west side of Veterans Boulevard.
Bearing Point Properties of Baton Rouge hopes to bring a 270-unit development to 13.39 acres there, said Geoffrey Wilson, with Sigma Consulting Engineers of Baton Rouge.
A rezoning request by property owner Montan Landco, LLC to rezone the acreage from C-1 to R-3-M25 was introduced to the commission Monday, which will hold a public hearing on the request on Dec. 5.
