PORTLAND, Ore. – A developer seeks to build a multifamily housing and commercial building on Southeast Belmont Street, on property that is now home to a 108-year-old single-family home and parking space.
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The 1907 house, located at 3150 SE Belmont St., is built on a 5,500-square-foot lot in the Sunnyside neighborhood. The residence itself is 1,656 square feet in size.
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On Jan. 30 the county recorded a sale of the property for $525,000 to 3150 SE Belmont LLC. The lot had last sold in 1994 for $54,000.
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On April 8 the Bureau of Development Services received an early assistance application for development of a mixed-use building with 20 apartment units, ground-floor commercial and onsite parking. The number of parking spaces is not specified in the application description.
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It is also not specified whether the 108-year-old home would be demolished, though given the size of the site and the proposed building with onsite parking it seems likely.
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The property is located within an R1 zone, meaning there can be one residential unit per 1,000-square feet of property. The 20-unit complex would seem to be outside the allowed scope of this zoning, which would generally allow for a maximum of five units on the 5,500-square-foot lot.
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The property is also partially located within a Mixed Commercial/Residential zone, the purpose of which is to promote “development that combines commercial and housing uses on a single site,” according to the city’s zoning code. This zoning allows the mixed-use nature of the proposed project.
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3150 SE Belmont LLC is registered to Rahim Abbasi, Jeff Shindler and Shinco LLC, a business which is registered to Jeff and Michael Shindler and lists a San Francisco address as its mailing address.
Abbasi is also named as the applicant for the project, listing Abbasi Design Works as an affiliation.