At its Oct. 2 meeting, the Area Plan Commission of Evansville and Vanderburgh County voted to recommend approval of two rezoning petitions and approved the September memorandum of minutes.

The commission approved a petition to rezone 519 North Tenth Avenue from R-2 to R-3 to legally establish the existing three-family occupancy (two one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom unit). The motion carried on a 7-0 roll call; the commission will forward a recommendation for approval to city council.

The commission also approved a petition to rezone 1116 Stanley Avenue from M-2 to R-4 to remove the property’s legal nonconforming industrial designation and allow continued single‑family residential use. That motion also carried 7-0 and will be forwarded as a recommendation to city council.

Earlier in the meeting the commission approved the September meeting memorandum by unanimous vote.

Staff’s reports for the two rezonings noted that both sites are recommended for residential use on the city’s 2035 Future Land Use Map. For 519 North Tenth Avenue, staff said the building dates to roughly 1885 and has functioned as a duplex since a conversion around 2014; building-commission records show permits in 2023, but no APC record permitting the third unit. For 1116 Stanley Avenue staff reported the house was constructed about 1945, that surrounding parcels include legal nonconforming residences in M-2 zoning, and that rezoning would remove the property’s legal nonconforming designation.

Both approvals were uncontested at the commission hearing; no remonstrators testified on either petition. The commission’s votes are advisory and will be transmitted to the Evansville City Council for final action.