THOMASVILLE — The Thomasville City Council will take up a rezoning request today that would affect an area of more than a block where a cancer center and medical building are planned.

The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission, by a 6-1 vote on Monday, gave the proposed rezoning a favorable recommendation. Commission member Rudolph Elzy cast the vote against the recommendation, and members Frank Beverly and Brian Knox did not attend the meeting.

City commission members will hear a presentation on the issue during their work session today but will not take action on the request, Duane Treadon, zoning and planning administrator, said Tuesday.

“They’ll decide when to put it on the agenda” for discussion at a later meeting, Treadon said.

John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital made the request to change zoning from R-2 residential use to C-1 limited use medical. The rezoning would include all properties on both sides of Grant Street between Broad Street and Park Avenue, as well as additional land along Park Avenue and Broad Street.

The hospital controls all of the land, which on March 27 was combined into two large lots, Treadon said.

Archbold plans to build a medical office building to the east of Grant Street and a cancer center to the west of Grant Street. The sites are in the 100 block of Grant Street, and the two lots total 6.786 acres.

The proposed cancer treatment center building is a single-story facility of about 43,000 square feet.

The proposed medical office building is two stories of about 38,880 square feet.

A report prepared on the proposal said that rezoning the property would not have an adverse impact on other property in the area, much of which is also medical related, including a radiology and ambulatory care center, assisted living facility and professional offices.

The report said that the proposed development could alter traffic patterns, resulting in an increase in the 900 block of South Broad Street, but with traffic possibly decreasing on surrounding streets.

“The development of the property as presented in conceptual plans is in conformity with the comprehensive plan and the current generalized future land use,” the report said. “The development represents a continuation of the campus feeling of the ambulatory care center. With enhanced landscaping, especially along Park Avenue, the project should act as a buffer between the medical-use areas west of Park Avenue and the single-family use to the east.”

The quickest approval for the request would occur if the council decides to put the rezoning question on its agenda for the next regular meeting on Monday, Treadon said. It could have a first reading of the proposal on Monday and a second reading at the following council meeting.

Reporter Alan Mauldin can be reached by calling (229) 226-2400, ext. 226.