The City Council is scheduled Tuesday night, Nov. 3, to adopt the ordinance that would turn a 6.9-acre agricultural tract at the southwest corner of Independence Parkway and Main Street into a planned retail development.
Council members already held the public hearing on the request, zoning case Z25-0009, on Aug. 4. They voted 4-2 that night to direct staff to write the ordinance, with council members Thakur and Elad opposed, according to the city's result memo.
The finished ordinance is now on the legislative agenda, a group of items the council can approve in a single motion unless two members ask to pull one out. Staff recommends adoption.
The Planning & Zoning Commission had recommended approval 5-1 on June 23. Commissioner Cone voted no, saying he thought "the site could be designed in a safer manner for pedestrians and small children," according to a staff memo.
What the ordinance allows
The applicant is Spiars Engineering, and the owner is listed as Main & Independence 5, LLC. The zoning exhibit shows three one-story buildings labeled retail and restaurant, each capped at 27 feet. Two of them are drawn at 10,180 and 12,313 square feet.
Retail district rules would apply, but the ordinance strikes a long list of uses. Among them:
- restaurants with drive-throughs and drive-in restaurants
- banks with drive-throughs
- convenience stores with gas pumps, and gas pumps of any kind
- full-service car washes and minor auto repair
- licensed child-care centers and adult day services
- smoke shops, laundromats and health or fitness centers
- big box retail, food truck courts and parking lots or garages as a primary use
