Planning Commission Regular Meeting

Speaker 5good evening good evening everyone this is a public hearing for Christopher Lynn LLC the applicant is John Regan jr. the plans for tonight it's public hearing or submitted on September 28 2026 the applicant has submitted a zoning map amendment from commercial urban commercial office to commercial urban district while retaining the transition overlay district and approval of the general development plan of proffers for three buildings to include up to 394 apartments up to 29,000 393 square feet of office up to 7,000 460 square feet of retail 616 structured parking spaces 11 surface spaces and four parallel spaces on 3.87 acres the applicant has also requested a special use permit for multifamily in the commercial urban district and several special exceptions

Paul NaptystaffOne will be to act on the Small Area Plan amendments themselves. The other will be to act on the other amendments. And again, the other amendments are proposed changes to the use table to remove special use permits for multifamily mixed use development in most of the commercial districts and to reduce the citywide requirement for general office parking. And so with the presentation that we have now, again, instead of going through all of the details, we're going to ask Mr. Wallace to kind of remind us how we got where we are, to go with the, remind us what the background was, the options that we looked at, and give kind of a high level overview of the structure we ended up with. And then I will walk through some tests that we did on development projects that we have received proposals for in the city over the past 10 to 15 years in activity centers to give a general sense of what this might mean for how development proposals might change if these amendments are approved.

This includes adult daycare, daycare centers, and nursery schools. The reason those three are specifically called out is because they are the three types of uses in that category that could easily occupy a standard commercial space, such as in a shopping center. And so we wouldn't want to get to a situation where we're having to track tenants of buildings to make sure they're compliant with these standards. So that summarizes the changes. As I mentioned, we have kind of a complex set of motions for you. So we have the main package of amendments, the smaller plan amendments is the first set of sample motions. The second are the two independent amendments. As I mentioned, this includes the removal of special use permits for upper story residential

mixed use and multifamily uses in all of the commercial districts except for the commercial urban district. This is intended to encourage property owners to use a new activity center district. Commercial urban is left as an opportunity for any location where we would support mixed use development outside activity centers. This also means that there would not be an opportunity for applicants to request special use permits on commercial properties and sidestep the planning commission because the commercial urban district also requires rezoning. It's not proactively mapped. to a recommendation to reduce the parking for general office uses citywide not just in activity centers from the current one space for 300 square feet to one space per 400 square