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Conduct a public hearing and consider approving Ordinance No. 3985, authorizing a Specific Use Permit (SUP) for a restaurant on an approximately 0.27-acre property located at 2243 Valwood Parkway and located within the Planned Development District No. 22 (PD-22) zoning district; and take appropriate action.
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REQUESTOR:
Community Services
BACKGROUND:
The applicant, Chris Sitler with Sitler Architecture, is seeking approval of a Specific Use Permit (SUP) for a restaurant for the existing office building located at 2243 Valwood Parkway, an approximate 0.27-acre property located on the north side of Valwood Parkway, east of the intersection of Valwood Parkway and Diplomat Drive, west of Interstate 35 (IH-35E). The subject site is located in Planned Development District No. 22 (PD-22), which requires SUP approval for restaurants.
The subject property and the adjacent property immediately to the east, addressed at 2245 Valwood Parkway, are currently platted separately and are currently used for office purposes.
DISCUSSION:
The applicant intends to utilize the existing building as a restaurant, which requires SUP approval in PD-22, per Ordinance No. 2512.
PD-22 does not have its own standard for required parking for restaurant uses. Therefore, this standard defaults to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (CZO), which requires one space per 400 square feet of gross floor area. Given the building measures 1,988 square feet, this requires five spaces be provided with eight spaces currently existing, which exceeds this requirement.
Staff reviewed the application for compliance with the Comprehensive Plan, PD-22, and the CZO. The following considerations guided the staff's analysis:
* The surrounding property's visibility from IH-35E and North Stemmons Freeway and adjoining land uses.
* Given that the subject property is surrounded by industrial and office/warehousing uses and the property's designation of "Industrial" on the Future Land Use Map within t...
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