Safety Harbor board backs storage-only addition for The Stuffed Mushroom, grants parking and dumpster waivers

The Planning and Zoning Board of Safety Harbor City on Aug. 13 recommended that the City Commission approve a site-plan application (Case 2024-26SD) allowing a roughly 2,017-square-foot rear addition to The Stuffed Mushroom at 825 Main Street, subject to conditions limiting the new space to storage and requiring certain engineering and permitting steps.

The board’s recommendation follows a staff presentation by Cecilia Archon, senior planner and GIS analyst for the City of Safety Harbor, who said the site is about 0.169 acres in the Service Corridor 1 (Carriker District) and that the proposed building would be about 16.75 feet tall, under the downtown master plan maximum of 35 feet. "The building addition shall only be utilized as a storage space and shall not be open to the public," Archon said when describing a proposed restriction staff is recommending.

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