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Board allows expanded parking but denies other setbacks and drive‑through variances for proposed Chick‑fil‑A at W. Third & Kimball
Summary
The Board approved one variance — allowing 39 parking spaces (with permeable pavers for any spaces above the UDO maximum) — and denied other requested variances for the proposed Don Cowden Foundation/Chick‑fil‑A site at West Third Street and Kimball Drive; staff recommended the same split action.
The Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals on April 24 approved a variance allowing a greater-than-code number of parking spaces for a proposed Chick‑fil‑A at the northwest corner of West Third Street and Kimball Drive, but denied a suite of other variances that would have allowed parking and drive-through lanes between the building and the street and permitted a front‑facing refuse enclosure.
Staff presented the petition from Don Cowden Foundation/Chick‑fil‑A, which requested six variances for a two-parcel site inside the city jurisdiction (a third adjacent parcel sits in Monroe County and is not part of the city review). After additional site work following a March hearing — including the addition of permeable pavers and a proposed 3½-foot screening knee wall along the…
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