Commission recommends denying off‑site parking exception for Cherry Hill Farms produce stand after safety, screening concerns

The Alpine City Planning Commission recommended denying an applicant’s request for exceptions that would allow a nearby lot to serve as off‑site parking for a popular produce stand and to permit a hard‑packed surface and alternate striping instead of a paved lot.

Planner Ryan Robinson explained the request: the produce stand sought to use a parcel across Bateman Lane for customer parking and asked exceptions to the city’s usual off‑site parking rules, surface‑material standards and lighting hours. Robinson said the applicant submitted a traffic and pedestrian plan that would add a four‑foot concrete sidewalk and a crosswalk, and had provided a memo addressing the code’s off‑site parking exception criteria.

Public safety and neighborhood impacts dominated public comment. Multiple…