Planning commission approves Golden Egg Rolls redevelopment at 314 Main Street with several design deviations

On March 25 the Onalaska Planning Commission approved a General Development Plan (GDP) and an implementation plan to redevelop 314 Main Street (Tax Parcel 18-157-0) into a restaurant and related site improvements, granting five deviations from the city's Unified Development Code for the project proposed by Golden Egg Rolls LLC.

Planning Director Katie Asmanson told the commission the project would convert the existing building into a new restaurant called Mungold Negril's and requested deviations to reduce the parking-lot setback requirement, lower the minimum building street-frontage percentage, reduce the required transparency on a street-facing façade, allow a blank wall on the western (alley) façade, and permit alternate façade materials on the north (Main Street) and western facades.

Asmanson said the parcel is in the Mixed Use Community district and that the code requires 75% building street frontage and 60% street-facing transparency. The applicant sought to reduce street frontage to 64% and transparency to 34%, arguing that achieving 60% transparency would require full-height windows that could expose structural framing…