The Greenfield Common Council approved a special‑use permit and site plan review for a limited‑service ice cream restaurant to occupy about 2,500 square feet at 6401 West Forest Home Avenue.

City planning staff told the council the property is zoned C‑3, requiring a special‑use permit, and that the tenant will operate daily from roughly 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The planner said the proposed business would have two full‑time and two part‑time employees and that the site requires 28 parking spaces but provides 18; the council elected to waive the parking shortage as part of approval. Staff also flagged a newly installed roof light that does not meet the city’s lighting standards and asked the applicant to remedy that item.

The owner of the building told council members the rooftop light dated to the building’s earlier use as a car wash and had been unused for decades; the owner said he had removed it after the planning review flagged it. No letters of objection or support were reported to the city clerk. The plan commission had recommended approval on June 10 with the outstanding lighting issue to be addressed.

A motion to approve the special‑use permit and the site plan passed unanimously in a roll call vote of alderpersons Druswicki, Bailey, Castner and Akers.

The new tenant will be required to correct the noncompliant rooftop lighting and meet other conditions of the site plan approval as noted by planning staff.