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Planning commission recommends lifting 2003 use restriction on Ray Thornton property after debate
Summary
The Montgomery City Planning Commission voted 7-2 to recommend removing a 2003 use restriction on a B‑3 parcel at 1740 Ray Thornton Road, a change that would allow retail tenants the owners say are needed to sell the property.
The Montgomery City Planning Commission voted 7-2 to recommend lifting a use restriction placed on a B-3–zoned parcel at 1740 Ray Thornton Road, allowing the property to be used for any purpose permitted in B-3 zoning.
The change matters because the restriction — written when the parcel was rezoned in 2003 — limited the lot to a veterinary clinic or office use, and the current owners and their representatives said that limitation has made the site effectively unsellable. With the restriction removed, the owners said, conventional retail tenants are now possible.
Mark Davis of Ball Ball Matthews Novak, representing CH Vets/Carriage Hills Vet Clinic owners, described the property’s history and argued the restriction no longer matches market conditions. “If you don't lift these restrictions, you're basically saying it can only be used for these very limited purposes, which the market has…
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