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Board approves rear-yard variances for Highway 31 convenience and liquor store to add kitchen and cooler
Summary
The Decatur City Board of Zoning and Adjustments voted 4-0 to approve rear-yard variances allowing a convenience/liquor store at 5520 Highway 31 South to add a kitchen and a cooler. Planning staff said the variance is an early step in a multi-stage approval process.
At a Decatur City Board of Zoning and Adjustments meeting that began at 4:02 p.m., an applicant for a convenience and liquor store at 5520 U.S. Highway 31 South sought two rear-yard setback variances to expand the building with a kitchen and a cooler. The board voted to approve the variances by a 4-0 roll call in the portion of the transcript provided.
The applicant, identified in the record as Mitrice Patel, told the board, "It's a convenience store slash a liquor store, and I'm trying to add a kitchen into the same ex extending a new building," and described plans to separate the space so one side would remain liquor sales and the other would house a kitchen for prepared food to sell to customers. The property was listed in the hearing as in a B-2 General Business district.
The variances requested were a 4.2-foot rear-yard setback variance to construct a kitchen/liquor-store addition and a 9.7-foot rear-yard setback variance to construct a cooler addition. Planning staff said this was "the first, I think, of many steps" the applicant would need to complete if the variance is approved and that the matter had been discussed in a pre-application meeting with safety reviewers.
After public testimony was closed, a motion to grant the appeal was made and seconded. The minutes excerpt records the roll call and affirmative votes as: "Tom Pohl? Yes. Mark Moody? Yes. Chester Ayers? Yes. Delaine Dean? Yes." The transcript does not record the mover or seconder by name in the provided excerpt. The outcome recorded in the excerpt is approval of the variances.
The planning department noted additional steps after a variance approval, including permitting and other reviews; the transcript excerpt does not list specific conditions attached to the board's approval.
Details: property address given as 5520 Highway 31 South, parcel in B-2 General Business district; variances requested 4.2 feet and 9.7 feet to permit the additions.
