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Commission backs PCD amendment for Walmart site to allow convenience store with fuel center and lower parking ratio
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended approval of a planned commercial development amendment for the Walmart site on Jackson Parkway to add a fuel center and convenience store, tighten lighting and buffering, set operating hours, and reduce the parking ratio to 2.5/1,000 sq ft.
The Murfreesboro Planning Commission on March 5 recommended approval of an amendment to the Canonsburg Place planned commercial development (PCD) to allow a fuel center with a convenience store, revise parking ratios, and add buffering and lighting limits for an approximately 23–25 acre Walmart-anchored site along Jackson Parkway and Shelbyville Pike.
Matthew Donovan, planning staff, described the site as the existing Walmart supercenter and said the original PCD was approved in 2012. Donovan said the amendment permits a fuel center with an approximately 1,600-square-foot c-store and non-fuel pumps, revises the parking requirement from 4.7 spaces per 1,000 square feet to 2.5 per 1,000 (consistent with current big-box standards), and establishes hours of operation from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Donovan told commissioners the applicant added a Type C buffer along the eastern property margin to screen an adjacent townhome development and included a photometric plan and commitment that light levels at the property line would be a half foot-candle or less; initial measurements showed lower values. The staff report concluded the amendment is consistent with the Murfreesboro 2035 comprehensive plan’s general commercial designation and that design elements “mirror those of the existing approved development.”
No members of the public spoke during the hearing and a motion to approve “subject to all staff comments” carried unanimously in the recorded vote. The Planning Commission will forward its recommendation to the City Council for final action.
The amendment, if adopted by council, would permit the fuel center and convenience store, change the site parking standard, and add the buffering and lighting commitments described to the Canonsburg Place PCD.
