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Planning commission defers rezoning request for 1810 Coffey Road after disagreement over proposed use
Summary
Stonecrest Planning Commission voted unanimously to defer a rezoning request for 1810 Coffey Road after staff reviewed materials for truck parking while the applicant described a light-industrial distribution use. Commissioners said staff and the applicant must clarify the submittal and hold community outreach before the application returns.
The Stonecrest Planning Commission on March 4, 2025, voted unanimously to defer action on rezoning petition RZ24-005 for 1810 Coffey Road after staff and the applicant presented different descriptions of the proposed use.
The petition, submitted as a request to rezone 1.42 acres from M-2 (heavy industrial) to M-1 (light industrial), was introduced by the Planning Department. The deputy director told commissioners the property is heavily wooded, contains wetlands and that staff had reviewed the packet as an application for truck parking; staff recommended denial because the parcel does not meet requirements in a recent text modification that called for a minimum five-acre parcel for commercial truck parking and a 750-foot separation from adjacent residential properties.
Attorney Josh Mahoney, representing the applicant and Battle Law PC, told the commission the proposal is not for truck parking but for a light-industrial distribution facility and a 20,000-square-foot building shown on the submitted site plan. "We are not looking to do truck parking," Mahoney said, and he added the applicant owns the adjacent PepsiCo parcel and intends to combine the lots so the smaller parcel would be absorbed into the larger facility.
The discrepancy prompted questions from commissioners and members of the public. Faye Caulfield, a Stonecrest resident who attended the CPIM (community public information meeting) and the planning commission hearing, told commissioners she had understood the CPIM materials indicated truck parking and opposed truck parking, arguing it limits future commercial development and can produce nuisance uses. "We were told that this was going to be truck parking...there does not need to be another truck parking lot in Stonecrest," Caulfield said.
Commissioner Lemuel Hawkins moved to defer the application to a full cycle so staff can meet with the applicant, review a clarified submittal (including the intended use and any required studies), and schedule a community public information meeting so neighbors can see and comment on the actual proposal. The motion said the deferral should allow staff time to prepare a complete evaluation and public notice reflecting the applicant’s stated use. The planning commission voted 3-0 to defer RZ24-005.
The commission’s deferral preserves the applicant’s right to return with a clarified application and gives staff time to reevaluate the submission under the actual proposed use. If resubmitted following the full cycle, the item would return to the CPIM, then to the Planning Commission for a recommendation to City Council.
Next steps: staff and the applicant are to coordinate to produce an updated packet and community meeting; the application will return to the commission after those steps are complete.
