City planning staff gave informational briefings at the Sept. 4 meeting on two separate planning requests that will return to the council for public hearings in October.

Planning staff described case RZON2503-001, a request to rezone property at 100 Cherokee Street from R-20 single-family residential to CBD (Central Business District). The applicant’s stated intent is to operate a restaurant in a building that formerly housed a surveyor’s office; the rezoning request includes two variance requests: to allow continued use of a gravel driveway/parking surface and to allow encroachment into a required stream buffer.

Staff also briefed council on Master Plan 2508-001 and Conditional Use Permit 2508-002. The project had previously been approved several years ago for 124 living units (96 single-family and 28 duplex units) under a different developer. The new proposal would be a new master plan (not an amendment) under a different developer and requests 143 living units composed of 15 single-family homes, 80 townhomes and 48 duplex units; the increase in units requires two means of ingress and egress, which staff said are shown on the submitted site plan. Planning staff said both items will come back as public hearings in October.

These items were listed on the agenda as informational and no public hearing or council vote occurred on Sept. 4.