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Developers seek reduced parking for West Franklin Park development
Summary
A developer presented a request to reduce required parking for the West Franklin Park development in Franklin to match the city's Jan. 1, 2025 zoning ordinance, proposing a cut of 384 spaces while keeping building facades and entitlements unchanged. Neighbors were briefed and planning review is pending.
Developers asked Franklin staff to allow a lower parking requirement for the West Franklin Park campus, proposing to reduce the project's structured and subterranean parking by 384 spaces and to adopt the parking rates in the Franklin zoning ordinance that took effect Jan. 1, 2025.
At a neighborhood meeting, Gary Vogren, landscape architect and land planner with KaiserVogren, said the application is a single modification-of-standards request limited to parking; he said no building heights, floor-area entitlements, facade treatments or other approved development-plan elements would change. "We are simply asking for one modification of standards to reduce parking to match the current zoning ordinance," Vogren said.
The plan presented at the meeting updates a development plan first approved in 2021 and reinvested in 2024. The campus…
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