Social House expansion: Planning Commission schedules public hearing, tables parking agreement and discusses parking, courts and noise

The Menomonee Falls Plan Commission on June 3 heard a multi-part application from Dan Della of Social House to reclassify and rezone adjacent church-owned land for expanded parking and recreational uses; commissioners set a July 8 public hearing on the comprehensive plan amendment and tabled the related parking agreement to the same meeting.

Planner Amy Dunnet said the applicant proposes to purchase about 27,000 square feet from the adjacent Zion Lutheran Church to expand parking, add two pickleball courts, bocce ball lanes (up to three), and a 10-by-40-foot service kiosk. Dunnet said the existing Social House parcel is zoned C-1 Neighborhood Business with a Planned Infill Development (PID) overlay; the adjacent parcel is CB-2 Civic Institutional with institutional land use. The application seeks to amend the land-use map from institutional to commercial, rezone the parcel to C-1 with the PID overlay, and adopt several development exemptions under the PID to accommodate building setbacks, landscaping sizes,…