Planning commission approves Tap House on Walton with nine operational conditions after neighbor complaints

The Syracuse City Planning Commission on Monday approved a major site plan review for a change of use at 294 West Jefferson Street (MISPR-25-44), allowing the space to operate as a bar under a set of nine conditions meant to address longstanding neighbor complaints about noise and building vibration.

Planning staff and commissioners said the property has a “long history of complaints” and the application was elevated from a minor to a major site plan review. Joe Gilvagno, the applicant’s agent for owner Edward Gottlieb/Pacific Properties Inc., described the proposal as a change of use from a restaurant to a bar. The commission read nine special conditions into the record and voted to approve the project with those conditions and the standard general conditions.

Those conditions — read into the record by planning staff — require: compliance with a memorandum of understanding (executed March 28, 2025); strict control of noise to avoid violation of the City of Syracuse noise ordinance (Revised General Ordinances, Chapter 40, Section 40-16); no live entertainment without a city…