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Pleasant View planning commission approves indoor golf-simulator business at Rulon White Boulevard
Summary
The Pleasant View Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit for an indoor golf-simulator business at 2734 Rulon White Boulevard. The applicant said the operation will be contained inside an existing unit with no exterior changes or additional parking required.
The Pleasant View Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit Thursday for an indoor golf-simulator business at 2734 Rulon White Boulevard.
Staff presented the application as a request to allow a recreational/educational use under the MP-1 zone’s “community uses” provisions and recommended the commission decide whether the proposed indoor golf instruction fits within that category. The staff report described community uses as “serving the religious, recreational, educational, or governmental needs of the community” and said the proposed use would require only interior changes and no additional parking or exterior site alterations if approved.
Petitioners Sean Collin and Quinn Henderson told the commission they plan to operate a Back 9 Golf franchise with three to four golf simulators inside one unit of an existing industrial/office building. Collin said the unit is about 7,500 square feet overall; the business would occupy roughly the front 3,000 square feet while the rear portion would be rented to another tenant. He described a mix of live coaching and hourly rentals and said the simulators use Full Swing equipment with built-in performance sensors to provide swing and club-face feedback.
Collin said all work would be interior to the unit, that they will add soundproofing to reduce impacts to neighboring tenants, and that the landlord has approved the intended use. He said the business model is low-impact, may be rented by coaches who bring their own students, and that the owners regarded the operation as comparable to other indoor recreational/educational uses in the zone.
Commission discussion focused on whether the use fit the MP-1 zone’s conditional-use language. Commissioners noted the zone’s “not limited to” wording and a previously cited example of Burton Basketball Academy as a similar community use; staff later said it could not find a record of Burton Basketball’s conditional-use review in the files. Commissioners raised no site-specific conditions and accepted staff’s findings that parking and signage would be handled through normal building-permit and sign-review processes.
A motion to approve the conditional use permit for the golf-simulator facility was made and seconded; the commission voted unanimously to approve. No additional staff conditions were recorded in the public hearing record.
The petitioners said they plan a soft opening and later a grand opening and invited commissioners to tour the facility once it is built out.
