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Committee approves PUD rezoning to allow restaurant alcohol sales at neighborhood shopping center
Summary
The committee approved a planned-unit-development rezoning (2025-0132) to add alcohol-sales for a restaurant and billiard hall in a Southside neighborhood shopping center, including a reduced distance to St. George Church; Planning Commission recommended approval.
The Land Use & Zoning Committee on April 1 approved PUD rezoning ordinance 2025-0132 to allow the retail sale of all alcoholic beverages in conjunction with a restaurant and billiard hall in a shopping center near the intersection of Bowden Road and surrounding residential uses.
Planning staff reported the site is in an established commercial corridor and the requested use is consistent with the neighborhood-commercial land-use category. The applicant said the proposed operator is seeking to fill a vacant restaurant space and that earlier approvals in the same center had permitted alcohol sales. The PUD also requested a reduction in the minimum separation distance from a church from 500 feet to 320 feet for the specific location; staff said the consumption area would not be directly visible from the church and would be physically separated.
The Planning Commission had no speakers in opposition and voted unanimously to recommend approval. The committee voted to approve the rezoning; no roll-call votes by name were recorded in the minutes excerpt. The applicant indicated the business would create jobs and bring a use not currently present in the immediate area.
Votes at a glance 2025-0132 — PUD rezoning to allow restaurant alcohol sales and reduced separation from church: Approved, unanimous.
