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Jonesboro planning panel approves variance to retain Highland driveway, but final access point tied to traffic study
Summary
The commission approved a variance allowing a developer to keep an existing Highland driveway for a proposed 6,000-square-foot restaurant at the former Ryan's site, with the drivewaylocation to be set after a traffic study; developers must still submit full plans and a traffic report before permitting.
Jonesboro Planning Commission members voted to grant a variance allowing the owners represented by Stonebridge Construction to retain an existing driveway onto Highland for a proposed redevelopment of the former Ryan—s buffet site, with the exact access location to be determined by a required traffic study.
The variance covers a redevelopment that would replace an approximately 10,000-square-foot restaurant building with a smaller, roughly 6,000-square-foot restaurant. Rob Hester of Stonebridge Construction told the commission the firm was asking to keep the Highland driveway in its current location rather than making the Larkwood private drive the sole public entrance.
"The new building would be about 6,000 square feet and would bring into compliance the curbs and islands and so forth. But our request is to be able to keep our existing drive on Highland," Hester said.
Commission staff said the…
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