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Key Construction proposes three townhomes by converting former dry cleaner at 104 South Indian Alley
Summary
Key Construction presented a CUP to convert the ground floor of the former People’s Cleaners at 104 South Indian Alley into three vertically oriented townhome units and add a second floor. Staff noted the site’s historic character, an 11% proposed green space and a tight parking layout in a parking-exempt district that staff agreed to refine.
At the April 1 planning commission work session, Key Construction presented CUP25146 seeking a conditional use permit to convert first-floor nonresidential space at 104 South Indian Alley (the former People’s Cleaners building) into residential units and to add a second floor. The property sits adjacent to the pedestrian mall and is in a central business district with a historic district overlay.
Staff said the masonry building dates to the late 1940s and that the proposal preserves the building’s historic openings while adding new, vertically oriented two-story townhome units. The draft plans show three units, each two floors, with two bedrooms and roughly one-and-a-half bathrooms. The proposal also includes small fenced front patios and about 11% green space overall; staff noted the site meets or exceeds recently updated green-space expectations for the B-1 district.
Parking for the site sits within a parking-exempt area, so the city does not require a specific number of spaces. However, staff and commissioners observed the proposed parking layout is tight and flagged one space in the plan (space No. 3) as likely impractical without additional maneuvering room. Staff said the CUP can be conditioned on administrative site-plan revisions to improve circulation and that staff and the applicant would continue to refine the layout.
Commissioners noted the proposal’s modern architectural treatment and the benefits of adding downtown housing. The property also will need to navigate historic-district review (the BAR) as part of the entitlement process.
No formal vote was taken at the work session; staff will continue to work with the applicant on parking configuration and historic-district review steps.
