Commission approves neighborhood cafe at 1504 W. Lemp St.; grants sidewalk variance and parking reduction

The Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission approved two related land-use requests for a neighborhood cafe at 1504 West Lemp Street: CUP 24-34, a conditional use permit for a reduced parking requirement, and CVA 24-24, a variance to maintain the existing 5-foot detached sidewalk rather than installing the city’s typical 10-foot detached sidewalk.

Planning staff summarized the proposal, saying the site is a 0.15-acre corner parcel in the R-1C residential traditional zone within a Historic Design Overlay. The applicant proposes to retain the existing early-20th-century single-family house on the lot and construct a new, single-story, 1,200-square-foot neighborhood cafe oriented to Fifteenth Street. Staff said the neighborhood-cafe use is allowed in R-1C with design standards, and that the conditional use permit before the commission covered the parking reduction only; the cafe’s building design is under administrative review for code compliance and will be…