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Planning commission tables downtown event-venue permit after parking, capacity concerns
Summary
The Planning Commission declined to approve a request for a special use permit for an event venue at 110 E. Main Street, voting to table the application so the applicant can provide a parking plan and a life-safety review to clarify likely occupancy and impacts on downtown parking.
The Jenks Planning Commission on Thursday voted to table a request for a specific-use permit for an event venue at 110 East Main Street after commissioners and nearby business owners raised concerns about parking and likely occupant loads.
City Planner Marce Hilton described the application as an event/assembly use adjacent to an already-approved office use at the address. Hilton said the building-inspections department estimated maximum occupancies for non-fixed seating of about 160 in the front area and 50 in the rear, but she recommended approval only with a parking plan because downtown parking had been the subject of recent city incentives to attract restaurants. "I was concerned about parking and felt like in order to be…
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