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Council approves text change for Town Center setback after traffic, delivery concerns
Summary
Highland City Council approved a targeted text amendment to Town Center commercial setback rules to allow a proposed tenant’s pickup-window layout on a single parcel; council and public raised traffic, delivery and parking concerns and required further site-plan engineering and possible signage/stipulations before final site-plan approval.
Highland City Council on Jan. 7 approved a narrowly tailored change to the Town Center commercial setback rule to allow a building on the last vacant lot near Wendy’s to be sited farther from Town Center Boulevard so a tenant’s pickup window can be accommodated. Council action removed the ordinance subsection imposing a maximum setback that the applicant said prevented the layout they want.
Planning staff and the applicant presented the change as a text amendment that would apply only to the one lot where the proposed restaurant tenant wants a pickup window and limited on-site circulation. Rob Patterson, planning staff, told council the code provision currently imposes a maximum setback—15 feet for a building and 10 feet to a door in the section at issue—and that the applicant sought to amend the code to allow a 25-foot setback so the building could accommodate a pickup window lane without removing required landscape buffers.…
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