Planning commission backs recommendation for pickleball courts and dog-park complex at 7654–7664 Main Street

The Woodstock Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend City Council approval of a conditional use permit and four concurrent variances for 7654 and 7664 Main Street, a proposal that would create a recreational complex with six pickleball courts, a roughly 20,000-square-foot turfed off-leash dog park, an 880-square-foot kennel/daycare area, two food-truck stalls and a 2,500-square-foot commercial building that would include a bar and pro shop.

City planner Cameron Dunn told the commission the two parcels total just under three acres, are zoned DTRO and include a significant stream buffer on the northern parcel; the applicant is not proposing any development in the stream buffer. Staff described required variances for fence height, sidewalk supplemental zone depth, block-size standards and a waiver from certain downtown…