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Commission recommends rezoning and approves preliminary plat for Peoples Street hotel site
Summary
The commission recommended rezoning 2600 Peoples Street from R3 to MS1 to allow a hotel and approved a companion two-lot preliminary plat; staff said utilities and site-distance requirements will be addressed during engineering review and a traffic study will accompany permit-level applications.
Johnson City planning staff presented a request on Nov. 11 to rezone 2600 Peoples Street from R3 (medium-density residential) to MS1 (Medical Services) to permit a future hotel and to approve a preliminary plat for a two-lot subdivision. The applicant described a concept plan for a 121-room, four-story hotel with 128 parking spaces; staff recommended approval of the rezoning and preliminary plat.
Eric Watts, the applicant, said he is the hotel developer. Commissioners asked whether the rezoning invoked any overlay districts and whether site-distance and elevation at driveways had been addressed. Staff said the application did not invoke overlay considerations, that the developer’s preliminary plat included sight-distance calculations (the plat reported adequate sight distance for the posted speed), and that grading and any additional roadway work would be reviewed at the engineering stage.
Staff noted that a sewer extension will be required and that a traffic study will be completed when the developer submits permits; a sidewalk will be built along Peoples Street and shared access easements will govern driveway access. Commissioners moved to recommend the rezoning and to approve the preliminary plat; both actions passed on unanimous roll-call votes.
The planning manager later reported the city’s Horizon 2045 plan won the Tennessee chapter American Planning Association Plan of the Year for communities over 50,000.
