Oakland planning board backs 37,184‑sq‑ft Oakland Exchange PD amendment, with conditions after resident concerns

The Planning & Zoning Board of the Town of Oakland on October 1 recommended approval of Ordinance 2024‑10, a second amendment to the Oakland Commercial Center planned development that would permit an Oakland Exchange office complex totaling 37,184 square feet on approximately 4.4 acres (Lots 5 and 6). The board’s recommendation included conditions intended to address resident concerns about buffering, dumpster placement and lighting.

Brad Kornatus, the town planner, told board members the property at the southwest corner of Remington Road and Southern Railway is part of the 2018 Oakland Commercial Center PD (with a 2019 minor amendment) and that the amendment now before the board would replace the previously approved layout of four multi‑story office buildings with 12 single‑story buildings and increase the PD’s office square footage cap from 30,000 to 37,184. Kornatus said the applicant is JW 2 Development LLC (Duane King) and the property owner is Racetrack Inc. He said the proposal retains required perimeter landscaping in the PD and meets tree‑protection counts in the development agreement, while asking to reduce an internal landscape easement between Lots 5 and 6 as part of a future replat.

The amendment package requests several specific changes: an increase of 7,184 square feet of office area, a different site layout (12 single‑story buildings rather than the prior multi‑story footprint), removing an internal landscape easement between Lots 5 and 6 (to be replatted if…