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Commissioners weigh grocery-store allowances and limits on nonconforming retail in PDR
Summary
Staff proposed a conditional-use path to enable grocery-store expansion in PDR districts and sought direction on whether and how to allow expansions or portability of large nonconforming retail and personal-service uses (gyms); public commenters and commissioners debated size caps, case-by-case CUs and limited portability.
Planning staff proposed a targeted approach to let neighborhood grocery stores expand in PDR districts while preserving the policy intent to protect production, distribution and repair (PDR) space. Steve Wertheim (planning staff) described the staff recommendation: treat grocery stores as eligible for expansion via a special exception — a conditional-use permit (CU) — so existing grocers could expand beyond PDR retail limits in PDR-1G and PDR-1D where the default caps had been 2,500 or 5,000 square feet for ground-floor retail.
Wertheim summarized the rationale: "grocery stores really aren't like other…
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