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Brentwood P&Z rejects broad text amendment to allow personal-service businesses in light industrial district, urges conditional-use route
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Commission voted unanimously to recommend denial of a proposed text amendment that would add personal-service establishments as a permitted use in the light industrial district, instead recommending the Board of Aldermen allow such uses only by conditional use; applicant may apply for a CUP and return to P&Z before Board review.
The Brentwood Planning & Zoning Commission unanimously recommended that the Board of Aldermen reject a proposed text amendment (P&Z 24-21) to add personal-service businesses as a permitted use in the city’s light industrial district, instead urging the Board to add the use as a conditional use so sites receive site-specific review.
Drew Clary of Intellica Commercial Real Estate presented the application on behalf of owner Bamboo Equity Partners and a prospective tenant, Monarch Beauty Collective, for a building at 2001 South Hanley Road (rebranded as Hanley Point). Clary described the tenant’s services — body sculpting, eyelash extensions, permanent makeup, spray tanning, Botox and fillers — and said the use is appointment-only and similar in traffic impact to professional-office uses.
Commissioners raised planning concerns about adding a broadly permitted right in the light industrial district, saying the district has been incrementally altered and a blanket change could encourage uses in locations that are ill-suited. Commissioner Sherry Bilderback and others urged a conditional-use path to preserve the Commission’s ability to assess site-specific parking, traffic and compatibility issues. Staff noted that a text amendment would apply citywide within the district and that a conditional use would require notice, a separate application and a public hearing before the Planning & Zoning Commission prior to Board consideration.
The Commission voted to reject the text amendment as submitted and to recommend that the Board of Aldermen adopt an amendment allowing personal-service establishments in the light industrial district only as conditional uses. Staff told the applicant the Board of Aldermen is scheduled for a first-reading/public hearing on Dec. 2; the applicant was advised to file for a conditional-use permit and return to the Planning & Zoning Commission (next P&Z meeting cited as Dec. 11) so the Board could consider site-specific findings on a timely schedule.
The applicant acknowledged the conditional-use route may delay tenant occupancy but said the tenant is on a deadline to secure space. The Commission’s recommendation is advisory; any change to the code would require Board of Aldermen action.
