TRC conditionally approves Leisure Lane bed‑and‑breakfast project pending technical reviews
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A proposed two‑inn bed‑and‑breakfast development at 44 Leisure Lane was conditionally approved by Walton County’s TRC; staff and applicants must address several planning, right‑of‑way and engineering comments and consider pedestrian connectivity to adjacent commercial property.
Walton County’s Technical Review Committee on Dec. 17 conditionally approved a development‑order application for Leisure Lane Bed and Breakfast (MIN25‑000106), advancing the project pending completion of outstanding technical reviews.
Ayanna (planning staff) reviewed the proposal from David Forstrom on behalf of KTAD Bridal Holdings LLC for two bed‑and‑breakfast inns with nine rooms each on a 0.25‑acre parcel at 44 Leisure Lane in District 5. Staff noted the application had been continued several times and that environmental planning required a second‑round review; several planning, public‑works and engineering comments remain.
A key question from staff related to a code footnote in the South Walton Planning Area that increases abutting setbacks for nonresidential uses when adjacent to single‑family residential uses. Ayanna and the chair agreed the nearby townhome parcel is likely considered multifamily and that an intervening parcel means additional setback standards would not be applied to the north in this case.
Applicant David Forstrom said most planning comments were addressed in a Dec. 1 resubmittal and that the team is down to three planning comments; he also confirmed drainage modeling, underground stormwater storage and grading details can be addressed without changing the overall plan. Forstrom supported adding vegetation and said he could work with staff on pedestrian connectivity to the adjoining restaurant to the south.
Staff recommended conditional approval pending completed technical reviews and resolution of outstanding comments; the committee voted to conditionally approve and to allow the applicant to continue coordination with staff on landscape, grading and connectivity details.
Next steps: applicant to complete remaining engineering/ROW/environmental responses and resubmit; staff to confirm pedestrian‑connectivity condition options and clear outstanding comments before final development order.