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North Little Rock planners approve series of special uses, rezonings and site plans
Summary
The North Little Rock City Planning Commission unanimously approved multiple special-use permits, a rezoning and several site-plan and plat reviews, including an in-home day care, a children’s event center, greenhouses, a vehicle dealership rezoning and design approvals for a church, grocery store and auto repair site.
The North Little Rock City Planning Commission on Jan. 28 approved a slate of land-use requests and site plans, voting unanimously on special-use permits for an in-home day care, a children’s event center and greenhouse structures and clearing rezoning and several design-review items.
Tina Gibbs, the applicant for case SU2025-1613, told the commission she plans to “open up my home, to 5 to 7 kids” at her residence, 1307 West 47th Street, and is pursuing licensing that would allow expansion to 10 children. The commission voted by roll call to approve the special use; staff told Gibbs to contact planning staff (Donna) for next steps.
Other approvals on the consent-style agenda included a special use (2025-17) for Molly Serna to operate a kid-focused tea-party event center at 115 West Broadway; Serna said typical events would end by about 9 p.m. and that private parking on-site can accommodate about 11 cars. The commission approved a special use (2025-19) for Trey Rosenbaum to place ornamental greenhouses at 4801 North Shore Drive; Rosenbaum said the permit requests authorization for up to eight greenhouses though he expects to start with fewer for financial reasons and will operate under the business name Natural State Land Consulting, d/b/a Natural State Nurseries.
A rezoning request (25-23) to change two lots at 4600 MacArthur Drive from residential (R-3) to commercial (C-4) cleared the commission; applicant John Gentry said the change will allow construction of a dealership complex that will include separate vendor/showroom buildings for Honda and other manufacturers. In design-review business, the commission approved SD2025-52 (preliminary plat/site plan for a new church at 6910 De Wafflebaker Lane), SD2025-53 (a roughly 20,000-square-foot grocery store proposed by Aldi with about 97 parking spaces), SP2025-54 (Richardson commercial addition on East McCain Boulevard) and 2025-55 (an eight-bay auto repair facility at 11601 Maumelle Boulevard). Representatives for each project said they had addressed design-review comments and the committee recommended approval.
All motions were approved by voice vote or roll-call vote with the commissioners present voting in favor. Applicants were told to coordinate with planning staff on next procedural steps and permits.
