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Council approves Northbrook rezoning and a hotel project; waives landscaping rules for 210 E. Broadway
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Summary
Council adopted a rezoning to allow a single-family subdivision in the Northbrook Addition Phase 2 and approved a conditional-use hotel and related waivers at 210 East Broadway after amending the title and removing a street-tree waiver.
The North Little Rock City Council approved a package of land-use items that included rezoning in the Northbrook Addition Phase 2, a conditional-use approval for a hotel at 210 East Broadway, and an amendment to waive certain landscaping requirements at that Broadway property.
Council suspended readings and adopted O2602 to rezone property in Northbrook Addition Phase 2 from R-1 to R-U to permit development of a single-family subdivision. The vote was taken on emergency first reading and passed without extended discussion.
Separately, the council approved O2603, an amendment granting a conditional use to allow a hotel in a C-6 zone for property at 210 East Broadway. Readings were suspended and the council approved the item on emergency first reading.
Council then considered O2604, which would waive specified tree, landscape-strip and related zoning requirements for the 210 East Broadway site and expressly referenced a decorative fence planned along Poplar Street and Broadway. John Pownell of Thomas Engineering Company described the applicant’s request and clarified the scope: "We're asking we're really not asking for any enclosure waivers... It's just the landscaping ordinance and, and allow a decorative fence along the property line." Project representatives described the fence as decorative with planters and flowering plants; council members questioned whether the waiver included dumpster enclosures or street trees. After discussion the council amended the ordinance to delete the street-tree waiver (section 7.20.3) and to remove the erroneous reference to "enclosure requirements" in the title. The amended ordinance, as clarified, preserves a waiver for the front-yard landscape strip where previously approved along Poplar Street and allows the decorative fence around Lot 4B.
All land-use items were adopted on emergency reading during the meeting. Council did not provide additional details in the record about long-term landscape maintenance, required permits for fence construction, or potential conditions tied to the hotel conditional-use approval.
