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Developers ask to rebuild hotel at 5000 W. John Carpenter Freeway; staff finds no hardship for remaining variances
Summary
The property owner seeks to rebuild a hotel (Hilton 'Live Smart Studios') at 5000 W. John Carpenter Freeway with variances for rooms, meeting-space size and a parking setback; staff noted several prior variances were removed but the project still falls short of some hotel development standards and council previously denied an earlier version.
Gina Costanza Grant of the Planning Department presented a zoning/variance package for 5000 West John Carpenter Freeway where a 1997 hotel burned in 2022. The owner seeks a new extended-stay Hilton 'Live Smart Studios' product, rezone to allow a hotel under SP1 CP and variances to hotel-development standards (front building setback, lot coverage, maximum stories/height and parking setback…
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