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Commission reviews downtown special-use and rezone proposals for bars, housing and parking
Summary
Planning staff presented four items from the Planning Commission. Highlights included a special-use request to permit a private event space and adjacent food-truck court to operate as a bar at 166 W. Clayton, a variance to allow 11% ground-floor commercial at 458 E. Clayton to enable multifamily units, and a rezone at 295 Doherty Street to Government to accommodate structured parking. Planning recommended approval for the items presented.
Athens-Clarke County planning staff brought four Planning Commission recommendations to the Feb. 17 agenda-setting meeting, including three downtown land-use requests the commission signaled it will consider at the voting meeting.
At 166 W. Clayton Street, staff described a dual food-truck court and interior event space whose occupancies each exceed 100 people; because that occupancy threshold triggers special-use review for bar operations, the applicant requested a special-use approval. Planning recommended approval, citing…
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