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Avon commission approves Park Place Crossing plan with six waivers
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Summary
The Avon Advisory Planning Commission approved DPR 25‑12 for Park Place Crossing, a 9,000‑sq‑ft multi‑tenant building, granting six waiver requests and imposing staff conditions including a revised lighting plan and a required driveway closure when Beachwood Center Road is extended.
Avon Advisory Planning Commission members voted to approve DPR 25‑12, the Park Place Crossing development plan, after granting six waivers to the town’s Unified Development Ordinance. The plan authorizes a roughly 9,000‑square‑foot, multi‑tenant commercial building and surface parking on three platted lots along Park Place Boulevard.
Staff presented the project and the six waiver requests — reduced local street width for Beachwood Center Road, a smaller front landscape buffer, a reduced depth for one row of parking stalls, reduced foundation planting in some locations, reduced driveway separation from opposing driveways, and relief from rear‑facade articulation standards — and recommended approval subject to five conditions in the staff report plus an added condition requiring the owner to close the eastern driveway nearest the intersection if and when the town extends Beachwood Center Road west of the site.
Petitioner representative Dale Cruz said the developers are local business owners who plan to occupy two of the six tenant suites. Cruz described the property as “a challenging site” that has been vacant since the 1980s and said the team revised the site layout to accommodate the town’s thoroughfare plan and to preserve an additional vacant lot to the north.
Members of the public and the Chamber of Commerce spoke in support of the project, noting the applicant’s local ties and arguing the development would add commercial services and small‑business space to Park Place. A neighbor asked for clarification about future parking needs and the proposed alignment and timing of the Beachwood Center Road extension; staff and the petitioner said future parking would be driven by future tenant uses and that dedication of right‑of‑way and detailed stormwater and landscaping plans will be addressed during platting and permitting.
Commission discussion focused on the tradeoffs created by the parcel’s shallow depth and the requirement to accommodate a future public street. Commissioners and staff reviewed the five statutory findings required for development‑standards waivers and the separate standards for design waivers. After discussing each waiver individually, the commission approved waivers A through F and then approved the development plan review by majority vote, subject to staff’s five conditions and the petitioner’s agreement to provide a revised lighting plan and to close the eastern driveway as the town’s thoroughfare plan is built out.
The approval includes standard conditions — revised lighting meeting ordinance limits, required landscaping and foundation plantings where feasible, submission of subdivision platting to allow construction across platted lot lines, and compliance with stormwater and public‑works requirements — plus the driveway‑closure condition tied to extension of Beachwood Center Road. The commission’s vote on the final DPR was recorded in the meeting minutes and the staff report will be incorporated into the permit record.
The petitioner said construction is expected to begin as landscaping and utility approvals are finalized; further permits will be required before site work begins.
