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Board recommends land-use change and grants parking variance for Whitty Whisker cat café on Old Mission

City of St. Augustine Planning & Zoning Board · December 2, 2025
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Summary

The board recommended changing the future land-use designation for 70 Old Mission Ave from residential low to commercial low intensity and granted a two-space parking variance so Whitty Whisker can relocate there; staff said the site is already zoned commercial but the land-use map needs to match.

The Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend a small-scale land-use amendment to the City Commission and to grant a minor variance reducing required off-street parking from nine spaces to seven for Whitty Whisker, a downtown cat café seeking to move to 70 Old Mission Ave.

Attorney James Whitehouse, representing the applicant, told the board the parcel is zoned commercial but the future land-use map still lists it as residential low density.…

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