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Port St. Lucie board approves three parking variances for 500 Stadium property, with conditions
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board approved three parking variances for businesses at 500 Stadium Property (Jumpstart fitness, Gold Standard fitness, and a physical-therapy clinic), each conditioned to be exclusive to the current applicant and to terminate on cessation or change of use; staff relied on a shared-parking analysis showing peak demand of about 74 of 96 spaces.
The Port St. Lucie Planning & Zoning Board on Jan. 6 approved three separate parking variances for businesses proposed at 500 Stadium Property, a 3.36-acre site of warehouse and office buildings at NW Stadium Drive and NW Peacock Boulevard.
Staff presentations (Cody Sisk) described three variance applications: P25-192 (Jumpstart, a 1,120 sq ft appointment-only fitness studio, requesting a 3-space reduction), P25-193 (Gold Standard fitness, 2,240 sq ft, requesting a 5-space reduction) and P25-194 (a physical-therapy office, 2,080 sq ft, requesting a 4-space reduction). Each request relied on a shared-parking analysis based on the ITE parking-generation manual (6th ed.). Traffic consultant Luke Lambert said the analysis estimated the site would require 94 spaces under full use but that current layout provides 96 spaces; the shared-parking temporal analysis showed a peak demand around 74 spaces, leaving roughly 22 spaces of slack at peak.
Applicants and the property manager described business models designed to reduce concurrent peak demand: Jumpstart and Gold Standard operate by appointment and primarily at early-morning and late-afternoon times; the physical-therapy model described is appointment-driven with typically one clinician on site and limited staff overlap. The property manager said the leases and outreach letters from existing tenants were provided as part of the application.
Several board members asked how the city would detect a change in use that might void the variance; staff said the business-tax/occupancy process would flag changes and that the condition recommended by staff would render the variance null and void if ownership or use changed. A public commenter raised a potential compliance concern under the Florida Accessibility Code (citing Section 208.2.2) that could require a different accessible-parking arrangement; staff and the commenter agreed that an additional variance or building-code review could be required through the Florida building-code process.
Each variance was approved with staff’s recommended condition that the relief be granted exclusively to the current applicant and terminate automatically upon cessation of the approved business operation or change in ownership or business entity.
