Applicant seeks reduced on-site parking for counseling office at 1403 9th Avenue

At a Conway planning-board meeting, a speaker who identified himself during the discussion as Justin Poindexter asked the board to grant a parking variance so an appointment-based counseling practice at 1403 9th Avenue could operate with three on-site spaces instead of the 10 required under the Unified Development Ordinance. “We're here to ask for a parking variance, specifically a variance of those 7 spaces for the allowance of 3,” the speaker said.

The applicant told the board the planned business would be appointment-only and have low daytime overlap among clients. In response to a board question about how he calculated nearby on-street parking, the speaker said he measured roughly 350–400 feet on each side of the road, used 22 feet per parallel space and estimated “you could easily fit 15 vehicles … down each side of the road, which got me to 30.”

Board staff noted there were no opposition letters on file and that the Longs had submitted an email in support that arrived after the meeting packet was issued. A board member asked follow-up questions about daily traffic and staffing; the applicant described 15-minute appointment slots and a rotation of part-time counselors to limit overlap.

The transcript does not record a formal motion or vote on this specific parking request during the excerpt provided. The applicant framed the variance as necessary because of the property’s shallow depth and narrow width, which he said limited on-site parking options. The board did not record a roll-call tally or an explicit approval or denial in the available transcript.

Clarifying note: the transcript records the speaker identifying himself as Justin Poindexter; the same voice later utters a different name in the record. The article attributes statements only to the name the speaker used when presenting the parking request and notes that the city’s public record should be consulted to confirm the official applicant name.