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Avon plan commission approves Parkplace Crossing plan and six ordinance waivers
Summary
The Avon Advisory Plan Commission approved a development plan for a 9,000-square-foot multi-tenant building at Parkplace with six waivers (road width, landscape buffer, parking depth, foundation planting, driveway separation and rear façade articulation) subject to conditions including a revised lighting plan and right‑of‑way dedication at platting.
The Town of Avon Advisory Plan Commission approved a development plan review for Parkplace Crossing (DPR 2512), clearing the way for a roughly 9,000-square-foot multi‑tenant commercial building on three platted lots along Parkplace Boulevard.
Staff said the revised plan shifts the building to accommodate an extension of Beachwood Center Road through the property and asked the commission to grant six waivers from the Unified Development Ordinance covering road width, front landscape buffer, one row of shallower parking, reduced foundation planting in some locations, driveway separation, and reduced architectural articulation on the rear façade. The staff report recommended approval of the waivers with conditions, including a revised lighting plan to meet ordinance limits and a requirement that the required right of way be dedicated at subdivision platting; staff also sought a condition that the eastern driveway be closed when the connector road is extended.
Cruz, representing the developers, said the property has sat vacant since 1988 and called the project a hometown development that preserves a northern vacant lot while allowing the building to be constructed. Tom Downer of the Avon Chamber of Commerce told the commission the petitioners are local business owners proposing to expand and to occupy part of the new building.
Commission discussion focused on whether the requested deviations were justified by the site’s constraints — its shallow depth, existing neighboring development and the thoroughfare plan calling for the connector road. Commissioners repeatedly cited staff’s analysis that the waivers meet required findings (not detrimental to health and safety; harmonious with zoning intent; improving design or connections) and noted the community support shown at the hearing.
The commission voted to approve each of the six waivers and then approved the overall development plan review, subject to the conditions spelled out in the staff report, including the requirement that the developer submit an ordinance‑compliant lighting plan and dedicate the Beachwood Center Road right-of-way at platting. The commission recorded the condition that the owner, at their sole expense, would close the east driveway nearest Parkplace Boulevard and restore the curb line when the connector road is extended west of the subject site.
What happens next: the developer must complete the subdivision plat and satisfy the staff conditions — including the revised lighting plan — before building permits may be issued.
