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Board approves conditional‑use permit to convert 228 SW Dixie Highway into 16‑seat restaurant with five off‑site parking spaces
Summary
The Stuart board approved Resolution R50‑2026, a conditional‑use permit allowing a 1,170 sq ft building at 228 SW Dixie Highway to be renovated into a restaurant with a 452 sq ft expansion and off‑site parking; approval included nine staff conditions and a requirement to reflect five off‑site parking spaces in project documents.
The Board of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Stuart approved a conditional‑use permit (Resolution R50‑2026) to allow redevelopment of 228 SW Dixie Highway into a small restaurant. The approval includes staff’s nine recommended conditions and an explicit edit to reflect five off‑site parallel parking spaces in the project documents.
Development director Jody Coogler presented staff’s findings and recommended conditions. She described the 0.15‑acre site and said the proposal would adaptively reuse an existing 1,161–1,170 square‑foot former garage, add a 452‑square‑foot expansion for kitchen space and a 369‑square‑foot covered outdoor seating area, provide bicycle racks and pedestrian amenities, and rely on adjacent on‑street parallel parking for required spaces. Staff estimated the project would generate approximately 158 average daily trips, with about 2 trips in the AM peak and 20 trips in the PM peak (11 inbound, 9 outbound).
"The applicant shall contribute $10,738.32 to the city for the parking spaces located within the city right of way adjacent to the subject property," Coogler said while explaining the staff conditions; she added that the applicant is responsible for any curb/sidewalk/drainage work and must meet city public‑works standards and permitting requirements.
Applicant representative Leo Giangrande, of Giangrande Engineering & Planning, said the reuse is appropriate for the constrained downtown lot and noted coordination with CapTec and public‑works preliminaries. Board members asked about trash routing, emergency access, lane widths and whether the on‑street spaces would remain public (staff: yes). The applicant and staff presented an auto‑turn exhibit for sanitation trucks and said they had coordinated turning‑radius checks with public‑works staff.
Board discussion also clarified plan details: the project’s plans list 16 seats and anticipate four employees during peak service; certain application documents had inconsistently shown six parking spaces, and the board required that all official documents be corrected to reflect the approved five spaces. A motion to approve the resolution with staff‑recommended conditions and the document correction passed on a roll‑call vote of members present.
What happens next: The applicant must meet the nine conditions of approval (including payment into the city parking account, meeting public‑works standards and securing any required permits) before site work may proceed; staff will continue with permit review and enforcement of conditions.
