BZA approves garden-and-lawn supply use at Hall Hill Pike with landscaping condition

The board approved application Z26031, allowing ASI Storage Properties LLC to locate a garden-and-lawn supply store at 2415 Hall Hill Pike in a commercial‑fringe zoning district subject to conditions that limit outdoor storage and require additional screening between the commercial use and an adjacent residential lot.

Planner Molly Gilliland presented the site plan showing Suites B–F would be repurposed, a new enter‑only access drive would be installed for deliveries, and the parking and existing stormwater infrastructure meet city standards. Staff recommended conditions including: no outdoor storage or display of goods, retention of existing eastern landscaping augmented by additional tall shrubs or evergreen trees, and required building permits.

Representatives from the applicant (Bill Huddleston of Huddleston Steel Engineering and owner Jimmy Freeman) described existing screening and committed to planting additional arborvitae; Huddleston said site photos show an already substantial buffer. Because some surveyed trees sit on an adjacent neighbor’s property, the board clarified the motion to require a Type B buffer planting quantity “or as close as is reasonably possible in the physical confines of the border.” The motion passed by roll call and the application was approved with the revised buffer condition.