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City Council · Sep 9, 2025

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Consideration of the July 22, 2025 Special Meeting minutes

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Savannah NewburnstaffGood evening, Council. Thank you for your patience. Okay. Good evening. My name is Savannah Newburn. And I will be presenting on the request for a special use permit amendment, three special exceptions, and the certificate of appropriateness from the applicant for an existing restaurant located on Fairfax Boulevard. Here we detail the land use requests, including the special use permit, which will expand an existing restaurant to include a building addition for increased kitchen capacity, a widening of the drive-through lane at the pickup window to the existing restaurant three special exceptions that will detail further on the next two slides and the certificate of appropriateness so here is an image of

This is an existing restaurant and the intensity of the use here is intended to improve with the operational changes that are proposed according to the applicant. They may speak to this more during their turn. And so here is an aerial image of the site. it may be easier for you to understand the flow of the parking lot from this image it is in the general commercial zoning district and in the future land use map it is an activity center and with these factors in mind staff does recommend approval of the special use permit the three special exceptions and the certificate of appropriateness I am happy to answer any questions you might but I think the applicant speaks next next

our requirements they still meet the required parking for the site that's not one of the special exceptions that they're they're requesting relief for yeah

Stacey Hardy-Chandleri move that the city council approve the request of chick-fil-a for special exceptions pursuant to city code section 110-6.16 from the following standards the transitional yard ty three requirements along the east south and west property line the front building yard along Fairfax Boulevard side building yard along the east property line and rear building yard along the south property line and the bulk plane requirement along the east and south property lines on the premises known as 9509 Fairfax Boulevard and more particularly described as tax map parcel 48-3-06-028-A with the following conditions one the proposed to use shall be consistent with the application and statement of justification received with the

Mr. Fosterstaffi i as far as just moving it uh to the next meeting no i don't think there's any any real harm in that um uh we we're moving down parallel tracks and so this is this is purely the land use piece there's some special exceptions that are required um i think the city attorney communicated with you some uh that one's not tied to the other so we can we can do them independently one does not obligate you for the other so you still have your full range of options and contractually speaking if you want to do that unless mr. Harden's gonna come correct me if I misspoke no he's just there I guess if something comes up