By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Chick-fil-A, the newest fast-food franchise to locate in Glasgow, still has several steps to take before construction can begin.
The Joint City-County Planning Commission publicized the public hearing of the zone change request on the property located at 850 N.L. Rogers Wells Blvd. on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. where commissioners, and members of the public, could speak either in favor or opposition and ask relevant questions. According to the zone change application, filed by Splash Car Wash Inc., the property is requested to go from the current Light Industrial zoning to a General Business zoning.
This September public hearing is the first step towards construction, Kevin Myatt, planning director, explained.
According to Myatt, the “due process” necessary for a zone change will be satisfied by public hearing on Sept. 16 more than likely with the “binding elements” the commissioners imposed on the property previously.
“So when they rezone the property [previously]…the planning commission put those on the property that will carry through the life of the property,” Myatt said. “Obviously I don’t have a vote [on the planning commission] but the staff is going to recommend that the elements that were previously placed on the property remain, and that binding element is…there’s a residential buffer… the entire length of Magnolia Drive as well as no entrances permitted for the commercial onto Magnolia Drive.”
Once the minutes of the September meeting are approved at the October meeting they will be forwarded to the Glasgow City Council for the council members to either approve the recommendation or reject it and to have their own public hearing. After that approval the applicant will submit preliminary and final development plans, which do not have to be approved by the council but will be approved by the commission.
Theoretically, assuming the contractors and such are ready, they could begin “pad work” as early as the Tuesday after the commission’s meeting on the third Monday in November. Though, Myatt said he expects the building construction not to take place until after the new year.
“So, if we’re being technical, technically they can start breaking ground on Nov. 19,” Myatt said. “Obviously, it’s totally dependent on weather.”
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