CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Pass the ordinance granting a variance to reduce the amount of required off-street parking for the property located at 2244 Corporate Lane - PZC 21-1-131
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Gabrielle Mattingly, Community Planner
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
The Planning and Zoning Commission conducted a public hearing on February 16, 2022 and provided a positive recommendation on the request (approved 8,0).
BACKGROUND:
The subject property is located on the south side of Corporate Lane and is zoned ORI (Office Research and Light Industry District). The parcel is 124,754 square feet in size and is improved with a 50,080 sf square foot industrial building and 123 associated parking spaces.
In 2011, a parking variance was processed for the property for Sky High (indoor trampoline facility). At the time, the code required 3 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet for such facility. The approved ordinance specified the variance is only applicable to Sky High and is not transferrable to any other user. Sky High has since moved out and the property owner has since split the space in half creating two suites within the building.
The building is currently occupied by two fitness facility users: Naperville Gymnastics occupies the west half of the building (Suite 110) and Naperville Athletic Center occupies the east half (Suite 100). Neither tenant obtained the required building permits prior to occupying their tenant space, thus triggering Code Enforcement involvement. Staff has since received the required building permits and has worked with the applicant on the necessary documentation needed for the parking variance under consideration.
DISCUSSION:
The property owner, Thomas Burgess GST Trust, is requesting approval of a parking variance in order to reduce the number of required parking spaces to permit two fitness facilities, Naperville Gymnastics and Naperville Athletic Center, ...
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