City Panel Holding Hearings On Restaurant Space & Sports Bar Plan

The owner of Post Sports Bar and Grill in Maplewood will ask Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday to amend city codes in a way that will allow him to bring a spinoff restaurant to Creve Coeur.

Adrian Glass has filed a request for a Conditional Use Permit to open the eatery in the former Growlers Pub space, vacant for two years at the Farmers Bank shopping center across from CityPlace.

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The decision to open in the Growlers space is contingent on the city lifting a requirement that only allows restaurant space in certain zoned areas under 2 acres to reach a total of 25 percent of the overall square footage.  

The proposed restaurant in this case would take up a total of 32 percent of the existing space on the site. City planning officials are considering a city-wide move to lift the 25 percent limitation, but the existing request applies only to the Core Business District.

Public hearings on both the text amendment and the conditional use permit will be held Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at the Creve Coeur Government Center. City officials approved changing a similar requirement last year to pave the way for Ray's Donuts to open at the Shoppes at Westgate.

If the amendment passes and the conditional use permit is issued, Glass said the restaurant would target a June 1 opening. 

A third public hearing scheduled for Tuesday's meeting would give mixed-use buildings a 15 percent reduction in calculating the total number of off-street parking required.