City Panel Holding Hearings On Restaurant Space & Sports Bar Plan
Under a zoning rule being considered, restaurants could occupy more than 25 percent of available space in certain parts of the city.
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. Like Creve Coeur Patch on Facebook 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 …
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Gregg Palermo
12:52 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
From what I understand...Growlers did not abide by the same requirement. I think the rationale came from not wanting parking to be overrun by high volume tenants, but the 25 percent figure was acknowledged as being something somewhat plucked out of thin air, which is in part why city planners are looking at eliminating the requirement citywide. more ›