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Item 11 - NarrativeNarrative 2820 Market Loop, Suite 100, Southlake, TX 76092 Special Use Permit Application Submitted to The City of Southlake Planning and Zoning Commission By Steven and Kaitlyn Hickey, Top Tier Athletics & Jeff Wang Steven Hickey’s passion has been Taekwondo since he was six years old where he started competing right away. He was a blackbelt at the age of 11 and won many awards and competitions throughout his adolescence. In 2011, he enlisted in the army, and was stationed in Korea. With hard work and determination, he made the US Army taekwondo team, and trained every day for almost two years. When he moved back to the states, he started teaching at NTA while he continued to train. He went back to Korea in 2015 and placed 3rd in the World Championship. He came back and trained even harder. He returned in 2016 to Korea and won the World Championship in board break. After that accomplishment, he went to teaching full-time at NTA while studying physical education at Texas Christian University. In March of 2019, Steven Hickey, who had now been a taekwondo instructor at NTA for four years, had received his 4th degree black belt and knew it was time to create a curriculum of his own and start his own Martial Arts program. He started Top Tier Athletics by renting space out of the Colleyville Senior Center and has been teaching his classes there for the past two years. Even though he has not lost any students (except a couple did not re-register after COVID) and is getting about one new student a month, it of course is always the goal to have your own studio where you can not only grow as a business but have that home studio for your students. Steven is limited by his time and space at his current location, and believes it is time for that step. All his students either reside in Colleyville or Southlake, so his students and the parents will be over the moon with this transition. The discipline, coordination, and athleticism that comes with taekwondo training, is incredibly beneficial for a child’s development. He teaches all ages from the youngest student, age 4, to the oldest, age 65. Adults continue to benefit from this type of movement as well for flexibility, health, and strength. Steven will teach taekwondo until he physically cannot and being able to do that in a city like Southlake where his most loyal students and parents reside would be a dream come true. Classes -Taekwon Tots Student age 4-5 30 min. class time Taekwondo -Beginner to Expert Taekwondo Student age 6-18 45 min. class time Taekwondo -Adult Taekwondo Student age 18+ 1 hr. class time Taekwondo Fitness -Tournament Team Student age 6+ upon completion of beginner taekwondo class 1 hr. 15 min. class time Tournament focus class for forms, board breaking, and sparring ORDER OF OPERATIONS -Class size will not exceed an 8:1 student to instructor ratio -Class times will never exceed 1 hr. 15 min. HOURS OF OPERATION -Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. -Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. -Private lessons by appointment Mission Statement To improve the community through athletic competition, focusing on sportsmanship and lifelong movement practices.