Item 8 - SPIN Report
SPIN MEETING REPORT
SPIN Item Number: SPIN2024-07
City Case Number: ZA24-0030
Project Name: Restoration Church
SPIN Neighborhood: 4
Meeting Date: April 9, 2024
Meeting Location: 1400 Main Street, Southlake, TX
City Council Chambers
Total Attendance: 7
Hosts: Muhammad Iqbal
Applicant Presenting: Tim McEneny
City Staff Present: Madeline Prater, Business Manager
FORUM SUMMARY:
Property Situation: 479 N. Kimball Ave.
Development Details:
• Proposed 15,000 sq. ft. restaurant pad site
• Proposed Event Space – 250 seats
• Current Zoning: AG
• Proposed Rezone: C-2 Retail Commercial District
• Parking – Restaurants: 1 space per each 3 seats under max seating
arrangement or 1 space per 100sf
• Option 1: “Underground” Restaurant – Exterior Seating – Separate Events
Building
• Option 2: “Underground” Restaurant – Separate Events Building ‘Lifted Horizon’
• Option 3: Above-Ground Restaurant – Separate Events Building
Presentation:
Comments, Questions, and Concerns:
Concern: Commercial creep and traffic pattern.
Question: Does anyone in your group own any land adjacent to this property?
Answer: No – There are now investors or other individuals who own property here.
Question: Have any of the surrounding property owners met with you about this
development?
Answer: No, but we were told by one of the property owners that the houses along the
back and east side are all his and no one is living there. But I hear you – you want to
know how this will impact your neighborhood. I’m not familiar with how the District 114
development came together, but since that area built up commercially, we were looking
at this site. If this was all residential property, I wouldn’t even be here doing this.
Concern: We are worried you might need more parking or space and this development
creeps more east or north into our neighborhood. And with traffic, we’re worried about
big events with lots of cars accessing cut-throughs by our neighborhood. It is very
dense trying to leave our neighborhood.
Answer: We had a meeting about traffic issues and will get a study done.
Question: How is this piece of property zoned today?
Answer: AG – Agricultural.
Question: Possibility of putting an access driveway off the 114-access road – would
that be on the gas station drive? Or further east?
Answer: We don’t know yet – the Council and I spoke about that, and multiple people
would need to be involved with this. From my understanding, this piece of property has
tried to be rezoned multiple times and for the protection of residents that has not
happened.
Question: At the east edge of the property, there are residential lots between that line
and Shady Ln. – is this planning to take any of those?
Answer: No. The 4-acres we have right now will be more than enough.
Comment: Appreciate the presentation, and I think a steakhouse would do amazing
here. What sets this apart in my mind from other steakhouse restaurants is the idea of
the event space. I would like some more clarity about the proposed event space.
Answer: We would make it that operations cease before midnight – no late-night
permit. We can put restrictions on it. We can front load this property and place parking
in the back to create a buffer for noise and light. We’ll also place landscaping and an
entry wall around this property.
Comment: I advise you to ask the city for all the traffic information. The Kimball
intersection is the worst.
Comment: We do not want more traffic on Shady Lane or using it as a cut-through.
Answer: My thought is that traffic should not be going that way anyways – stay off
Shady Lane.
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Commission and final action by City Council.
Southlake Connect Results for the April 9, 2024 SPIN Town Hall Forum