The PNA Board of Directors wants all neighbors to be aware that the owner of the property at 1617 Clays Mill Road (the former Chase Bank Building across from McCubbing) has requested a zone change from P-1 (professional office) to B-1 (neighborhood business) and has also filed a final development plan to put in a breakfast restaurant/coffee shop with indoor and outdoor seating and a drive through.  Since the owner filed both the zone change and the development plan at the same time, the project is on a fast track.

The plan is to use the existing bank building as well as the two existing entrances from McCubbing and Clays Mill.  Both will be used to enter and exit the property.  They plan to use one of the existing bank drive through lanes for ordering food, and the existing bank drive through window as the food pick-up window.  The attorney and landscape architect representing the owners indicated that they do not know what the restaurant will be.  They said it is not a big chain; it has a few restaurants in another location.  

The proposal has been considered at meetings of three different Committees of the Planning Commission so far–all three Committees recommended approval.  The next step is a public hearing at the Planning Commission meeting on Thursday, August 24 at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Government Center, 200 East Main Street.  

The PNA Board is concerned about the traffic impact of a drive through breakfast restaurant on the very congested traffic on Clays Mill Road as well as other neighborhood streets, and plans for a Board member to attend the public hearing to express our concerns. 

Contacts for Comments

If you have questions about the planned development, you may contact Richard Murphy, the attorney for the property owner, at 859-233-9811 or Richard@MurphyClendenen.com. 

If you have comments about the proposal, you may attend the public hearing at the Planning Commission meeting on August 24.  If you contact Mr. Murphy or plan to attend the public hearing, please email PNA at PicadomeNeighborhood@gmail.com or call Lynne at 859-278-6342.