jhat is there a contact info for the Roost group?
Gee it's hard to imagine why the business community thinks RAP is anti business
I just talked to Carman Godwin, and apparently the group wants to open a restaurant at the space, with 150 seats and be open at night with a liquor license.The group has the right to do this in the zoning by exception, but the fear is that there would be late night noise at a building almost completely surrounded by residential apartments.I can kind of see the point. The building was originally built as a dry cleaners and up until the opening of SNAP fitness has never been open at night in its history.But that said, their original concept was for a breakfast and lunch diner, which the surrounding neighbors supported.I can't verify that these are the unvarnished facts, considering the tall tales that were going around over Kickbacks and Mellow Mushroom, but that is the other side.The location, I think, gives some weight to arguments against a late night live music venue. Perhaps the owners of the Roost could weigh in?
Quote from: stephendare on October 27, 2015, 10:42:50 AMI just talked to Carman Godwin, and apparently the group wants to open a restaurant at the space, with 150 seats and be open at night with a liquor license.The group has the right to do this in the zoning by exception, but the fear is that there would be late night noise at a building almost completely surrounded by residential apartments.I can kind of see the point. The building was originally built as a dry cleaners and up until the opening of SNAP fitness has never been open at night in its history.But that said, their original concept was for a breakfast and lunch diner, which the surrounding neighbors supported.I can't verify that these are the unvarnished facts, considering the tall tales that were going around over Kickbacks and Mellow Mushroom, but that is the other side.The location, I think, gives some weight to arguments against a late night live music venue. Perhaps the owners of the Roost could weigh in?My question would be what exactly is RAP's involvement and why? Looking at the statement above in bold, if we are going to nit pick every development idea why have zoning or exceptions at all. If the plan meets the zoning requirements then let them open.
Quote from: JHAT76 on October 27, 2015, 11:13:44 AMQuote from: stephendare on October 27, 2015, 10:42:50 AMI just talked to Carman Godwin, and apparently the group wants to open a restaurant at the space, with 150 seats and be open at night with a liquor license.The group has the right to do this in the zoning by exception, but the fear is that there would be late night noise at a building almost completely surrounded by residential apartments.I can kind of see the point. The building was originally built as a dry cleaners and up until the opening of SNAP fitness has never been open at night in its history.But that said, their original concept was for a breakfast and lunch diner, which the surrounding neighbors supported.I can't verify that these are the unvarnished facts, considering the tall tales that were going around over Kickbacks and Mellow Mushroom, but that is the other side.The location, I think, gives some weight to arguments against a late night live music venue. Perhaps the owners of the Roost could weigh in?My question would be what exactly is RAP's involvement and why? Looking at the statement above in bold, if we are going to nit pick every development idea why have zoning or exceptions at all. If the plan meets the zoning requirements then let them open.If it's a zoning "by exception" situation, then it doesn't meet the current zoning requirements. They still need to get an exception. If an exception is needed, the surrounding community's support is critical in getting the exception granted. This is where RAP and other impacted community stakeholder's involvement would come into play.
That's a whopping several hundred yards from the entrance to St Vincent's, if the neighbors aren't bothered by the ambulance noise then I can't imagine a cafe is going to cause some huge issue.
