SU2023-004
Approval of Special Use to allow for the operation of a gas station in the HC- R district. Chair Williams opened the public hearing. Planning Manager Amy Bigham came forward and presented that the purpose of this Special Use request ( SU2023- 004) is to allow for the operation of a gas station within the HC- R district. The subject property totals +/- 2.64 acres zoned HC- R and includes Mooring Plaza Shopping Center. The gas station and convenience store are in Suite 9 of the building. The subject property is in the Buford Highway North Corridor District. FORWARDuluth envisions this character area to be intended for office and mixed- use developments that get denser closer to Downtown. The Future Land Use Map (FLUM) classifies the subject property as commercial, retail, and office. Chair Williams called for the applicant to come forward. Being none, Chair Williams called for questions/ comments from the public. Being none, Chair Williams called for a general discussion. Commissioners discussed the process of interior/ exterior changes to the property and topography issues. A motion was made by Commissioner Holloway, seconded by Secretary Gajjar to Approve case SU2023- 004 with conditions. Voted for: Commissioners Williams, Moss, Gajjar, Fisher and Holloway Motion Carried.
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Derived from a meeting document, not a case tracker. The City of Duluth
publishes no structured case database, so this record was extracted from the agenda or
minutes PDF linked below by pattern matching.
Individual fields — applicant, address, request — are frequently mangled or truncated
by that extraction. Treat the linked PDF as the record and this row as an index entry
pointing at it.
Record
- Case type
- SU
- Year
- 2023
- Applicant
- Applicant: Shrutal Bhai Location: 2856 Buford Hwy Duluth
- Location
- GA.
- Existing zoning
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- Proposed zoning
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- Approved zoning
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- Acres
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- Residential units
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- Non-residential sq ft
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Process
- Staff recommendation
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- Planning Commission
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- Decision
- —
- Status
- —
Decision and recommendation values are reproduced exactly as published. The source layer ships no data dictionary for these codes, so this index does not expand them — open the source record for the authoritative wording.
Provenance
- Source
- duluth-agenda-mining
- Last verified
- 2026-08-13