Planning and Zoning Sets Aug. 15 Deadline for Menorah Park Parking Plan

Menorah Park must show City Council progress in resolving their parking woes if a 21-space carport at Wiggins Place is to be approved at the Aug. 15 Council meeting.

A representative from Herschman Architects attended the July 28 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to request approval of a carport to be built in the Wiggins Place parking lot.

Wiggins Place is separately owned but on the same campus as Menorah Park Senior Living Facility. Council told Menorah Park representatives at a December 2010 meeting that it would not approve further building permit variances for the campus until it conducted a parking study. That study, completed by MS Consultants, Inc., ideally, the campus should have 300 more parking spaces.

The carport requires council approval. Planning and Zoning voted to recommend that Council approve the variance with the condition that a representative from Menorah Park attend the Aug. 15 meeting and present a parking plan.

Menorah Park Administrator Richard Schwalberg said that the center is working on a parking plan to submit to the city this week, but would not say what it would entail.