Plans for a new coffee shop in their neighborhood aren’t sitting well with some people who live around 67th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road.
Attorney Nick Wood, who represents the property owner, pitched it as a way to serve the neighborhood.
“The project itself is very small,” he said. “The idea behind it is to put in a coffee shop, a dry cleaner.”
But resident Stacy Wakefield wasn’t buying it.
“When you look all around it is homes on acre lots with large backyards and horses,” she said. “That’s what it’s been for the 15 years I’ve lived up there.”
She and neighbor Mike Baker asked council members to keep the zoning on the northeast corner as farm and residential.
“I’m sure that you have your own houses and you wouldn’t want your house to be devalued by having a commercial property next door to you,” Baker said.
Councilwoman Thelda Williams, who represents the area, said she understands change is difficult.
“But, I will tell you from my perspective, this is an acre and a half. It is not a place that anyone’s ever going to build a home,” she said. “67th Avenue is too busy and it’s getting more traffic all the time.”
She described it as appropriate for a small strip mall and her colleagues agreed.
The developer’s plan calls for an equestrian trail around the property and a hitching post.
