The Board has denied the application and our neighborhoods will remain protected from this development. I am exhausted by the long months of fighting for our streets but seeing this result makes the effort look entirely worth it. Stay alert as we keep watch over the future of our area …
December 9, 2017
Final supporters
The signers of this petition are opposed to the approval of Application 17-81 submitted to the Memphis and Shelby Co. Board of Adjustment by Balmoral Shopping Center LLC. The Application requests zoning variances that would permit traditional self-storage and auto leasing facilities on a 10-acre property built and zoned to complement nearby neighborhoods. The Application also requests the development of "flag lots" and relief from certain planting area requirements.
Approval of BOA 17-81 would:
1. Promote criminal activity on property adjacent to Ridgeway High School and in proximity to five additional public and private schools.
2. Permanently damage property values across a wide swath of middle class neighborhoods in East Memphis.
3. Destroy the natural beauty and neighborhood ambience of an area that includes two of Memphis' most valued institutions, Lichterman Nature Center and Ric Nuber YMCA.
4. Cause Ridgeway Road, Memphis' "Education Avenue," home to four of the City's top public and private schools, to fall subject to the same degenerative, high traffic, downscale commercial forces as experienced on Mt. Moriah Rd. The formerly safe, popular, middle class neighborhoods of Fox Meadows, Parkway Village, and Hickory Hill were all irretrievably harmed by similar development decisions. Ridgeway Road already has two automobile dealerships just one mile away from Balmoral Shopping Center, a result of zoning variances previously granted despite strong neighborhood resistance.
5. Balmoral Shopping Center LLC did not consult any neighborhoods or nearby stakeholders prior to filing the Application for variance. The planner representing BSC LLC has made assurances about build-out standards and operating restrictions on the two proposed entities. Such restrictions, however, have not been negotiated with affected stakeholders nor memorialized in writing. Even if restrictions were memorialized, there is no guarantee that the restrictions would not be appealed or waived in the event no tenant is found who would accept them or who could operate profitably under them.
6. The leasing agent for BSC LLC (Cannon Austin & Cannon) does not have a prospective tenant interested in either of the proposed uses of the property. Apparently, no market feasibility, business, or development plan has been created to project the probability of success for either of the proposed uses. If zoning variances are granted and the facilities are built on market speculation, the property is forever transformed to one that includes "high intensity" commercialization inconsistent with current zoning for a neighborhood shopping district.
7.Flag lot variances should not be granted prior to the creation of a comprehensive redevelopment plan (including a named anchor tenant) and its review by affected neighborhoods and stakeholders. Flag lots skirt requirements for roadway frontage and access. Absent a well-conceived development plan for BSC, the final uses of the lots are an unknown. Flag lots would reduce the number of first-rate businesses interested in becoming tenants. The stature of the shopping center and its perceived value to prospective tenants would be lowered. Flag lots would attract businesses inappropriate for Memphis' Education Avenue and the family-oriented neighborhoods nearby.
8. The BOA does not appear to have jurisdiction to grant special use permits as requested by this Application. A request for zoning variances and special use properly belongs before the Land Use Control Board, a process that requires the input of affected neighborhoods and whose decisions can be appealed to the Memphis City Council.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
November 10, 2017
November 9, 2017
The long grind to reach five hundred signatures is exhausting but we cannot afford to lose momentum now. Please send this link to your neighbors so we can show the board that this community refuses to be ignored.
Reached 100 supporters
November 6, 2017
November 3, 2017
The days feel long and the opposition is relentless but we are nearly at one hundred signatures. Please take a moment to push this link out to your neighbors so we have the weight we need when we face the board.
190 Comments
NOOOO.do not allow this to be built in our neighborhood. Sea Isle/Balmoral is a beautiful, quiet place to live. This will destroy our neighborhood!!! What on earth can you be thinking?? So many people will move away before the value of our homes go down drastically
We don't need or want a self-storage or auto leasing facilities in our neighborhood!!!! There are penalty of these businesses that already exist within a few miles of our neighborhood. No need to add more! We need a grocery store!!!!!
I do not feel that these types of businesses will bring the type of influence that our neighborhood needs. I feel the best fit for the location would be offices, particularly medical practices, due to the proximity of St. Francis and Baptist hospitals.
Balmoral is residential and needs to stay residential. Lesasing cars and storage facilities do not belong in a residential area to bring in crime and bring down home values. We should only have businesses that the residents can use and benefit from. NO to rezoning!!
This is the neighborhood in which I spent many of my growing up years. It was a neighborhood in every sense of the word. Developments such as the ones planned will destroy this area - in much the way that the Mt. Moriah area has been destroyed.
This is a neighborhood area not ever intended to be home to industrial business.
VERY OPPOSED
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The Board has denied the application and our neighborhoods will remain protected from this development. I am exhausted by the long months of fighting for our streets but seeing this result makes the effort look entirely worth it. Stay alert as we keep watch over the future of our area …
December 9, 2017
Final supporters
The signers of this petition are opposed to the approval of Application 17-81 submitted to the Memphis and Shelby Co. Board of Adjustment by Balmoral Shopping Center LLC. The Application requests zoning variances that would permit traditional self-storage and auto leasing facilities on a 10-acre property built and zoned to complement nearby neighborhoods. The Application also requests the development of "flag lots" and relief from certain planting area requirements.
Approval of BOA 17-81 would:
1. Promote criminal activity on property adjacent to Ridgeway High School and in proximity to five additional public and private schools.
2. Permanently damage property values across a wide swath of middle class neighborhoods in East Memphis.
3. Destroy the natural beauty and neighborhood ambience of an area that includes two of Memphis' most valued institutions, Lichterman Nature Center and Ric Nuber YMCA.
4. Cause Ridgeway Road, Memphis' "Education Avenue," home to four of the City's top public and private schools, to fall subject to the same degenerative, high traffic, downscale commercial forces as experienced on Mt. Moriah Rd. The formerly safe, popular, middle class neighborhoods of Fox Meadows, Parkway Village, and Hickory Hill were all irretrievably harmed by similar development decisions. Ridgeway Road already has two automobile dealerships just one mile away from Balmoral Shopping Center, a result of zoning variances previously granted despite strong neighborhood resistance.
5. Balmoral Shopping Center LLC did not consult any neighborhoods or nearby stakeholders prior to filing the Application for variance. The planner representing BSC LLC has made assurances about build-out standards and operating restrictions on the two proposed entities. Such restrictions, however, have not been negotiated with affected stakeholders nor memorialized in writing. Even if restrictions were memorialized, there is no guarantee that the restrictions would not be appealed or waived in the event no tenant is found who would accept them or who could operate profitably under them.
6. The leasing agent for BSC LLC (Cannon Austin & Cannon) does not have a prospective tenant interested in either of the proposed uses of the property. Apparently, no market feasibility, business, or development plan has been created to project the probability of success for either of the proposed uses. If zoning variances are granted and the facilities are built on market speculation, the property is forever transformed to one that includes "high intensity" commercialization inconsistent with current zoning for a neighborhood shopping district.
7.Flag lot variances should not be granted prior to the creation of a comprehensive redevelopment plan (including a named anchor tenant) and its review by affected neighborhoods and stakeholders. Flag lots skirt requirements for roadway frontage and access. Absent a well-conceived development plan for BSC, the final uses of the lots are an unknown. Flag lots would reduce the number of first-rate businesses interested in becoming tenants. The stature of the shopping center and its perceived value to prospective tenants would be lowered. Flag lots would attract businesses inappropriate for Memphis' Education Avenue and the family-oriented neighborhoods nearby.
8. The BOA does not appear to have jurisdiction to grant special use permits as requested by this Application. A request for zoning variances and special use properly belongs before the Land Use Control Board, a process that requires the input of affected neighborhoods and whose decisions can be appealed to the Memphis City Council.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
November 10, 2017
November 9, 2017
The long grind to reach five hundred signatures is exhausting but we cannot afford to lose momentum now. Please send this link to your neighbors so we can show the board that this community refuses to be ignored.
Reached 100 supporters
November 6, 2017
November 3, 2017
The days feel long and the opposition is relentless but we are nearly at one hundred signatures. Please take a moment to push this link out to your neighbors so we have the weight we need when we face the board.
190 Comments
This is not a neighborhood friendly development. They did not consult the neighboring areas regarding this development which leads me to believe that they suspected that it would not be agreed to so elected to try to slip it by. This is not progress.
NOOOO.do not allow this to be built in our neighborhood. Sea Isle/Balmoral is a beautiful, quiet place to live. This will destroy our neighborhood!!! What on earth can you be thinking?? So many people will move away before the value of our homes go down drastically
We don't need or want a self-storage or auto leasing facilities in our neighborhood!!!! There are penalty of these businesses that already exist within a few miles of our neighborhood. No need to add more! We need a grocery store!!!!!
I do not feel that these types of businesses will bring the type of influence that our neighborhood needs. I feel the best fit for the location would be offices, particularly medical practices, due to the proximity of St. Francis and Baptist hospitals.
Balmoral is residential and needs to stay residential. Lesasing cars and storage facilities do not belong in a residential area to bring in crime and bring down home values. We should only have businesses that the residents can use and benefit from. NO to rezoning!!
This is the neighborhood in which I spent many of my growing up years. It was a neighborhood in every sense of the word. Developments such as the ones planned will destroy this area - in much the way that the Mt. Moriah area has been destroyed.
This is a neighborhood area not ever intended to be home to industrial business.
VERY OPPOSED
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This is not a neighborhood friendly development. They did not consult the neighboring areas regarding this development which leads me to believe that they suspected that it would not be agreed to so elected to try to slip it by. This is not progress.