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The Bentonville Planning Commission met on April 7, 2026, at City Hall, beginning with a Tech Review session at 4:30 PM followed by the regular meeting and public hearings. The commission voted on 13 public hearing items, including an overlay district map, two conditional use permits (CUPs), and ten rezoning requests. The commission also tabled a sidewalk waiver indefinitely and received updates on the Future Land Use Map, Community Code revisions, and the 2025 Development Report.
Downtown Neighborhood Overlay District Map
Bike Fest 2026 Conditional Use Permit
Bentonville Film Festival Conditional Use Permit
Inclusion Reality, LLC Rezoning (906, 908, 1000 SE 10th Street)
Pacific Avenue Real Holdings, LLC Rezoning (1813 SE Crouch Street)
Phillips Rezoning (309 SE B Street)
Sky View Acres Rezonings (5 properties)
Ultra Homes, LLC Rezoning (N of SW Anglin Road)
Kuhlman Properties, LLC Rezoning (804 SW 12th Street)
Good afternoon, everyone. It is 4 30, so I'm going to go ahead and call to order the meeting of the Dittonville Planning Commission for its tech review session. Um so we will start with a review of the minutes from our last meeting. Are there any changes or modifications? Right. See none. Let's move on. Uh are there any items on the consent agenda that a commissioner would like to have removed from the consent agenda, or you'd like to have some discussion around. Right. Seeing none. We will move on to new business. And we do have 13 public hearings tonight. So we'll we'll just say are there any technical questions? But let's go to the let's go to the waiver first, Bob, if you would. Yeah, this waiver is on third, just a little bit east of Elm Tree. It's on the north side of third. Uh it has an existing uh five or six foot sidewalk. They're doing a 50% more than 50% remodel, so it triggers Master Street Plan sidewalk, which is a 12-footer, and they're asking for some relief from that because they've got the existing and there's a deficit of sidewalk in the area. Can you pull that up on the map? Would you so if I recall correctly, it's a six-foot sidewalk now. Um the east and west, there's no other sidewalk right now. So can somebody walk us through what the elm tree the attachment was in our you know what I'm talking about? That is a uh project that's getting ready to get built. It's a north south uh side path, 12 border. Primarily servicing the school right there, but it's gonna dead end um right at the uh at the intersection of third and elm tree on the north side. So uh that's why we're suggesting that we do not wave the sidewalk, the 12 footer and make sure we get it. We know we have some topography issues in the east that we're gonna have to get through someday, but uh it's our policy to always get as much as we can uh as we're as we're grabbing. And just a little more on the geometry, the traffic safety and signage committee, which I chair uh has been reviewing. If you could zoom out just a little bit, I need to pick up an intersection just a little bit further east. Oh yeah, uh it's about where the tail of the arrow is. That's subdivision just east of that. We had a uh request from citizenry to put in a crosswalk on third street so bikes and pedestrians could get across to get to Kohler Park. We follow subsequent to that had another request to remove it because of noise. One of the as we were looking at reasons we could remove it, parks is considering extending that trail system that's currently stopping at Elm Tree and third to the east, at least past that intersection, and they're working on getting funding together for that. They have funding left over from a set of sidewalks that were proposed behind the Dollar General store at