title
Ordinance Granting a Modification to the Special Use Permit for a Private Recreation Facility Located at 4950 Holly Tree Road & 304 Westchester Road (SUP-CC-2026-0002)- Item is requested to be continued to a later date.
body
Department:
Planning & Development
Meeting Date:
7/21/2026
Contact Name:
Brian Chambers
Public Hearing:
Yes
Contact Phone:
910-342-2782
Advertising Date/Advertised By:
July 10, 2026;
July 17, 2026/StarNews
Attachments:
PURPOSE:
The applicant is requesting a modification to an existing Special Use Permit for a private recreation facility located at 4950 Holly Tree Road.
BACKGROUND:
On February 4, 2025, City Council approved a special use permit for the expansion of an existing private recreation facility, The Club at Midtown (fka Holly Tree Racquet Club, originally constructed circa 1994). The approved special use permit includes maintaining two existing tennis courts, replacing eight tennis courts with 10 outdoor pickleball courts, constructing a 33,375 square-foot indoor pickleball facility, and renovating a 5,776 square-foot clubhouse. Conditions of the existing special use permit include limits on the hours of operation and site lighting, sound-reducing restrictions on the outdoor pickleball facilities, a maximum club membership (800), and a required pedestrian connection to Kirby Smith Drive (south of the site).
On August 5, 2025, City Council approved a Land Development Code amendment that reduced the number of uses permitted by special use permit by allowing some special uses to be permitted by-right with prescribed conditions and some special uses to be approved by conditional zoning. The subject site is zoned R-15, Moderate-density single-dwelling residential district, and private recreation facilities are currently permitted with conditional zoning in this district. Since the approved special use permit predates the adopted Land Development Code amendment, the property owner may either request conditional zoni...
Click here for full text