Juneau commission to weigh second tenant on Clinton Drive Domino's lot with no added parking

The Domino's Pizza building on Clinton Drive wants to rent out its second suite to another business, without adding a single parking space — and the neighbors who fought the original permit are objecting again.

Elizabeth Clayton is asking the Juneau Planning Commission to amend the 2024 permit so a commercial tenant can move into the building's empty second suite, roughly 1,100 square feet already built with its own restroom and utility hookups. The likely occupant would be a small office, storefront or personal-service business, with one to five employees and hours generally between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

City planning staff recommend approving it. By their math the lot needs 10 parking spaces and has 12, and even the busiest plausible tenant would add up to about 136 vehicle trips a day — well under what triggers a traffic study, and considerably less than the roughly 218 daily movements the drive-through restaurant approved for the site in 2024 was projected to generate.

Staff also acknowledged the objections in unusually direct terms. "An intensification of activity may happen on the lot," their report says, noting that "nearby residents have voiced parking and traffic concerns" and that "the proposal may be out of harmony with the surrounding neighborhood."

This is the second round of that fight. Residents of the Vintage Park and Clinton Park condominiums opposed the Domino's permit in 2024, when the commission approved the restaurant and waived two of the off-street parking spaces it should have provided. A 2013 easement lets a neighboring lot use part of the property, cutting the buildable area to about two-thirds of the parcel. "Either there is enough property for the development, or there is not," neighbor John Kern wrote at the time.

Three more residents wrote in last month, raising the same parking and congestion concerns.

Written comment is due by noon Friday at [email protected]. The commission takes it up at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Assembly Chambers, where people can testify in person. Approval takes five votes.