Windward Hall seeks parking exemption for 2,500-square-foot dining patio

Windward Hall's site plan shows a 2,500-square-foot covered dining patio alongside a proposed two-story, 7,900-square-foot restaurant on 3.75 acres at the southeast corner of Windward Parkway and Edison Drive. Applicant The Luxury Enterprise Group, LLC seeks permission for a stand-alone restaurant without a drive-through.

The proposal asks Alpharetta to exempt outdoor seating from minimum parking requirements. The site plan calculates a restaurant requirement of 79 spaces and proposes 83, excluding the covered outdoor dining area from that calculation. A separate variance request would allow approximately 1,200 square feet of the cantilevered patio to extend into the stream's impervious setback.

Staff recommends approval with conditions, including limiting patio encroachment to the Sept. 1 site plan and replanting graded impervious-setback areas to city buffer standards. The report lists City Council consideration for Oct. 26, 2026. These are requested permissions and staff-recommended conditions, not a council approval; the supplied pages do not establish a later vote.