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The next steps for the former Danville Bowl site at 200 Boone Court could be starting to take shape this month following the closure of the longstanding and beloved bowling alley earlier this year.
The Danville Planning Commission is set Tuesday to consider approving development plans for a 47-unit townhome project on the site, which was sold to developers as the bowling alley prepared to shut its doors in March.
While no formal development applications had been filed for the site as of the closure in March, its redevelopment has been all but certain in the months that the 1.62 acre-site has sat unoccupied. The site was zoned for multi-family residential use in the town’s current Housing Element in 2023, and identified as a housing opportunity site.
The Lanes project – a nod to the site’s decades-long history as Danville Bowl – would consist of two accessory-dwelling units in addition to the 47 townhouse units housed within a three-story building, with a total of 104 parking spaces, 92 of which would be in a garage and 12 of which would be on-street.
In addition to the former bowling alley, the project proposes the removal of nine town-protected trees out of the total of 16 on the site.
Other tree removal permits and off-site improvements are being sought on adjacent property owned by the Walnut Forest Homeowners Association. That includes the replacement of a retaining wall along Ashley Court and new landscaping and irrigation along Ashley Court and Hartley Drive.
“Any agreement related to the off-site work would be a private agreement between the applicant and the Walnut Forest HOA,” associate planner Riley Anderson-Barrett wrote in a staff report.
Anderson-Barrett added that although the proposed off-site work would “provide for a better site design and would be of benefit to the HOA”, the project would still be able to be modified to proceed as planned should developers fail to reach an agreement with the HOA.
Town staff are recommending that the Planning Commission approve the development plan application at its next regular meeting on Tuesday (Nov. 25). The agenda is available here.
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