Planning commissioners recommend allowing commercial kennels as interim use in rural-residential zone

Corcoran — The Corcoran Planning Commission on April 3 voted to forward to the City Council a resolution recommending a zoning ordinance amendment that would allow commercial kennels as an interim use in the city’s rural residential district.

Staff presented the item as City file 25-005 and recommended changing the code to permit commercial kennel operations in the rural residential district as an interim use, with performance standards. Staff said the amendment would allow an existing facility at 10800 Trailhaven Road to expand training services without opening the district to unrestricted commercial development.

The staff report, delivered by a city staff member identified as Dwight, recounted the ordinance’s history: the facility received a conditional home-occupation license in March 2005; the City Council directed a revision in 2017 that led to a 2018 ordinance removing commercial kennels from residential districts; and today two legal nonconforming commercial kennels remain. Dwight told the commission staff reviewed 16 years of complaints for properties with kennels and found only two complaints during that span, neither tied to kennel noise.

Dwight summarized the performance standards staff recommended:…