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Council takes first reading on ordinance to rezone industrial site for 4-acre mini-storage development

5598913 · August 5, 2025
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Summary

City staff recommended and the council held a quasi-judicial hearing and a first reading on Ordinance 921 to rezone a 9.39-acre site near the Crown Z Trail from light industrial to expanded commercial, approving a site development plan, sensitive-lands permits and conditions; council took the first reading and will return for second reading.

The Scappoose City Council on Aug. 4 held a quasi-judicial public hearing and conducted the first reading of Ordinance 921, an application that would redesignate and rezone a 9.39-acre parcel near Crown Z Trail to allow a mini-storage facility greater than the three-acre cap allowed in the current light-industrial zone.

Assistant City Manager and City Planner NJ Johnson presented a detailed staff report describing the consolidated land-use application — comprising a comprehensive plan map amendment, zone change to expanded commercial, site development review and three sensitive-lands development permits for floodplain, wetlands and riparian development. The application proposes roughly 4.1 acres of storage buildings, two stormwater detention swales, landscaping, a caretaker…

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