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Council grants truck-parking permit for near–half-acre Santa Paula property
Summary
Jose Alcala received a conditional use permit and variance to park one commercial truck on a 0.459-acre R‑1 lot at 155 Santa Paula Drive; the council discussed the ordinance’s half-acre threshold, enforcement of other unpermitted truck parking and conditions such as concrete slab and idling limits.
Socorro City Council approved a conditional use permit and a related variance Tuesday allowing a resident to park a single commercial truck on a 0.459-acre R‑1 lot at 155 Santa Paula Drive.
Senior city planner Lorraine Quimito described the request: the lot is 0.459 acres (just under the municipal half-acre threshold) and the applicant, Jose Alcala, presented photographs showing an existing concrete slab where the vehicle would be parked. Quimito said the future land use map designates the area as…
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