Planning commission approves conditional-use permit for vehicle facility at 631520 Third Avenue with amended conditions

The Kenosha City Planning Commission voted Thursday to approve a conditional-use permit for a vehicle facility at 631520 Third Avenue and established amended conditions of approval that waive two named requirements, reduce a setback and permit a mountable curb in place of part of the previously required landscaping.

The amendment matters because it changes the development requirements the applicant must meet before the facility can operate under the conditional use, limiting some landscaping requirements while retaining other site controls and requiring a final public hearing after a Class 2 notice, as staff recommended.

At the commission’s initial public-hearing stage, a resident who identified himself as Charlie Suede of 631520 Third Avenue told commissioners he had met with staff members Rich Schroeder and Bridal Wilkie and said, “I…