Perris planning commission approves Nance Street trailer storage and maintenance yards with conditions

The Perris Planning Commission voted 4–0 on Sept. 17 to approve a tentative parcel map and three development plan reviews for the Nance Street Trailer Storage and Maintenance Yards, a project by Lake Creek Industrial that would create three adjacent trailer-storage and maintenance sites totaling 9.72 acres in the Perris Valley Commerce Center specific plan area.

The commission approved Resolution 25-15, adopting Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) No. 2405, the mitigation monitoring and reporting program, tentative parcel map 25-00007 and development plan reviews (2200022, 23-00009, 23-00010) based on the findings in the staff report and subject to conditions of approval.

Staff project planner Matthew Evans described the proposal as three sites north and south of Nance Street between Nevada and Webster avenues: Site 1 (5.61 acres) and Site 2 (1.82 acres) each with an 11,700-square-foot maintenance building and outdoor trailer storage (Site 1 proposed 133 trailer spaces, Site 2 proposed 33), and Site 3 (2.73 acres) proposed as a trailer-storage lot with 96 trailer spaces and a future 80-square-foot guard shack. Evans said the project meets applicable development standards in the Perris Valley Commerce Center specific plan and that a Mitigated Negative Declaration had been prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act.

Commissioners and the developer’s representative, Christine Saunders of Lake Creek Industrial, focused discussion on screening and buffering for an adjacent nonconforming residence, site circulation, truck queuing and operational controls. Commissioners asked for clarity on wall locations and heights, trash collection, restroom facilities for on-site personnel and guard-staff, and technical corrections to the conditions and resolution language in the project packet. A traffic study presented by the applicant showed low AM/PM peak hour trips (35 AM, 51 PM for all three sites combined); staff and the city’s engineering reviewer said on-site circulation had been reviewed by fire and engineering and found acceptable.

Before the vote commissioners extracted several amendments to the staff recommendation. The final motion, approved unanimously, included the core approvals (MND 2405, tentative parcel map and the three development plan reviews) plus the following clarified or added conditions captured by staff and the commission: - Require the project to use the version of Resolution 25-15 that was included in the Aug. 20 packet (the resolution body had been omitted from the current packet and the commission required that the earlier version be incorporated). - Add a trash enclosure requirement for Site 3. - Require the guard shack to be designed so restroom facilities can be added administratively; the commission asked staff to allow an administrative review of the guard-shack restrooms. - Require an 8-foot-high solid wall (not wrought iron) adjacent to the existing residential parcel (the plans had previously shown an 8-foot wrought-iron fence along that property line; the commission directed the solid wall be specified in the conditions). - Elevate perimeter and entry landscaping: require 36-inch box trees in the buffer area and enhanced plantings at the corner monument; permit the planning manager to administratively finalize the corner accent landscape design. - Clean up condition numbering and correct internal inconsistencies between plan sheets and the conditions of approval.

Commissioners also requested (and staff agreed) that staff and the applicant finalize several technical clarifications—e.g., exact design of the “right in/left out” movements, location of the trash enclosures on the plan sheets, and consistency between the wall heights shown on drawings and in the condition language—before recordation of the final approvals.

Ending: The commission’s motion cleared the entitlements with those added clarifications and conditions. Multiple commissioners said they wanted to ensure that the site’s landscaping, screening and restroom/trash details be enforced through final plan check and conditions to reduce potential impacts on the adjacent residence and on neighborhood circulation.