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Commission recommends PUD rezoning and future land-use change for Portland Avenue site; conditions added for screening, access and river-buffering
Summary
The commission recommended changing the city’s future land-use map to General Commercial and approved a planned-unit development to permit a batch plant and sand mining at NE 30 4th Street, subject to conditions for screening, frontage improvements and protections for the riverbank.
The New Castle Planning and Building Commission recommended a future land-use map amendment and approval of a planned-unit development (PUD) that would allow a batch plant, sand mining and related industrial uses on a large parcel near NE 30 4th Street and Portland Avenue.
City planner Logan Gray presented the request (R2025-011) and explained that the applicant seeks to re-designate approximately 98.104 acres from the 2040 plan’s Mixed Use Residential and Commercial designation to General Commercial, and to adopt a PUD that permits IM1-type industrial uses plus specifically allowed heavy uses (concrete/asphalt batch plant and sand mining) under controlled locations and design standards. Gray said the PUD limits where heavy uses can operate, requires site-specific detailed plans before building permits, and requires…
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