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Plan Commission recommends rezoning, approves outdoor storage conditions for Manhart Drive equipment rental
Summary
The Menomonee Falls Plan Commission unanimously recommended the Village Board rezone a Manhart Drive parcel to allow an equipment rental business and approved outdoor storage subject to four conditions, including a 10-foot setback and screening.
The Menomonee Falls Plan Commission on June 3 unanimously recommended that the Village Board of Trustees rezone property at N59 W13449 Manhart Drive to allow an equipment rental business and approved outdoor storage at the site under specified conditions.
Planner Amy Dunnet told commissioners the applicant, DSP Manhart Venture LLC, proposes an equipment rental operation that will store generators, pumps and compressors outdoors behind two existing buildings on the site. Dunnet said the application requests rezoning from the I-1 Light Industrial District to I-1 with the OC-5 Commercial Service overlay and a separate outdoor-storage approval.
The rezoning recommendation and the outdoor-storage approval were both made by motion and carried unanimously. Dunnet summarized the outdoor-storage conditions as: screening with an opaque fence or similar device at least six feet high, a 10-foot setback from property lines for stored equipment, enclosure of loose materials in three-sided shelters, and paving of parking areas with asphalt or concrete to provide a durable, dust-free surface. She also noted the applicant will leave a 10-foot grassed perimeter inside the fenced area to ensure the setback.
Applicant Howard Wedron said the site is now partly gravel and partly paved; the plan is to regrade and pave the storage yard while leaving the 10-foot setback as grass. “It’ll meet that grass and it’ll be that 10 foot setback that will be fully grassed,” Wedron said. He said the business will operate business-to-business and will not have walk-in retail; hours and staffing listed on the application are Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–5 p.m., and 10–20 employees.
Commission discussion focused on paving, curbing and stormwater capture at the former gravel area and on screening and hours. Dunnet said the existing fence has privacy slats and that the screening and setback are intended to keep the outdoor storage visually contained. Commissioners voted to waive the 30-day waiting period and forward the rezoning recommendation to the Village Board; the public hearing on the rezoning will be scheduled at the Village Board level.
The plan commission’s motions on the rezoning recommendation and the outdoor-storage approval were recorded as passed unanimously; the commission did not list individual named votes in the transcript record.
The Village Board of Trustees will consider the rezoning at its public hearing; the transcript records the Plan Commission’s recommendation and the outdoor-storage conditions but does not show final Village Board action.
For follow-up: the applicant will proceed to the Village Board public hearing on the rezoning and must meet the four conditions imposed for outdoor storage if approved.
