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Planning commissioners debate commercial self-storage rules and Walnut Street corridor standards
Summary
The commission discussed draft text amendments to allow commercial self-storage in more zones and whether to change minimum lot sizes and lot-coverage limits on Walnut Street. Commissioners debated landscaping, setbacks and lot-coverage percentages ahead of a March 26 public hearing.
At the 2025-02-20 Planning Commission meeting, staff presented draft zoning text amendments for commercial self-storage and asked commissioners whether to relax a current one-acre lot requirement for C-3 properties and set new lot-coverage or buffering standards.
Kimmy, planning staff, said the site that prompted the review is a roughly 19,000-square-foot lot on Walnut Street. She showed commissioners examples from nearby cities and noted that some neighboring municipalities do not impose an acre minimum for comparable uses.
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