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Baldwin Park planning commission backs zoning change to ease rules for small warehouses
Summary
The commission voted to recommend a zoning-text amendment that would define small- and large-scale warehousing, permit small warehouses by right in industrial zones and require conditional-use permits for larger facilities; staff set a 10,000-square-foot threshold that a property owner asked be raised to 15,000.
The Baldwin Park Planning Commission voted 3-0 on Feb. 26 to recommend that the City Council amend municipal code language governing warehousing and wholesale sales, a change staff said is intended to preserve small existing operations while keeping review for larger facilities.
Planning staff told commissioners the proposal would create two definitions—"small-scale warehousing and wholesaling" (buildings under 10,000 square feet) and "large-scale wholesaling and warehousing" (10,000 square feet or greater)—and would allow small-scale operations by right in the city's Industrial (I) and Industrial Commercial (IC) zones while continuing to require a conditional use permit, or CUP, for large-scale facilities.
"These changes allow for…
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