Planning commission recommends RV and self‑storage project with preservation covenant; residents express fire and conservation concerns

The Planning Commission voted to recommend City Council approve Master Application No. 20269, which would allow construction of a 136,035‑square‑foot self‑storage building, 77 RV stalls and a total of 993 storage units on a 14‑acre developable parcel southeast of I‑15 and 68th Street, together with preservation of roughly 72.5 acres as open space. The motion included direction to record a restrictive covenant requiring the 3.3‑acre borrow area to remain as a detention/retention basin in perpetuity as a condition of approval.

Renee Aguilar, Senior Planner, described the project entitlements: a General Plan amendment to reclassify a portion of the 86.8‑acre site from conservation (W1) to commercial (C1CP), a change of zone, a tentative parcel map subdividing the parcel into the developable uplands and the preservation parcel, a conditional use permit for the self‑storage use, a…