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Lake County delays County Road 448 warehouse rezoning to allow traffic study
Summary
Commissioners postponed decisions on a proposed warehouse, truck shop and truck yard at County Road 448 to Nov. 4 after members expressed concern that the applicant’s trip-generation estimates, based on ITE tables, may understate peak-hour truck traffic; the applicant agreed to complete a traffic study.
The Lake County Board of County Commissioners voted Sept. 2 to postpone consideration of a rezoning and future-land-use amendment for a proposed warehouse and truck facility on County Road 448 until Nov. 4 so the applicant can complete a traffic study.
Janie Brown, planning manager, told the board the application seeks to change the property’s future land use and zoning to allow a warehouse, truck maintenance shop and truck yard under a planned industrial district. The proposal includes a 40,000-square-foot warehouse, an 8,000-square-foot truck shop and a 2,000-square-foot office, and staff presented the project’s concept plan and development standards.
Public-works engineering director Jeff Earhart said the county’s standard trip-generation tables showed an estimated 17 peak-hour trips for the proposed uses. “It is 17 peak hour during either the morning rush or the afternoon rush,” Earhart said, distinguishing peak-hour estimates from daily totals.
The applicant’s civil engineer, Selby Weeks, said the project is not a distribution center but a private trucking business that stores and services its own vehicles. “This is for my client who owns a private, Overland trucking business,” Weeks said, and added that the industry-standard ITE manual was used to estimate trips.
Several commissioners remained unconvinced that ITE-based estimates capture local conditions along the two available routes from the site. Commissioner Smith said the board needed to consider downstream impacts: “Second and third order effects further down the roadway” could be significant given the limited road choices in the area, he said.
After discussion and conflicting motions, the board accepted a motion to postpone both the future-land-use and zoning items to Nov. 4 to give the applicant time to complete the traffic study and for staff to review it. The motion passed 5-0.
Next steps: the applicant will complete and submit a traffic study; staff will review the findings and present the results at the Nov. 4 meeting for the board to consider alongside any proposed stipulations (for example, limiting the site to storage-only warehouse uses or restricting the truck shop to owner vehicles).
