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Clay County planning panel recommends denying variance and countywide changes to allow cannabis or commercial reuse at Baker elevator
Summary
The Clay County Planning Commission recommended denial of Scott Doms’ request to ease setback and lot-size standards so a historic Baker grain elevator could be used commercially (including potential cannabis use), citing wastewater, parking, neighborhood compatibility and ordinance consistency concerns.
The Clay County Planning Commission on Jan. 20 recommended denying a set of requests from property owner Scott Doms that would have made it easier to reuse a historic grain elevator in Baker for commercial purposes, including a petitioned countywide text amendment to reduce residential setbacks for cannabis businesses and to shrink the minimum commercial lot size.
Staff presented the requests as two related actions: (1) a variance to reduce road centerline and side-yard setbacks and (2) a countywide text amendment to lower the adjacent-residence setback for cannabis from 500 feet to 250 feet in Ag Service Center zoning and to reduce the minimum commercial lot size from 1 acre to 0.5 acre. Staff noted the subject property is a 0.43-acre parcel with an existing grain elevator and is currently served by holding tanks; staff emphasized that a…
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