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Florence reviews Boone County proposal to define and restrict motor freight terminals
Summary
City planning staff presented proposed Boone County zoning text amendments creating a separate 'freight terminal' use for truck parking, prohibiting such terminals in residential and high-visibility commercial zones, and setting use standards including buffers, berms, no idling, and limits to container stacking (city recommended lower stack heights).
Todd Morgan summarized a package of zoning text amendments referred to Boone County's legislative bodies that would amend multiple articles and sections of the Boone County zoning regulations to clarify commercial parking, create a freight-terminal use, and add standards for truck and container storage.
Morgan said the new freight-terminal definition would distinguish sites where trucks, tractors and trailers are parked or stored as a principal use (often with transfer, loading or unloading) from commercial parking and warehousing/distribution. The proposed use matrix would prohibit freight…
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