Developer seeks amendment to proffers for mini-warehouses and property-management building on Harding Road

Staff introduced a request from JJ JV Properties to amend proffered conditions and revise a previously approved special-use permit for multiple mini-warehouse buildings on a parcel off Harding Road. The applicant seeks minor revisions to the approved concept plan: additional paved customer parking, gravel storage areas intended to hold RVs, boats and trailers, removal of one access point to Jewel Boulevard to reduce traffic movements, and a new property-management building with offices upstairs and indoor storage below for maintenance materials.

Mister Cochran and Mister Ackland explained that the parcel layout will be refined in the staff analysis and that the packet returned for public hearing will highlight condition changes. Cochran said the storage-aspect (RV/bus/boat storage) has been allowed previously to remain gravel, while customer parking must be paved. He also confirmed staff will evaluate the required buffer yard; the project falls adjacent to R2 zoned property and the code calls for a Type 4 buffer yard requiring opaque screening (fencing and/or evergreens).

Commissioners asked whether the proposed property-management storage would require forklift operations or other heavy equipment; Cochran clarified the storage was expected to be manual and indoor. Staff said the property behind the cul-de-sac is approximately 12 acres zoned R2 for single-family dwellings and that commercial development proposed at the front of the parcel would stop at the R2 boundary. The commission asked for the site-visit questions to be included in the record; staff said they will add clarifying maps and updated plans in the staff analysis before the public hearing.

Next steps: staff will update the concept plan in the packet, add responses to site-visit questions, and bring the amended proffer and SUP to a public hearing next month.