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Planning board rejects text amendment to allow outdoor storage and drive‑up restaurants in Rio Rancho’s Business Park zone
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Board voted to reject a developer‑backed amendment that would have allowed primary outdoor storage and drive‑up service windows in the Business Park (BP) zoning designation, after staff warned the change conflicted with the comprehensive and master plans and commissioners raised concerns about job generation and land‑use outcomes.
The Rio Rancho Planning and Zoning Board voted to deny a proposed text amendment to the city’s Business Park (BP) zoning rules that would have allowed outdoor storage as a primary use and removed a ban on drive‑up service windows for restaurants.
City planner Chris Benson told the board the amendment would add a permissive primary use for outdoor storage to chapter 154.33 and remove the existing prohibition against drive‑up or drive‑through restaurant service in the BP district. "The department recommends denial of this," Benson said, citing the BP district’s original purpose to promote campus‑style employment centers and the code’s existing restrictions that separate storage from those employment uses.
The application, submitted by a private developer and…
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