LUZ committee grants appeal to allow expanded self-storage site plan at Yellow Bluff and Starrett

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After hours of public testimony and questioning on March 3, the city’s Land Use and Zoning Committee voted 5–1 to grant an appeal and approve a minor modification to a 2007 PUD that clears the way for an approximately 85,000 sq ft self-storage facility on roughly 6 of 12.22 acres; planning staff had recommended approval while the planning commission had denied the change 4–3.

The city’s Land Use and Zoning (LUZ) Committee voted 5–1 on March 3 to grant an appeal of a planning commission denial and approve a minor modification to a 2007 planned unit development (PUD), allowing the property owner to move forward with plans for a large self-storage facility near the intersection of Yellow Bluff Road and Starrett Road.

The committee’s action overturns a January 8 planning commission decision that denied the applicant’s requested update to the PUD site plan. Planning staff had recommended approval and said the proposed personal-property storage facility — described in staff materials as roughly 85,000 square feet across two parcels (about 6 acres) of a 12.22-acre PUD — would generate far fewer daily vehicle trips than the full range of commercial uses originally allowed by the PUD.

“Similar uses that were allowed by right in this PUD would be automotive repair or liquor stores, which could be built here tomorrow,” attorney Mike Herzberg, representing the applicant, told the committee. He argued the application requested a…

LUZ committee grants appeal to allow expanded self-storage site plan at Yellow Bluff and Starrett

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