Planning commission hears opposition to Oppiden's 172,000-square-foot warehouse concept near Dayton Mobile Home Park

The Dayton Planning Commission on April 30 heard a concept plan from Oppiden for a 172,000-square-foot speculative industrial building on a vacant, wooded parcel off 100 21st Avenue and took public testimony from nearby residents who said the project would worsen long-standing noise, traffic and water concerns.

Staff said the project would require four applications — a comprehensive-plan amendment, zoning-map amendment, preliminary plat and site-plan review — and that the site is currently guided on the future land-use map for a mobile home park. The Oppiden team told commissioners the property has several wetlands and ditches; the building footprint was shifted, they said, to avoid the most sensitive features and place office parking toward West French Lake Road as a visual amenity.

“Our intent was to avoid the more remnant wetlands on the site,” wetland specialist Melissa Barrett said,…