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Staff updates truck-stop ordinance draft after neighbor outreach; QuikTrip application withdrawn
Summary
Planning staff updated the draft truck-stop ordinance and will present it to the City Council's committee of the whole on Feb. 25; neighbors near Tower Road urged stricter buffers and flagged noise, fumes, lighting and traffic concerns, and staff said some technical rules fall under fire or state permitting rather than zoning.
Planning staff provided an update on a draft truck-stop ordinance and solicited direction after receiving repeated outreach from neighbors near Tower Road.
Claire, planning staff, said she began with language modeled on Cannon Falls and incorporated comments from neighbors into a second draft. She said many concerns center on proximity to housing and other sensitive uses, and she acknowledged that some technical standards (for example pump setbacks, fire-safety distances and other state or fire-department regulations) are enforced…
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