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Planning commission recommends allowing limited outdoor sales and storage at Sparks Galleria Home Depot site
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The Sparks Planning Commission unanimously recommended the City Council approve an amendment to the Sparks Galleria plan to permit limited outdoor storage and outdoor sales at the Home Depot portion of the Galleria, subject to administrative review and conditions including parking safeguards.
The Sparks Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council approve an amendment to the Sparks Galleria plan development that would expressly allow limited outdoor storage and outdoor sales associated with large-format building materials and hardware retailers on the Home Depot portion of the Galleria.
Senior Planner Danny Ray told the commission the roughly 11-acre subject area sits east of Pyramid Way, west of Galleria Parkway and includes a building that currently houses Home Depot. Ray summarized proposed standards that would limit outdoor sales to no more than 10% of the building footprint, require 8-foot pedestrian pathways, apply green striping to outdoor sales areas and require an administrative site-plan review to locate outdoor sales and storage areas.
Ray said the applicant-provided parking study estimated 540 total parking stalls across the shopping center, calculated 356 spaces required by the handbook for existing uses, and reported a highest shared-demand estimate of 519 spaces on a weekend; staff said an administrative review would determine the final number of spaces allocated to outdoor uses. Staff recommended the commission forward the amendment to the City Council, concluding the changes would not materially increase the amount or type of development allowed under the existing plan.
The staff report noted that public notice was mailed to 487 owners within the Sparks Galleria plan development and properties within 750 feet of its boundary and published in the Reno Gazette-Journal. No public opposition was received on the item at the meeting.
A motion to recommend City Council approval of PCN05008/PD24-0002 based on findings PDA through PDJ was moved, seconded and passed unanimously on a voice vote.
If the council approves the amendment, prospective outdoor sales or storage areas for a given tenant would still require an administrative site-plan review and conditions intended to protect drive aisles, pedestrian pathways and adjacent properties.
