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Bellevue planning staff urges commission to require conditional-use permits for self-storage in industrial zones
Summary
The Bellevue Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council amend zoning to remove self-storage as a permitted use in flex, light-manufacturing and heavy-manufacturing districts and require conditional-use permits, saying the change would give the city more oversight over location and design.
Planning Department staff told the Bellevue Planning Commission on Thursday that the city should require conditional-use permits for self-storage facilities in flex (FX), light-manufacturing (ML) and heavy-manufacturing (MH) zoning districts so the city would have more oversight of where and how those developments are built.
"Currently, self storage facilities are a permitted use by right in those districts, which gives us no oversight over them," Planning Department staff said during the public hearing on the proposed amendment to sections 5.26, 5.27 and 5.28 of the City of Bellevue zoning ordinance. Staff recommended the change so proposed self-storage developments would be…
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