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Board approves shortened buffer and 8-foot wall to allow rail-spur access for Western Wholesale Supply
Summary
The board approved a variance allowing Western Wholesale Supply to reduce the required landscape buffer to install a rail spur for center-beam rail cars, conditioning approval on an 8-foot opaque wall extending 144 feet 8 inches from the construction edge and retention of trees north of the work area.
The board approved a variance allowing Western Wholesale Supply to reduce the landscape buffer along a parcel abutting residential properties so the company can extend a rail spur and unload center-beam rail cars.
Jake Bean, representing Venture Land Investments and Western Wholesale Supply, told the board the change is driven by operational limits: the site needs forklift access on both sides of center-beam rail cars and the existing buffer trees would block safe vehicle movement. "We're already proposing to more than double the same new sound wall" and to relocate required trees north of the improvement area, Bean…
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