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Planning commission upholds staff: nonconforming outdoor storage at 4990 Traffic Way expired
Summary
After a contested hearing, the Atascadero Planning Commission voted 5-1 May 5 to deny an appeal and uphold staff's determination that a previously nonconforming outdoor vehicle-and-equipment storage use at 4990 Traffic Way had discontinued and therefore expired under the city's six-month discontinuance rule; the appellant argued the site remained in use and raised due-process and takings concerns.
The Atascadero Planning Commission voted 5-1 on May 5 to deny an appeal that sought to preserve a legal nonconforming outdoor vehicle-and-equipment storage use at 4990 Traffic Way.
Staff case and recommendation: Planner Eric Gomez told commissioners the property is a 1.42-acre industrial parcel with a roughly 3,200-square-foot building and about 45,000 square feet of paved yard. The city's records show an RV-storage use permitted in 2012; a 2020 zoning update made outdoor storage a conditional use and converted the earlier outdoor-storage operation into a nonconforming use that requires reestablishment if discontinued for more than six months. Staff said the long-term tenant left in June 2022, the property lacked a continuing business license for a similar land use, and periodic site visits and other records failed to show…
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