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Planning commission recommends allowing indoor storage in two existing Port Washington industrial overlays
Summary
The Planning Commission voted April 16 to recommend a zoning text amendment that would permit indoor storage uses in two existing industrial plan-development overlay districts, while keeping the use out of the base industrial zoning. The recommendation goes to the common council for final action.
The Port Washington Planning Commission on April 16 recommended that the common council amend the city zoning code to allow indoor storage as a permitted use in two existing industrial plan-development overlay districts, while keeping indoor storage out of the underlying I1/I2 base zoning.
Staff presented the amendment to section 40 485-170B and said the change responds to operational and code issues raised during inspections of existing businesses in the overlays and to a recognized market need for smaller storage/industrial units. "We're simply taking the use and adding it to the I1 existing industrial district as a permitted use and just saying indoor storage for existing overlay plan development districts," a staff presenter said.
Commissioners pressed staff on safety and long-term land-use impacts. One commissioner noted his longstanding concern about a proliferation of storage uses, saying he remembered his "stance on the proliferation of many stoages" and emphasized limiting the change to existing overlay plan developments. Staff replied that police and fire departments had been consulted and that the amendment is narrowly written to apply to the two existing overlay districts tied to previously approved developments.
The commission moved and seconded the recommendation and approved it by voice vote; the meeting record does not include a roll-call tally. The measure will be forwarded to the common council for its review and final decision.
What happens next: The recommendation is advisory; the common council must consider the text amendment, and if approved it will amend the code language so indoor storage is permitted only within the identified, preexisting plan-development overlay districts.
