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ACES backs concept to study minimum gas station setbacks near sensitive land uses
Summary
The Advisory Committee on Environmental Sustainability unanimously supported staff advancing a concept to set minimum setbacks between new gas stations and sensitive land uses after a presentation on a proposed ordinance and benzene research; the committee also approved April minutes and had multiple agenda items with details not specified in the transcript.
The Advisory Committee on Environmental Sustainability unanimously voted May 11 to support staff moving forward with a concept to establish a minimum setback between new gas stations and sensitive land uses.
The proposal was introduced as a Gas Station Setback Ordinance presentation that referenced benzene research; Senior Planner Ted Harberg presented the item and materials were noted on the agenda. Lance French moved that ACES endorse staff progressing the concept; Jason Garvin seconded. The motion was approved unanimously.
Committee members and staff did not record additional substantive details, including a draft ordinance text or a timeline for next steps, in the provided meeting transcript. The motion directs staff to continue work on the concept and any related research; the record does not specify a required follow-up date or when a formal ordinance would be drafted or returned to the committee for further consideration.
At the same meeting the committee approved its April meeting minutes (motion by Lane Parker; second by Jon Boomershine) and had other agenda items on the docket that were noted but not described in the supplied transcript, including a second-reading item for the Residential Waste Services contract/ordinance and a planned greenhouse gas inventory update by the Sustainability Policy Analyst. The transcript shows the meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m. and adjourned at 8:05 p.m.
What happens next: The committee’s action was to support staff continuing work on the setback concept; any ordinance, formal regulatory language, or recommended distances would require additional staff work and subsequent committee or council consideration according to the normal process (the transcript does not specify specific next hearings or dates).
