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Arcade approves annexation and conditional C-2 zoning for gravel storage expansion site
Summary
The Arcade City Council approved annexation of 1.116 acres and conditional C-2 zoning for a McGrath Rent Corp. site, placing use limits (including banning convenience stores with gas pumps and wrecked vehicle compounds) and requiring frontage landscaping, an opaque fence, setbacks for stored modular buildings and paving of the principal circulation driveway.
Mayor Doug Haynie and the Arcade City Council on March 10 approved RZ-2025-02, annexing 1.116 acres into the city and rezoning the parcel to C-2 (Highway Commercial) with multiple conditions intended to limit future uses.
The application, filed by Don Clerici for McGrath Rent Corp. and involving property owners Leonard G. Swofford and Renee F. Swofford, describes the site as fronting the north side of Ethridge Road and proposed to be used for an expansion of a gravel storage lot. Council Member Ron Smith moved to approve annexation; Council Member Tom Hays seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.
The council then approved rezoning the parcel to C-2 conditional with several explicit restrictions. The conditions bar a set of otherwise-permitted C-2 uses without separate council review, including continuing care retirement communities, crisis centers, dormitories and group homes, hospitals, institutionalized residential facilities, funeral homes, mortuaries or mausoleums, lodging services, tow services, wrecked motor vehicle compounds, animal shelters or kennels, and convenience stores with gas pumps. The council also adopted requirements for dedication of right-of-way to Jackson County if required, a minimum 25-foot planted landscape strip with an interior 8-foot-high opaque fence along Ethridge Road, a 50-foot setback for stored modular buildings and a stipulation that the principal internal circulation driveway be paved while the remainder of the site need not be fully paved.
Council Member Ron Smith moved the zoning motion and Tom Hays seconded; both motions were recorded as passing unanimously. The council’s action does not itself authorize any of the disallowed uses; those would require separate review.
The council did not set an effective date beyond the approvals recorded in the meeting minutes. Next procedural steps, such as recording any required dedication of right-of-way with Jackson County or permits for site work, were not detailed in the minutes.
