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Planning commission delays decision on outdoor vehicle storage at 460 E. Highland to allow site plans, paving and screening details
Summary
Macedonia planners continued a conditional-use request to allow outside vehicle storage at 460 E. Highland after staff asked for a scaled site plan showing hard surfacing, stormwater measures and screening; the applicant said most vehicles stay 30–60 days and estimated 50–100 vehicles at peak.
Macedonia — The Planning Commission on June 15 continued a conditional-use hearing for outdoor vehicle storage at 460 East Highland Road and asked the applicant to return with a scaled site plan, paving plans and screening details.
“We took occup March 1st,” applicant John Peter Jr. told the commission, describing the site as a vehicle-processing yard used to store cars from police pickups or breakdowns. “Our goal here is not to operate or own a junkyard or anything with dismantling. It's just to process vehicles… Nine times out of 10 they're pretty much dried out.”
Planning staff told commissioners that the parcel appears to be in the general-industrial district, which conditionally permits outdoor storage, but several requirements must be satisfied before approval. Staff noted the code requires outdoor storage to occur on a hard surface (asphalt or concrete — “grindings” are not acceptable), may trigger a stormwater management review depending on area, and requires a minimum 100-foot front setback for outdoor storage and 30-foot side and rear setbacks. A staff reviewer summarized the code constraint: the front setback has to be a minimum of 100 feet and the side and rear setbacks 30 feet.
Commissioners and staff asked for clarifications on scale, paving and screening. The applicant said the high-end storage estimate is about 100 vehicles and the low end about 50, and that most vehicles remain on site on average 30 to 60 days, though some move out the same day. He also said parts of the adjacent property are used by another owner and that some long-standing gravel/grindings areas predate current ownership.
Because the application lacked a scaled site plan showing exactly which portion of the lot would be used for outdoor storage, how it would be surfaced and how screening would be installed, the commission voted to continue the item to the August meeting so the applicant can submit updated drawings, a paving/stormwater plan if required and a proposed screening plan (fencing or vegetation) to meet the code’s setback and screening requirements.
Next steps: the applicant must submit a scaled site plan showing the outdoor storage area, surfacing material (asphalt or concrete) or a recorded variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals, and details for screening. The city indicated the building and engineering departments will review any stormwater submission.
