Staff member flags setback and driveway discrepancies on proposed Kingsbury storage addition

A staff member told the Washington County planning review that the applicant for a Kingsbury storage project plans to add a new building behind an existing self-storage site and that the available site drawing raises two questions for the county to review. "They're adding a 3,500 foot building," the staff member said while showing a map of the parcel, which borders the canal near the intersection of Route 196 and Lake Loughgate Way.

Staff said the submitted site plan is hand-drawn and lacks measurements, making it possible the new structure could be less than 50 feet from the parcel boundary — a potential zoning buffer concern for the town of Kingsbury. The staff member also noted a discrepancy between the applicant's written materials (which indicate use of the existing ingress and egress off Route 196) and the hand-drawn plan, which clearly shows a driveway cut onto Route 196.

Board members discussed attorney notes and whether the county needed to escalate intermunicipal concerns to Kingsbury. The chair called for a vote on how to proceed and members voiced assent in the meeting; the transcript does not record a formal roll-call or a numbered tally for this specific item. The staff member said the county's role at this stage is to evaluate intermunicipal concerns and to flag matters (zoning buffers, driveway access) that Kingsbury itself would need to resolve.

Next steps noted in the meeting: staff will include the attorney's notes in the record and the county will flag the buffer and driveway discrepancies for Kingsbury's review. The transcript does not record a final, signed site plan or a firm approval condition in the meeting minutes.