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Council reviews 75,199 sq ft Long Creek warehouse site plan amid concerns about warehouse concentration
Summary
Staff presented a site plan for a 75,199-square-foot warehouse on Long Creek Road that meets UDO requirements including required parking and landscaping. Multiple councilmembers voiced anxiety about the cumulative number of warehouses in that corridor and asked staff to report how many by-right industrial lots remain.
Town planning staff presented a detailed site-plan review for a 75,199-square-foot warehouse building proposed on the south side of Long Creek Road adjacent to the Big State Meats development. The applicant’s plan shows 4,500 square feet of office and 70,699 square feet of warehouse, two driveways to Long Creek Road, 86 parking spaces (the staff memo says the project meets the UDO requirement of 86 spaces), approximately 13% of the site landscaped and 55 site trees, plus a detention pond and required architectural elements.
“It's 75,199 square feet split up with 4,500 square feet of office and 70,699 square feet of warehouse,” staff said while walking council through the plan. Council members asked whether truck traffic would be routed to the rear loading docks (staff: yes) and whether adjacent residents had been contacted; staff said there are residential areas about a mile away and that the site sits inside an industrial park. Councilmember Finch said he has “real anxiety about approving any additional warehouse” in that corner of town and asked staff to produce an inventory of how many lots still allow warehouse by-right and whether tools such as zoning map changes or special-use-permit layers could limit future warehouse development.
Staff responded that the development-review committee found the site meets UDO requirements, that the project is allowed by right in the current industrial zoning, and that the town could, as part of its comprehensive-plan future land use map and UDO updates, consider options to limit future industrial conversions. Staff also said impact fees have been updated recently and that roadway impact fees are collected at permit issuance, but noted maintenance funding for existing roadways remains a challenge.
Council did not take a formal vote on the site plan at that moment (the item was presented as informational during the work session); council asked staff to return with an inventory of available by-right industrial lots and options to address cumulative impacts on town roads.
