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Commission approves North Virginia outdoor storage CUP with modifications; major deviation limited to Parcel 1
Summary
The commission approved a conditional use permit and major deviation to allow an outdoor storage yard for a landscape business on North Virginia Street, adopting several changes: removal of staff's decorative masonry wall requirement (revert to code's solid-fence standard), modification of wetland-condition language (remove USACE approval requirement), and limiting the major-deviation relief to Parcel 1; vote was 6-1.
The commission approved a Conditional Use Permit and major deviation (LDC26-00091) for outdoor storage and grading on a 16.7-acre North Virginia Street site, but modified staff's recommended conditions before voting 6-1. The project proposes a 1.6-acre fenced outdoor storage yard and a 5,000-square-foot office building to support a landscape business; applicant representatives said stored materials would include rocks, topsoil, mulch, irrigation pipe and palletized pavers, with an on-site fleet of about 12–15 pickup trucks and four dumpsters.
"The materials that are gonna be stored on-site are for a landscape business," said the applicant representative, listing rocks, topsoil and mulch and noting deliveries would be infrequent (about weekly to a few times per month). He also said the applicant would provide water suppression and containment for mulch piles.
Key commission changes: members removed staff's prescriptive condition calling for a decorative precast masonry wall visible from the right of way and left in place the code requirement that screening be a solid fence (wood, metal, composite or masonry) so the applicant retains some flexibility. The commission also struck language in condition 10 that required wetland delineation to be established "in accordance with the US Army Corps of Engineers regulations," leaving the requirement for a wetlands delineation and mitigation but not conditioning approval on USACE concurrence within the staff-suggested timeline. Finally, after debate about whether the relief should apply to the entire multi-parcel site, the commission limited the granted major deviation to Parcel 1 only.
Commissioners discussed residential adjacency standards, hillside grading and mitigation, and whether the 150-foot deviation (proposed) would be justified. The applicant agreed to the revised conditions and to limit the major deviation to Parcel 1.
Vote: motion carried 6-1, with Commissioner McCoy recorded as opposed.
