01-13-11-Planning Comm. Agenda.tif

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The manufacturing, compounding, assembly, packaging, treatment, or storage of products and materials. Expressly prohibited activities include: the stockpiling and recycling of aggregate materials in supplies of more than twenty -five (25) cubic yards. Under this language, an asphalt plant could conceivably locate in Little Canada as a use that involves the "compounding" of materials. However, the restriction on stockpiling of aggregates would make such a use difficult to operate, since all supplies would have to be trucked in from off -site as they are being used. In the 1 -2 zoning district, Aggregate Materials Stockpiling is allowed by Interim Use Permit, with a number of restrictions, including that such a use must be the exclusive use of the property on which it is located. The Fra -Dor aggregates recycling operation exists under such a permit, the only 1 -2 district in the City. Concern has been raised that some combination of the two uses on adjoining or nearby locations would support the feasible operation of an asphalt plant. Thus, staff has developed a provision that would prohibit such uses in the City. Moreover, because concrete plants and other aggregate materials processing could raise many of the same issues, the amendment language would prohibit all such uses as permanent occupants of property. There are some necessary exceptions to accommodate ongoing construction projects. It is not uncommon for temporary paving materials to be produced on -site during large construction projects, especially highway construction or very large building projects. As such, the amendment is designed and written to accommodate certain temporary facilities for a limited time, in limited locations. Proposed Amendment. The proposed amendment creates a category of "Prohibited Uses" in the 1 -1 and 1 -2 Districts, and adds a clarifying statement in the district language that calls attention to this category. Permitted Uses in the 1 -1 (Section 914.020) and I -P (Section 918) would be amended to introduce the new Prohibited Uses subsection; Asphalt Plants, Concrete Mix Plants, and other Aggregate Materials Processing are list as Prohibited Uses in that section. The ordinance amendment further adds the Stockpiling and recycling of aggregate materials up to 25 cubic yards as an accessory use subject to the City's new Outdoor Storage provisions; and Moves the Stockpiling restriction of more than 25 cubic yards to the new Prohibited Uses section. Finally, the proposed amendment adds temporary use of such facilities as an accessory use where an active building permit has been issued, or where a public agency is constructing a road or bridge project.