R-097-17 Conditional Use Permit for truck storage-office use

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Page 2 of 4 1 2 A. General Plan Update Goal LU -6.0 "Minimize or eliminate land use conflicts where residences are in close proximity to rail lines, freeways, and industrial 3 businesses" in that the applicant has placed the office building, parking, perimeter walls and parking carport/service bay in a manner to minimize views, 4 truck access and sound from the proposed trucking office which is limited to the storage of five tractor trucks and where no trailers are permitted on site or 5 adjacent streets. 6 B. General Plan Update Policy LU -6.4: "Promote the use of buildings, setbacks, 7 walls, landscaping, and other design features to buffer and reduce conflicts between adjacent properties" in that the design of the trucking office/storage 8 use is placed away from the residential use to the west and south of the site. The applicant has provided an 8 foot high perimeter wall with a 3- 5 foot landscape 9 buffer along the west side and carport/service bay along the alley with a 10 minimum 3 foot landscape buffer. 11 C. General Plan Update Policy LU -6.6: "Require that industrial businesses adjacent to residential neighborhoods adopt and implement truck routing plans 12 that avoid use of local streets to the greatest extent practical" in that the proposed site will only be accessed via 9th Street to M Street, the closest 13 designated City Truck Route. 14 2 That the proposed Use, together with the conditions applicable thereto will not 15 be detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare, or materially injurious to properties or improvements in the vicinity and will not impose significant 16 noise, traffic, air quality, aesthetic or other environmental impacts on adjacent or nearby residential neighborhoods that cannot be mitigated to a level of 1 insignificance.; The proposed truck office/storage use will not be detrimental to 18 the public health, safety or welfare or materially injurious to properties or improvements in the vicinity for the following reasons: 19 A. The proposed use hours of operation for the proposed office business are acceptable for the heavy industrial location of the subject site and the 20 surrounding properties so long as all truck access is restricted to 9th Street. B. The proposed business is located in an area of the City that consists of a 21 mixture of residential, industrial and institutional uses and whereby the 22 applicant has made several design enhancements and operational changes to be compatible with the immediate surrounding areas. 23 C. Conditions have been placed on the proposed use which will mitigate any potential impacts created by the use (i.e., truck traffic, noise, aesthetics, with 24 adjacent residential zone and uses) and ensure that the use will not negatively affect the surrounding shopping center or community. 25 D. All exterior lighting is subject to conformance with the lighting standards of 26 the City (i.e., non -flashing and directed away so as to eliminate objectionable glare) in conformance with Chapters 18.40 and 18.42 of the Colton 27 Municipal Code. 28 -2-