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April 5, 2022 Centerville Planning & Zoning Commission Page 4 of 9 RE: Banjo Distribution Center, Preliminary Review – CUP, Site Plan, Plat USES Truck Terminal The proposed use involves bringing goods onto the site in trucks, unloading, sorting, repackaging them for distribution, and loading them into vans for delivery. The applicants describe the proposed uses as warehouse and office, noting the facility will distribute merchandise to customers. The zoning code table of uses lists “Warehouse/Distribution” as a permitted use in the Industrial district and notes “Truck Terminal” as a conditional use. There is no definition for truck terminal in the code, but the proposed Banjo facility meets a typical dictionary definition: TRUCK TERMINAL means a building, structure or place where trucks or transports are rented, leased, kept for hire, or stand or park for remuneration, or from which trucks or transports, stored or parked on the property, are dispatched for hire as common carriers or where goods are stored temporarily for further shipment. Outside Storage Since the above truck terminal use is by CUP, parking of trucks and trailers also becomes an issue as “outside storage”. In 156.040(M), storage is regulated in the I-1 district (underline added): (M) Storage. For the purpose of this zoning district, car, vans and pickup trucks parked outside and used by employees and/or visitors in the normal course of the business operation will not be construed to be outdoor storage. Further, outside parked trucks and semi-trailers used in the normal business commerce will not be construed to be outdoor storage: (1) Provided that the total number of trucks and semi-trailers does not exceed the number of docks and/or bay doors; and (2) This use is not construed as an operation listed as a conditional use in any industrial zone. The proposed number of trailer parking spaces is less than the number of docks. Trucks and semi- trailers are part of a conditional use and therefore count as outside storage. It is implied that this outside storage of trucks and semi-trailers would be reviewed with a CUP. In Section 156.144 (M)(2), outside storage is also addressed, noting that “equipment . . . necessary to an approved business operation in a commercial or industrial district” is prohibited “except as specifically provided for in this chapter.” This outside storage “must be completely screened from adjacent properties and rights-of-way”. Together with the provision above from 156.040(M)(2), I conclude that the storing of trucks and semi-trailers for this truck terminal use must be completely screened and will be reviewed within the CUP process. Height Structures over 35 feet in height are only allowed by CUP, per Section 156.121(A). The proposed building would be 44 feet in height, so a CUP for that feature is needed as well.