For City Council Meeting [December 10, 2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Administrator
FROM: Matt Schneider, Community Development Director
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Request City Council to Set a Public Hearing for January 14, 2020, to consider an Ordinance adding sections to Chapter 18.66 (Conditional Development Permits) of the Rialto Municipal Code and amending other sections of the Rialto Municipal Code to require the approval of a Conditional Development Permit for the development, expansion, or modification of storage warehouses, distribution centers, and similar uses on all industrial zoned land within the City of Rialto.
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APPLICANT:
City of Rialto, 150 S. Palm Avenue, Rialto, CA 92376
LOCATION:
All industrial zoned land within the City of Rialto, consisting of the following zones:
1. Light Industrial (M-1)
2. General Manufacturing (M-2)
3. Medium Industrial (M-IND) within the Agua Mansa Specific Plan
4. Heavy Industrial (H-IND) within the Agua Mansa Specific Plan
5. Urban Services (U-S) within the Central Area Specific Plan
6. Industrial Park (I-P) within the Gateway Specific Plan
7. Freeway Incubator (FI) within the Renaissance Specific Plan
8. Employment (EMP) within the Renaissance Specific Plan
9. Business Center (BC) within the Renaissance Specific Plan
10. Planned Industrial Development (I-PID) within the Rialto Airport Specific Plan
11. General Manufacturing (I-GM) within the Rialto Airport Specific Plan
BACKGROUND:
Currently, each industrial zone within the City of Rialto permits the development, expansion, and modification of storage warehouses, distribution centers, and similar uses by right. As a result of some recent storage warehouse and distribution center developments on I-PID zoned land in close proximity to existing residential uses, several members of the Planning Commission expressed a desire to have storage warehouses, distribution centers, and related uses be conditionally permitted in the I-PID zone ra...
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