For City Council Meeting [January 12, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Acting City Manager
FROM: Karen Peterson, Acting Community Development Director
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Request City Council to Conduct Public Hearing on Zoning Code Amendment No. 20-0004 and Zoning Code Amendment No. 20-0005 and Adopt Ordinance No. 1653 Regulating Indoor Storage Facilities and Ordinance No. 1654 Regulating Outdoor Storage Uses.
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BACKGROUND
In the past few years, industrial developments related to trucking and distribution have accelerated due to the increase in e-commerce. While this industrial sector has contributed to the local economy, created employment opportunities, and spurred related development, City representatives have expressed concerns about the impacts of trucking on the community as a whole.
Specifically, concerns have focused on protecting residential neighborhoods from the disruption and potentially negative health effects of distribution and truck traffic, reevaluating truck routes and commercial vehicle enforcement options to protect both residential and commercial areas, ensuring new facilities pay their fair share of needed infrastructure improvements, evaluating opportunities to offset roadway maintenance costs, and ensuring facilities are developed in an orderly and high quality manner.
These concerns, combined with a need for more protective regulation, led to the adoption of moratoriums related to truck yards and distribution warehouses, as outlined below. Other moratoriums related to prohibiting truck traffic on Ayala through the Renaissance commercial area and preventing the installation of medians on Riverside Avenue south of the I-10 Freeway were also enacted as ways of addressing concerns.
With respect to truck yards, on October 8, 2019, the City Council adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 1624, establishing a 45-day moratorium on the establishment, expansion, or modification of truck terminals, truck/contai...
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