CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Waive the first reading and pass the Ordinance approving a text amendment to Municipal Code Section 6-7F (OCI: Office Commercial and Institutional District) to permit self-storage facilities, subject to conditions (PZC 17-1-090).
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Kasey Evans, AICP
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
The Planning and Zoning Commission considered this matter on September 6, 2017 and voted to recommend approval of the request (approved 7-0). Staff concurs.
BACKGROUND:
5995 Naperville Self Storage LLC has petitioned the City to amend the OCI zoning district regulations to permit self-storage facilities in the OCI district, subject to certain conditions. The proposed text amendment to the OCI district was prompted by the petitioner's interest in developing a self-storage facility at 2708 Forgue Drive, located in the Cantore Place Planned Unit Development (PUD). In preliminary discussions between staff and the petitioner, it became clear that the proposed self-storage facility would be sufficiently different from other facilities to warrant consideration of a text amendment to allow the use in the OCI district. The proposed text amendment is being processed concurrently with the petitioner's associated entitlement requests for their proposed self-storage facility at 2708 Forgue Drive.
DISCUSSION:
The intent of the OCI district is "to act as a transitional zone between intensive business areas and residential neighborhoods." As such the permitted and conditional uses in the OCI district include uses such as: offices, financial institutions, civic/cultural buildings, daycare centers, religious institutions, beauty salons, nursing homes, multi-family dwellings, and public and private utility facilities (complete list of current permitted and conditional uses attached); which tend to have lesser impacts on adjacent properties than other commercial uses. Self-storage...
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