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Memo to Planning Commission Page 4 February 28, 1995 • location, due to the size of the building, the applicant is proposing to keep all the collected material inside the building. The applicant has, however, requested the ability. to store aluminum can trailers and roll-off containers outside to the rear of the building. (These trailers and containers are used by various groups to collect metals off-site and are then returned to the facility.) The center will have limited retail sales of equipment related to metal recycling such as can crushers, but will primarily be a facility where customers can buy and sell aluminum, copper, brass, etc. It should be noted. that this facility would not conduct any processing of the metals that are collected, other than sorting and crushing. Customers will be serviced by driving up to the .large overhead doors located on the front of the facility facing Highway 10 to unload their material. The site also has several pieces of miscellaneous debris scattered throughout the site such as wood piles, an old milk truck, old trailers, .tires, etc. If this proposal is approved staff would recommend that all the miscellaneous debris around the site be removed and that all outdoor storage remain outside the setback line. The attached site plan and associated letter explains the business operation. Landscaz~in The site consists of a large, hard-surface area around the existing building with a few strips of grass near 165th and Highway 10. With the exception of the east property line, there are very few trees located on site. Therefore, if this proposal is approved, staff would recommend additional trees be planted along .165th Avenue and Highway 10. Kober Excavating also has a significant amount of outdoor storage on the northeast corner of the subject site. It may be appropriate at this time to consider screening this area from .Highway 10 with 100°fo opaque fencing to provide this site with a better overall image. Another option rather than screening would be to landscape with grass and trees a large area to the north and west of the existing building. Staff will explain this in greater detail at the Planning Commission .meeting. Due to the fact that this is an existing site, it is difficult to retrofit all the landscaping requirements to the plan, therefore, these. improvements could be phased in over a 2-year period. Recommendation Staff recommends approval of the following: 1) A zone change from C3 (Highway Commercial) to I1 (Light Industrial) and a land use amendment from H$ {Highway Business) to LI (Light Industrial) based upon the following reasons: • s:planning:pc: zc95-01