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Memo to City Council Page 2 <br />dated September 12,1995, <br />Continued ............... <br />• Hi hwa 169 to help screen the read mix plant. The additional truck traffic <br />g Y Y <br />associated with the ready mix plant can be adequately handled by an <br />existing access to Trunk Highway 169, which includes an acceleration and <br />de-acceleration lane. <br />There is a proposed control trailer for the ready mix plant, but staff did not <br />apply the building standards required in the medium industrial zone to this <br />structure. Because this plant is proposed in an active gravel pit it is a <br />temporary situation, although temporary maybe 30 years, and a permanent <br />structure built under I-2 standards would be impractical. Trailers for scale <br />houses are common in gravel mines. Permanent structures in the future <br />would be subject to I-2 standards. Sanitation facilities on site will be <br />handled by satellites. <br />Staff also considered whether or not there should be hard surfaced parking <br />and drive. This may or may not have merit. In some other pits hard <br />surfaced drives have been required prior to accessing a public road to hold <br />down sediment from being deposited on the road. <br />If this ready mix plant were not in a gravel pit, parking would be required. <br />• However, staff is not convinced parking makes sense in this situation. If <br />parking is required, staff recommends there are enough stalls provided for <br />trucks kept on site, plant staff, and customers. <br />Recommendation <br />The Planning Commission felt the seven standards for approving a <br />conditional use permit were met with this request. They are recommending <br />approval of the proposed amendment to Shiely's conditional use permit to <br />allow a concrete ready mix plant subject to the two conditions listed below <br />and contingent upon the rezoning of the property to I-2. <br />1. That 50 pines, 2 to 10 feet high be planted on the berm between <br />the subject property and US Trunk Highway 169 by 1996. <br />Further, a minimum of 20 of these trees are to be 8-10 feet high. <br />2. That signage for the ready mix plant be allowed as per the I-2 <br />zone. In addition, no billboards are allowed on this property. <br />n <br />U <br />CU95-17B/bz/stever <br />