TWINSBURG – A semi-trailer rental/leasing enterprise plans to find on two parcels totaling 10.5 acres on Darrow Highway between the Cleveland Clinic Household Well being & Surgical procedure Middle and Zoom Categorical automotive wash.
The planning fee favored a conditional zoning certificates Oct. 17. It will permit XTRA Lease to park semi-trailers on the website the place it hopes to erect a 9,280-square-foot constructing. The agency has almost 50 rental places nationwide.
Metropolis Council was anticipated to contemplate the planning panel’s advice at its Oct. 25 assembly. A remaining website plan and lot consolidation then should be authorised by planners earlier than the venture strikes ahead.
XTRA Lease submitted to the planning panel a preliminary website plan in assist of its request for the conditional zoning certificates. “Outdoors storage is a basic part of this enterprise use,” stated metropolis planner Lynn Muter.
The trailer parking yard would occupy 7.8 acres of the property, which is in an I-3 heavy industrial zoning district. Auto/truck/farm implement gross sales, rental, service and storage of recent and used gear are permitted makes use of in that district.
Nonetheless, efficiency requirements for industrial districts require all makes use of and operations, besides parking, to be positioned in enclosed buildings. Outdoors storage is allowed with a conditional zoning certificates.
Muter stated for the reason that website is extremely seen, the constructing design, landscaping and placement of the storage yard is essential to create a facility applicable in look with the prevailing surrounding makes use of.
The outside storage space is proposed to be in entrance of and behind the constructing, with a 10-foot setback from the aspect property traces. A situation connected to the CZC is that 30-inch excessive mounding and bushes be positioned alongside Darrow Highway.
Entry to the location can be from one gate-controlled driveway. The outside storage yard can be surrounded by a chain-link fence and gated. Hours of operation can be Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to six p.m. No freight operations are deliberate.
A mix of underground stormwater storage and a storm basin on the rear of the property can be supplied to handle stormwater runoff, and a hearth hydrant on the frontage is required, as is a sidewalk throughout the frontage.
A wetlands delineation and probably an environmental influence evaluation are required. However an XTRA Lease spokesman stated the wetlands space may be very small. A ten-acre or better disturbance space would set off the environmental influence evaluation.
Nineteen parking areas are proposed in entrance of the constructing, and Muter stated these are in compliance for the 4 to 6 staff anticipated to work on the enterprise.
Based on its web site, XTRA Lease is predicated in St. Louis and is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. It affords a fleet of about 90,000 trailers for lease and lease, together with dry vans, flatbeds, reefers, chassis and storage trailers.
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