TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Rod Tonelli, Interim City Manager
SUBJECT:
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Ordinance Approving the Reclassification of 4001 Brandon Road from I-TC (Intermodal Terminal - Industrial Park) to I-TB (Intermodal Terminal - Transportation Equipment) Zoning (Z-5-23)
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BACKGROUND:
The petitioner, Joliet Intermodal Holdings LLC, is seeking approval of the reclassification of 4001 Brandon Road to I-T Category B zoning to allow development of a transload / transportation operations facility and container storage yard for Junction Collaborative Transports, a logistics company. The site is currently zoned I-T Category C (Industrial Park), which allows warehouse and distribution facilities. Category B (Transportation Equipment) permits short- and long-term cargo container stacking and storage along with trucking facility operations. The proposed use would be permitted in Category B.
The subject site is Lot 21 of Phase 18 of the CenterPoint Intermodal Center at Joliet Subdivision, which was approved and recorded in April 2018. The lot is 30.4 acres and is currently undeveloped. It was annexed and classified to I-T Category C in 2008. The site is surrounded by I-T zoning, with a warehouse to the north, a trucking facility to the west, storm detention to the south, and a pipeline easement to the east.
The attached conceptual site plan shows a 33,800-square-foot warehouse and repair building, 542 trailer stalls, 30 tractor stalls, and employee parking. There is a 5-acre container stacking area on the west side of the site that can hold around 735 containers. Per the City's Zoning Ordinance, container stacking is limited to 5 units high. The truck entrance is at the southeast corner of the site off Brandon Road; the employee parking has a separate entrance to the north. The north and east sides of the site, along Millsdale Road and Brandon Road, will have landscape buffers and be screened with an 8-foot fence. Stormwater detention for the site has been previously ...
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