TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Dustin Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT:
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Ordinance Approving a Special Use Permit to Allow an Automobile Storage Lot for an Existing Used Automobile Sales Business, Located at 115 N. Center Street (ZBA 2024-60)
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BACKGROUND:
The petitioner and business owner, Bujar Shabani with 1st Choice Auto Sales, is requesting a special use permit to use the property at 115 N. Center Street to store extra inventory for their business. 1st Choice Auto Sales is a used car dealership located one block north of the proposed storage lot at 201 N. Center Street. The dealership lot is 6,000 square feet and contains a small office building and 18 parking spaces. The dealership is located at the northwest corner of Center Street and Oneida Street and has no room to expand. The petitioner has operated 1st Choice Auto Sales at 201 N. Center Street since 2018 and purchased the lot at 115 N. Center Street in 2021.
The lot at 115 N. Center Street can hold approximately 16 vehicles and would only be used for the storage of vehicles - no sales would be conducted on the property. The property is accessed from an alley off Center Street that runs along the south side of the site. As conditions of approval, the petitioner would need to make several site improvements including re-paving and striping the parking lot, replacing deteriorated sidewalk along Center Street, and replacing the alley apron off Center Street.
The property is zoned B-3 (general business) and has been a parking lot for decades. Staff finds that the request meets the criteria for special uses in that it will not be detrimental to public health or general welfare and will not be injurious to the use of other property in the immediate vicinity. Staff does not take a position as to whether or not this is the highest and best use for the parcel.
The petitioner previously requested the same special use permit under Petition 2022-73, which was recommended for ...
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