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Planners table storage discussion
By Kristen Waggener, kwaggener@miconews.com
The passive approach won out last week when it came to outside storage.
After six months of discussion regarding the outside storage at retail businesses such as Alco and Orscheln Farm & Home, the Louisburg Planning Commission tabled the issue to be revisited in six months.
Acting on the recommendation of City Administrator Jeff Cantrell, who cited not wanting to scare business away because of economic conditions, the planners voted to hold off on regulating them.
The businesses, Cantrell said, have also shown restraint in their storage practices after the issue was addressed by the city.
The planning commission also approved a site plan for the Timbercreek complex, allowing owner Nabil Haddad to build a new 90-space parking lot, restructure the entrances and exits to the complex and renovate the second building into a three-room events center.
The current entrances to the complex will be eliminated, and new entrances, which were recently approved by the Kansas Department of Transportation, will be constructed to line up with Berkley Street and nearly line up with the entrance to the Re/Max building across the street.
“It does centralize the traffic flow to where it needs to be,” said planning commissioner Nate Apple.
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After six months of discussion regarding the outside storage at retail businesses such as Alco and Orscheln Farm & Home, the Louisburg Planning Commission tabled the issue to be revisited in six months.
Acting on the recommendation of City Administrator Jeff Cantrell, who cited not wanting to scare business away because of economic conditions, the planners voted to hold off on regulating them.
The businesses, Cantrell said, have also shown restraint in their storage practices after the issue was addressed by the city.
The planning commission also approved a site plan for the Timbercreek complex, allowing owner Nabil Haddad to build a new 90-space parking lot, restructure the entrances and exits to the complex and renovate the second building into a three-room events center.
The current entrances to the complex will be eliminated, and new entrances, which were recently approved by the Kansas Department of Transportation, will be constructed to line up with Berkley Street and nearly line up with the entrance to the Re/Max building across the street.
“It does centralize the traffic flow to where it needs to be,” said planning commissioner Nate Apple.