Board transmits R&L Carriers site plan for 47-trailer auxiliary parking lot to City Commission

The Planning and Zoning Board voted to accept a site-plan application and transmit it to the City Commission for approval to develop an auxiliary 47-trailer parking/storage lot for R&L Carriers on Northwest 209 near Johnson Street.

Sebastian Viterino, engineer of record with Kimley-Horn, presented the plan and said the 2.5-acre site would provide 47 trailer parking stalls, would be fenced and gated for controlled access, and would include three large retention areas plus an exfiltration trench to retain runoff on-site. Viterino said the lot would replace invasive vegetation with native, drought-resistant plantings and is intended to serve as temporary storage to facilitate operations at the company’s main facility across the street.

Viterino and planning staff confirmed the property is within an industrial area; staff said the lot would not be used for customer traffic, that peak operational windows are roughly 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., and that the use is consistent with industrial zoning. Board members asked about access points (Johnson Street and Ninth) and whether existing adjacent uses would be affected; presenters said no increase in vehicular movement beyond the facility’s current operations was anticipated.

A motion to accept the site plan application SP2024-008 and transmit it to the City Commission for approval was made, seconded and approved by voice vote. The board recorded the motion as passed in the transcript; no roll-call tally was recorded.