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STAFF REPORT <br /> Decatur City Plan Commission <br /> COMMON NAME: 2540 Millikin Parkway <br /> GENERAL INFORMATION <br /> Hearing Date August 3, 2006 <br /> Calendar No. 06-52 <br /> Property Location 2540 Millikin Parkway <br /> Requested Action Rezone from M-1 Intense Commercial/Light Industrial District to <br /> M-2 Heavy Industrial District with a Conditional Use Permit to <br /> allow outdoor storage , <br /> Petitioner Joe O'Neil, President G&D Integrated <br /> Representative Phil Cochran � <br /> LAND USE AND ZONING <br /> Direction Existing Land Use Zoning Comprehensive Plan <br /> Subject Property Unimproved M-1 � Light Industrial <br /> North Single Family Residential R-1 Low Density Residential <br /> South Light Industrial M-1 Light Industrial <br /> East Light Industrial M-1 Light Industrial <br /> West Light Industrial M-1 Light Industrial <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> 1. The site is approximately 11.8 acres and is currently unimproved. <br /> 2. G &D Integrated currently operates a facility on the property to the east. <br /> PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br /> 1. The requested rezoning will allow G & D to expand their operations by operating a container <br /> storage facility on the subject property. The office and warehouse building to the east will be <br /> expanded as part of the overall development. <br /> 2. A paved drive will loop around the site with container storage on both sides of the roadway. <br /> 3. The maximum height of the storage will be four (4) units high or thirty-eight feet high, <br /> whichever is less. <br /> 4. A landscaped berm twelve (12) feet high with ten (10) foot evergreen trees and additional <br /> shrubs will provide a sixty foot buffer between the storage yard and residential property to the <br /> north across Finch Drive. A sixteen foot landscape easement on the right-of-way of Finch <br />