The city is considering limiting where storage units can be built to keep the west side of town from becoming overcrowded with storage lots. It also aims to clean up the look of the city by banning shipping containers.
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The city hopes to attract higher-value industrial businesses that provide more tax revenue and jobs than storage facilities.
The city and future industrial employers who need space for manufacturing.
Property owners or developers who intended to build storage facilities in the restricted zones.
The city is looking to limit where storage facilities can be built and ban shipping containers entirely. This is a big deal for property owners and developers who might have been planning to use land west of 1200 West for these types of businesses.
The city is updating zoning rules to prevent industrial areas from becoming 'seas' of storage units, aiming to save space for job-creating manufacturing instead.
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