Hailey P&Z
endorses new use of Coors
site
By GREGORY
FOLEY
Express Staff Writer
Hailey
Planning and Zoning commissioners last week gave permission to the
owners of a wholesale plumbing-supply business to base their operations
in a high-profile commercial building south of downtown.
In a 4-0
vote, the panel decided to issue Picabo-based BDB Development a
Conditional Use Permit to allow Silver Creek Supply—an existing
business currently located at 12 West Carbonate Dr.—to operate as the
sole tenant of a limited-business zoned building at 910 Fourth Ave.
South.
The
building is the former site of a Coors beer distribution center, and has
recently been occupied by Wood River Gymnastics and Brico, a fuel and
lubricant distributor. It is located adjacent to the intersection of
Fourth Avenue and State Highway 75, at the southern entrance to the
city.
BDB
Development earlier this month secured final approval from the Hailey
City Council to subdivide the 2.37-acre lot on which the building sits
into two parcels of approximately one acre.
Brett
Bashaw, representative of BDB Development, told commissioners that
Silver Creek Supply would be "less of an eyesore" if it were
allowed to move to the new, larger site, where more storage would be
available.
Commissioners
Kristin Anderson and Eddy Svidgal expressed some concern that products
and equipment stored outdoors at the new site could negatively impact
views and the aesthetics of the neighborhood around the Airport Inn.
To
mitigate the negative impacts of stacking products outside at the future
site, commissioners required that Silver Creek managers install a solid,
six-foot-high cedar fence around the proposed exterior storage area on
the north and east sides.
Other
conditions attached to the approval of the permit included requirements
that the business comply with city ordinances regulating on-site signs
and lighting.
Commissioners
also approved a provision for the city to review the permit after one
year if public complaints are submitted about business operations at the
site.