Transmitted is a request concurring with the determination of the City Planner that the proposed changes to an approved site plan in the “M-2,P” Planned Industrial District to enlarge an approved 170,000 square foot building  to 200,364 square feet and approve a second access point to Leversee Road are minor.  This approval as minor does not include, and staff is reserving the right for a future building/covered storage area  and test center building to come back through the full Site Plan Amendment process, located east of 2322 Leversee Road.

The initial site plan turned in by St. Martin Land Co. on the behalf of CPM Acquisition Corp. was approved on June 7, 2021 and it showed a 120,000 square foot building with a future 20,000 addition and an office area of 20,000 square feet with a proposed 10,000 square foot addition, totaling 170,000 square feet.  Also, only one ingress/egress point was shown on the original plan onto Leversee Road.  The applicant has turned in a new site plan that shows a warehouse/manufacturing space of 140,625 square feet with a future addition of 37,500 square feet and the office area is now 22,239 square feet for a total building area of 200,364 square feet.  The Zoning Ordinance allows for minor changes to approved site plans when not increasing the building size by more than 50 percent.  The change in the size of the building is an increase in area of 17.8 percent and adding the second ingress/egress point to Leversee Road would not appear to have a negative impact on traffic conditions.  The new site plan does show a proposed test center west of the new building and a future building or covered storage area to the east.  Staff is reserving the right to have these  two buildings come back through the full Site Plan Amendment process, which involves review by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council. 

Therefore, staff requests concurrence that the proposed changes to the approved site plan to increase the building size by 17.8 percent and have a second ingress/egress point to Leversee Road are minor changes.   

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The West 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 32, Township 90 North, Range 13 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, except road.