Car wash, self-storage moratorium ordinances advance | News, Sports, Jobs

Ordinances that might place a moratorium on new automobile washes and self-storage buildings in Cape Coral moved ahead Wednesday.

Cape Coral Metropolis Council unanimously superior every to the primary public listening to stage, setting the listening to for every on April 3.

There was no dialogue among the many elected board and just one resident commented, saying a moratorium can be inappropriate.

Jay Higgins, the resident, believed that the extra the merrier, though he additionally stated automobile washes may be noisy and do take water to run.

He recommended permitting such companies in excessive site visitors places away from houses.

“Water is a scarce commodity,” he stated. “These issues are noisy. I encourage you to place them on Pine Island, Del Prado.”

If authorised, town wouldn’t settle for functions for, or problem permits for, any new self-storage or automobile wash facility inside any zoning district in Cape Coral.

Ordinance 15-24 states that “as a way to forestall the proliferation of self-storage amenities consuming important industrial property, too quick, in shut proximity to 1 one other, it’s crucial to review the problem to find out the numbers and places which are applicable to town.”

In keeping with the ordinance there may be an estimated 1.5 million sq. toes of present self-storage house within the Cape with an extra 1.6 million within the allowing course of or underneath building for a complete of three.1 million sq. toes of self-storage house.

Ordinance 16-24 states that there are 16 standalone automobile wash amenities within the metropolis with one other 9 accent automobile wash amenities the place gasoline can be accessible. There are an extra 12 standalone automobile wash amenities in allowing, or underneath building within the metropolis.

If authorised, the moratoriums can be in impact for 12 months, “the minimal affordable time” for metropolis workers to conduct a examine and decide what land growth codes is perhaps essentially, and to draft “remedial laws” to deal with the problem.