The Stuart City Council approved plans for a new storage facility at their recent meeting.

Eric Tiernan had submitted a plan for a building that would contain 12 units at 123 South Division Street, which would be situated south of the carwash that’s south of the railroad track, which the Planning and Zoning Commission approved a few months ago. City Engineer Forrest Aldrich explained the issues that Tiernan’s plan has with the city code, “With the review of it there’s three items in your current site plan ordinance that this will not be able to meet and that’s the open space requirements. You know we’re not going to be anywhere near 25% open space because almost everything out there is paved. There’s a landscaping requirement in your site plan ordinance and of course there’s no landscaping out there now and there’s none proposed. And then the building is proposed to be a metal building which is different from what your site plan ordinance allows but everything else around it is also metal buildings.”

The Council approved the site plan with an added requirement for Tiernan to do landscaping. In other Planning and Zoning business, the Council approved amending language in the city code relating to child care in specific zones, clarifying which zones particular child care centers can be located, and eliminating the antiquated reference to nursery schools, which the Planning and Zoning Commission already approved.