Council committee to meet on storage container issue

The meeting will be at noon at in the fourth-floor conference room at the Busch Building.

The committee will consider input from past community meetings to determine how to proceed with the city’s container ordinance and make a recommendation to city staff on the issue.

The administrative delay – first approved in July 2006 and given its third 180-day extension Jan. 28 – lets city staff review the rules on allowable size, quantity and placement of on-site storage containers. The current law allows one container for every 5,000 square feet of permanent floor area on the site of businesses zoned general retail, commercial construction or industrial commercial.

“I have noted significant improvements in the placement and use of the containers throughout the community and believe we can delay action on this issue for a period of time,” Mayor Pro Tem Gary Deaver said in a city news release.

The meeting is open to the public, though public comments will not be taken unless the committee requests them.