November 20, 2008

Wal-Mart hearing set for 6:30

     Two quasi-judicial public hearings related to the proposed Walmart development near Interstate 84 and River Road are on The Dalles Planning Commission’s agenda for their 6:30 p.m. meeting Thursday, Nov. 20 at City Hall council chambers.
     The subject of the first hearing is a request to subdivide the 67-acre land parcel into five lots known as the Chenoweth Station Subdivision and add a public street. City staff has recommended that the preliminary plat application be approved, subject to a list of conditions including development in accordance with the Land Use and Developement Ordinance (LUDO), submission of a final subdivision plat, street improvements and approval of construction plans by the city engineer, among others.
     The second hearing focuses on a PacLand-Walmart request for site plan review approval to build a retail building on lot 2 of the proposed subdivision. All significant commercial construction requires site plan review approval.
     City staff also recommended approval of the site plan review, subject to similar criteria to the subdivision request.
     Only one comment had been received relating to the Walmart application by the date the staff report was prepared, a letter of general support from Mark Ulrich.