By Bill Short
The Millington Planning Commission has unanimously approved a revised Final Plat submitted for the construction of a manufacturing plant east of Old Millington Road.
Commission members took the action during their May 18 regular monthly meeting on a motion offered by Secretary David Bodkin and seconded by Mayor Larry Dagen.
The application was submitted by Roy Lamica of EFI Global on behalf of Connor McGrory of Most Dependable Fountains Inc.
The company specializes in the manufacture of outdoor drinking fountains and showers, hand-washing stations and other water features.
The property, located on the east side of Old Millington Road and south of Ryburn Drive, is zoned M-2, General Industrial District.
The Final Plat, illustrating two lots, represents a re-subdivision of the 109-acre tract owned by the Millington Industrial Development Board.
One lot covers 9.99 acres, including frontage along Chase and Old Millington roads, as well as the proposed extension of Ryburn Drive.
The other lot consists of 3.41 acres, with frontage along the Chase and Old Millington intersection.
The commission unanimously approved the Site Plan, Engineering Plat and original Final Plat for the property at its March 16 meeting. But the revised Final Plat alters lot lines from the previously approved documents.
Cole Yoders, GIS coordinator and inspector for the city’s Department of Planning and Economic Development, said M-2 zoning requires minimum building setbacks of 50 feet for the front yard and 25 for the rear and side yards.
He noted that the revised Final Plat also includes a 30-foot landscape buffer along each of the public roadway frontages.
Yoders recommended that all the conditions for the commission’s approval of the Site Plan and Engineering Plat be satisfied before the Final Plat is recorded.
The originally approved Final Plat proposed a 330-foot extension of Ryburn Drive, with a required “turnaround” location for trucks and emergency vehicles.
But Yoders said the revised plat has a smaller dedication of public right of way that only extends Ryburn approximately 80 feet to connect with the northeast corner of the property line. So, this modification will not require a turnaround location.
Existing utilities, such as a sanitary sewer line and an overhead electric line, extend across the north side of the property.
But Yoders said the city’s Subdivision Regulations require minimum utility easements of 15 feet for each of these facilities, as well as a minimum 5-foot utility easement along each lot line.
So, he recommended that the Final Plat illustrate all necessary utility easements.
