From: Alice Cannon

Sent: Thu Nov 21 09:00:00 2019

To: Dan Huff

Cc: Gerald Fisher

Subject: Following up from yesterday's meeting

Importance: Normal

 

Dan,

I drove past the Scandia LLC proposed site today – and saw several workers in their side of the warehouse, working amongst conveyor belt inventory and possibly working on equipment. I am concerned about this continuing without resolution on the use issues. Here is an email I plan to send to Mike Rogers later today, copying Bill Avison. I want to be sure you approve of this message and the urgency behind it:

Mike,

It was nice meeting you at yesterday’s meeting. I am following up now to outline some next steps. We are pleased you are interested in locating your business in Molalla. As we discussed yesterday, this site contains several areas of nonconformity, many of which were never legally established by the City of Molalla. For this reason, I send this email with a sense of urgency, especially given that the City continues to see employees moving inventory into side of the warehouse your business proposes to occupy. Prior to continuing further movement of inventory or any operations on the site:

  1. 1. The City needs to make a final determination as to whether your proposed use is permitted in the M-2 (Heavy Industrial) zone. As I discussed yesterday, your proposed operations don’t immediately match the uses outlined in our code. My understanding of your business is that it contains two parts. One is the warehousing and distribution of inventory. The second part of your business involves some manufacturing to customize the conveyor belt materials and inventory to meet the needs of your clients. It is the second part of the business where I am uncertain as to where the use fits into our development code, I will need to better understand your proposed operations to make a determination as to how the use fits into Molalla’s development code and the M-2 zone.

 

  1. 2. Permits will be needed from the City and Clackamas County in order to legally establish your business. Your company will need to go through a pre-application process with our staff. This is a more formal process than what we initially discussed yesterday. City staff can learn more about your proposal and outline the steps your company will need to take to legally establish your business to operate within the City of Molalla.

 

We look forward to hearing from you soon. In the meantime, please cease business operations on the site until your company can get through these steps. I am happy to talk by phone or in person again, if you have further questions.

Sincerely,

 

Alice Cannon