Storage facility approved for Mountain Green

Morgan’s county commission has approved the site plan for a new commercial storage facility in Mountain Green. Wildcat Storage will be located on lots 5833 and 5843 West Canyon View Place which are south and west of the corner of West Old Highway Road and West Canyon View Circle. 

The 3.93-acre facility will include 13 buildings, 12 of which will be for storage units. The 13th will serve as an office for guest services. The facility will have five parking stalls, one of which will be ADA compliant.

The storage buildings  will be constructed of colored concrete block masonry exteriors with metal coiling doors. The office structure will also be masonry and metal.

At the Feb. 22 Planning Commission meeting resident Ward Brinkerhoff spoke in support of approving the facility.

“I have used these facilities extensively, facilities owned by Wildcat Storage and personally found them to be well- operated, clean, fair-priced and [with] security cameras everywhere,” he said. “I was excited to hear that they're coming to this county because I have family members, young family members, that while they're trying to figure out how to buy housing here they need to store things. So that’s a good opportunity to have that available and so I as a resident of the county wholeheartedly support the development of that 4 acre parcel down the road from Morgan.” 

At the March 12 county commission meeting Commissioner Matt Wilson expressed some concern about how snow would be handled on the property. 

“We have a serious concern with snow and we keep approving these places with no snow storage,” he said. “I’ve been talking to our Public Works and they can’t keep removing snow the way that we're going. So whether we have to change our ordinances or what, we need snow storage on these site plans.” 

County crews only plough public roads and the county does not regulate how private sites handle snow removal,  Assistant County Planner Jeremy Lance responded.

Regardless of that, Wilson said he was concerned about sites with very tight space and no snow storage.

Site owner Kelvin Judd addressed Wilson’s concerns saying they have planned for snow removal/storage on site. He pointed out two different locations on the site plan where snow can be stored.

The county has stipulated that Wildcat Storage will need to address some indefensible dead zones on its site.

“The applicant has reported that they can address that with camera coverage and some intense lighting in those areas,” Lance told commissioners.  

Wilson also requested that Wildcat provide some additional architectural elements to one of the buildings immediately adjacent to and running parallel to Old Highway, to which the applicant Kelvin Jack seemed amenable to the request. After the discussion the commission voted unanimously to approve the site plan.λ