This land off Spyder Circle will soon have a new warehouse, joining others nearby but also near homes.
The Palm Desert Planning Commission on Tuesday approved plans for a new industrial warehouse in the city’s north end, near the intersection of Dinah Shore Drive and Dick Kelly Drive.
The warehouse project will be located at 73731 Spyder Circle, in the city’s Service Industrial District. Plans for the project include a two-story, 7,624 square-foot warehouse on a 21,446 square-foot lot. The project was also reviewed and moved forward by the Architectural Review Commission back in August.
While the project is in an industrial part of the city, a new residential development is located just on the other side of Dick Kelly Drive, so most of the commission’s comments and questions regarding the project were focused on the landscaping and view of the project from this southern edge.
Before permits are issued for the project, the city’s director of Development Services will approve plans for a wall along the south side of the site that will ensure adequate screening from Dick Kelly Drive, city staff said on Tuesday. The Planning Commission also added a condition to their approval that bans outdoor storage along the southern edge of the project site that’s visible from Dick Kelly Drive.
The city’s staff report did not have information at this time on what type of business might use the warehouse. But compared to other industrial warehouse projects in the valley, the proposed Palm Desert project is relatively small. In Palm Springs, the city and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians have a joint meeting planned in June to discuss a controversial 2.85 million-square-foot industrial warehouse project.
In November, the Architectural Review Commission tabled a separate warehouse proposal along Spyder Circle, sending the project back to the applicant for design changes.