The Crookston Planning Commission met on Tuesday night at City Hall to discuss a rezoning and variance request from a local business. Chico’s Transport, owned by Rosa, Lauro, and Robert Gutierrez, located at 442 Marin Avenue in Crookston, needed additional storage space for large trucks and oil changes during the cold winter months.
The business currently does light maintenance work like changing oil in an area that is less than ideal. They proposed to be rezoned from an I-2 to an R-2 zone, which is a residential family housing zone. This change was allowed by the previous owner to accommodate a neighbor who needed the property for a residential house sale. The rezoning and variance requests were unanimously recommended by the Planning Commission as it was deemed beneficial for both the city and the business.
If approved by the council at their next meeting on Monday, April 22, this decision will allow Chico’s Transport to expand their operations while also benefiting the city with an expanded tax base and the removal of a residence that may have needed to be demolished.