Or two acre parcel addressed as 1400 Caldwell Boulevard for Lowe's NAMPA.

Is the applicant here?

Wouldn't come on up.

Good evening, um, commissioners.

Brandon McDougaled with Kimley Horn Associates addresses 1100 West Idaho Street in Boise, Idaho.

Um thank you for your time this evening.

Let me make sure that this works.

Ah, great.

Um here as part of the applicant team, we have myself and then we also have KK Yao with Lowe's.

So if you have any specific questions uh for Lowe's, um we've got a representative here.

Uh just uh narrow in on the site that we're gonna be talking about today.

So uh there's an existing Lowe's that's uh adjacent or to the intersection of Carcher and Cleveland Boulevard.

And uh just uh uh a higher um elevation of uh the the plan uh including the Lowe's parcel here.

Uh so why we're before you tonight is uh we're here tonight in response to code enforcement complaint Lowe's received regarding their outdoor storage and display, which has been occurring in various levels uh since the the store was opened in in 20 actually it was 2003.

Um and that's uh we're we're asking for a conditional use permit for uh nursery and storage not entirely enclosed within a building and inventory not stored behind a building or a fenced area.

I've got a couple of slides here that just show what that has looked like over the years and have highlighted in red those areas that have uh been storage or uh seasonal sales areas.

So this is a slide for 2016, another slide for 2019, 2021 uh have quite a bit more storage and can talk through that a little bit and uh 2024.

So wanted to just talk through maybe some of the observations, and we can slide um back and forth between uh the various slides if you have any questions there.

But um you know we think it's important to highlight some of the general observations.

Um it's obvious that the outdoor storage and sale has increased over the years and especially after COVID, um, and there's a lot of reasons behind that.

Um some of that is just large part due to the shipping or saving volatility that uh what that they experienced and wide range of customer and industry demands, um, and just honestly some general housekeeping that uh uh needed to be corrected.

Um so outdoor storage display has increased on site as you saw over the years.

Um maybe if I just go back to one slide.

Um if you just note the parking um that is being used for for the lows, uh, and we can go through each of the various slides there, but you can see that um there's plenty of parking for for the customers.

Mr.

Chair, excuse me.

Um on this slide right here is what what time of the year was this?

Good question.

Um yeah, so it's uh it's green trees, and so you say in the summer time frame.

Yeah, it's probably the height of what you would have.

Outdoor seasonal sales, yeah.

Yep, exactly.

Great question.

Um, and as indicated previously, the seasonal sales have taken place for um since the inception of that store.

Uh so you might ask just what does the outstorage and seasonal sales make up.

So um there's cell trailers and and shed displays that you normally see in a home improvement um area for sale, metal fencing, overflow inventory, shelving, seasonal merchandise displays, overflow of gardens and materials, and uh bulk lumber.

Um seasonal sales is uh uh is pretty important to Lowe's.

Um it's um I think I'm sure that y'all have uh been um a customer to a home improvement store and and have utilized uh maybe some of that outdoor storage and looked at um outdoor seasonal sales.

Um so it's it's pretty important uh for the for Lowe's business to keep moving forward um we've worked with city staff to um one identify areas that that uh lowe's can um uh comply with from uh outdoor storage and sales area, and and we've color coded it based on a variety of different uses.

So as you can see here on the screen in yellow, we've got outdoor storage retail, and that usually consists of lawn mowers and grills, and maybe in the winter months you might see some snowblowers and whatnot out there.

Um in the red, or excuse me, in the orange is outdoor storage, bulky retail.

So you you've got a lot of um, it could be bad topsoil, it could be mulch, it could be a variety of those type of things, um, including sheds.

Um if you look at the blue outline of some of those colors, especially on the orange areas, that's that is truly seasonal.

So that's generally through spring uh and fall that you see that that storage out there.

Um to the left, um, southwest corner of the site there are some trailer sales areas, and then the the red is um just general storage of of bulky material.

And as you can see from the parking calculation, and I think what is also reflected in the staff report that uh there's adequate parking for customers uh in addition to the storage that's identified on here.

Um I know that um that uh Lowe's has complied and and started to uh really enforce this moving forward, and and that would be the point going forward is have this uh to where they know this is the areas that they can have outdoor storage and and sales.

So um request your approval of the conditional use permit, and uh KK and and myself are here to stand for any questions that you may have.

Mr.

Chairman?

Yes, sir.

Umy many many years ago I spent 20 years in the retail industry.

And I loved it except working at night, but unfortunately, that's part of the deal.

The question is they never used to do this kind of stuff in the past.

So are you trying to increase efficiency profits by getting large bulk shipments rather than getting a track and trailer once every two weeks with unloading?

You're trying to get all the stuff on hand in one time to save costs.

Is that the main purpose of what you why you're doing this?

And KK might be better to answer that question, but um specifically regarding the seasonal sales, um there that's just uh another place that is needed in order to provide um that amount of material.

So it's pretty challenging to keep all that material during the seasonal times um enclosed within the case.

What I'm saying is 40 years ago we didn't do this, so you didn't do this.