SIMI VALLEY : Panel to Weigh Plan for Store Conversion
A Simi Valley furniture shop that closed after the Northridge earthquake could be converted into a building supply store under a proposal submitted to the city’s Planning Commission.
Plans call for the former Reed’s Furniture shop, on the corner of Los Angeles Avenue and Crater Street, to be turned into a 15,547-square-foot supply store for building materials. Commissioners will discuss the proposal at a meeting Wednesday.
The project would include a 17,080-square-foot outdoor storage yard.
City planners had voiced some concerns about the plan.
They said the storage yard, located behind the building and next to several homes, could expose neighbors to increased noise as trucks unload materials, and that dust from the yard’s sand and gravel bins could filter into the neighborhood.
But the project’s developer, Michael K. Harn, has agreed to build a 12-foot-high masonry wall around the storage yard to contain noise and block views of the material, and to spray the sand and gravel bins at least twice a day to hold down dust.
City planners are recommending that commissioners approve the project.
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