Government

The St. Clair, Mo., Board of Aldermen voted 4-0 on Feb. 24 to restrict new self-storage development from the city’s commercial districts. Members of the planning and zoning commission raised the concern that too many storage facilities were being...

The Parma, Ohio, City Council voted unanimously on Feb. 18 to impose a six-month moratorium on new self-storage development. The ordinance was proposed by councilmember Kristin Saban after the city was approached several times by developers...

City officials in Cape Coral, Fla., are considering an ordinance that would ban new self-storage development on Pine Island Road, a 9.4-mile stretch of State Road 78. The area has seen an explosion of new development in the past two years. The...

The Self Storage Association (SSA) recently stopped an effort by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to add a sprinkler mandate to its Life Safety Code, known as NFPA 101. The measure would have retroactively required the installation...

The Miami Planning, Zoning & Appeals Board has recommended two ordinances that would restrict self-storage development within the city. Last week, it unanimously backed a measure that would prevent self-storage from being built within T5 and T6...

New federal overtime regulations that went into effect on Jan. 1 could affect self-storage operators. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule update for overtime pay in September. An additional 1.3 million American workers are now...

Seattle-based Urban Self Storage Inc., which operates 51 locations in Washington, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Bainbridge Island, Wash., over the city’s six-month moratorium on self-storage development, which was enacted in November...