A local property owner is looking to create a small trades business park just outside Powell city limits.

Ty McGowan, on behalf of Elite Investing, was approved for a variance request to allow four different businesses on his property at the northeast corner of Road 8 and Adams Drive in the Powell Industrial Park, with three housed in a new 60-by-100 foot building.

The county allows no more than two business uses on a property without a variance and largely based on that planning staff recommended denial. Commissioners, however, unanimously approved the request Tuesday.

"This is one of those rules I have never agreed with, how many uses you can have on private property," Commissioner Lloyd Thiel said. "I don't agree with this rule and I really hope it is changed [in the new regulations]."

McGowan said there is already an HVAC business in a separate building and thus he said he was thinking of an electrician, plumber of similar business for the new spaces.

"I'd like to facilitate similar businesses that can serve the Park County area," he told commissioners.

One of the conditions of approval is he would agree to be annexed into the city if requested to do so. He said while he hadn't heard that provision before — he said this is his first time doing anything like this —he had no problems abiding by that request if asked by the city in the future.

Neighboring landowner Candy Eastman said she didn't necessarily have a problem with McGowan's request, but she did worry about how enforcement of the conditions would work since she has another neighbor to her land who hasn't abided by previously agreed to conditions.

Chair Dossie Overfield suggested she contact the planning department about the issues.