Arnold zoning board approves new warehouse/office for Third Avenue

Arnold’s JCS Biohazard Services will be on the move soon — albeit just a few blocks away.

The city’s zoning hearing board voted 3-0 Thursday to allow the firm to move from its location at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 17th Street to 1530-34 Third Ave.

Owner William Jankovik was granted a special exception by the board to build a 60-foot-by-40-foot office/warehouse on Third Avenue.

The property, a vacant lot, was the site of dilapidated and abandoned houses taken over by the city and torn down. The zoning district is transitional residential.

Jankovik received relief from the ordinance that called for lots to be at least 12,000 square feet. The new property, a consolidation of three smaller lots, is 10,560 square feet.

Another ordinance requires 12 parking spaces for a building of that size. The company will provide six parking spaces, with one handicapped.

Three employees will work there, and the business will not be retail or have customers ordinarily coming to the building.

All other front, rear and side setbacks will satisfy Arnold’s zoning requirements.

JCS specializes in biohazard cleanup and restoration from crime scenes, animal waste, hoarding sites and sewage spills. Materials collected will be picked up by an agency and transported elsewhere for disposal.

Resident Shasaun Dixon opposed the application, saying the location is not good and asking that Jankovik consider moving to a vacant site in the city’s commercial district along Fifth Avenue.

The zoning board, consisting of Chairman Anthony Scaglio, Vice Chairman Keith Dziobiak and Secretary Cheryl Williams, also attached a condition that JCS not store any biohazardous materials outside the building.

Jankovik hopes to have the lots consolidated and be able to break ground in the spring and have the building open by the fall.