A RV and boat storage with 122 stalls is being proposed just north of Yosemite Avenue in west Manteca.

The 5.23 acre site is at 259 Swanson Road behind ABF Freight and to the northeast across the tracks from the Lathrop-Manteca ACE station.

The project known as Aulakh Boat & RV Storage is before the Manteca Planning Commission when they meet Thursday, Jab. 19,  at 6 p.m. at the Civic Center council chambers, 1001 W. Center St.

Plans call for a 440-square-foot office, landscaping, a retention basin, and illumination.

If is considered an infill project as it is in an older industrial area that is anchored by Sunnyvalley Meats. For that reason, it is exempt from a California Environmental Quality Act review.

It is the second new RV & boat storage being advanced in Manteca,

A year ago, the city approved a 532-space RV storage facility on 13.63 acres on the northeast corner of Woodard Avenue and Atherton Drive.

Manteca Development Group received approval to build the Tesoro RV and Boat Storage project on a triangle parcel across from fire station No. 5.

City Council permission was needed due to a need to rezone the land from multiple family residential.

The development group agreed to rezone a 12.77-acre parcel it owned at the time that is designated for commercial mixed use to multi-family on West Atherton near where the Chevron station is breaking ground on the southwest corner of Union Road and Atherton. The site is south of the Living Spaces furniture showroom.

The parcel at Woodward and Atherton would have accommodated 109 to 204 apartments. The swap means 300 apartments could be built instead on the Atherton Drive parcel..

The RV project will also include solar panels that will provide shade for a number of the RVs and boats that are stored at the complex. The developers plan to sell the electricity produced to either PG&E or other concerns.

City staff noted developing the site for apartments where the RV storage is going would have been highly problematic due to it backing up to the railroad tracks given the sound of trains and their whistles. The location next to a municipal water tank until late 2021 had a truck terminal on part of the property that has since been torn down.

 It will be the largest RV and boat storage complex in the South County when built.

It will be a full service storage facility with a 2,400-square-foot office building, vehicle cleaning station, vehicle dumping station as well as propane and air filling stations.

Part of the median on Atherton Drive will be removed to accommodate a left turn into the storage facility.

To contact Dennis Wwyatt@mantecabulletin.com