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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPCMinutes_2008_01_08Planning Commission Brookings, South Dakota January 8, 2008 OFFICIAL MINUTES Vice-chairperson Greg Fargen called the regular meeting of the City Planning Commission to order on January 8, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Auxiliary Room at City Hall. Members present were David Kurtz, Larry Fjeldos, Stacey Howlett, Mike Cameron, Curt Ness, Al Gregg, Al Heuton, and Fargen. John Gustafson was absent. Others present were Gary and Kim Winterfeld, Chuck and Mary Lou Betty, Dick Fergen, Doris Roden, Mike Kabris, Kip Pharis, City Engineer Jackie Lanning, Planning Administrator Dan Hanson, and others. Item #1 – (Kurtz/Cameron) Motion to approve the minutes of the December 4, 2007 meeting. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #2 – Vice-chairperson Fargen removed Items # and 4a at the request of the petitioner. (Fjeldos/Gregg) Motion to approve the agenda. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #4b – The following plat has been submitted for approval: Lots 5A and 5B, Block 10, McClemans Addition (Heuton/Ness) Motion to approve the plat. All present voted aye except Fargen abstained. MOTION CARRIED. Item #5 – The City of Brookings has submitted amendments to the zoning ordinance pertaining to the deletion of a boardinghouse use in the R-2, R-3, R-3A, and RB-4 Districts. (Fjeldos/Kurtz) Motion to approve the amendments. (Heuton/Ness) Amendment to the motion to add “except for the boardinghouse definition”. All present voted aye. AMENDMENT CARRIED. The motion, as amended, was voted on. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. ` 1 Item #6 – The City of Brookings has submitted amendments to the zoning ordinance pertaining to a drive-in food service as an allowed use in the Business B-1 District. (Cameron/Kurtz) Motion to approve the amendments. Kurtz, Ness, Heuton, and Fargen voted aye. Fjeldos, Cameron, Howlett, and Gregg voted no. MOTION FAILED. Item #7 – The City of Brookings has submitted amendments to the zoning ordinance pertaining to the creation of a DR Design Review District. (Cameron/Howlett) Motion to approve the amendments. (Gregg/Cameron) Motion to table. Cameron, Kurtz, Ness, Howlett, Gregg, and Fargen voted aye. Heuton and Fjeldos voted no. MOTION CARRIED. Item #8 – Quality Tool has submitted an application for approval of an I-1R Site Plan on Lot 3B and all of Lot 4, Block 2, Insbrook Park Addition. (Cameron/Heuton) Motion to approve the I-1R Site Plan. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #9 – Mills Family Partnership has submitted a petition for a minor amendment within the Village Square Addition Planned Development District (PDD) to build an addition onto an existing building. (Kurtz/Howlett) Motion to approve the minor amendment. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #10 – Vice-chairperson Fargen appointed Cameron, Gregg, and Heuton to the nominating committee. The meeting was adjourned. _______________________ ______________________________ Dan Hanson, Secretary Greg Fargen, Vice-chairperson ` 2 Planning Commission Brookings, South Dakota January 8, 2008 SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION Vice-chairperson Greg Fargen called the regular meeting of the City Planning Commission to order on January 8, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Auxiliary Room at City Hall. Members present were David Kurtz, Larry Fjeldos, Stacey Howlett, Mike Cameron, Curt Ness, Al Gregg, Al Heuton, and Fargen. John Gustafson was absent. Others present were Gary and Kim Winterfeld, Chuck and Mary Lou Betty, Dick Fergen, Doris Roden, Mike Kabris, Kip Pharis, City Engineer Jackie Lanning, Planning Administrator Dan Hanson, and others. Item #4b – Cameron inquired if the final stormwater drainage plan had been approved. Lanning replied yes. Item #5 – Several residents voiced their support for the elimination of the boardinghouse use. They felt the use was detrimental to a neighborhood. Cameron and Kurtz noted that a proposed boardinghouse use always met with a great deal of negative feedback from neighbors. Heuton recommended retaining the definition. Item #6 – Dick Fergen, a downtown business owner, supported the amendment. Heuton was interested in knowing how this proposed use compared to the historic preservation plan and new streetscape plan. Cameron felt the new streetscape plan called for a more walkable downtown. Doris Roden, Program Manager of Downtown Business Inc., (DBI) noted that the goals of the new streetscape plan were to create traffic calming and a more pedestrian friendly downtown. Fargen clarified that the amendment would require a review of any specific proposal under the conditional use procedure. He noted that safety and parking issues were addressed in the standards. Fjeldos felt that additional traffic, potential loss of some on-street parking, and alley deliveries created problems for this type of use in the downtown. He also noted that some activities downtown call for closing the streets. He felt the negatives outweighed the positives. Fergen pointed out that his particular plan replaced the loss of on-street parking with private lot parking. ` 3 ` 4 Item #7 – Hanson summarized the minor changes to the amendment from the last meeting. He explained that the DBI had proposed several amendments to the ordinance that included certain types of signs, adding illumination, and eliminating sign area maximums. In particular, DBI felt roof signs should be eliminated and neon and internal illumination should be allowed. They also felt the proposed sign area maximums were too restrictive. Kurtz stated that neon could be designed to show movement and fluorescent bulbs could appear to make a sign move. He did not see much difference between these and an Electronic Message Display sign. Roden, DBI Program Manager, stated that the use of neon and internal illumination may have to be studied more. She noted that neon window signs were popular downtown. She handed out the Design and Maintenance Guidelines and a Preservation Brief on historic signs. She favored allowing more types of signs in the right-of-way such as pole banners. Fargen noted that tabling the motion may be appropriate in lieu of the information received. Item #8 – Mike Kabris, Chief Operations Officer of Quality Tool, stated that two variances to the I-1R site plan regulations were proposed with their expansion. The new addition would result in 4% more lot coverage than allowed, and the addition would be closer to the east lot line. He added that they had ample parking on the lot for their employees. Cameron did not feel the variances were an issue. However, he questioned if the detention pond was adequate to handle the expansion. Lanning responded that new stormwater data would be required during the building permit application process. Item #9 – Kip Pharis, owner of Pizza Ranch, presented a plan that showed the building expansion, parking lot, and landscaping. Heuton asked what type of landscaping was proposed. Pharis responded that the perimeter of the new addition would be landscaped. He added that grass and shrubs would be planted near the sidewalk along 6th Street. The meeting was adjourned. _______________________ ______________________________ Dan Hanson, Secretary Greg Fargen, Vice-chairperson