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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022_05_03 BOA Minutes Planning Commission Brookings, South Dakota May 3, 2022 OFFICIAL MINUTES Chairperson Greg Fargen called the meeting of the City Planning Commission to order on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 5:30 PM in the Council Chambers Room #310 on the third floor of the City & County Government Center. Members present were Tanner Aiken, Justin Borns, Jacob Mills, Gregg Jorgenson, Lee Ann Pierce, Nick Schmeichel, Roger Solum, and Fargen. Absent was James Drew. Also present were Community Development Director Mike Struck, City Planner Ryan Miller, Kyle Prodoehl, Ben Aesoph, Joel Diers, Karissa Fassler, Jon Millum, Dana Sand, Ryan Krogman, Daniel Bielfeldt, Randy Roiger, Shawn Storhaug, and Megan Thies. Item #1 – Roll Call Item #2 – Convene as Board of Adjustment Item #3 - (Borns/Mills) Motion to approve the agenda. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #4 – (Mills/Schmeichel) Motion to approve the November 4, 2021 Board of Adjustment minutes. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #5a – Kyle Prodoehl made a request for variances on the East ½ of Lot 2 and all of Lot 3, Block 11 of Morehouse Addition, also known as 809 9th Street. The first variance is for a reduced rear yard landscape area of twenty feet. The minimum required landscape area in a rear yard in the Residential R-3 Apartment District is twenty-five feet. (Jorgenson/Aiken) Motion to approve the reduced rear yard landscape area from 25 feet to 20 feet. Pierce, Jorgenson and Aiken voted no. All others voted aye. MOTION FAILED. The second variance is for reduced parking for an apartment building or unit group of buildings containing more than 24 units. The request is for 14 off-street parking spaces and 15 spaces is required for a tri-plex. (Mills/Borns) Motion to approve the reduced parking spaces variances. Mills, Pierce, Aiken and Jorgenson voted no. All others voted aye. MOTION FAILED. The third variance is to eliminate screening requirements for eight of more parking spaces located adjacent to a single or two-family residence. (Borns/Mills) Motion to approve the variance request. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #5b – Karissa Fassler made a request for a variance on Lot 4 in Block 6 of Pheasants Nest Addition also known as 905 Candlewood Lane. The request is for a second access drive in a residential district. In a residential district, no more than one access drive shall be permitted onto any street which the lot or block abuts. (Mills/Borns) Motion to approve the variance request. (Pierce/Schmeichel) Amendment to the motion to state that the second driveway access is limited to 18’ wide with a total maximum driveway width of 36’ wide for this property. All present voted aye. AMENDMENT CARRIED. Motion as amended was voted on. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #5c – CD Properties LLC made a request for a variance on the SW ¼ of the SW ¼ excluding platted areas and excluding the south forty feet of Section 36, Township 110, Range 50. The variance is for an additional twenty-two dwelling units beyond the maximum allowed in a Residence R-3 Apartment District. A maximum of twenty-four dwelling units per acre shall be allowed in the Residence R-3 Apartment District. (Jorgenson/Aiken) Solum, Aiken, Schmeichel, Pierce, Jorgenson voted no. Borns and Mills voted yes. MOTION FAILED. Item #6 Board of Adjustment Adjournment Convene as the Planning Commission Item #7 - (Mills/Solum) Motion to approve the agenda. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #8a – (Mills/Schmeichel) Motion to approve the April 5, 2022 Planning Commission minutes. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #9a – Sarantis Theodosopoulos submitted a rezone request for Lots 1 through 5 in Block 12 of Folsom Addition. The request is to rezone from Residence R-3A apartments/mobile homes/manufactured housing district to Business B-3 Heavy District. (Borns/Jorgenson) Motion to approve the rezone request. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #9b - Den-Wil Investments Inc submitted a petition to rezone Wilbert Square Addition in the Southwest Quarter of Section Nineteen, Township One Hundred Ten North, Range Forty Nine West as referenced on approved Wilbert Square Addition Preliminary Plat dated November 24, 2015 as Lots 1- 3, Block 1, Wilbert Square Addition. The request is to rezone the above described real estate from Planned Development District to Residence R-3 Apartment District. (Solum/Schmeichel) Motion to approve the rezone request. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #10a - Clark Drew Construction submitted an application for approval of a Commercial Corridor Design Review Overlay District site plan on Lots 1-5 and the south 38’ of Lot 6 excluding the east six feet of the south six feet, all in Block 1 of Peterson’s Addition also known as 600 Main Ave. (Mills/Aiken) Motion to approve the Commercial Corridor Design Review Overlay District site plan with staff recommendation to reduce the front yard landscape area to match the front yard setback. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED. Item #10b – Discussion on Family Definition. Discussion only, no action. The meeting adjourned at 7:44 p.m. _______________________ _________________________________ Ryan Miller, City Planner Greg Fargen, Chairperson Planning Commission Brookings, South Dakota May 3, 2022 OFFICIAL SUMMARY Chairperson Greg Fargen called the meeting of the City Planning Commission to order on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 5:30 PM in the Council Chambers Room #310 on the third floor of the City & County Government Center. Members present were Tanner Aiken, Justin Borns, Jacob Mills, Gregg Jorgenson, Lee Ann Pierce, Nick Schmeichel, Roger Solum, and Fargen. Absent was James Drew. Also present were Community Development Director Mike Struck, City Planner Ryan Miller, Kyle Prodoehl, Ben Aesoph, Joel Diers, Karissa Fassler, Jon Mullom, Dana Sand, Ryan Krogman, Daniel Bielfeldt, Randy Roiger, Shawn Storhaug, and Megan Thies. Item #5a – This item is for a proposed redevelopment project. This residence is located in the R-3 Apartment District. The first variance is for a reduced rear yard landscape area. The landscape area is required to meet the setback but the applicant is requesting reducing the landscaping area by 5 feet. The second variance is for a parking minimum variance, requesting 14 spaces when 15 is required and the third variance is to remove the requirement of screening between this property and the property to the west because of the zoning district. The applicant is proposing to build a tri-plex with a 20’ landscape area on the north and 20’ setback on the south, 9th Street side. Prodoehl is asking for some flexibility with the parking and the landscape area as this will allow for better traffic flow through the parking lot. Prodoehl will be removing the current garage and house at this location. With the new tri-plex, he will actually have less tenants than currently and he has not had any parking issues here and doesn’t feel there will be in the future. Prodoehl also noted that the State Historic Preservation Committee has already approved demolishing of this property because it is beyond repair. Aesoph is in favor of these variance requests. The development that the applicant is proposing will improve the neighborhood. Pierce feels that the applicant does not have a hardship because he is over building on the lot. Borns talked about the driveway. The shared driveway area does not allow enough space for vehicles to back in and out. Mills asked if they driveway that goes all the way through, would this be a private drive. Miller explained that this would be a driveway. Private drives do have minimum requirements. This is a driveway that goes to a residential lot and they are allowed to have one driveway onto 9th Street and there are no rules for driveways off of alleys. Mills explained that he does have some concerns with the width of the driveway and the layout of the parking lot. He doesn’t feel that it is going to work well. Prodoehl explained that he has other properties that he has apartments on and he has similar parking and they don’t have any issues. Prodoehl feels that he does have a hardship because before zoning changes in 2018, he wouldn’t have had this issue. He doesn’t feel that the older part of town was considered when the new rules were put into place. Schmeichel asked if green space will increase with this development? Miller stated yes. Aiken appreciates the effort and work that the applicant is doing. However, he is struggling with finding a hardship with the request. Solum feels that the word “hardship” is the problem with this request. Pierce noted that the required hardship is a state law and not something written into our ordinance. Jorgenson also appreciates the efforts the applicant has put in but feels that this lot is being over built. Schmeichel asked why screening is required between this lot and the residential lots. Miller explained that this rule is to protect the single-family dwellings. Item #5b – This request is for a second access drive on a residential lot. The applicants would like to add onto their current garage and would enter the garage from this additional access. Joel Diers, 915 Candlewood Lane, is in favor of this request. Fassler explained that the current layout of their property will not make it accessible to enter the garage addition so therefore they need the additional access drive. They are not able to build in any other direction. They have several vehicles and try their best not to park on the street and this would help with this situation. Fassler also noted that they have a very large lot. Miller read into the record a letter received from the neighbor at 906 Candlewood Lane, Carter Johnson. He is not in favor on this request. He feels that this variance being granted will results in consequences with safety and appearance in this single-family neighborhood. Schmeichel asked what width would be allowed for the second driveway. Miller explained that the maximum width for an access drive is 24’ but could be widened to up to 36’ under certain conditions. Millum explained that they plan to stay within the zoning requirements of the City. The current driveway is 18’ and they plan for the new driveway to be 18’. Item #5c – This request is for a proposed new apartment project in the Reserve Addition off of Christine Avenue. This development will be built to the north of 3 lots that are zoned Commercial, to the north of this proposed area is a wetland tract and to the east is Windermere Point Addition. Dana Sand, neighbor at 1812 Tanbury Lane, is not in favor of this request. He feels that the rules in place should be enforced and this variance should not be granted. Pierce asked what the hardship is with this request. Miller explained that the density and parking standards limit the number of units but for the site but that site the plan shows compliance with all parking and setback regulations while also adding additional units beyond the maximum allowed. Mills feels that it is odd that we have a per acre rule applied. Item #9a – The future land use map describes this area as Urban Medium intensity land use which supports a B-3 zoning. Recently a lot to the south was rezoned to B-3. Item #9b – This property is surrounded by the Research Park to the north, apartments to the west, business and commercial uses to the south and the interstate to the west. The future land use map supports the R-3 zoning. Item #10a– This review is for a renovation of 600 Main Avenue, Central Bank. This renovation will be for the interior but also the façade of the building. This plan meets all the requirements and regulations in the Commercial Design Overlay District, but they did obtain a setback variance for a zero-yard setback at the front and staff recommends that the front yard landscape area match the front yard setback. Item #10b – Struck explained that some research has been done, by staff, of some other peer college towns and their definition of Family and the parking requirements associated with Single-Family and Two-Family Dwellings. Storhaug has been in the rental business for many years. His view of the rental business in Brookings has gotten a lot tighter. The 3 unrelated rule needs to be discussed and he feels that new parking requirements could be applied to rental units. There is a housing shortage in Brookings right now. Thies is an SDSU student that feels that the family definition rule that the City enforces is hard to understand. She feels that changing the rule would be a good plan and also adjusting the on/off street parking would be a good thing. Affordable housing is hard to find in Brookings. Mills would like to know how many existing units there are that have more than 3 units? And is there a way to do something on an application basis rather than an across the board definition? Schmeichel and Borns both suggested an idea of a parking permit process for on-street parking. The meeting adjourned at 7:44 p.m. ______________________ __________________________ Ryan Miller, City Planner Greg Fargen, Chairperson