HomeMy WebLinkAbout1986-04-09 P&Z MinutesKENAI PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
April 9, 1986 - 7:00 p.m.
Kenai City Hall
Lee Lewis, Chairman
6: Gil! PN - Mork Sessian av~ Site Plan Ordinance, Zero lot line Ordinan~ee,
and Revisiars to t/ae li!enai ~itaiicipal Zaning L'a~de
AGENDA
1. ROLL CALL
2. APPROVAL Oi- AGENDA
3. PERSONS PRESENT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD
4. PUBLIC HEARINGS
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTE5 of March 26, 1986
6. OLD BUSINESS
1. NEW BUSINESS
a. Lease Application: Lot 4, Block 1, CIIAP - for Electronic Repair
and Retail Saies - Wally Keppel Page
8. PLANNING
9. REPORT5
a. City Council
b. Borough Planning
c. City Administration
10. PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD
11. INFORMATION ITEMS
12. COMMISSION COMMENTS & QUESTIO NS
13. ADJOURNMENT
KENAT PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
April 9, 1986
Kenai City Hall
Lee Lewis, Chairman
1. ROLL CALL
Present: Lewis, Bryson, Carignan, Oleson, Osborne, Smalley,
Absent: Zubeck, unexcused
2. APPROUAL OF AGENDR
Chairman Lewis indicated Mr. Dale Sandahl
item 10. Item 10 will be moved forward to
Page is not in attendance
Agenda approved with amendment
10. PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD
wished to be heard under
the next agenda item as Mr.
a. Mr. Dale Sandahl - One Stop Convenience Store - Thompson Park
Dale Sandahl, 4040 Lupine Dr. - this is the, I guess what could be
termed as round three in the continuing effort to take a look at the
potential business that's being planned for Thompson Park and much to
the chagrin of the residents of that area, we're trying to do some-
thing about it. Between Thompson Place and Lupine Dr. there is
property commercially zoned, and there is a proposed convenience
store, package liquor store, and gas station that is planned for that
area. Now the reason that we're here tonight is that we attended the
Council meeting last Wednesday evening I believe it was the Council's
recommendation that we, go to planning & zoning and so, pretty much at
their advice and direction that's why we're here and as a pre-
cautionary measure we also went to Landscaping last night."
"There are a couple of things that may or may not have anything to do
with planning & zoning but, not knowing the full functions of this
group I would like to take same time to ga through about 11 paints and
please bear with me if one or two of those points don't have anything
to do with planning or zoning.
There are several things that the residents of Thompson Park are
concerned about relevant to these particular lots and the business
that's going in there. That has to do with the positioning of the
access road off of Lupine and Thompson Place roads and the access
roads to the commercial property would be off those two city
maintained roads as opposed off of the Spur Hwy. as indicated on the
existing plot plan.
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Second is the positioning of and the inclusion of gas tanks in what is
primarily a residential area and apparently, according to the owner
and builder those standards are all right but we have no idea of
knowing that at this point. We're concerned about the positioning of
the septic system, relative to the residential lots that are in that
area, as you are aware Thompson Park has experienced some septic and
drainage problems in the past.
We're concerned about the apparent conflict concerning the zoning of
adjacent properties between the City of Kenai and the Kenai Baraugh
and as a paint of interest I would point out that I think that talking
to some people at the city office and then checking with some of the
land owners and checking at the Borough, apparently there has been
some problems associated with zoning in that area where one may have
it zoned commercially another one may have it zoned as a residential
piece of property you being the experts, and us relying on the Borough
as well as experts I don't know what the situation is.
There's concern about the buffer zone proposed by the owner on all
sides, that's the north, east, west and south, highway on one side
where there's a good stand of trees and on the other side we have two
roads Thompson Place and Lupine. The back side is the Phillips
residence and the buildings will ga right up next to the residential
area.
Residents are concerned about an apparent potential safety problem,
again access to the property. off Lupine and Thompson Place as
indicated and I would make a special request at this time, I would
request Planning & Zoning, if it is your responsibility if you would
please request public works to examine those two roads to see if those
two roads would bear the traffic of such a business. Incidently the
Chief of Police lives in that particular area that comes at his
request as well.
Item number 8 the apparent problem that no committee group, council,
dept. of education, city administration, at this time seems to be
empowered to make a decision relative to commercial use of property
that may prove to be a safety hazard to residents as well as general
public relative to gas tanks, septic systems, access to property,
businesses that may not fit into a certain residential areas and the
associated problems that go along with that. And if there is a group
that is empowered to do that and Planning ~ Zoning people know of it
we would be glad to hear what that group is. To our knowledge right
now, everybody has a little piece of the pie but na one can make the
ultimate decision. "
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Number 9, the alteration of Thompson Place Rd. is a concern. It was
placed in writing to the owners, they said that this alteration was
designed to enhance the surrounding properties when, in fact, this
alteration plus the proposed commercial venture will lower property
values in our estimation.
Number l0 and I think this is important for you Landscaping people
last night postponed the decision on the proposal because as you look
at the intent of what is called the Landscaping Ordinance by the City
of Kenai, 14.25.Oi0, it specifically states that when considering,
such a business or whatever is to be put on such a piece of property,
it is intended to enhance or to maintain the property values within
the City and I don't know if we have copies of that or not, but are
you all familiar with the ordinance, Chairman Lewis answered, we are
familiar with it.
There is also concern with no water in the area other than wells and
the proposed gas station located adjacent to the residential lots,
another safety argument must be addressed. And so I guess at this
time one critical aspect is that again we would ask you to request
public works to take a look at those two roads and see if they will
bear the traffic and I would like to call on Spencer Devito who has
just a couple of comments".
Spencer Devito: I have a couple of documents here and the last one I
will save for you because I think its gat quite a bit of clout. In
regards to the landscaping regulation I'd like to read it and not to
be redundant, just to remind you what it does say, it is the intent of
this section to provide for landscaping and/or the retention of
natural vegetation in conjunction with the development within the City
of Kenai, The general principal of landscaping is to visually enhance
the city's appearance, that in no way will visually enhance the city's
appearance in a residential area. It says to maintain, it will not
maintain, it says to increase property values, it will not increase
property values. And it will certainly not reduce erosion because one
of the reasons that road is there is because we had erosion and storm
runoff problem.
Now to carry that along a little farther, when the city came in and
requested to rebuild the road, they needed a piece of my property. I
had a valuable piece of property which was not exposed to the highway,
there was an excellent buffer zone in that particular area and giving
that to the highway meant that there would be more exposure. I was
very reluctant to do that and I did not sign it off to the highway.
Time elapsed, the highway got back to me and I think I have a very
critical letter here that I want to share with you after I try to
explain what happened.
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The old road went from my piece of property to the Spur Hwy. The City
said we would like to straighten this road out to make it a good
entrance. And I said that we will lose a great deal of privacy, yes,
but you have a little drainage problem right on this side its been
with us for several years, the City is always working this drainage
problem. On this piece of property that belongs to the Johnsons,
several years ago there was a drain pipe that was put through their
Front yard and now a ditch has been constructed so that the water will
run from this piece of property and down through this drainage ditch
and through their property and over the back of the bluff. To shorten
this story I said I will give you this piece of property, promise me
that you will have some trees planted there and I don't want to lose
the property. And it came to a question of whether it was a ROW or an
easement.. I just came from the lawyers i5 minutes ago and I said this
is what`s happened in the City of Kenai. The City of Kenai has a
letter that they sent to me and its addressed 9/1/8/64 and here's what
it says, "please find a copy of storm drain discharge easement and the
street easement as discussed with you during that discussion" and I
have witnesses we discussed about planting trees in that area the city
has not done that and I understand that this is not an easy task so we
haven't made too much about that. Our buffer is gone. They did a fine
job the road is excellent, the letter goes on, "we have changed the
wording of the street easement as requested, this easement does not
decrease the square foot of your lot," the reason why I didn't want my
lot decreased is because I went to the Soldotna Council and told them
I wanted to put in a duplex and they said you can't put a duplex on
that many square feet. Well I never dealt with Kenai because I do
alat of business in Soldotna and at that time I didn't want to loose
my square footage because in the event of putting up a duplex or
wanting to do something in there I wanted to have adequate space.
This says and its specifically written to me, "the easement does not
decrease the square footage of your lot", furthermore as it is only
an easement and not a ROW dedication. Now since that is not a ROW
dedication, zoning and planning has no business coming off from my
piece of property and putting in a road in fact my lawyers says that I
can park a trailer on that piece of property and just give a ROW to
those people that live in that district. Now what I'm saying is I
think we've got a problem.
We have had a problem with the ABC board we've had a problem with
improper hearing, we've had a problem with out going to notification,
neighbors were not called, neighbors were not notified, and it goes on
and on. We've had an extension, I have a letter here from the lawyer
and a letter signed by Tim Rogers, City Attorney, that says, there
is an unresolved issue whether the existing zoning of the property
encompasses the application. The application would allow a package
liquor store with the exception of general commercial property, I've
got several documents that say there's always an issue, there's always
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a problem, there's been a problem with zoning there, ever since the
beginning.
Tom Wagoner, I live at 4040 Primrose Place in Thompson Park, I'm also
Mayor of the City of Kenai. The reason I came tonight is not to take
part so much in the discussion but to shed a little bit of light as T
might on the information in the Kenai City Council minutes of May 1st
1985. I might also say I used to be the owner of lot 3 & 4 I believe,
right down the street in Thompson Park. And that is general commercial
that's what I used it for I had a small floor covering business there
so I do understand the zoning.
But I want you to understand the discussion that took place at Council
that night and this is the one Mr. Boyd submitted at that time. Janet
Whelan explained there was a concern that the business might be in a
residential area and it is not and that concern was brought up by one
ar two of the council people at the Council meeting that night. It
goes further to say that Councilwoman Monfor asked if there was a
chance for people to make objection, and then it says Mayor Wagoner
suggested the Council ask for a public hearing and have the people in
the area notified. And then the last statement says Councilman Wise
noted there will be a public hearing. There are five applicants for
one permit. WeII, many times people have a habit of saying there will
be, and that's apparently what happened that night because Councilman
Wise has no authority to say there will be. But when things like that
are said sometimes people assume that people are taking care of having
notice given to people like the Alcohol board that we are requesting a
public hearing and that was the intent of this. And then it went on,
the motion was made that a letter of non-objection be sent to the ABC
regarding the One Stop' and it passed on a 4 to 3 vote. But I just
have to say, in all sincerity and I'm not here to stop Roger from
building a commercial enterprise, I want to see development in the
City of Kenai as much if not more than mast people. But I do not think
that the City and maybe the Council and maybe partially the admin-
istration follow through on this item as they should have. And that
happens many times in city government, we assume things and we assume
that one branch of the government is going to take care of something
and the other branch forgets it or they assume that somebody else is
taking care of it and it slips between the cracks but the intent of
Council that night, categorically, was as I remember it, to have them
come down and have a special hearing here in Kenai and have the City
if necessary notify the people and Mr. Boyd and everybody at that time
that there was going to be that development in that neighborhood.
I think probably the goat in this whole thing has got to be the ABC
board. I cannot imagine the ABC board in the state the size of Alaska
is, and with the population growth in this area, allowing these type
of package stores to proliferate without even having a public hearing
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in the area. And the reason I felt there would probably be a public
hearing is if you remember a couple years prior to this they had the
same situation when Safeway was talking about coming in to Soldotna,
there was one small abjection raised by a person and the ABC came dawn
and not only held one but I think 2 or 3 public hearings before that
whole process was over and I think I just assumed from that that would
happen here. And it didn't happen. And I think its a glitch in the
system and its just too bad, I think that needs to be corrected some
way. Sorry I can't help you make the decision. Any questions?"
Commissioner Bryson, "Was the determination of the liquor license site
specific was the site identified...." Answer from Mayor Wagoner, "it
was identified as mile 5,4 kenai Spur Hwy." Commissioner Bryson, "no
subdivision or lot number?" Answer from Mayor Wagoner, "the memorandum
to Tim Rogers that I have from Jeff Labahn that preceeded that said
mile 5.4 Spur Hwy It said One Stap Boys Ltd. Roger Boyd and his wife
Patricia Debucher, mile 5.4 Kenai Spur Hwy, Soldotna, Alaska. So that
is not a specific address or legal description."
Shiela Phillips, "in presenting this petition I would like you to know
that on file in the Borough in 1970 there was a petition to rezone
this same area and it was tabled, it was never acted on. So T don't
know where directing that petition or this one."
Chairman Lewis, "this is a rezone petition is that what you're
saying?" Answer yes.
Commissioner Bryson, "that's being presented at this time? Janet has
the building permit been issued? Answer no. It cannot be issued until
the Landscaping Review Board has OK'd the site plan. They postponed it
yesterday evening with the thought to reconvene perhaps Monday evening
with the return of the attorney's opinion nn the portion of the code
that they are referencing 14.25.010". Commissioner Bryson, "they are
under a time restraint for review with that?" Answer yes.
Commissioner Smalley, "so basically there isn't a decision we can come
up with." Chairman Lewis, "there is no decision we can come up with.
We can pass on the rezoning petition. That's not pertinent on this
matter though."
Commissioner Bryson, "one item that was mentioned, DEC undoubtedly is
the unit that should be addressing setbacks from existing water
systems or drinking water setbacks from existing sewer systems, in
addition the, public water supply or semi public water that's being
development and there would be setbacks to existing sewer systems."
Commissioner Smalley, "there is also setbacks regarding the distance
of gasoline storage tanks, fuel storage tanks from wells, residential
buildings, etc?" Answer from Loper, "on checking with Dave Burnett at
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the fire hall, he said that that would have to be approved by the
State fire marshall when his entire set of plans are reviewed..."
Chairman Lewis, "just far my information is the access to the proposed
commercial location to go through the easement..." Spence Devito, "yes
it is. Of course that is something I would certainly not allow and
that's why I'm trying to stop this and in addition I've made it a
point to see what kind of a hardship of course it would be on Mr. Boyd
and the information that I've gathered is that the ABC board has
already given him one year extension because he did not execute any of
his liquor license authority through the first year, they did give him
an extension, and he must execute it and sell something on that liquor
license somewhere between a period of time which is still under motion
however it does not, specifically state that it has to be here, it can
be anywhere."
Chairman Lewis, "you have been aware all along that that land was
zoned general commercial though." Devito, "no I'll tell you why, I
zoned this piece which is mine from residential to commercial in 1979,
they didn't know what it was. I went through hearing at the city
because I wanted to bring boats out on the highway and found that this
was a very unsafe exit I approached the city Council at that time told
them T was concerned about my daughters and my sons the access here
and I wanted to zone this commercial so that I could bring the highway
in here and park boats out here and that became zoned commercial at
that time.
Dale Sandahl, "I did have one request, if it is within your power to
request the department of public works to review the roads since i
understand that may not be one of your powers now but may be in the
future. But in light of what Mr. Devito has indicated, who would act
upon that.
Commissioner Smalley, "this might speak to that ar not, this has not
been approved with the Gamprehensive Plan that has been submitted,
under item 6 it says with regard to the city maintaining physically
separate neighborhoods in Kenai, strengthen and identify each neighbor-
hood by encouraging development of public to private facilities the
city shall, a) restrict development between neighborhoods on land
which have identified natural hazards and sensitive habitat, c)
discourage highway commercial uses in residential neighborhoods which
have no direct service relationship to the needs of residents of the
neighborhood, yet they still identified that section as commercial on
the highway on the Land Use Map."
Loper, this body couldn't answer to that at all because whatever
~} transpired between you and public works is something that we would
have no knowledge of".
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Commissioner Bryson, "I think what he's referring to is, he feels a
limited easement that was, given to the City and I would think
something like that could exist even though its not platted as a
Borough, as being given to the Borough it is something he's dedicated
to the City and his interpretation is that its a limited thing,
providing residential access, for your immediate subdivision." Devito,
"yes and that was emphatically made at the time we gave it, in fact
the record will show that we delayed signing papers for quite a while
until that was clearly made we also were very concerned about the
neighbor where the file was going to go through their property that
indeed the small pine trees and the trees not be removed because it
had a goad buffer and until that decision was made and they were
assured of that the neighbors did not grant ROW either.
Commissioner Smalley, "question first on Mr. Devito, are the Kenai
City Attorney speak specifically to your ownership or your right of
that road since the statement you received said that your square
footage is not reduced in other words is maintained as the same, could
that not be interpreted as he owns the road and he can exercise the
rights to allow use to anyone of his choice".
.Devito, "my attorney interpreted it that way, ok, I did not, I will
not stand and let the City Attorney or the Borough Attorney do
anything mare than make good judgement as this committee can only but
make good judgement and that I know always comes down to who's the
best attorney and who's the strongest got the most clout the most
whatever goes on so my attorney has interpreted it as if it is the
amount of feet that I have given is indeed an easement and since the
land has not been given away not even one square font of it, its still
my property and in the event that I need 7-,620 square feet to do
something on that property even though there's a road existing there,
I have 7,x number of feet nothing has been taken away from me and that
was the real concern at the time,
Clancy Johnson, "I'm, a homeowner on Thompson Place and we received a
letter very much like the one that Spence read and it says basically
the same thing and asked for an easement and the easement was for the
drainage and we were further back in there, But my paint is, the
letter came from the public works or the engineer but they were
speaking far the City of Kenai they weren't speaking for the engineer
department they weren't speaking for whoever the person was, they were
speaking for the City of Kenai. And that's who we gave the easement
to. Ta come across our property and it certainly was not far
commercial purposes, for the change in the road was for our benefit we
thought to preclude an accident or it was to enhance the safety of
getting in and out of our property. And that's not what happened."
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Shiela Phillips, "I think there's a big question about what this
property in block 3 is. I think up until tonight the Johnsons would
have sworn that theirs was commercial. The .record in the city shows
that the Johnson's property is commercial, the Borough retard shows it
as residential. On my first one acre, the original acre, the City
shows on your map that mine is residential the Borough shows it as
commercial, just the opposite. 5o i think the petition is to get that
clarified, please give us a final, what is our zoning, we don't know I
wouldn't swear in any court what mine is. I don't think the Johnsons
or the Devitas would either, they don't know. Because there are
conflicting maps."
Commissioner Smalley, "Spence is your whole piece, your whole parcel
now all including your home commercial". Devito, "well I'd have to ask
three different sources, I'd ask the Borough to get one the City to
get the other and I'd have to go to my secretary to get the third."
Phillips, "we don't know". Commissioner Smalley, "you can clarify
that can't you, by your maps." Loper, "yes its been turned over to the
attorney." Chairman Lewis, "OK the attorney is going to handle, as
far as interpretation of what is commercial what is residential."
Phillips, "we have three prime pieces of residential property, view
property with big lots. We have homes there. And I think three out of
four is democracy rules." Devito, "the opening of this has already
reduced my property. Its reduced the value of my property in fact
reduced it to the paint where I just spent $58,000 to buy a piece of
property to build a house somewhere because I don't like the fact
thats open. Now if someone who's living there and has enjoyed that
realizing that he's lost the value of his property the privacy of his
property what is the stare and another road, a sign, and all night
traffic and on and on and on going to do to it. Its no question."
Chairman Lewis, "Ok, we will pass this, this has been initiated. There
will be public hearings an it you realize that and this is time
consuming. it may not help you in this particular matter."
Devito, "this is not in the hands of the attorney, this is in the
hands of you and I and everyone in this room, listen to this, the
general purpose of the landscaping is to visually enhance the city's
appearance, we can get as philosophical as we want to about that that
could go on for years, nobody can make a decision that thats going to
be physically appearing. It must maintain and increase property
values, we could argue about that for the next 6 years and not come to
the right decision. And it must reduce erosion and storm runoff. That
has solid vocabulary that has something that you can deal with we
can't pass that on to some other aspect of government. That's
philosophical."
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Commissioner Smalley, "but Spence it Boss on and defines landscaping
to specifically refer to speak to the ground surface of live planting
materials, including but not limited to trees, shrubs, grass and
ground cover etc., it does not speak to construction." Devito, "on the
intent." Commissioner Smalley, "on the definition of landscaping."
Devito, "but it says it is the intent of this section to provide for
the landscaping and/or it doesn't say landscaping it says and/or
retention of the natural vegetation in conjunction with appearance,
maintenance of property value reduction of erosion it doesn't just say
landscaping."
Mayor Wagoner, "I understand that, very well, I'm trying to make
people understand that the ordinance is being interpreted differently
then the Council meant it then there's a problem 'cause the Council
meant for the landscaping review committee to have the authority to
review landscaping plans and to make sure those plans complied with
the ordinance and if in fact they did comply with it, the Council did
not want a board to arbitrarily capriciously or in any other form
delay anybody whether it be Mr. Boyd or whether it be myself ar
whether it be somebody from Anchorage from constructing a facility.
Saffell, "the reason that we're here is that we were never informed
specifically what was happening." Mayor Wagoner, "Ok, I can't help
that, I felt that was going to happen too as you heard my earlier
testimony I'm just trying to explain to you what the ordinance says
Commissioner Bryson, "I would think that acting on an item you know
you'd have three choices, you'd either approve it as submitted,
approve it conditionally or reject it and either of those three is
taking action but tabling it is no way to be considered...."
Commissioner Garignan, "but there may be some justification far it
particularly around the conflict in zoning that nobody seems to know
what the zoning is." Chairman Lewis, "well Ok isn't the attorney
addressing that." Commissioner Garignan, "the attorney is working on
that then I think there is reason far Noward to hold off on the permit
until such time as the zoning is cleared up also some of the questions
asked as far as the septic systems, who's responsible for checking
that out are there some ordinances against gas tanks being not within
the city perhaps but state rules and regulations as far as gas tanks
in residential areas are concerned. I don't know. There's slot of
unanswered questions, that I think need to be addressed before any
permit is issued." Loper, "both the main issues, Tom are in the hands
of Tim Rogers."
Sandahl, "I don't, when you say there is a 10 day are you, your almost
~ leading us to believe that if something isn't done in 10 days that
that automatically passes through the landscaping." Commissioner
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Smalley, "no its 14 days with the landscaping review." Mayor Wagoner,
"no, that 10 days starts from the time his proposal goes to land-
scaping committee in tact and complying with the ordinance. And the
reason we put that time in there is we did not want a continual delay
to come out on anybody's project you know for this purpose or any
other purpose and the way, T feel the Council meant to do this. Now
Howard may have something different for that for his interpretation
and so may the planning and zoning but if it is started to be
interpreted that way I can guarantee you the Council will go back and
redraft it where it can't be interpreted any other way because that is
exactly the way it was meant to be done. That means that if Mr. Boyd
comes in and lets say the first day he came to the landscaping
committee that everything on his site met with or exceeded the
landscaping ordinance from that time of submittal far review until 10
days they had the opportunity to review and act and if they didn't act
then...." Sandahl, "but they did act". Mayor Wagoner, "I'm not sure
they have acted as all I'm saying from the time he complies with the
landscaping ordinance within 10 days the building permit must be
issued if he complies." Sandahl, "that's ridiculous". Mayor Wagoner,
"no it isn't ridiculous,"
DsVito, "just one brief scenario and I agree with you Tom and T think
thats well intended it should be that way. I have a problem with the
fact that we present material and just before we're ready to pass
judgement of guilty, your going to jail, your guilty just before we
pass judgement new evidence runs in the door and says wait I did it
I'm guilty. What your telling me is that we can't do that we already
found this guy guilty. Guilty as charged. And I think that there are
some other issues here in that the committee last night did not find
it to be a clean lets go ahead type thing. I don't think this
committee can sit back and say its clean I don't think any committee
we've dealt with has seen it as a clean issue."
Commissioner Smalley, "T have a question of Mr. Schilling. Was last
night the first time the landscape review board received a submittal
of this application." Lou Schilling, "no it wasn't. We had it l4 days
prior to that but it did not meet our guidelines so we postponed it
and we asked Mr. Boyd to bring it up to what was needed." Commissinner
Smalley, "so is it the landscape review board's interpretation that
when we talk about submittal of the development when it meets your
requirements does the 14 days start then or does it start when it's
first submitted." Schilling, "T'm a little bit confused there too, I
think from when its first submitted we have 14 days to act nn it, we
reviewed it within the I4 days we found it not to be to the
standards, well then we give it back to Mr. Boyd, we say Ok this is
what we need on it, you've got to be specific about what you're doing
so he comes back, he resubmits it, we act on it within the 14 days
again."
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4. PUBLIC HEARINGS
None
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES of March 26, 1986
Commissioner Smalley, on page 3, bottom of 3rd paragraph, change
wording to show intent on voting.
MOTION:
Commissioner Smalley moved unanimous approval of the minutes as
amended, seconded by Commissioner Osborne
VOTE:
Motion approved by unanimous consent
Commission recessed for 5 minutes.
6. OLD BUSINESS
None
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7. NEW BUSINESS
a. Lease Application: Lot 4, Blk 1, CIIAP -for Electronic Repair &
__ Retail Sales - Wally Keppel Page
Administrative Assistant Gerstlauer explained that this application is
on a piece of property that came to the City through a judgement and
it was thought at the time that the land was available, however, the
judgement has not been signed. Administrative Assistant Gerstlauer
asked the Commission to review the application as being concept and
that any action would have to be contingent upon land availability.
Administrative Assistant Gerstlauer requested that the construction
date be 6/1/86 to 7/31188.
Commissioner Smalley asked the purpose of the business, Mr. Keppel
explained that it would be for Motorola electronics.
MOTION:
Commissioner Carignan moved for the approval of lease application to
Wally Keppel Page, Lot 1, Blk 4, CIIAP contingent upon availability
of the land and approval of site plan by Landscape Board, seconded
by Commissioner Smalley
VOTE:
~ Motion passed unanimously
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Commissioner Smalley
would be changed with
years.
$. PLANNING
asked if the dates far completion of construction
this approval, answer yes, date will read 2
Commissioner Smalley opened discussion on the Thompson Park rezone
asking if the rezoning can continue without further word from the
attorney since the majority of the property owners came with a
petition.
MOTION:
Commissioner Carignan moved that a public hearing be established
contingent upon resolving any problems with the city attorney for our
next meeting regarding the rezoning of said property
Chairman Lewis and Commissioner Osborne explained that the public
hearing was already initiated with the submittal of the petition this
evening.
MOTION WITHDRAWN
Commissioner Smalley asked for a report on the construction that had
begun on Ames Rd. of a trailer that was to be used as a commercial
enterprise by a native association. As trailers are not allowed and
commercial businesses are not allowed in a residential zone, has there
been a determination of whether that is native allotment land. Answer
from Planning Specialist Loper, Howard Hackney has stated that he will
not issue a building permit until it has been proven to him that the
property is under native allotment and is exclusive. Commissioner
Smalley stated that clearing is underway.
Commissioner Carignan asked for a work session regarding the types of
commercial enterprises we want to develop in the different parts of
town. There are certain types of development that would be very
appropriate to certain areas. This will be addressed in the Site Plan
Ordinance which is in the drafting stages and also in the Comp Plan.
9. REPORTS
a. City Council
None
b. Borauqh Planning
None
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c. City Administration
None
l0. PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED 7O BE HEARD
None
11. INFORMATION ITEMS
None
12. COMMISSION COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
None
13. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned. The next
regular meeting of the Commission will be 4/23/86 with a work session
beginning at 6:00 PM.
Janet Loper
Planning Specialist
PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
Roll
Call
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Chairman
'Lee Lewis
-Phil Bryson ~
Richard
Carrignen
Bob Oleson
e Ozzie Osborne
j`~~/ Hal Smalley
Bill Zubelc _
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