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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-01-13 P&Z MinutesAMENDED AGENDA ~~ CITY OF KENAI PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS January 13, 1999 - 7:00 p.m. http://www.ci.kenai.ak.us 1. CALL TO ORDER: a. Roll Cali,, b. Election o£'C~-t~ar & Vice-Chair c. Agenda Apr®~al. d. Approval, ~~ Minutes: December 23, 1998 e. Consent°Agenda *All items listed- with an asterisk (*) are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the Commission and will be approved by one motion. There:will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Commission Member so requests, in which case the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of the General Orders. 2. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT: 3. CONSIDERATION- OF` PLATS: 4. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 5. NEW BUSINESS: a. 99-02--Landscape/Site Plan Review--Tract C, Gusty Subdivision, Add. No. 2, .11535 Kenai Spur Highway, Kenai, Alaska. Application submitted by Jim Bookey III, P.O. Box 326, Kenai, Alaska. b. Request to purchase Lot 1-B,Block 2; Pavilion SubdivisionNo. 4 -Shawn A. Roberts. Determination if parcel is needed for a public. purpose or should be sold. 6. OLD BUSINESS: 7. CODE ENFORCEMENT: 8. REPORTS: a. City Council: b. Borough Planning c. Administration 9. PERSONS PRESENT NOT ~SCHEDiJLED: 10. INFORMATION ITEMS: a. KPB Plat Committee Action of 12/14/98 11. COMMISSION COMMENTS & QUESTIONS: 12. ADJOURNMENT: REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF KENAI PLANNING 8s ZONING COMMISSION JANUARY 13, 1999 - 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY HALL CHAIRMAN CARL GLICK, PRESIDING *** MINUTES *** 1. CALL TO ORDER Chairman Glick called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. a. Roll Call Members Present: Ron Goecke, Barb Nord, Donald Erwin, Robert Newbry, Phil Bryson, Carl Glick Members Absent: None Also Present: Councilman Duane Bannock, Administrative Assistant Marilyn Kebschull, Contract Secretary Victoria Askin b. Election of Chair and Vice-Chair GOECKE MOVED TO RE-ELECT CHAIRMAN GLICK AND VICE- CHAIR BRYSON. NORD SECONDED. MOTION UNANIMOUSLY PASSED. c. Agenda Approval BRYSON MOVED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA. GOECKE SECONDED AND ASKED FOR UNANIMOUS CONSENT. AGENDA WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED AS PRESENTED. d. Approval of Minutes: December 23, 1998 GOECKE MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF DECEMBER 23, 1998 AND ASKED FOR UNANIMOUS CONSENT. BRYSON SECONDED. MINUTES WERE UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED AS AMENDED. Nord noted correction on page 3, paragraph 4 "...city and placed responsibility on the applicant" to read "...city than to send out notices to people within a 1,000' radius". e. Consent Agenda Planning & Zoning Commission January 13, 1999 Page 1 2. 3. 4. 5. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT -None CONSIDERATION OF PLATS -None PUBLIC HEARINGS -None NEW BUSINESS a. 99-02-Landscape/Site Plan Review-Tract C, Gusty Subdivision, Add. No. 2, 11535 Kenai Spur Highway, Kenai, Alaska. Application submitted by Jim Bookey, III, P.O. Box 326, Kenai, Alaska. NORD MOVED TO APPROVE 99-2-LANDSCAPE/SITE PLAN REVIEW-TRACT C, GUSTY SUBDIVISION. ERWIN SECONDED. Discussion Kebschull stated the City had nothing additional and Mr. Bookey was present to answer any questions. Goecke commented on quality of the drawings as they were easy to understand. Bryson asked Kebschull if the City had any front setbacks other than the 25' that would apply to this parcel. He noted, in the past there was one along the highway but he was wondering if there were any on the plats themselves. Kebschull answered not that she was aware of other than those noted in the zoning. Bryson asked Bookey if the areas on the drawing indicating native grass meant grass that was already in place. Bookey answered in the affirmative. Kebschull clarified in the commercial zone there is not a 25' front setback. Setbacks are determined by the building code. VOTE ERWIN Yes NEWBRY Yes GOECKE Yes BRYSON Yes NORD Yes GLICK Yes b. Request to purchase Lot 1-B, Block 2, Pavilion Subdivision No. 4 -Shawn A. Roberts. Determination if parcel is needed for a public purpose or should be sold. Planning 8v Zoning Commission January 13, 1999 Page 2 GOECKE MOVED TO APPROVE THE SALE TO SHAWN A. ROBERTS, LOT 1-B, BLOCK 2, PAVILION SUBDIVISION NO. 4. NORD SECONDED. Discussion Goecke commented he didn't foresee Kenai growing to the point of reaching Mackey Lake. Bryson asked Administration if the tract had previously been made available to public and not bid on. He thought it had been at some time before. Kebschull answered she was not aware of it. She noted Ms. Howard had related the City received this as part of a bankruptcy. VOTE GOECKE Yes BRYSON Yes NORD Yes ERWIN Yes NEWBRY Yes GLICK Yes 6. OLD BUSINESS T. CODE ENFORCEMENT 8. REPORTS a. City Council Duane Bannock directed the Commission to review the Agenda of the City Council January 6 meeting. He pointed out some of the highlights: Ordinance No. 1808-98 -Crow Court is a small piece of road across the street from the Kenai Middle School. They have formed their own local improvement district and have agreed to be assessed under the City Code and that paving project will take place next spring. Resolutions 99-1 and 99-2. The Council wrote a letter to the Board of Fisheries and asked them once again for their help during the dipnet season. They have proposed to the Board they eliminate dipnet fishing between midnight and 6:00 a.m. The purposes to be served are to allow some breathing room on the beach, for the fish and for easier enforcement. The second request made is to empower the Fish & Game to close the dipnet fishery within a 24-hour period or at 24 hours notice should there be an escapement problem. Planning 8v Zoning Commission January 13, 1999 Page 3 Item G -1 -Kenai Municipal Airport Request for Qualifications. The Request for Qualifications was a preamble to a Request for Proposals for qualified firms, applicants and individuals who may be interested in bidding on the Request for Proposal. Councilman Bannock felt the Council was headed in the direction to study the project to death. As of last week, Council has decided not to go forward with that idea. Item H-3 -Ordinance No. 1809-99 -This ordinance came from Planning and Zoning and Bannock pointed out that while it is on the Council's Consent Agenda, it will be back under the next scheduled meeting under Public Hearings. This was its first reading and will be on the Agenda next week. Item H-5 -Jackson Storage Lot off Airport Way -Transfer of this lease was approved and is now held by Mr. Rumford. Item H-6 -Council Seat Appointment Process - On January 26, 7:00 in Council Chambers, the Council will hold a work session. It will be very similar to the process Mr. Erwin and Mr. Newbry went through. The Council is going to interview and get to know some of the seven people who have applied for Mr. Smalley's position. On February 3=d, at the regular Council meeting, they intend to make the appointment. The person elected will serve through the regular election in October. In October, there will be two seats open for three-year terms and this position will be open for aone-year term to finish out Mr. Smalley's term. That will get the Council back into the normal rotation of two Council members up for re-election every year. Item H-7 -Student Representatives -Bob Peters brought this issue to the Council several weeks ago where it became known to the Council that two Commissions have student representatives. There are eight members on the Library Commission, one is a student representative and not a voting member. Parks and Recreation has seven members and one student representative who has full voting powers. The Mayor has determined that we will begin to attempt, whenever possible, to place a student voting member on every Commission and Committee except the Planning & Zoning Commission. Requirements will be that they live in Kenai and be a high school student. Item H-8 -Hotel/Convention Center Proposal - A proposal came to Council to perhaps create a property tax exemption for a hotel/convention center. There is no such provision on the books in the City of Kenai for any type of property tax exemption. Memos from the City attorney outlined the State of Alaska and the Kenai Planning & Zoning Commission January 13, 1999 Page 4 Peninsula Borough's property tax exemption statutes and concluded the statutes could not be interpreted to encompass a hotel/convention center proposal. The Mayor had reported to the Council there is a group that is interested, with private dollars, to come to Kenai and the tax exemption was their bargaining chip. The Council didn't think this was a good idea. In Bannock's opinion, no member of the Council thought a convention center or another hotel in Kenai was a bad idea. His feeling was neither he or the Council was interested in creating an ordinance or law for an organization that would be, in essence, subsidized at the expense of its neighbors. No one on the Council, in Bannock's opinion, has shown any interest in turning away private enterprise. He felt the headlines of the papers were a disservice to the Council and the community as a whole. Bannock feels the Council has been consistent through the years in what they can do and what they are willing to do and doesn't think they're doing anything wrong. c. Borough Planning Bryson stated there was a meeting January 11 and he highlighted items of interest: All Items under Consent Agenda were approved. Item E-1 -Hope Airport Gravel Site -There was unfinished business from the previous meeting concerning classification of land in the Hope area. This had been postponed pending receiving answers on several questions that occurred from the Hope Community. Answers were received and persons who voiced the concerns were in concurrence with the reclassification and it was approved. Items F-1 and F-2 -Ordinance 99-01 and Ordinance 99-02 - Both were postponed after the Public Hearing was opened and closed. They are being postponed until after the regional hearings in the various communities have taken place. The staff will report back to the Planning Commission. Both are proposals for rezoning in the rural areas. Item F-1 -Vacations Note Requiring a Public Hearing -Were approved. All four of the Item H -Time Extension Requests were approved. The next Planning Commission meeting will be held in Homer. There are three items pending that had previously been postponed until they appear as Public Hearing items in Homer. Planning & Zoning Commission January 13, 1999 Page 5 ~ d. Administration Kebschull reported the City Code is now on the city's web page and it can be accessed through the Internet. She noted, if the commissioners do not have Internet available to them, she can provide a CD that can be loaded onto a personal computer. Commissioners are to contact Kebschull if a CD is needed. Kebschull added, the code can be easily word searched to find all the places in the code where the word is stated. Sections of the code may also be printed. In addition, at the next meeting there will be a discussion item regarding gravel pits in the city. Administration will be providing information on the gravel pit reports they have been working on for some time. They were started last summer when some problems were found. Administration is looking at some possible solutions. 9. PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED 10. INFORMATION ITEMS a. KPB Plat Committee Action of 12/ 14/98 11. COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS /QUESTIONS Commissioner Goecke welcomed Bannock as the commissions new liaison. Bannock clarified he was a member pro-tem and not yet appointed to the Commission. 12. ADJOURNMENT GOECKE MOVED TO ADJOURN. MOTION SECONDED BY NORD. MEETING ADJOURNED AT ?:25 P.M. Respectfully submitted, i ~, °~ ~ ~ ,:%, , Victoria Askin '~ Contract Secretary Planning 8v Zoning Commission January 13, 1999 Page 6