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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05.03.18 P&Z Minutes B1 City Staff and Others Brad Wolfe – City Council Liaison Craig Rindlisbacher – City Planner Scott Johnson – Economic Development Stephen Zollinger – City Attorney Planning & Zoning Administrative Assistant – Tawnya Grover Chairman Heidi Christensen opened the meeting at 6:39 PM. She welcomed everyone. Delayed start due to recording software not working. Chairman Heidi Christensen announced the Hearing #2 for 148 S 2nd E has been postponed. Roll Call of Planning and Zoning Commissioners: Greg Blacker, John Bowen, Darrik Farmer, Melanie Davenport, Mark Rudd, Heidi Christensen, Rory Kunz, Kristi Anderson, and Steve Oakey. Minutes: 1. From Planning and Zoning meeting – April 19, 2018 Melanie Davenport motioned to approve the minutes for April 19, 2018. Kristi Anderson seconded the motion. VOTE: None opposed. Heidi Christensen and Mark Rudd abstained. Public Hearings: 1. 6:35PM - Approx. 300 E 7th N (#18-00141) – Rezone from Community Business Center (CBC) to Medium Density Residential 1 (MDR1) Craig Rindlisbacher identified the parcels near the water tank. The request is to rezone, following the Comprehensive Plan Change recommended to City Council by the Commission in the previous meeting. The proposal is to rezone to MDR1. 35 North 1st East Rexburg, ID 83440 Phone: 208.359.3020 Fax: 208.359.3022 www.rexburg.org Planning & Zoning Minutes May 3, 2018 2 3 No questions for clarification. Chairman Heidi Christensen opened the public input portion of the hearing at 6:42 PM. Favor: None Neutral: None 4 Opposed: None Written Input: None Rebuttal: None Chairman Heidi Christensen closed the public input portion of the hearing at 6:42 PM. She invited staff to report. Craig says staff supports this change. It is the same zone as the neighbors. It makes sense to have this as a residential zone. Steve made a motion to recommend to City Council to pass the rezone based on staff’s approval, the zone requested is the same as the neighbors, and it makes sense to have this parcel as a residential zone as described by Craig. Rory seconded. VOTE: None opposed. 2. 6:40PM - (#18-00163) 148 S 2nd E – Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for a Dormitory Use in a Medium Density Residential 1 (MDR1) zone – Devin Durrant 3. 6:45PM - Parks Plan (#18-00177) – 1) Comprehensive Plan Amendment concerning the adoption of the Parks Chapter and 2) Adoption of the Parks Plan & Trails Plan – Kevin Decold from CRSA Scott Johnson did not hear much input from the Commission. Scott is looking for adoption of the Parks Plan and Trails Plan, as well as the thematic chapter for Parks for the Comprehensive Plan. He turned the time over to Kevin. Kevin from CRSA is here to answer questions about the Parks Plan and Trails Plan. Melanie focused most of what she looked at on funding. She referred to pg. 58 of the Parks Plan. Melanie recommends a Matrix map of Strategies and outcomes. Assign people to work on specific areas. Eliminate areas of the matrix that don’t apply. 5 Chairman Heidi Christensen asked about the Parks & Trail statement. Page 3: “Being active depends on living healthy. All residents should have access.” She pointed out some redundancies like “choose to be active and thrive”. This opening should be measurable. “All Rexburg residents should have access to high quality and clean recreational facilities.” Scott answered, “Healthy Living” needs to be in the document for the High 5 Grant. It can be reworded to make this a little bit better. Tawnya talked about a few places in the document where the sentences stop mid-paragraph causing missing information. The author needs to go back and proofread. Scott said if those things are highlighted, they will make sure they are taken care of. Kristi talked about the organization of the document being confusing. The font and font size were mentioned. Identifying the headings and sub-ideas were difficult to identify. She noticed this mostly in the introduction. Keven answered, he will work on improving this concern. “Cedar City” p.52 was in this document. Is the figure following this name correct? P.54 a paragraph is there looks like it is out of place. P.56 the paragraph finishes, but doesn’t finish the ideas the section is talking about. P.62 the paragraph finishes, but isn’t the end of the paragraph. Heidi identified p. 74 “Mell Hollow” was spelled wrong. p.48 “Create a good first impression through specified gateway areas.” What about: “Create inviting gateways into the City?” Scott asked, Are there any ideas? Kristi asked about a Special Needs Access Park. It was mentioned once. Scott asked about swings in the current Special Needs Park. Heidi talked about “ADA compliant” was mentioned a few times. Melanie talked about funding. There will also be additional requirements when pursuing funding. She based her attitude that this document would change and adapt as the process continued. Scott answered, this is a living document, but should meet current needs as well. Comprehensive Plan Language Heidi asked about the themes for the Comprehensive Plan. Scott answered, the theme is the objective you are trying to achieve. These objectives are supported by goals. Heidi continued, objectives should be measurable and relevant. Are these measurable and relevant objectives? Scott answered, some of the themes are not as measurable. As the themes progress into goals, they are measurable. Heidi talked about #1: “Respond to residents’ desires” is terrible, this should be worded differently. This doesn’t sound professional. “Response to population survey or public polls” may be better wording. There were a lot of grammatical errors. The focus is on the substantive. #3 “An active and healthy population” is hard to measure. In paragraph 2, “Quality of Life” and “Increased Property Values”; this is the only time the “Increased 6 Property Values” are mentioned. This doesn’t fit in this place. 2nd page, last sentence “a healthy population with lower health cost, less days lost to illness, means greater worker and student productivity, higher wages, higher educational attainment and makes Rexburg a more competitive City” (Bottom of 2nd page, very last sentence, and the top of the next page.) It would be a good idea, to make this sentence flow nicer using “competitor” instead of “competitive city”. Why do you need “an active and healthy population”? How will this be measured? Darrik, what is the purpose of this document? If this is clarified, perhaps, this will help frame our discussion. Scott answered, the purpose of the Parks and Trails plans inform us of what level of service we should have in our community. The document should explain how the trails should connect, what types of parks we should have, how many acres/1,000, etc. Those documents inform our Comprehensive Plan. Darrik summarized, the Comprehensive Plan is to identify a vision; a developer comes in, they can see the vision and work to adapt to those objectives. Melanie. Olmstead book was mentioned, focused on parks. Heidi if you already state that access to parks is healthy. Why do you need to put in a healthy and active population? They seem to repeat each other. Steve asked for some stronger language for the Comprehensive Plan. He shared a real- world example, Envision Madison; he was a participant. One of the recommendations was the desire to maintain Agricultural land. When we start to match up our desires with legal regulations that are enforceable, there are ramifications such as taking peoples’ property away from them. There are places in the country where there are urban growth boundaries that create all sorts of complications. When he looked through the document on Page 5, “Planning for Open Space” and header on page 6, “Community Partnerships”. The verbage is innocuous. Policy makers have visions of what they want, but this affects other peoples’ lives. If we desire Agricultural language to be maintained, stronger language to head off exuberant policy makers to prevent taking or regulations onerous for that property owner. He would like to see some language that outlines this idea. He likes the idea of cooperative relationships. Last night at City Council, collaboration with owners for acquisition of property was mentioned with the Barneys. He would prefer this type of working with private owners and government towards obtaining park lands described in this document. “Purchase, trade, or task incentive” may be language that will obtain this objective rather than regulatory or coercive language. Chairman Heidi Christensen opened the public input portion of the hearing at 7:10 PM. Favor: None Neutral: None Opposed: None Written Input: None Rebuttal: None 7 Chairman Heidi Christensen closed the public input portion of the hearing at 7:10 PM. Darrik talked about this document being an over-arching document. This is more about what our vision is. He thinks this document captures the feeling “we want to work with you.” Steve talked about this being a legal document. Scott talked about the Comprehensive Plan talking about this cooperative idea in another chapter. Steve suggested a reference to this idea in this section. MOTION Rory Kunz recommend City Council approve these documents with the added reference in the Comprehensive Plan about private and government cooperation as identified by Steve Oakey. Steve seconded the motion. Melanie asked, do we want to add the grammatical questions to the motion? This does not need to be part of the motion. VOTE: None opposed. Unfinished/Old Business: None New Business: 1. Change Date of July 5th meeting? City Council is meeting July 11th and 18th. The last meeting in June for City Council will be June 27th. The Council will be in Boise the 20th. June dates for the Planning & Zoning will remain the same. Planning & Zoning will meet July 12th and July 19th. Compliance: None Non-controversial Items Added to the Agenda: None Report on Projects: None Tabled Requests: None Building Permit Application Report: None Heads Up: May 17, 2018 1. 5:00 PM Joint P&Z/City Council Work Meeting for Downtown 2. (18-00193) 220 S 2nd W – CUP: Dormitory for Arbor Cove outside the PED 3. (18-00191) 107 N Center – CUP: Dog Grooming in MU The meeting was adjourned at 7:16 PM.