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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMEETING MINUTES - Dev. Code Amend. - Zoning DesignationsREXBURG PLANNING & ZONING November 21, 2002 7:00 P.M. Chairman: Winston Dyer Members: Robert Schwartz Ted Whyte DaVawn Beattie Mike Ricks - Excused Steve McGary Doug Smith Jerry Hastings vary Haley- Jordan aleyJordan Dyer - Excused David Stein P.F.C. John Millar P & Z Administrator Kurt Hibbert City Attorney Stephen Zollinger - Excused City Clerk Blair D. Kay APPROVAL OF NUNUTES Steve McGary made a motion to approve the minutes with corrections on page 6, 9, and 12 for November 07, 2002, DaVawn Beattie seconded the motion, all voted aye, none opposed. The motion carried. Winston Dyer - Welcomed those present to the meeting along with the Boy Scouts. Commissioner Mike Ricks and Commissioner Jordan Dyer were excused from the meeting. The County Planning and Zoning Noncontroversial aLyenda items: DaVawn Beattie — Requested to add the "Tree Ordinance" to the agenda. Kurt Hibbert - Reviewed the zoning enforcement violations — Enforcement issues are primarily concerning education of the zoning ordinances. All complaints have been acted upon; All of the violators are working on their violations to come into compliance with the zoning ordinance. There is one violation that may need a misdemeanor creation. Winston Dyer — Cominer_ted that it would be good to approve the project based on the prior history for the development. This would clear the record and provide a written record of the request in the minutes. John Millar — Discussed the history of the request. Don Sparhawk — Indicated that the neighborhood association would probably be supportive of the project if it was legal. He could not speak for the neighborhood association. Kurt Hibbert — Mentioned that the City did get a request from Dr. Craig Heiner to re -visit the 1985 approval for his office expansion. Winston Dyer - Excused Steve McGary with an illness. New Zoning Descriptions for the City of Rexburg Winston Dyer - Reviewed the need for additional zones in the Rexburg Planning and Zoning Ordinance. There was discussion on the new MDR2 zone by Kurt. Kurt Hibbert — Indicated that many of the Conditional Use requests requested in MDR Zones would fall into the MDR2 category. He recommended moving the Conditional Use applications currently in MDR to the new MDR2 Zone. Discussion on the permitted uses and the allowable uses in a zone. Jerry Hastings — Commented on moving the Conditional Use for 5 & 6 Units in MDR to MDR2. Kurt Hibbert — Provided a handout of available zones in Moscow, Idaho, and Orem and Provo, Utah. Discussion on LDR1 and LDR2 zones. Winston Dyer - Reviewed the zoning recommendations presented by the City. In reviewing the information that was presented by Kurt, Winston commented on the following proposals on page 20 of the Zoning Ordinance book: 1) MDR — Up to 16 units per acre 2) MDR2 — Up to 24 units per acre Kurt Hibbert — Recommended moving the current conditional uses in MDR to MDR2. The zoning applications in the handout were reviewed. Kurt recommended using some of zones in the handout from other Cities. Dormitory housing would not be allowed in MDR per the proposed change from MDR to MDR2. Winston Dyer — Discussed the possibility to have a sunset clause in the zoning ordinance. 16 John Millar - Provo is developing a sunset clause called a "Project Redevelopment Clause". Jerry Hastings— Questioned if single family neighborhoods would be protected. Jerry was in favor of changing MDR Conditional Uses to MDR2 Conditional Uses. Discussion on protecting single family neighborhoods from having a four-plex in the back yard. John Millar indicated that a 24 foot driveway requirement for density higher than a duplex would eliminate most requests for backyard developments. David Stein — Reviewed the possibility of requiring the front entrance to face the street. He would like to adopt that provision in the building code. Ted Whyte — Commented that each structure would require street frontage if this provision was applied to the Zoning Ordinance. Winston Dyer - High and Medium density were reviewed. HDR2 was discussed and the possibility of eliminating it. Parking and building height control density in HDR2. Discussion on the HDR2 zoning locations in the City. Single bedroom developments only require 1.5 parking spaces per unit. Ted Whyte — The reason for the HDR2 Zone was for one and two bedroom units. Discussion on the apartments by Rexburg Floral. There are three 12-plexes and one 8 -flex for a total of 44 units. They used ADA accessible ramps up to the 2nd floor. John Millar - HDR2 requires at least 2 acres for a development. Discussion on the existing zoning types for the City. There was a comment to drop apartments from the LDRl Zone. David Stein - Reviewed options available in other Cities for LDR zoning. Examples would be grouped housing with Density Credits. Winston Dyer - Commented that a higher density would be allowed in a residential development which would allow an increase in the green space or open area for the development? Mary Haley —Discussed the density credit and how it works in a residential development. John Millar — Requested that the new Zoning Ordinance use net acres instead of gross acres which would eliminate the undedicated right of ways in the calculation. This would restrict higher densities. John indicated that 7d' South and 5th West are roads that do not have deeded right of ways. Kurt Hibbert - Discussed Commercial zones. 17 Mary Haley — Commented on neighborhood businesses for Rexburg. There was continued discussion on having neighborhood businesses. Kurt Hibbert - High Density housing needs neighborhood businesses in close proximity to those Housing areas. Neighborhood shopping centers were reviewed. Kurt recommended splitting the industrial zone into two zones — Light Industrial and Heavy Industrial. Discussion on the different types of businesses that could be located in Light Industrial. Jerry Hastings - Reviewed Moscow's and Provo's identifiers for Commercial Zones. Provo has assigned a classification number to every business. It is probable an SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) number. John Millar - The only Heavy Industrial zones are for Walter's Concrete and Basic American Foods. He requested that the Commission leave the door open to Industrial growth. Winston Dyer— The City needs to protect the Light Industrial areas from the Heavy Industrial uses that could be a development. Ted Whyte — Indicated a need to transition some of the industrial areas to commercial due to the change in transportation methods. The transportation industry has moved from rail transportation to highway transportation. The Commissioners discussed the list of Commercial Zones offered as examples in Kurt's handout. John Millar - Concurred with Kurt to provide neighborhood shopping centers zones for residential areas. Jerry Hastings - Referred to the Provo plan as a desirable plan for Commercial designations. Kurt Hibbert — Reviewed a Project Re -Development Ordinance — It encourages redevelopment of older neighborhoods. It encourages those areas to develop into a harmonious and uniform type development. It encourages creative and efficient utilization of land. This is a (PRO) - Planned Redevelopment Option. Discussion of a Professional Office Overlay zones, Commercial Overlay Zones, Horizontal Zones, Vertical Zones, and Urban Mixed Use Overlay Zones. David Stein — Commented on the need for a Planned Unit Development. John Millar - The City of Rexburg does have an Ordinance for a "Residential Unit Development" and a "Planned Unit Development" in the Subdivision Ordinance: 18 There was continued discussion on current zoning for Rexburg including the Professional Office Overlay Zone, University District, Airport District, and an Open Space Overlay. Doug Smith —Inquired about zoning in the Rexburg Business Park. It is zoned HBD. Kurt Hibbert — Commented on the Commission's discussion to bring into Zoning Ordinance the Impact area zones that exist in the County. These are RR — Rural Residential and AGI- Agricultural. Jerry Hastings — Reviewed the concerns of the residents with AG zoning being rezoned to a MDR or HDR zone right next to them. Discussion on having an AG -Agricultural zone within the City. Doug Smith gave an example of a Community in California that required an Agricultural zone within the City limits. It was a fanning zone right in the City that was used for agr;r,tIt, ral tn,,,rtnnsPs. Seventh North was discussed as a possible area that could be annexed with an AG zone. Winston Dyer — Indicated that the Commission needs to protect existing uses. He asked the Commissioners about their feelings on having an Agricultural zone in the City. Mary Haley — Commented on the properties on Pole line road that are agricultural. Discussion on the Trans Ag name being used as an identifier for City Agricultural Zoning instead of AGl . The differences between RRl and RR2 was reviewed. RR (Rural Residential) will be brought into the City Zoning Ordinance as RRI . There was a discussion on what zone to assign rural subdivisions. Kurt Hibbert — Will provide new zoning descriptions to the Commission for review before the next meeting. Design criteria was discussed for a subdivision ordinance. John Millar — Indicated that there are two areas of discussion for design criteria. Setbacks, minimum lot widths and minimum square foot needs to be defined in chapter 3. The second area is road development issues. Discussion on having a zone that would not require a sidewalk. Discussion on sidewalks for pedestrian traffic. Ted Whyte - Iona had some subdivisions without sidewalks. They regret that decision. Winston Dyer - Asked the feelings of the Commissioners on having sidewalks in rural subdivisions. The cost of sidewalks is an issue. Mary Haley — Review previous discussions on sidewalks in rural subdivisions. She thought that those subdivisions would not be required to have sidewalks. 19 Discussion on having a walking path for children that walk down a street to catch a school bus. The City could create an LID to require sidewalks in a rural subdivision. - Ted Whyte — Proposed to have sidewalks on the East side of Highway 20 with curb and gutter. The subdivisions West of Highway 20 would not be required to have sidewalk, curb and gutter. Kurt Hibbert — Additional zones that are used in Orem and Provo may be considered. Winston — Indicated that specialize zoning may be done by a permitted use approach in an appropriate zone. The State statutes would have to be followed allowing for proper setbacks. Jerry Hastings moved to accept the new and revised Zoning District classifications to be recommended to City Council for adoption and implemented into the amended Rexburg Zoning Ordinance for Rexburg, Ted Whyte seconded the motion, all voted aye, none opposed. The motion carried. Adjourned - November 22, 2002 (12:06AM) 20 CI'T'Y COUNCIL FE'T'ING CITY OF REXEURG City Hall Mission Statement: At Rexburg City Hall our goal is to improve the Community. We serve the citizens by striving to understand their needs and by responding with quality work. January 22, 2003 7:30 P.M. Pledge to the Flag The State of the City Address: - Mayor Bruce Sutherland State of the City deport 2003 Dear Friends, Well I am sure that I don't need to remind anyone in our good Community of all the changes and challenges that we have faced this last year! However, I feel that it's good to pause and review what our City has been doing in 2002. I hope that this information will provide you with a good overview of the various City Departments. Before I get started I want to visit a moment with you a bit before I make my official report. I mentioned last year that I learned quite a bit. Well, this year I came to the realization that I have a great deal more to learn. The City is growing like never before. We had a twelve fold increase in building permits in 2002 over an average year. That alone is a staggering statistic. Along with all this growth, there have been many changes that our community has faced. There have been many difficult zoning issues that the City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission have had to on the City agenda. It has not been easy and my hat is off to both the City Council Members and the hard working folks on the Planning and Zoning Commission. I have come to understand even more clearly than in any of the 17 years I have been serving in City Government, that the decisions we make today must consider more than the moment or what seems to be a good idea to solve the present problems. Our vision must be such that in the years ahead we can look back with satisfaction and not regret. This is not an easy challenge for sure. However, I believe that our good City isup to the challenge. That is just one of the many reasons that I feel our community is second to none. I feel so privileged to serve you. Rexburg is the greatest!! I love our Town with all my heart and am so glad I live here. Now on with the 2002 City report: 1. STREETS: • A major street project during 2002 was the reconstruction of one block of 3rd North, one block of North 2nd West, and two blocks of West 2nd North adjacent to the railroad tracks. These road were completely reconstructed_ to�lace roads that had reached the end of there _useful life. • Rolling Hills Drive was also reconstructed from Shoshone to 4`h East. • City wide LID's replaced areas of curb, gutter, and sidewalk along with the addition of new sidewalks throughout the City. • A major accomplishment was the installation of an electrical and watering system along Main Street to provide power for new street lights, power for the overhead lighting, and empty conduit for possible future fiber optic lines. This project included the installation of a water line to irrigate the trees and Public HearinL: 7:40 p.m. - City of Rexburg - request a zone change of City of Rexburg property from Light Industrial (LI) to Open Space (OS). The property is located betvucn the Rail Road Tracks on the West and V East near 295 North 1s` East. Kurt Hibbert — Reviewed the proposal on the overhead screen. It is an area planned for a future Recreational Center. Public Hearing was opened - No testimony was given Public Testimony was closed Kurt continued to discuss the boundaries of the tnro�nerty There is a propoSerl develonment across the river in this area. Kurt indicated that there is a pedestrian bridge to cross the Teton River planned in this proposal. The Idaho State Parks and Recreation is helping fund the greenway project in this area. Paul Pugmire moved to approve the zone change from Light Industrial to Open Space; Nyle Fullmer seconded the motion; all voted aye, none opposed. The motion carried. Old Business: Zoning Ordinance 725 Amendments — Rural Residential Two (RR2) — 3rd Reading Paul Pugmire - Requested more time to review the proposed RR2 Zone before the third reading. Stephen Zollinger — Recommended to post pone the 3rd reading. This will allow time to review RR1 and make sure the City is comfortable with RR2. Annexation and a zone change from Madison County zoning to Rexburg zoning for ten properties, —2°d Reading Area One: Annexation of Properties between US Highway 20 and 2000 West in Section 25 with some properties 'located on the East side of US Highway 20. Area Two: Annexation of Property at 1647 West 1000 South Area Three: Annexation of Properties on 'both sides of South Millhollow Road from 350 — 700 South Millhollow Road Area Four: Annexation of Properties at 1050 North 2❑d East Discussion on approving the 2nd reading now or suspending the rules at the next meeting if the Council chooses to approve the Annexation proposal at that time. Nyle Fullmer moved to approve the 2nd reading of the Annexation proposal for the annexation of four areas; Marsha seconded the motion; all voted aye, none opposed.