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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRFD - 20-00770 - 1350 Thompson St - Rezone to Light Industrial 1 | Page #20 00770 Rezone to Light Industrial (LI) 1332 & 1350 Thompson St – Impact Area 1. September 29, 2020, An application was received for a Rezone from Community Business Center to Light Industrial from Jon Odenthal for 1332 & 1350 Thompson St in the Impact Area. 2. September 30, 2020, An email was sent to Kim Muir at Madison County requesting the application be on the November 9th County Commissioner meeting agenda. 3. October 14, 2020, Notice was sent to the newspaper to be published on October 20th and October 27th. 4. October 15, 2020, the Public Hearing Notice was sent via email to Jon Odenthal and Cortney Beck. An official notice of the hearing and public hearing instructions were mailed to all adjacent property owners within 350’ of the parcel. Notice was posted at the property entrance on N. Yellowstone Hwy. 5. October 30, 2020, The Staff Review Summary was sent via email to Jon Odenthal and Cortney Beck. Documents were completed and sent to the Commissioners. An agenda was also sent to the applicant. 6. November 5, 2020, Cortney Beck presented the application to the Planning & Zoning Commission. 6:35 p.m. – (20-00770) – 1332 & 1350 Thompson St - Rezone from Community Business Center (CBC) to Light Industrial (LI) in the Impact Area. (action) – Ryan Summers Applicant Presentation – Ryan Summers – 949 Preston Dr. – He currently works for Valley Agronomics. They are in the process of purchasing the property from Thompson Paving. His boss, Cortney Beck, asked Ryan to attend the meeting tonight. Valley Ag is working on the rezoing provess from commercial to light industrial, so the light industrial zoning will match the zoning of their current property across the street to the south. Commissioner Questions: None Staff Report: Planning & Zoning – Alan Parkinson – Alan brought up the map to locate the property. The property is located on Thompson Street. There are eight parcels included in this zone change changed from Community Business Center to Light Industrial. The request matches the uses of the area. The Comprehensive Plan shows Industrial here. Staff has reviewed this 35 North 1st East Rexburg, ID 83440 Phone: 208.359.3020 Fax: 208.359.3022 www.rexburg.org Reason for Decision City of Rexburg 2 | Page application. Sewer and water can be made available if needed. Staff recommends the City Planning & Zoning Commissioners recommend this to the County Commissioners, as they will be the final decision makers. Commissioner Questions for Staff: Vince Haley asked if there would need to be a traffic study. Alan answered, not at this point. Keith Davidson, with Public Works, reviewed the request. Increased traffic is not anticipated at this location, other than what was already going to happen with the expansion of the fertilizer plant to the south. Conflict of Interest? - Chairman Rory Kunz asked the Commissioners if they have a conflict of interest or if they have been approached by any parties relative to this particular subject. If you believe your prior contact with respect to this subject has created a bias, you should recuse yourself, otherwise at this time please indicate the nature of your conversation or contact. As a matter of disclosure, Rory Kunz lives in the neighborhood. No other conflicts of interest. Chairman Rory Kunz reviewed the public hearing procedures. Favor: None Neutral: None Opposed: None Written Correspondence: None Rebuttal: None Chairman Rory Kunz asked if anyone else would like to speak. He closed the public input portion of the hearing at 6:40p.m. Commissioners Discussion: Greg Blacker does not have a problem with this request. He feels it is a good use of the property. This is just a little housekeeping. Kristi Anderson agrees with Greg. She says it fits with the Comprehensive Plan. It is in a good location next to Highway 20. The current use and future use are very similar. She has no problem with making this change. Chairman Rory Kunz wondered why the property was ever changed to commercial in the first place. He does not know why that area would ever be utilized as such. MOTION: Move to recommend the County Commissioners approve the rezone of 1332 and 1350 Thompson Street from Community Business Center (CBC) to Light Industrial (LI), because it makes sense with Light Industrial to the south and it will be a good use of that property, Action: Approve, Moved by Vince Haley, Seconded by Greg Blacker. Commission Discusses the Motion: None VOTE: Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote (summary: Yes = 9). Yes: Aaron Richards, Chairman Rory Kunz, Greg Blacker, Jim Lawrence, John Bowen, Kristi Anderson, Todd Marx, Vince Haley, Randall Kempton. The Commission will have public hearing November 19th. There will be three items on the agenda. Alan asked what the Commissioners want to do with the second meeting in December. The meeting will be on December 17th. The deadline for application submittal is Monday, November 3 | Page 9th, and no applications have been received. The meeting will depend on applications that come in. The Commissioners who could attend would make a quorum. 7. November 9, 2020, The application was presented to the Madison County Commissioners. Tawnya Grover and Alan were present from the City of Rexburg. They discussed property currently at Thompson Paving’s that Valley Ag is purchasing and they are recommending a change to light industrial zoning from community business. This property was in the impact area and the City of Rexburg held the hearings. After review and discussion, Commissioner Smith made a motion to sign and approve the Final Approval for rezone in the impact area at 1350 Thompson Street to light Industrial on Case #20-00790 located on West Moran View. Commissioner Mendenhall seconded and voting was unanimous. The motion passed. After review and discussion, Commissioner Mendenhall made a motion to sign and approve the City short plat under the county’s administrative permit. This was brought to the Comm. to approve because there could be short plats that occur in the impact area. The agreement between the County and City in the impact area is the City’s rules apply, but the County enforces them. Commissioner Smith seconded and voting was unanimous. The motion passed.