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HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z MINUTES SEPTEMBER 26, 1984l~` MINUTES OF PLANNING & ZONING September 26, 1984 A meeting of the Planning & Zoning for the City of Rexburg, Madison County held September 26, 1954, at the City Ha11. Present were the following: Chairman: Board Members: Council Member: City Clerk: Chuck Frost Gerald Taylor Mary Lee Hill Jim Keller Bob Purrington Chris Mix Glen Pond Rose Bagley Chuck Frost reviewed the minutes of June 27, and made a motion that the minutes be approved as read. The city clerk reported that David Sevy was given a variance to put a musical instrument shop, and they did not allow him to build a building, he could only expand his house. _he city clerk reported that the property owned by Gene Palmer had been annexed to expand trailer court. The commettee again discussed the parking for Mrs. Francis Wright`s student housing. They felt that she should make a sketch on the proposed parking and bring it to Planning & Zoning. They suggested that the building inspector talk to Mrs. Wright to see exactly what she is proposing to do with the parking and see if it is feasible. They did feel that she should not be allowed to put concrete instead of lawn in her front yard. After they get this information they could act on it. Glen Pond reported that the city council had approved the requirement that all businesses be required to blacktop their parking lots. Chuck Frost reported that he had met with the council about requirements of sidewalks. He also said he would like it to go on record that he was delighted that the Sub Division Ordinance is done, published and available. Chuck reported that the city council talked at greath length of businesses in homes. The feeling of the. council was: in 'R1 never, in R2 maybe if there is circumstances that says it is alright, and in R3 possibly. They would really like the P & Z to hold the line on businesses in Rl. R2 it depends on the character of the neighborhood, R3 possibly we could approve some. Gerald Taylor said he felt that was a good idea. Some people move into a neighborhood and then try to change it. The next item of business is to look at the zoning ordinance and zoning map and see what eeds to be done to update and revise the zoning. A few years ago we had.a zoning • recommendation from Arlo Nelson, a planner. The Planning Board had looked at it at that time but not really incorporated it into the city ordinances. The mayor taould like the commettee to do some updating of the ordinance. He doesn`t know if the whole ordinance needs to be scraped and start over again or if we need to amend the ordinance we have no~o. Jim Keller said one major problem we have is we need to decide if a new 2 ~ ~. zoning ordinance will comply with the comprehensive plan. We v~rould have to have a lot of hearings on it, because it would be down zoning some areas and upzoning others. When was done before they had received a lot of flak and the city council was not ready to e that decision, so they just dropped it. The Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the city March 15, 1983. Jim said that any zone change, you really need to go towards your comprehensive plan, or you have to amend the comprehensive plan. When you change the zoning ordinance, he would guess you are going to change zones from Rl, R2, R3 to all the zones and overlay zones that are in that plan or something similar. That means you change every zone in the city. Chuck said another approach would be to maintain the existing zones that we have and try to clean up some of the problems by using the master plan we have. Jim Keller said he didn't see any reason to go in and redo your zoning ordinance and leave the zones the same. The intent of .the new zoning ordinance was to allow flexibility and to put shopping areas in R1. If we adopted the new zoning ordinance, we could do it with one public hearing unless we had opposition and then we might have a series of public hearings. Chuck Frost said that something as critical as zoning, we would have to move very cautious. Chuck said the mayor had pointed out that there is some problems with the existing ordinance, if you wanted to patch it up, you could do it with an amendment process and be done with it. If you go with a whole new one, you have to be prepared to start changing all these problems and try to correct them. Chuck Frost suggested that we study the old zoning ordinance and the new zoning recommended ordinance and report on them. Some of the problems that are in the old one is the Class 1 and Class 2 which is very confusing and has never been used. Another problem was when Mr. Myatt had his problem, unless you very carefully read the definitions you couldn't tell if a 6 plex was denied in R2 or not. The old ordinance has not been updated or looked at since 1968. It really does not address plan unit developments, and has very Tittle in +here about condominiums or about trailer parks., Chuck said he was uncomfortable with e of the things in the recommended ordinance, for example limited commercial in ,< Jim Keller said it was designed to be compatable with the neighborhood. Jim Keller said that Gary Jeppesen from ECIPDA had reviewed the recommended ordinance and made suggestions. He also suggested that possibly if we wanted to get someon e involved, he would suggest Idaho Falls Planner, Rod Gilchrist, who had de7t with these problems from a day to day basis, and have him come review it. The mayors might be able to work some kind of a deal out !,~rhere he might do that. Chuck Frost said we would have to completely update the map after we change the zoning. Chuck Frost appointed two committees to study both zoning books. To study the old ordinance Bob Purrington and Chris Mix. He asked them to study it and talk to the mayor and building inspector to find the problems that we are having with that ordinance. Jim Keller and Chuck Frost would study the recommended zoning ordinance. He asked them to make a 10 minute report on each of these at the next meeting. Chuck told the committee that there has been another controversy with Madison Memorial Hospital wanting to run streets through Ash and Morgan Drive. The neighbors on Morgan Drive got together and were very concerned about taking a residential street which is not designed as a through arterial street to an access into the hospital. They met with the mayor and called Chuck Frost and they recommended that they not bring the street out on Morgan and consider bringing. it out on Millhollow which is already designated as a or arterial street. The neighbors on Millhollow are now mad. The hospital is trying work it out. The hospital didn't need to have a variance or a zone change; they can put a driveway on any property they buy, but the driveway is going to serve as an entrance to the hospital so it is almost the same as a street. The compromise they are trying to work out is to come out on Millhollow. 3 f~ Glen Pond said the driveway coming on Ash is really bad. Chuck. Frost said he wished they had come to us and got a little input. The committee reviewed the plans from the hospital. motion was made by Chris Mix to adjourn. All Aye. • • n U