Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

all right i have four o'clock so we'll call this uh regular meeting of the venture planning commission to order and the first item of business is the approval of our minutes from the may 12th uh 2026 regular meeting i'll make a motion to accept the minutes as printed i have a motion i'll second and i have a second is are there any discussion Opposed, no. Motion passes. First item of business is Old Business, a public hearing for Josh Waldrop requesting a minor subdivision of Chapman Minor Subdivision, lot number one. Requesting to divide the lot into two parcels, lot 1A will be .59 acres and 1B will be .60 acres. Travis.

Yeah, good evening or good afternoon, I guess. I'm Travis Norman with TNG. We're looking to, this was a minor plat, it was called Chapman Minor Subdivision Plat and we originally did it. Lot one, we're looking to replant it into two lots. So we'll have lot 1A and lot 1B. Each lot will be 0.59 acres. We are proposing each lot will have about 84 foot of road frontage. Exactly. They're 83.55 each. Okay. And in the middle of the property, we're looking to put in a 10 foot wide drainage easement because there's a pretty good size swell that goes through the middle of this property. So we're going to put a 10 foot drainage easement there. And on the south line of lot 1B, we're going to put a berm in. And there's a detail on the drawing there. We're looking to do a two and a half foot high berm and put a six inch pipe in the bottom of it to slow down this water after these new homes are built. And that six inch will work as an orifice pipe to slow the water down to discharge what it is now before the homes are built. So once the homes are built, the runoff will be the same as what it is today. But like I say, it's a two and a half foot tall berm. You'll have a rip rap on the front of it. And it'll back the water up, but it won't hold water. It'll just slowly discharge it out to the south of Joyner's property like it naturally does now.

All right. Are there any people here who want to speak for or against this? Saying none or hearing none. Commission members, do you have any questions or comments?

Travis, you got any idea whether that would

run over the top of that i mean in worst case scenario yeah so i ran a hundred year flood study on it with the drainage area and a lot of the drainage we took away when we when we did the u street development so a lot of the water that used to come across the street now goes into our retention pond on the u street development there for nelson heights so when i ran it this if the hundred year flash flood should get within like a half a foot of the top of it okay so that's why we made it two and a half feet to give that half a foot buffer on the top of it

I think the drawing only shows two foot, doesn't it?

It shows two foot from the top of the pipe. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we'll have that six inch pipe, which gives it that two and a half feet there. Okay. That's the only question I have.

Yep. Any other questions or comments? I see you sent eight letters out. Did you have any comments?

No, I did not.

No comments from the eight people that you contacted, which are the landowners around it. All right, so what do we want to do with this?

I'll make a motion to approve. Have a motion. I'll second.

And I have a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, no. All right, let's just go to City Council.

Goes to the Board of Works.

I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Travis, very much. All right, our next order of business is the order of the Bedford Plan Commission determining that declaratory resolution and amended economic development plan approved and adopted by the Redevelopment Commission establishing new allocation areas within the existing Bedford Consolidated Economic Development Allocation area number one, and number two, enlarging the Bedford Consolidated Economic Development area number one, and establishing a new allocation development of the city of edward approving that a that declaratory resolution and amended plan and i think you are going to speak to that sir and i heard your name but i can't remember i'm andy mauser okay fertility all right we serve as financial advisor to the city of the development commission so all right thank you for having me here this afternoon

um so this this action would be really step two and what would be a four-step process um you may be familiar with any creation or amendment to tip areas goes through a four-step process so it starts with redevelopment commission comes to you as planned commission then we go to city council and then we go back to the redevelopment commission adopt a confirmatory resolution. So actually at its May meeting, the redevelopment commission took action, adopted a declaratory resolution. And that declaratory resolution creates four new project specific allocation areas within the consolidated economic development area. Three of those actually are undeveloped properties within the consolidated TIF. And then the fourth sits just to the south of the current boundaries of the TIF area. So the three projects that would be reset out of the existing TIF area would be the Wawa project, What's known as the Stone City allocation area, which would include commercial development, including the new fast food location, limestone edge, which is a rental residential property. And then the piece that is the expansion is known as Cardinal Crossing. And that is another rental residential property. So again, those four allocation areas would be created. They would all have their own unique 25 year lifespans from the date they would be established. And the three that are being reset out of the existing allocation area currently have lifespans that would end in 2036 and 2039. So this would give them and some additional life for the tiff capture for the redevelopment commission and then as far as estimates just to give you an idea for the stone city development that initial you know fast food development we're hoping would assess somewhere in the range of a million dollars of assessed value potentially add another 20 or 30 000 of tiff annually to the consolidated area The Wawa project, hopefully somewhere in the range of a million to a million and a half in terms of assessed value, potentially another 30 or 40,000. in annual TIF collections. Limestone Edge, hopefully somewhere in the range of two to two and a half million dollars. This is about 28,000 square feet of additional, again, rental residential units, which would have the potential to add another 50 or $60,000 annually to the TIF. And then the largest of the four projects, the Cardinal Crossing, would add another 46,000 square feet of rental residential properties. And we would hope that that would assess somewhere in the $3 to $3.5 million range in terms of assessed value and add another $80,000 or $90,000 annually to the fifth. So again, four unique projects, but all being added to the consolidated area just to maintain flexibility for the redevelopment commission in the city. But certainly, I'm glad to answer any questions.

Where is that cardinal crossing? Kevin, give me the old speaker location.

It's just Norse property on 39th Street. OK. They've come up with a cardinal crossing. OK.

I didn't know what the name was. That was not familiar to me. Anyone else have a question?

Just this is the one, Kevin, that

thank you uh as andy has stated reference to the information given reference to the tip areas and stuff i would just ask the board to please consider passing this it's going to be a big benefit to the city from the standpoint of a lot of our projects and stuff that we do here in the city TIF funds are used for those. The Spider Creek project, there was TIF money also used for that project. We're looking at a street department garage and possibly a new fire station. And those projects will also be used basically from TIF funds to do those projects. So this is something that is a huge benefit to the city. And as you know somewhat, we already have TIF in place that will expire at some point in time. So this will just give the city the opportunity to be able to extend that TIF life a little bit longer for some of these locations. And if everything goes well, hopefully this will not be the last time that we'll be before this board asking for this process because it is something that's very beneficial to the city of Bedford to have this TIF funds for these major projects. Otherwise, most of these projects would not take place because there wouldn't be the funding to do the project. So I would just ask for you to consider this as for the passage of it and as stated, it'll be a huge benefit for the city from that standpoint for projects in the future. And this will extend some of the tip life to also benefit the city.

So am I understanding, Sam, what you're saying there? TIF has an ending date. Correct. And if we pass this, that ending date for that will include what?

Right, the properties that we're talking about today by doing this will extend that TIF life on those projects past the existing TIF life of the districts that they're already in. So it will just continue and extend that revenue for those locations.

And the total area, whenever the TIF expires, these locations we're doing now will continue on until the life expectancy runs out on those dates. You said for 25 years? Right, 25 years.

So I'm happy to answer any other questions.

Anybody has anything? Are there any questions you have about what TIF is? You know, I really did not understand that. Previous administrations balked at it until a county commissioner from Monroe County explained to me what it was and it's a tremendous thing for the city to do that. Any questions? So we are to pass the

I don't have a number on it though.

Would it be resolution number 1, 2026?

don't know if it's if you can speak to this any from your perspective if it's actually a resolution and it needs a number but we just need the passage of what it's listed on the document correct of the planning commission order there's not really a resolution or anything okay okay all right so do we have a motion uh to pass the uh planned commission resolution

I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO PASS THE PLANNED COMMISSION ORDER. I HAVE A MOTION. SECOND. AND WE HAVE A SECOND DOWN HERE. ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, SAY HI. THOSE OPPOSED, NO. MOTION PASSES. WE APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON THIS. I KNOW IT'S A GREAT BENEFIT TO THE CITY. I'VE SEEN THE DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN USED FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS. We're glad to see the city is growing. So this amount will also grow.

It's great.

Anything else to come before the commission?

If I might, just to bring everybody up to date, Bill was on the zoning meeting. If you remember in our last meeting, we had the our street and there was some hesitation on our part but we thought that the public needed to weigh in so we moved that onto the zoning and the public did weigh in it was nearly unanimous against the only people that spoke for it was the lady who wanted to sell the property and the realtor who was the rest of the neighborhood was very much against it i'd say that's fair isn't it bill yeah yeah um so uh we had concerns even with the safety uh that's a heavily traveled street it's narrow there's no parking on that side um we had issues with moving cars around. So at the end of the day, after everybody had their say, we did reject that. And now with no newspaper in town, you guys don't get the opportunity to see what happens at these meetings. So I just wanted to let you know how that got resolved. And I talked to the folks outside. They were around the corner. I didn't know it. And on my way to the truck, there they stood. And they were fine with that.

They understood.

We even they're probably priced more than they wanted to pay because as we got into it they really were looking for something on the cheap where they could put a couple of cars to meet the minimum requirement of the state and they were going to do most of their business online we didn't hear any of that and it wouldn't really have mattered sure cars sitting there still were not something that the neighborhood wanted and it didn't resolve the safety issues

Well, this is another example of the way we handle things, listening to people and being transparent and doing what we think is best for a great picture. Okay.

Anyone else have anything to bring?

You have anything to give us, Kevin?

This is the parking lot below it. It looks nice.

I drove by there the other day and made a laptop that looks really nice.

There's some additional work that's to be done out front. Concrete plies and some other landscaping. Okay. Assuming that's all done, the next meeting will be held there. Okay. Good.

Anything else to come before us? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Solution. I have a motion to adjourn down here. Second. And we have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed, no.

We are adjourned.