Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call to order the City of Belton Planning Commission. This is Tuesday, September 15, 26. Could we have the roll call, please?

Chairman McPherson?

Here.

Mayor Larkey? Councilmember Prayan?

Here.

Commissioner Christensen? Commissioner Crate? Commissioner McDonough? Here. Commissioner Ruggles? Here. Commissioner Schutt? Here. Commissioner Walton?

Here. All right, thank you. First item that we have... today would be a review of our minutes from the September 1st meeting. Those have been printed and distributed to everyone and hopefully we've had a chance to look at those. Any updates, questions, comments on anything on the minutes or is there a motion to approve?

I make a motion to approve the minutes from September 1st, 2026.

Second it. All right. Motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Moving on to new business. First item this evening is the presentation of PROJ 26-027, request from Cozy Pet Hotel LLC for approval of a special use permit for an animal services kennel use in a C2 general commercial zoning district at 342 and 400 North Scott Avenue. And we'll ask our city planner, Ms. Fernandez.

Thank you. An application was filed for a special use permit renewal and expansion for Animal Services Kennel in a C2 zoning district for 342 and 400 North Scott Avenue. The subject properties are bound by other commercial businesses and no site changes are proposed at this time. The original special use permit for 342 North Scott was approved by Planning Commission on July 19th, 2021 and City Council on August 24th, 2021. And this special use permit had an expiration date of five years. and we have reached five years. The applicant has requested to renew their special use permit and expand it to include 400 North Scott, which is now owned by Cozy Pet Hotel. This location is currently used for grooming, but would like to keep the options open for future. All prior special use permit details remain the same, including all the staffing and hours of operation and those details that were provided in their first special use permit. And they're also listed here again. Both buildings have been remodeled with 342 being their primary kennel location and 400 being the primary grooming location. Outdoor play areas have also been added to both properties with adequate fencing and artificial turf You can kind of see on the aerial there a little bit Based on the standards for approval, Cozy Pet Hotel meets all city standards and requirements in the UDC. The proposed business is in line with the character of the corridor and is consistent with surrounding uses, is sensitive to neighbors to the best of their ability, and has had no prior issues with their special use permit. With that, staff recommends approval of the special use permit for Cozy Pet Hotel at 342 and 400 North Scott Avenue with the three conditions in the staff report. I'm here for any questions if you guys have them. All right.

We will be having a public hearing for this, but we'll see if anyone's got any questions for our planner before we do the special hearing. I know. It seemed like just a couple years ago that they were here talking about that. Yeah.

Is there an expiration on this special use permit or would it be... No. No? Okay.

Perpetual with the business license. That's what I wanted to know. Thank you.

All right. We will go ahead and open up a call to order public hearing for the Cozy Pet Hotel request. One at a time, please. Are there... Is there anyone here that would like to speak in favor or in opposition? I'll ask one more time. Anyone in favor or opposition? Is there anyone here? All right. We will close the public hearing at this point and see if there's any final questions or we would entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to Approve PROJ 26-027 as presented.

Second.

All right. Motion and second. Anybody have anything else? Seeing nothing, could we have the roll call, please?

Commissioner Schutt?

Aye.

Councilmember Bryan?

Aye.

Commissioner McDonough? Aye. Commissioner Walton?

Aye.

Commissioner Ruggles?

Aye.

Chairman McPherson?

Aye. All right. That is it for our new business this evening. We'll ask the director if there is anything to update on the development code.

Yes, we expect to get the revised draft chapters this week from Multistudio. or the consultant that's been working with us on the UDC update over the past year. And once we get through all that, we're going to put together a summary for Planning Commission and Council for their review. We'll try to get that sent out. Our goal is late October to have that put together. Of course, if there's any additional major changes with the revised drafts, that may be delayed a little bit. But our goal is to get some of the bigger items in front of you as soon as possible. and be available to answer any questions about some of those changes before we make those publicly available.

Alright. And anything else that you have to report on this evening?

Yep, we will have the meeting on Tuesday, October 6th. We do have a couple of public hearings that evening. One of them is for a reuse of the Old Masters Transportation site there just south of Quick Trip Distribution Facility. And then we also have a small mixed-use development that's been proposed at B and Chestnut. There's a couple of old residential structures there. One of them previously was Nina's Nook Daycare that was operating there. And there's been a proposal to redevelop that with two small mixed-use buildings. So we'll hopefully be bringing that forward with the public hearing as well on that evening.

All right. So we do have a meeting scheduled on October 6th and on October 20th at this point. So any other business questions? Second. All right. Motion is second. All in favor say aye. Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? All right.