Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

or or no bridging new would bend in. So that's going to help. That would you know I would you know that probably help you out quite a bit because I know that they put it a bigger pipe in there and uh they got gravel on the bottom of it and on the edges so that it doesn't flow very fast into the river. So it causes the issue with the river. But uh it end up flowing from you to, you know, from where your land is and land and so forth. Everything else quite a bit. Yeah, cuz on this they do have the two ponds that they're going to be building now. Okay.

Um yeah, just right off of Henberry. We're doing two ponds that are right where the uh um Oh, good. 30 seconds. So this is all wet land right here and the growers come through. So we got two ponds that are going right there. Okay. Good. Very good. Thank you. Hi. How are you? How are you? That' be good, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Then I called my attorney on as well and I was like, I don't need what Ripple Brook did. They have a 180 page developers agreement. I don't need something like that. That is ridiculous.

Yeah, I know. But that's not for me to say. That's not by department. Nobody but Bridget will be reading that. So, you can go. I think she just pulls in. I'll wait for her. Okay. Okay.

Look at that tininess. Oh my goodness. Love that efficiency. That's usually traffic. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I wasn't just uh drawing Good evening.

You all set? Okay. So, sorry about that. No, no, don't worry about it. Call meeting to order. Roll call. If Dan here, Greg here, Kelly here, Ben's absent, I'm here. Bridget, Mike here. Both Toms are out. and Bill here. Public comments. Public comments to uh hang on, I got Hi, Ben. Hey, Warren. We're we're just up to public comments now. So, Oh, okay.

Um public comments. We'll move along. Uh item three is consideration and approval of minutes from the Thursday, August 28th, 2025 meeting. [Applause] Make a motion to dispense the reading. I'll second that. Any further discussion? All in favor?

I opposed. Motion carries. and I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as presented.

I'll second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I

opposed. Motion carries. Item four, discussion and action items. A, review, discussion, and possible action on site plan of operations for automated solutions truck delivery business out of an existing industrial building at West 224 South 8460 Industrial Drive. M Michael Kousarski applicant tax key BBV2068044 owner minor Investments LLC/Dan Miner property is zoned I1 Industrial.

So you want me to introduce it a little bit or Sure. Absolutely. Thank you.

All right. I don't if anybody can hear me, but um so yeah, we had uh this come through. Um so they're seeking uh basically just to move in. They're going to make and manufacture items on a custom basis all on the interior. Um and it looks like too that they're not going to use any outdoor storage. Um the size of the space looks like it's actually about 1,620 ft. I put 3,000 ft in the report. That is not correct uh based on their sketch. So, I just thought I'd mention that. Uh, looks like they're going to lease unit 5, which is in the middle. Um, the, uh, applicant when I talked to them stated that it's just going to be themselves. Uh, they're going to report to the site and leave the vehicles when working. Uh, basically they're going to again manufacture items on the inside, which is full compliance with the Iowa district. Um, they're not going to invite the public in. Um, and so staff feels comfortable uh recommending uh approval uh to the planning commission on this one if you're so inclined to do so as well. Um, I don't have any concerns. Uh, the hours of operation that they stated, uh, looks like Monday through Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Uh, and again, just one employee reporting to the site to work. Um, I am providing a list of conditions of approval that include eight. Um, they're pretty standard for typical ones that we've approved before. uh for this industrial property itself. Um should they provide for any outdoor storage, they would have to comply with that standard in the ordinance, but but again, they're not doing that. So, I did include that as number four. Should they do that? Um with that being said, are there questions or concerns of village staff?

She's singing this song like there's some concerns there. in the background. No, this looks pretty simple. I It was nice to get it through email ahead of time now. Yeah, I I definitely enjoyed doing being able to read that ahead of time. I I sent a memo out to the applicant, but it was literally no comments. So, we've looked at this property before. It's so I already knew what was what. And are you the applicant? Yes. And what kind of business is it? What are you going to be doing? automation, robotic cells and stuff like that for manufacturing customers. Cool. Yeah.

Anybody have any questions for the planner or the applicant? No, just curious about the one next door. A lot of vehicles. This is an old overhead too though. I'll make a motion to approve uh based on the the planners um eight conditions. I'll second a motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor?

I opposed. Motion carries. Good luck. Thank you very much. Um, we need to determine meeting dates for November and December. Evidently, we have some holidays coming up. Again, every year can't get

Ben, do you have any preferences? Um, I'll just mention in passing that typically we do the week before. Uh, for example, November 27 would be the exact plank commission date normally. Uh, we could shoot for November 20, the Thursday before. Um, and kind of a similar situation for December. Um, we could do December 18, which is that Thursday before. Um, unless it conflicts with other board, you know, uh, village meetings, but that's typical. I think we should I will propose that we go with those dates. 11:20 and 1218.

I don't think we need a motion for that, do we? No. Um, it would be wise, I think, to make a motion and then get a second and then just vote on it. All right. I'll make I'll make that motion for meeting dates of 112025 and 121825. I'll second.

Any further discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. All right. Um, you going to hang out then or you going to go? Um, I can hang out. All right. Uh, planners report. Um, I I'll just say BRT Trucking is listed, but they're they're complying with everything we've asked of them as far as submitting stuff to staff. Uh, they're they're going for October.

Okay. Thank you for the update. Item six, fire inspector's report built. Uh by inspections are going on. We're constantly busy doing that and uh everything is good out there. Uh the other thing we got coming up uh is the tractor pull coming up on the 4th of October and had to do a lot of safety in that area also. We got that all taken care of. That's all I got. Outstanding. Did you take care of your fire extension? Don't bring that up. Um, sir,

anything from Jason on building inspector's report. Take that. Okay. Um, engineers report. Bridget. Um I'm just going to mention briefly that over the past month we've had an interesting issue regarding storm uh just on the edge of our border. So I was working with the Vernon uh public works because there was one uh ace where they're going to build. They didn't plan this year because they thought they were going to build this year and they had a storm complaint. So I'm working with Burman to I think got brought up last month too, right? Oh, did I? I think high level because they stalled their construction until spring, right? Because of tariff stuff. Yes. Because

but then there was a complaint and I think it was pretty fresh. Yeah. Okay. So that So what happened after that then is I worked with Vernon to um talk to the property owner in Vernon and we discussed that this new plan is coming. Here's what it looks like and it's going to be a lot better next year. It was just an over a hundredyear storm that we had about a month ago. So that's what happened and we're sorry but eventually it won't happen again. Gotcha. So I think it's pretty resolved now and I've had at least two houses in Ripple Brook East that have also been approved. That's kind of what's going on storm water wise. Awesome. Uh no correspondence. Ben, no correspondence.

Sounds good. Next meeting date is Thursday, October 23rd at 7 o'clock. Mike Make a motion to second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I opposed. We are injured. Records. 12 committ. What in the world? Oh my gosh. Took you longer to drive here, didn't you, Ben? I kind of I kind of took some notes for minutes. I'll scan them in and email them to you tomorrow. That would be perfect. Thank you very much. You got it. Oh, hold on.

I went to Berlin and they do say that they do own so you guys. Yes. And knows me from trying to buy before. So she did tell me that she Just ask keys. [Music] Dan lost over