Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

This meeting will now come to order. There are agendas on the table outside the meeting room. This is a public meeting for which public notice has been provided. The proceedings are being broadcast and recorded and can be viewed online on the city of Casper's YouTube channel. Can you move that? First, I'd like to read someformational statements about the meeting. Use of cell phones is not permitted and such such phones should be turned off or otherwise silenced during the planning and zoning meeting. When speaking to the planning and zoning commission, please clearly state your name and address. Keep your remarks pertinent to the issues being considered by the planning and zoning commission. Do not repeat the same statements that were made by a previous speaker. Speak to the planning and zoning commission as you would like to be spoken to. Do not address applicants or other audience members directly. Make your comments at the podium and directed to the chairperson and planning and zoning commission. I would like to remind everyone present that the city of Casper Planning and Zoning Commission is a volunteer body composed of members of the Casper community appointed by the Casper City Council. The commission acts as a quasi judicial panel making final decisions on some items and recommendations to the city council on others as dictated by law. The commission may only consider evidence about any case as relates to existing law. The commission cannot make or change planning or zoning laws, regulations, policies, or guidelines. I would like to note that everybody is present with the exception of Mr. Escu. The next item on the agenda is consideration of the minutes from the planning and zoning commission meeting held June 12th, 2025. Are there any additions or corrections?

I'll now call for a motion to approve the minutes of the June 12th, 2025 planning and zoning commission meeting. Motion by Miss Hunter, seconded by Mr. Ston. Have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? There being no further discussion, we will now vote. um me by thumbs up or thumbs down. Can you please record the vote? With all members voting I. The motion carries.

Next will be the schedule public hearings. Before we get started, just reminder to all this evening's applicants that it takes four affirmative votes to pass any item regardless of the number of commissioners present. If any applicant would like to postpone their case in anticipation of the possibility of more commissioners being present next month, then I'd ask you to speak up when your case is announced. Case number one, the first case tonight will be ZOC-830-2025. A request for a zone change of the property located at 777 Antler Drive from C4 Highway to M2 General Industrial. is the applicant or the representative present and do you wish to proceed?

Yes.

Can we please get a stash report at this time? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A zone change request has been submitted for the property located at 777 Antler Drive from C4 Highway Business to M2 General Industrial. The applicants previously applied for a conditional use permit to allow a residential use in a C4 highway business zoning district, which was denied by the planning and zoning commission at its March 13, 2025 meeting because of the C4 zoning regulations. Do not explicitly list residential uses as either permitted or potential conditional uses. The applicants are applying to reszone the property to M2 because M2 zoning lists security residences as potential conditional uses um for safety and security for the business or principal use of the property. The applicants were granted site plan approval for the construction of a 7,380 ft office uh/warehouse building in March of 2024. The office warehouse building has been constructed and was issued a temporary certificate of occupancy. A full certificate of occupancy is conditioned on the completion of the required site work. The applicants have thus far delayed the completion of the site work pending the ef their efforts to obtain permission to construct a residential addition on the east side of the building. Surrounding zoning is M2 to the north, C4 to the west, south, and east. And surrounding land uses in the area are all commercial and industrial. Um, and I would note that the property located um kind of across the street and diagonal to the east, 650 Antler Drive, was granted a conditional use permit for a security apartment in an M2 general industrial zoning district in 2012. Section 1712170 of the municipal code provides guidance on zone change requests and requires that staff provide a report to the commission as to the request conformance with the

comprehensive land use plan. The future land use plan is an illustrative map within the comprehensive plan that identifies the physical distribution of land uses and forms the basis for future zoning and land use regulations. The uh future land use map identifies the subject property as being in an area designated as a community center. And the community center classification is characterized as a concentration of commercial activity serving a larger area than a neighborhood center, but they but that do not draw from the uniqueness of the urban center. Community centers are areas designated for retail, trade, service areas, offices, and multifamily residential. Mr. Chairman, I have five exhibits. A is the application for a zone change. B public notice center letter sent to the property owners within 300 ft. C legal notice sent to the start. D a photo of the public notice sign on the property. And E, memo to the chairman and members of the planning and zoning commission. And with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Craig. And the exhibits are noted or noted. Does anybody on the commission have any questions for Craig? Yes, Mr. Chairman. Uh, I believe previously we had discussed the parking for the project that is there for the building structure that's there now. Would the parking be adequate adding a resident?

The site plan that was approved, Mr. Chairman, was uh had just the amount of parking necessary for the commercial warehouse use. So, they would have to add an additional two parking spaces somewhere on the site um for for residential if it were approved. Does it have to be on site, Craig, or can it be on street? It has to be on site and paved.

Any other questions? Next, I'd like to ask the applicants to come forward the microphone, state your name and address for the record and explain your application to the commission. My name is Kevin Everly. This is my wife. We live at 41. Okay. Thank you. Any uh questions for the Everlys? Mr. Hston.

Mr. Everly. Uh so on the parking, so your site plan has the space for parking. It just wasn't identified on the site plan is what you're saying? I think so. Uh the building Thank you. Any other questions?

Thank you. Now is the time when you ask members of the audience to come forward in either support or in opposition to the case. Please remember to state your name and address clearly at the microphone for the record. Anyone wishing to speak in support of this case, please come forward now. Anyone wishing to speak in opposition to the case, please come forward now. Seeing nobody willing to speak in either support or in opposition to the case, I hereby close the public comment portion of the public meeting and call for a motion to approve, deny, table, or postpone to a date certain.

Move to approve. Move to approve by Miss Rubble. I had a question. Um, is it Craig? Is it customary to get the zone change before you apply for the conditional use or can you apply for both at the same time? Um, yes, you can apply for both at the same time.

Um, Mr. Chairperson, I was curious if um the Everlys knew that they were with the zone change, they still won't have a conditional use permit. They had not applied for

I I was uh we applied for the condition because I was unaware that Okay.

Okay. Just

bearing on your case, but I use permit the first time. I contacted all the property owners, all of them. So, we're going to see a conditional use permit come before this commission again if this is approved for the zone change.

Correct. Yes. Okay. I believe we had a uh a motion to approve by Commissioner Rubble and a second by Miss Blic and then we had your discussion.

Yeah. I was just wondering if there was a way to expedite things um and if we could do a conditional use combined with the zone change or not. Mr. Chairman, the conditional uses go just to the planning and zoning commission. Those are done after one meeting. Zone changes go to planning commission and then three readings at council. It's a four-month process. So, there's really no benefit to holding on to the conditional use permit um and and waiting for the outcome of the conditional use 3 months later. So, um they could apply for that at any time. Um but it couldn't officially be approved obviously until the council had rendered their final decision. Any further discussion?

Mr. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to um to ask, as I recall in the previous application, that um the the residence was going to be built for living in and then the owner is traveling and I think in M1 or M2, the residence is for security purposes. Is that correct, Mr. Collins?

Um yes, that's let me read that part of the conditional use. um get it into the record and then we can discuss um conditional uses in an M2 um the first one on the list apartments as part of the main structure or manufactured homes necessary for safety and security reasons in conjunction with the principal use occupied by any persons responsible for security in the principal use and employed by the industry or business conducting the principal use. So, um, I'll leave it up to the commission whether they they want to see evidence of a of a business or not. Um, that's how I read it. Um, but it could certainly be interpreted differently.

Any further discussion? Yes, Mr. Chairman. Is it typical to to reszone a property when all the surrounding properties will have a different zoning classification to them or is it typical that that it's an adjacent property that you're resone to that same zoning?

Mr. Chairman, they I think you're asking uh about spot zoning and uh one of the requirements for spot zoning is that it's not treated differently than the properties around it. there needs to be some similar zoning in my opinion close by. So in in this case there is similar zoning across the street to the north. Um so I don't believe this is a spot zone. I I believe it meets the the requirement that there's similar zoning in the area. Um but you're correct that um that's one of the conditions we should always look at when we're doing a zone change is is there similar zoning in the in the immediate area. There is

Thank you. Yep. Any further discussion? Just a reminder, we have a motion to approve the um zone change. We will now vote. Please record the vote. With all members voting I the motion carries. Your application for a zone change has been approved. uh staff will provide you with the next uh steps in the process. Thank Thank you.

Uh Mr. Chairman, just uh to mention here like we talked about this needs to go on to planning or to the city council. Um so we will need to establish a date of public hearing. We're notify the neighbors, put another ad in the paper. So um we'll we'll be in touch with the applicant to let them know when they need to show up for the next meeting.

Okay. Very good. you still have some steps ahead of you. Second case tonight would have been CUP 856 2025 request for conditional use permit to allow professional office with fewer than 20 employees in an R2 one unit residential zoning district located at 1868 South Popppler High Park edition lots 4 through five. applicant was Christ United Methodist Church. This request has been re withdrawn by the applicant.

Correct. Mr. Chairman, we just wanted to close the loop on this since we did send out notifications to the neighbors and it went in the paper and everything. So, um, in case anybody was following along, uh, we just wanted to get it on the record that we acknowledge that the applicant has, uh, withdrawn this case and it's no longer under consideration.

Very good. The third case tonight would have been SUB 8592025 request for a final plant creating the Mesa del Soul 5 edition. Being a vacation we planted lots one and two, Mesa del Soul 4, lots 40A, Mesa del Soul lots 4A and 54A and the portion of Sienna Drive and Kasa Grande Drive adjacent to said lots. The subject property is located northwest of the intersection of Central Drive and Jordan Drive. The applicant is Mason number three LLC. This request has been postponed by the applicant until next month's meeting.

Right, Mr. Chairman? Again, we just uh wanted to let kind of close the loop and let neighbors know um that it's going to be considered next month. Uh after the initial review, um there were some significant changes that the applicant needed to make to the plat and uh we just didn't think it was fair to move forward and the applicant agreed um and decided to postpone it for consideration by the planning commission next month. Okay. Thank you, Kurt. There are no specials tonight. So now I'll call for any communication from the commission. Any communication from the commission? Any communication from the city planner?

None tonight, sir. The city uh the council liaison is not here tonight. Any communication from the OD liaison? life. That was successful.

Very nice. I now call for other communication from anybody else present. Anybody else want to address the planning and zoning commission? Hi, my name is Paul property right next door basement. So the house I want to tear the house down. Warehouse inventory. I just want it for my personal property. Anyway, I'm not process the condition invite every one of you to come over and look at that house and then look at that. What we want to do is share the house. Pick a park area

here like trucks and cars garage in the back which needs some fixing Wendy's.

Uh, well, thank you, Mr. Sorson, for addressing this commission. I will remind you, however, that this commission cannot change any planning and zoning laws or regulations. And it appears to me that you've already gone through the proper steps in talking to I imagine you've talked to Craig. um he would be your best resource uh for your next step as to what you should be doing. But I will open this up to the commissioner if they have any questions for you.

Again, I would I would refer you to Craig. I'm sure he's given you all your possible options. It's an R2. We would have to take a look at it as to if it's even allowed within a condition as a conditional use within that zoning. Sir, thank you.

Sir, I Oh, I don't see how you're going to You can't have a lot with just a garage on it. I think you're going to have to do something. A conditional use permit won't be any good because you can't have a lot in the city with just a garage on it. You have to go a different direction if your property is Yeah, you're going to have to do something different. You may have to replant it and combine into one lot would be my guess as to what Craig is. I did that still. It would be one.

Just a a little more background on this. Um there's the the lot Mr. Sorenson lives in is a different owner than the um property in question and it also has the maximum number of outbuildings that you're allowed. So it would be one in addition to that's certainly a if they were under the same ownership and we could combine the lot then he would be asking for special permission for an extra building or as it stands now he'd be asking for something that's contrary to the code that is to allow a uh accessory building without a primary building. Okay. I I I would encourage you to explore all your options with

I'm sure you have options. One of the objects is mother-in-law inside the garage. Very frustrating.

I appreciate. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else wish to address the commission? The final item on the agenda this evening is adjournment. The next meeting of the planning and zoning commission is currently scheduled for Thursday, September 11th, 2025 at 6 p.m. There being no further business to conduct, the chair calls for a motion to adjourn.

Rubble by Miss Blow check. Sure. I kind of draw blank sometimes. Uh any discussion? Please record the vote. With all members voting I. The motion carries. Meeting adjourned at 6:24. Thank you. Thank you all.