Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

parking we dealt with. Okay. Okay, guys. We're going to go ahead and get started. We have a quorum here tonight. We have one item. We are going to read through our required stuff quickly and move forward. So, um, I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order and do our roll call. Um, Ethan Reed, present. Mark Ferguson, present. Alexander Bainy, present. Jensen Tilkkey, present. Jay Wimborn, Brooks Davis here, Tenisia Roundtree, Cassidy Cook here, Kevin Gamrell here. Okay. And as we say in each meeting, the Conway Planning Commission makes recommendations to the city council on public hearing items. Items reviewed on this agenda will be considered by the city council as early as 6:24. Items not approved by the planning commission board of zoning adjustment may be appealed to the city council within 30 days of the date of denial. And with that, um I am going to um I would consider a motion to approve the minutes. Make a motion to approve. Second. motion and a second. Um, all in favor? I. Okay. Any opposed? Good deal. We are going to jump into our one item on the list tonight. That is our public hearing item. Request to reszone the property at 332 Southeast German Lane. Hello everyone. Um, the one item we have tonight is a reszone from A1 to S1. It is just north of the Kway Christian School campus located at 332 Southeast German Lane. As stated earlier, the property is currently agricultural and they are requesting to reszone it to institutional to further align with the school. Adjacent zonings to the north and west are A1 and south and east or S1. There is existing about 1100 foot single family home on the site. It's not located in any overlay districts and the

comprehensive plan does indicate the use of the site for institutional uses. If the property was reszoned to S1, the highest density use is a hospital. There's no way a hospital would fit on a property of this size. The intent of the reszone is for, my best, my understanding is for Comway Regional or Comway Christian, excuse me, to use the site for a daycare for staff um for children under the age of two and zero. And I'll let Emily further expound on that. Um so, not a huge increase in traffic because those children are already riding with parents there. Um, there's 8,600 trips that are just north of the intersection here. The site's not located in any FEMA of flood zones. There is already electricity and water at the site. Any other extensions will need to be coordinated with Conway Court. East uh Southeast German Lane is a minor arterial. So, as stated earlier, the antennas for a daycare that's going to be merged in with the Conway Christian site through platting. S1 zones are required to be a minimum of an acre. However, the reszoned with this platting will then make the property align with that use. Uh budding uses are agricultural, residential, and institutional and very rural. Um the zoning code for what institutional uses are described as this use very much aligns with. Um as stated, the property is going to be merged in with the Comey Christian campus. It is not platted and light site development review will need to be undertaken just because we're going from a residential use to a non-residential use. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um is the applicant here to um speak in favor of this request? Thank you. If you will come forward and state your name and address, please. Emily Ferris with Salin Ferris Architects, 27 Bluebird Lane. Okay. Um as she said, we're trying to get a resoning for this house. Eventually, it's going to be platted together with the entire school property. Um they anticipate 8 to 10 kids in this daycare. um probably two staff members. They've already been

coordinating with DHS as far as the requirements there. Um as far as parking goes, we're looking at two cars for the staff members. The teachers would be parking with the parking lot of the school and then taking the kids over. So, do y'all have any questions? Anybody have any questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And not seeing anyone, but I will ask is there anyone here to speak against this request? Okay, thank you. With that, we'll bring it back into commission. I'll make a motion to approve. Second of a motion and a second. Um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Good deal. And then finally, we have our um typical um if there's any announcements or anything from you guys tonight. Oh, I turned my mic on. Okay, it's on. Um the only thing that we've got going on is the the zoning. We're we're redoing the zoning code. We've had several um meetings with our advisory committee and we're going to be moving into public um input before too long. Probably present what what did we say? October we'll present to planning um commission and get it in front of council by November and try to get it adopted. Um, it's going really well. We're streamlining article 10 and article 4 right now. It's going great. But anyway, you guys will be kept up on that and and probably a couple of weeks before that planning commission meeting will get you the the thing so that you can read it and be ready to ask questions. um the legislative update that we've been talking about and everything, HB1503 turned into act 313, accessory dwelling units, those are now

allowed in every residential zone with very little oversight. No parking is required. So it it's 75% of the primary structure or a thousand square feet, whichever it works out to be. Um what I expect to happen in a town like this is a lot of tiny homes going in behind um property and street parking more than likely. Again, we don't have any idea, you know, how it'll blow up or anything. They don't even they don't have to match the house. We we can't regulate very much about it at all. So anyway, that got passed. Um, can um that's a civil matter. I mean, well, that's what I mean. But a subdivision can still have requirements, right? It can still have requirements, but the older subdivisions, especially where those CNRs probably don't even exist anymore. Those I don't know. We'll we'll just have to wait and see, I guess, and see how overlay districts like historic district still. um those those will have some design standards that they will have to meet, but I don't think we can tell them no. Was the tiny homes allowed to be Airbnbs or are the rules against that? Well, that's the other thing. They don't they it used to they had to be family and now there's no restrictions on who can live there. But specific cities can have restrictions on the number because they're already doing that. The number of Airbnb. Yeah. I mean that things are giving out. that we do still to restrict that. We have we've been working on short-term rental stuff since I got here. So, yeah, we might be able to do that, but the one thing that we can't do is supersede state law. So,

it it just it is what it is right now and we'll just we'll see how it works out. Um protection of vegetable gardens, no protection. I mean, nothing nothing there. They just can't be over six feet tall. We've had some controversy over the um birds and bees things. There's an argument to be made that that it's not vegetable, but it's edible. And so the only regulation really we can put on that is that it's six feet tall. It can't be over that. And we have had some people that have tried. But anyway, um, repeal of extr territorial jurisdiction as of this, well, we we've gone ahead and implemented it by August 4th. We have zero um, planning boundary, no extra uh, territorial jurisdiction, none of that stuff. So, somebody right outside the city could do a subdivision that was once it's annexed would just be legally non-conforming. And you know that is what it is too. Now a lot of this has to do with places that are not even here. I mean the um that package plant permitting that has to do with com Corp. So we don't have to really mess with that. um the private professional provider, that third-party person doing the the site development review. We've we've talked about it a whole lot. I don't see it being an issue. Apparently, there are some communities in Northwest Arkansas that take an inordinate amount of time for site development, and this this was more aimed at them. we get ours through pretty quick and so it doesn't it's just an extra layer of cost and somebody else involved in it if if a

third party. So what we're going to do is give them the option when they submit an application to either do it or don't but it's in their best interest to don't because we get them through pretty quick. the timelines are longer for the third party development than what we typically do in house. So I don't I don't anticipate that being an issue. Um there's limits on municipal regulation and county land. Just we can't do anything about the courthouse, the library, the you know anything the justice building that's that's all on the county. Uh that one has to do with county planning boards. Um, act 595 is the administrative reszoning procedures. It allows for us to administratively reszone, let's say, from from A1 to R1. It if it fits, if it's kind of a no-brainer, but I can tell you the city is not going to adopt that at this point in time. One of the one of the things that that got brought up is uh Elaine Good's land, her her land out by Lake View Acres. That would have been kind of a no-brainer from A1 to R1, but look at the opposition that it that it caused and stuff. So, the city is not at this point going to do that. We're going to keep everything in a public form. So, um, economic development that that has to do with adding, um, incentivizing retail. They're including retail and incentivizing businesses to come. I see big problems with that. But anyway, it's a state law now. So, that was basically the rundown. That was it. And if anybody has any

questions, I'll try to answer them. Yes, sir. Just one. the one without the no more territorial jurisdiction. Yes. So if there is a subdivision adjacent to the city limits and there is no public sewer, particularly public sewer, we don't have to do that. We we may annex it but we don't have to provide sewer. My neighborhood is it perfect example. It was built prior to coming into the city and we don't have sewer out there. It was annexed but there won't be any minimum or connection distance requirements or anything of that nature. Um well that's kind of Conway. Yeah. Well, I'm just wondering like it may not be through the city necessarily, but I'm just wondering about those issues about connectivity and um like we got we got all the Conway Corp services other than sewer in my neighborhood. And so we we got water the the residents had to pay for it but we got it. So other is that what you said? No, we got we got everything but sewer. We got water, cable, electric. You can do water improvement district if you want to, too. Right. And and I think they spread it out over 10 years that we paid for for all the water and stuff in those instances if they don't want to necessarily connect to a public system that'll just make bigger lots because they'll need them for septic. For septic. Yeah. And most of the people out there, well, we all have septic, but most of the people that were out there had wells. The only reason some of the smaller lots they have a shared like what call it they have a shared septic I'm not even sure how it really works but they don't have their own but it's on a shared like out on bell is it bell valley there's a few of those out there that have not the whole subdivision always but sometimes part of it they're on a shared little septic thing but that one right there on 65 that what's it called north north north north hills yeah north hills that's on one huge

septic package, right? It can have their own they can have their own product. Yeah. So, um but most of the people in my neighborhood had wells because they had been there for a while. The only reason that I didn't is cuz I knew it was coming in the city and I hooked onto my dad's but just until you know that happened. But and he used it for his sprinkler system. They you know they find but I guess they don't have to do they have to connect to city water if they've got a well they're well is sufficient they do not have to connect city water okay have a well I know the utility can service inside the city limits right service water like when we were talking about annexing some property in you made the comment that if it becomes annexed in we have to take it over from the Yes. And it's a lot more expensive to do it that way, but have to pay for electric customers, Common Core has to pay energy 355% of the gross annual revenue and any equipment cost. So if their pole line goes down that road and loops back in somewhere, we have to keep their system whole. So create that loop. But that it's it's our state lawmakers. Y'all have a problem with them. Call them. Call your state reps in here. Okay. Do we have anything else? I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Make a motion. Okay. Okay. All in favor? Good meeting.