Planning and Zoning - Regular Meeting

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] Call this meeting to order. Can we have please have a roll call? Yes. Mr. Starford, present. Mr. Travis Riggginsburg. Mr. Oliver Lebronz. Uh here. I'm sorry. Mr. Andrew Salasad here. Mr. Mike Sweeney present. Do I have a quorum, Mr. Chair? And I have a motion to approve the agenda. So

moved. Second. All those in favor? I so moved. Agenda is approved. Approval of minutes. I just went through them and they looked fine. I move to approve the minutes. Very well. Second. I'll second. Okay. Let me think Mr. Sween's just reviewing something. I just wasn't here, but I read it. That's fine. Good. Mr. Sweeney, you let us know when you're ready as far as a a vote on the minutes. Okay, sir. Uh on the minutes, uh

I get my name misspelled in a few areas. They forget the ney. Okay. Uh just maybe they might correct that. Okay, we can please correct that going forward. And he already correct that. Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Other than that, can any u all those in favor of approval of minutes? I I will.

Okay. Uh any public comments at this point? Uh you you'll be presenting so we'll we'll hold off till till we get uh till we we start looking at at your uh application and so forth. Is that okay, Mr.? Okay. And do I hear a motion to open the uh to [cough] [clears throat] excuse me, open the hearing on Mr. Senna's application? So moved. I'll

second that. All those in favor? All right. All right. All right. Mr. Seno, can you please come forward now? Thank you. And I'm going to swear you in. Okay, sir. All of us get Okay. Swear more as you go speak. Yeah. Go ahead. Will you be speaking also, man? No. Very well. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give in this matter shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes. Yes.

Thank you. Please be seated. Mr. Sen, would you like to give us a a little synopsis of of your plan?

Yes. My request uh to place a modular unit on my property uh due to me uh underestimating what it was going to cost me to remodel my existing building. Uh once I uh got through all the the hoops and everything with the state inspectors and things the I had to get a engineers report and um and so on, you know, but uh once I got the the estimate of what it was going to be, the electrical is what tipped it over. They wanted to totally uh strip everything out and so that wasn't me meant interior walls completely gone and stuff like that.

Yeah. Yeah. And um and then the next option was uh to build a new house where I and uh that was way too much. my uh contractor gave me the code for that and and uh so um he's the one that mentioned that possibly the modular unit would be feasible for me and and uh fall more in my budget. So that's why I'm requesting approval of placement of one of those units on my property at 11:01 grand.

It's the former Nights Rest Motel. Yes, sir. I'm retaining part of the building. My whole north side is going to remain and uh two of my units on the south side on the end there. I had to debate of how I wanted how it was going to look and things. I hope it blends in somehow. I'm going to replace a a fence that I had there. So, it's going to look pretty much the same from the from First Street looking east. Now, do you plan do you plan on uh the modular home? Do you plan on it facing First Street or Grand? Grand. Okay. So, that you'll you'll be having a demolition of the nice rest, right? Okay.

Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, that picture I provided you guys, the separate one. Yes. That's kind of similar where it would go. Am I right to say that, Mr. No, that that's that specific area that that picture, that's where his modular home will Yeah. where the front porch is is. I want to land pretty close to right there with the where the front porch of the new thing is. And the unit I chose uh pretty much uh I've got a few feet to play with there. Okay. But you say you're going to retain you want to retain the the last two units there. Yes. Is that correct? Yes.

Okay. Will they will [clears throat] the modular home be sitting in front of those or it'll be uh do you have the diagram of uh my placement? Yes. So the very last page of our thing that that one right okay so it'll okay okay okay yeah the whole the setbacks from first street will remain the same and I'll uh keep 10 ft from my building that's north of me. Okay. So it's going to sit like in between the the building. Yes. Yeah. I get you. I get you. Yes. Okay.

Can I clarify? So the blue line on that is the new modular building that will be inserted there and the red lines are where you're cutting out. Yes.

Mr. May I ask a question? Um Yes, sir. Are there any issues concerning historic districts uh and so forth as far as it being on grand and and so forth? I'm sorry. No. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? I have something. Yes. Can I hear from the city the current zoning what the use that is not permitted? That's a conditional use specifically. Is it residential?

So, he is he is zoned C3. That's his normal his regular zoning. under C3, under special use/ conditional use, he's allowed to have a dwelling on that property. Um, he's currently using it as like a caretaker dwelling right now. Yes. So, but since he was going to demo and you know put in a a modular home, we just thought that to bring it in front of you guys because it's it's just my So, in a way there's no change and a dwelling is already a conditional use on C3. Correct. Yes.

Just real quick, yeah, that it is um already considered a caretaker dwelling what he's living in right now anyways. So pretty much he's just replacing it and he felt that honestly the hardships that hit him were pretty much you know a surprise to him. He was doing his due diligence and fixing remodeling a bathroom but being that they are in a C3 district uh they have to go through CD and when the C comes in they're going to inspect and make him bring up all his electrical uh all the stuff that's there all the piping all the all the stuff uh that's there was built way back when and now he has to come up to new code. um that that really took him way out of his price range. So, he had to do what's right for his family right now. Um they are uh they're they're they're living in a motor home or or an a fifth wheel for right now while they get these accommodations completed and hopefully uh uh the board will will

look at it. That's and that is a nice fifth wheel by the way. I admire it every day. Well, um, yeah, my project started June 5th and, uh, we'd work for a week and we'd have to take an issue to the state and see what they recommended, what the next step was, what engineer report they wanted next. I ended up getting the engineer three different times. And um so finally the last one was uh in September finally got the the okay to continue but that's when I got the news that everything had to be ripped out and

and in the district that he's in um the the C3 district I'm sure Charles told you guys modular homes are allowed but there is a special use permit that's needed obviously um and it can it's going to be used as a caretaker dwelling. Yeah. So, you know, as long as he's the one living in it, uh, there it's it's allowed through a special use. I think I think it might property to be honest with you. Still commercial use. Yeah. Any other questions? Plant to put it on a foundation also. I want to make it permanent. What kind of foundation are you going to use?

The standard uh whatever uh they come up with. Um, Ambrose is my contractor now. Ambrose Constiano and uh I guess um Mendrano Sean Mendrano who does it regularly and uh he's going to sub out to him I think. Yeah. Mr. Sweeney I have a question on the modular home. Is it does it abut the two south units that you're retaining or is there space between them? Yes. the two south most south is there space between the modular home and the two south units

there'll be uh 25 ft which I plan to put my garage that I presently have in front of the building and I want to set it there which will be uh [clears throat] right on the side of it south of it between the building and the new thing the new unit excuse me so but it's a 78 by 30 is that what is going in yes It's 30, but the length is a little shorter. It actually ends up being 62. So, I've got I don't have to be the 10 ft. I can um be a little bit further away from the wall than 10 ft. So, that's what I plan to do is just bring it out a little bit and space it out.

Sounds good. Any further questions or not? That's okay. Do I have a Can I call for a motion to approve or disapprove? Do we need to move to stop? Forgive me. Can I please have a motion to close the hearing? Thank you, Mr. So moved. May I have a second? Second. All those in favor? I so closed. Sorry, that's a new thing for me. Okay. So now now I would like to move to approve the the conditional unit. Thank you, Star. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Very well. Can we have a roll call vote on this, please? Star for approved. Yes.

Mr. Andrew Salad. Yes. Mr. Oliver Lebron. Yes. Mr. Mike Sween. Yes. So moved. So approved. You're good to go. As far as we're concerned, it still has to go back. Thank you. Council. Thank you, Mr. S. I'll make it look good of the city. And I in the future, the reason I'm retaining those units is uh I will get back to them uh as soon as I get funds. Sure. But I I want to make uh get them back in business. You got Thank you, Mr. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. You guys, too. And can I have motion for adjournment? Any other business? No. No. Can I have a motion for adjournment? I move that we adjourn.

Second. Second. All those in favor.