Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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If I would have known what I know now years ago, I would have been here much sooner. Hello, Lee Summit. I'm Laura and here's your flash briefing for the week of December 8th. City Council will meet for regular session Tuesday night at 6 in council chambers in city hall. Meetings are open to the public or watch live on the city's YouTube channel. If you can't watch, catch the recorded meeting on demand on the YouTube channel or by subscribing to the council debrief newsletter which breaks down three to four key agenda items. Subscribe at cityofls.net. Considering to run for office in the April 7th, 2026 municipal election? The filing period for declarations of candidacy will open December 9th at 8 a.m. and close December 30th at 5:00 pm. Filing will take place at city hall with the city clerk. More information about open seats and candidate requirements can be found on the city's website. A reminder to Jackson County taxpayers. Lee Summit City Hall is no longer able to process tax payments, print receipts, or rate waiverss. Taxpayers are advised to visit a Jackson County location or pay online at jackongv.org. And Lisa and Parks and Recreation's annual Skate with Santa is back December 13th and 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Summit Ice. Bring the whole family and skate the night away under twinkling lights, then sip on hot chocolate afterwards. Learn more at ls parks.net. Thanks for listening and have a great week. The city of Lee Summit has hundreds of traffic lights across its more than 1,000 lane miles, all managed by the city's public works traffic technicians. The work happens inside those metal boxes on the side of each intersection. Inside, technicians program a device called the controller. The controller communicates directly with each signal head via underground wires, telling each light when to turn on and off based on a program cycle. City traffic engineers designed this cycle to allow traffic to

flow as efficiently as possible for that particular intersection. In order to best match current traffic patterns, they install something called a detection system. Detection systems have taken many forms over the years, from sensors in the pavement to radar boxes, but in Lee Summit, they primarily consist of cameras, which workers mount above the traffic signals. These cameras don't record video or your speed. Instead, they monitor the spaces at the front of the intersection and identify when a vehicle is present in a specific spot. Once a vehicle is identified, the detection system sends a message to the controller, which then adapts its standard cycle to best serve the cars that are present. The pedestrian button works in a similar way. When the button is pressed, the controller receives a signal requesting that it allow that section of the pedestrian walkway to go, which it then inserts into the signal pattern. Technicians also install something called a conflict monitor. The conflict monitor is a device in which they program all the potential patterns of lights that would lead to a collision. If the other systems mistakenly trigger those patterns, the conflict monitor sends the intersection into flash, causing all lights to flash red and directing drivers to treat it like an all-way stop. City traffic technicians implement and maintain these systems so effectively, we rarely consider them. But every time we safely pass through a signal controlled intersection, it's all thanks to their work. So the next time you're waiting at a red light, remember the delicate coordination of super smart systems that move you through that space safely and efficiently every day. Welcome to the Lee Summit sign department. We are going to walk you through our process from start to finish. We make signs as needed here. It's not like we just go out into the field and place a speed limit sign here. No parking here. Our traffic engineers, they go through and they'll do field

studies. They'll send us down an engineering work order for us to go out, place new signs or remove signs as needed. Coming from the material, our blanks come in and they're just aluminum blanks that we can put our white, our red, our, you know, our fluorescent yellow, green, whatever. And basically what it looks like is just that there. Throw it up into the the roller. And once we got it covered, take it to our work table here and Tim will cut the corners, cut all the access off to where it's [music] uh lined up. Right. As far as the plotter and the software that we use, there's a street name sign there and he's going to go ahead and print that out on the plotter so you can see the plotter and how it operates and runs. There's standards for the height even just on letters on the sign block. Basically, what we have on the computer there is it's pretty much set up to those and it goes through it's got a very small but sharp needle that goes through and cuts everything out letter by letter. Once that's done uh cutting, our next stage would be bringing it over here. Currently picking out the sign letters. Right now we call it weeding or picking or however you want to call it. Next, putting it on the transfer tape. Then after it's taped, we bring it over to the roller. That's where we apply it to the actual sign blank. We'll roll it through one time just to get the air bubbles out. And the last stage is basically just uh taking the transfer tape off the front

of it. And there's a finished product of street name sign. We'll take you out to the field and show you our process that we go through. We're going to go out and follow our sign guys, get something installed for you. This is where we check our underground utilities. Tim, you got AT&T? AT&T is back here.

Everg Google. We should be good to go. We normally put all of our stuff together out in the field. Then once the base is installed, we'll go ahead and put the post in there. Come up to Perfect. And that's how we do it. Simple, quick. Arm drawing. [screaming] Yeah. Heat. My parents built their first brand new home in 1987 here in Lee Summit. It's pretty amazing to see what Lee Summit looked like in 1987 as a teenager. So vibrant. It was just growing and there were a multitude of new things

coming online. I was in the property management world going to Rockers College and eventually I raised my kids here. This community holds people. Every time you turn a corner, there's something new. 2013 there was a vacancy on the planning commission and I thought, well, I'm going to give this a shot. Said there's no requirement. When you're on the planning commission, the decisions that you're making are recommendations. Are they following our UDO? Does it fit in our comp and strap plan? When it gets to the council, that's the big decision. [music] I served on the planning commission up until February of 2025. All right, raise your right hand.

I state your name. I, Donald Funk,

the first few weeks here was an eyeopener. These are big projects. We're making decisions for a lot of people. Is this the right project for our community? Does it fit? Does it serve the needs of our community? We can look back and see what's been done. I mean, it's incredible when you see Paragon Star coming out of the ground, Oldm Village starting to come online, Buhigh Drive athletic facility, Discovery Park, streets of West Prior, 291 North and 50 Highway, our farmers market, the Green Street Project. You look at our downtown. My wife and I, we had the opportunity to visit a small town in Florida that was revamping their entire downtown. I met a guy and he said, "Where are you from?" And I said, "Lisa, I'm in Missouri." And he's like, "Oh my gosh, they're modeling our downtown off of what you guys have done. We're recognized nationally." I think the easiest way to put it is we're moving in the right direction, a safe, vibrant, happy community. And my hope and my reason for doing this is because I want to keep that hope and dream moving forward. baby.

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[music] Everyone, I'd like to call to order the Lee Summit Planning Commission meeting for Thursday, December 11th. 2025. Can I get a roll call attendance, please? Ed Yrington here. Sherry Frasier, present. Jake Loveless. Terry Trafton, present. Dana Arth present. Jessica Greno, Tanya Jonah Ford here. Chip Tazinski,

present. Randy Benbrook. All right, we will start with the agenda and we need to have a agenda management where we move we're going to move one of our items PL 2205274 residential preliminary plan 150 and ward apartment award apartments we're 3620 southwest Ward Road Milhouse develop Velment applicant. We're we're going to move that to above item A. It's going to be first. Can I get a motion to move that in the agenda order, please?

Move to move. Okay. Second. Okay. Can we get a vote on that? Ed Yarrington? Yes. Sherry Frasier? Yes. Terry Trafton? Yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya John Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes. All right. I will now close the regular meeting and Nope. Hold on a second. Now I need a a motion to approve the agenda as amended. Thought we just did that. Yeah. So, just to clarify, that sounded like a motion just to move the item. It wasn't a motion to approve the agenda as changed. So, now we need to just Yeah. Can we get a motion to approve the agenda as amended? Chair, I make a motion to approve the agenda as recommended.

Second. All right. Can we get a vote on that, please? Ed Yarrington, yes. Sherry Frasier, yes. Terry Trafton, yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya Jonah Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes. Okay, now we will close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in regard to Not quite yet. [laughter] Oh, we still got item four and item five before we get there.

I'm sorry, we're doing things a lot different tonight. Do we have any public comments tonight rel relating to the planning commission? The business of the planning commission in general, not related to any applications tonight. Okay, I see none. All right. Will we move on to the consent agenda? Can I get a motion to approve that? So move. I'll second. Can we get a vote on [clears throat] that, please? Ed Yrington, yes. Sherry Frasier, yes. Terry Trafton, yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya Jonah Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes.

All right. Now, we'll move on. We will close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in the matter of PL2025-274, residential preliminary development plan 150 and Ward Apartments, 3620 Southwest Ward Road, Milhouse Development Applicant. Um, we are the per the applicant's request, they want to move that hearing to a date or continue the hearing to a date certain of January 26th, 2026. January 22nd.

22nd. Okay. Can I get a motion on this application or do Yeah, Madam Chairman, I'd like to make a motion uh to uh move to a J certain of January 20th application number PL2025274 residential preliminary development plan 150 water apartments 3620 Southwest Ward Road Milhouse development applicant. Chair, can we get a motion to be specific to move to continue? Oh, sorry. The application to a date certain of January 22nd, 2026, please. I'd like to amend my motion to continue to a date certain of January 20th. All right. Thank you. Can we get a second on that? Second.

Second. Okay. Can we get a vote? Ed Yrington? Yes. Sherry Frasier? Yes. Terry Trafton? Yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya Jonah Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes. All right. I will now close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in the matter of application PL2025-191 special use permit for rental and storage facility U-Haul 1650 Southwest Market Street. Steven Lidle applicant. If all of those who plan to speak on behalf of this application would stand up and be sworn in at this time.

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help your guy. All right. Thank you. Does the application have or applicant have a presentation? Just a short Okay. If you would state your name and address for the record. My name's Jackie Thawn and 1650 Southwest Market Street. Okay. Steven Lidle, 1313 Southwest Crossing. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Uh so good evening. Um, we're here on behalf of our family operated business, which has been here for over 30 years. Um, our business provides U-Haul trucks and affordable RV rentals and uh, storage units. And, uh, today we respectfully request your approval for our uh, special use permit renewal and we're happy to answer any questions that you may have. Okay. Thank you. Could we have the staff presentation? 191.

Okay. Adair Bright, Senior Planner, I'd like to enter into the record exhibit A, list of exhibits 1 through 15. Please enter exhibit A 1 through 13 into 1 through 15. 1 through 15 into the record.

Okay. The applicant is requesting approval of an SUP renewal for continued operation of RV and equipment rental, truck sales, and leases in the mini warehouse facility at 1650 Southwest Market Street for 10 years. The approved PDP did show a future building along the southern property line which has not developed and changes or expansions to the development are not proposed as part of this application. The subject property and surrounding properties are zoned PI. The properties to the north and west are building or construction contractors and to the south is an automotive repair facility with 291 highway being to the east. The future land use map designates the subject property as mixed use which calls for a mixed commercial area that can contain industrial land uses. The operation of the business supports the resilient economy focus area by allowing for continued operation of a range of uses that support the community's needs. The existing structures total about 23,850 ft and the site has 18 customer parking stalls which were approved with the PDP in 2003. As part of the SUP renewal, staff performed a site inspection and noticed a few maintenance items that needed to be addressed, such as parking stall striping, needing repainted at the detention basin needing cleared and receded and just some parking lot and driveway access patching. The applicant has addressed all the maintenance concerns and staff has added a condition of approval concerning when the parking lot and driveway access will need to be repaired. We have put in there that it would be August 28th of 2026, which would be a year after they had provided us with the signed document, their contract from their contractor. A neighborhood meeting was held on

August 28th of 2025 where zero members of the public had attended. staff has carried over the conditions associated with the previous SUP approvals and the applicant did request a 10-year approval. However, to cover the time that has elapsed since the initial approvals, staff recommends approving the SUP as shown in condition one. And with the conditions of approval shown here, the application meets the requirements of the UDO and the goals of the Ignite plan. And I am here for any questions that you may have.

All right. Thank you. Is there anyone who wishes to speak in support or opposition of the application? Okay. Are there any additional questions from the commission? Where was the Can I see the um the slide? I didn't see where the detention pond was. Did I miss that? Or basin? Yes, their basin here is just up here. and the northeast corner of the site. So that was the area that they went in and they cleared and then they receded that and they had provided us with some images of that. Okay. Thank you.

Does anyone else have any questions from the commission? I have one now that you're almost sitting down. So the parking lot Mhm. Can you go back to that slide for a second? Okay. So, so that's going to I just wondered the date they have until August of 26. Oh, there. Yes. August 28th of 2026. Okay. So, I'm just curious what is the um procedure by the city as far as um followup on that on compliance with

we would perform any site inspections by that date. stay in contact with them as well and then if that's not completed then we would look at the revocation process or amending the condition itself. Okay. Okay. All right. Any more questions? I don't see any. Does the applicant care to respond to any commission questions? Thank you. We don't think so.

Okay. Okay. Hearing no further testimony, I will close the public hearing and reopen the regular meeting. Is there any commission discussion on this application? All right. Seeing none, I would entertain a motion. Got it. I move to recommend approval of application PL2025-191 special use permit for rental and storage facility U-Haul 1650 Southwest Market Street Steve Lidle. Um applicant second.

Okay, I have a motion and a second. Can we get a roll call vote, please? Ed Yrington, yes. Sherry Frasier, yes. Terry Trafton, yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya Jonah Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes. Okay, the motion has passed. Thank you. I will now close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in the matter of application PL2025-192, special use permit for mini storage, Jefferson Street Storage, 1603 Southwest Jefferson Street. Steve Lidle, applicant. Would all those who plan on speaking on behalf of this application please stand and be sworn in?

You promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help me God. Does the applicant have a presentation?

I'm Steve Lidle. I'm uh the president of the company. I can certainly answer any questions. I don't have any prepared application. I think it's very similar to the first one you looked at. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Could we have the staff presentation?

Okay. A dear Bright Senior Planner, I'd like to enter into the record exhibit A, list of exhibits 1 through 14.

Exhibit A 1 through 14 are entered into the record. The applicant is requesting approval of an SUP renewal for continued operation of the mini warehouse facility at 1603 Southwest Jefferson Street. The approved PDP did show an additional building along the northern property line which has not developed and any changes or expansion are not proposed as part of this application. The subject property is zoned PI. The properties to the north and east are building or construction contractors. To the south includes a few different properties whose land uses include building or construction contractor, car wash, and a sporting goods store. To the west, across northwest Jefferson Street, is the Summit Christian Academy, which is zoned both R1 and PI. The future land use map designates the subject property as mixed use, which calls for a mixed commercial area that can contain industrial land uses. The existing structures total about 19,200 square ft, and the site has two customer parking stalls, which was approved with the PDP in 2005. As part of the SUP renewal, staff performed site inspection and noticed a few maintenance items that needed to be addressed, such as the parking stall striping needing repainted, the detention basin, and um just there, what was it? The parking lot access patching as well. So, similar to the last one, the applicant has addressed the maintenance concerns and then staff added a similar condition as the last one that any parking lot patching needs to be done by August 28th of 2026. A neighborhood meeting was held on August 28th. Apologize for that one on the screen. And zero members of the public attended. The applicant requested a 10-year approval. However, to cover the time that has elapsed, staff would recommend

approving the SU with the conditions on the screen. And I am here for any questions that you may have. All right. Thank you. Do any of the commissioners have a question for staff or applicant? Can we So in the other I don't know if I can ask this question. So the other one there was a period renewal of 19 years 25 days and it's set to expire January 13th. So this one is was the logic behind this so that it would expire the same the same time because this one yeah their expiration date is the date that they will have their second reading at council. Okay. So, it will line up with with the ordinance is approved.

Okay, that was my question. Any other questions? Oh, okay. [clears throat] Can uh Adair, thank you. Um, where is the detention basin on this? I'm looking. This on the property line. It doesn't seem like there's any room for a detention basin. They have two. So they have one down here in this corner. Oh, okay. And then they also have one up here in this corner. So both of those have been cleared and receded. There was just some brush and debris in there. Is that a current view of the property?

I think our aerials are about 2 years old. So it's not Okay. Right now. Google maps must be later because I'm showing trees there. So yeah. And I think ours are flown by Mark and they usually take them when there's no leaves on the tree so that they can see everything. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, thank you. No more questions. Okay. Does the applicant care to respond to any questions that we've asked on this application? No, thank you.

Okay. Hearing no further testimony, I will close the public hearing and reopen for regular meeting. Is there any commission discussion on this application? I just wanted to say thank you for 30 years.

Seeing no further comments or questions, I would entertain a motion. Oh, I move to recommend approval of applicant number PL2025-192, special use permit for mini storage and accessory vehicle storage at Jefferson Street Storage at 1603 Southwest Jefferson Street. Steve Lidle, applicant. Can we get a roll call? Oh, no. I need a second. Can we get a roll call vote? Ed Yarrington? Yes. Sherry Frasier? Yes. Terry Trafton? Yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya John Ford. Yes. Chip Tazinski. Yes. Thank you very much.

Hey chair, just to be clear, there was a little bit of overt talk. Uh the second came from Commissioner Tazinski. Is that correct? Yes, it did. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Okay. I will now close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in the matter of PL2025-276 preliminary development plan Dutch Bros. 10 Southwest PCEL's Road Engineering Solutions LLC applicant. If everybody's already standing up to be sworn in, I Okay. All right. If we could get everybody sworn in. You promise to tell the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. So, help your guide.

And I see the applicant has a presentation. Ready? I am. We are. We all are.

All right. Matt Sllish, Injuring Solutions, 50 Southeast 30th Street, Lee Summit, Missouri. Then with me tonight is Dave Olsen as well with the development crew. So if we have any questions, hopefully one of us can get you an answer. Um, so we are here to talk about a modification change to one of our originally approved lots in Olden Village. So west side of 291, northwest corner of Purcell's and 291, essentially down there at the southern tip. So when we came through originally, we showed this as lot 18. We had a sea store shown on it and it had some extra space in there. So you know there's 18 lots in the overall development. We try to guess as best we can to try to figure out exactly how we're going to lay all these things out. And as time progresses and people start to come, modifications come up. And so that's kind of what this presented itself to be. So, generally speaking, the yellow area shown on your map is the area we're talking about, and then the orange is the remainder of the Olden Park or Olden Village development. Existing conditions, that does not look like it does today, but prior to a little bit of demolition. This used to be the uh liquor store site, the uh car wash down in that area down there at the corner um with the old uh Market Street on the out road. So, if you got there today, all of that's been removed. It's a it's a vacant spot ready for development. So, just a quick brief overview of kind of where we are on the overall development side of it. If we start at the the top the blue area, that's a project that we're currently working on design. That's the parking lot for Summit Park Church. That'll be back in towards the city here in the next few months to kind of continue progression of that side. The red areas are the two buildings that you're seeing going up. That's the Q39, the Chick-fil-A that are uh progressing along quickly and hopefully getting open soon. The yellow then are the series of um projects that have either been submitted for final development plan or already accepted been approved. So you have the tunnel car wash, the small

slides, the 54 restaurant, the apartment complex and then Casey's is actually submitted down in that bottom corner. So as we started to look at the development that existed for the Casey's site down there in that corner, the orientation of the building seemed a little bit different. And so as we worked through it with the developer on that side from Casey's, they wanted to orient the building differently which kind of caused a change of that site plan in that corner. When we did the original development of the overall Oldm Village in the traffic study, we identified a series of square footages, uses and and allocations basically for the overall development. And I'll talk about this more as kind of we developed this uh presentation today, but generally this is kind of our guide. So the the overall map that we done in the preliminary development plan created some lots and ideas. Uh we had some lot square footage or building square footages, but this is ultimately the goal of kind of keeping track of where we are because this generates the trips, make sure that our traffic um corresponds to what we had proposed. So, in the original Oldm Village development, we still have some work to do on the PCEL's Road where we're going to install the median, which is that yellow mark down there on the um east west side going between 291 and Jefferson. This, as you may recall, from Olden Village, was one of those safety concerns that's been there for a number of years that the city wanted um to get resolved because there's a number of traffic movements that are impacted by allowing a full access um off of the intersection that's there. So, one thing that is still coming will be that that roadway or that median. There will be a right turn on the westbound leg of Purscell's. It will be a dedicated right turn into the sea store into lot 18. an unrestricted movement that comes off of 291 or off of Purscell's and allows traffic to flow freely into the site. Additionally, there'll be some additional improvements on the eastbound side where there'll be an additional

left t left west west eastbound left turn and then a dedicated eastbound right turn with a new signal head to help to move some of that traffic through that area. So, all of that to say, just as part of this development, there are some additional improvements that are still coming down there that just haven't quite got done yet as the uh the site progresses along. So, as we start to look specifically at the lot 19 that we're proposing to to put into the coffee shop, it's a 1356 square foot um Dutch Bros. So, there's one in town off of off of Chipman, similar a style and idea of it. that this site due to its location, we were able to push the building to the east to add additional stacking. So, we have 13 cars able to stack in the drive-through lane. Currently, it's expandable to 17 if we took some of the hatching areas out. And the requirement per the UDO is nine. So, we're ex exceeding all the requirements on that side. The building itself has five parking spaces that are required. Between the two parking lots, there's 23 on-site parking spaces provided. So again, exceeding the requirement um for the development. So now as we start to talk about where we are with the developments that are approved and what this change would do, I've put the approved square footages on the westerly side of or the left side of the page. And so you'll see that in the high turnover restaurants, so the 54, the Q39, they've slightly exceeded what we initially uh anticipated, but then if you start to look at the fast food uh restaurant sites were actually decreased. The tunnel car wash is the same. On the residential housing apartments, we actually submitted a few units less than what we originally thought. And then the coffee shop that we originally had pegged on the study was for 3,000 square foot. We've actually reduced. All of that to say that currently on a daily traffic for the overall development, we're actually showing that we're currently at a decrease of what we kind of anticipated. So we don't see any impact uh negatively or to change what we had currently planned for in the overall development

of Olden Village. Um, Dutch Bros is very similar to the style that you guys have seen that's already up on Chipman. Um, their corporate brand. So, we can go through any of that that you may have questions on, but again, it's just similar to material and color that, um, exists up there on that side. We did have a neighborhood meeting. We had one person show up. A majority of those questions were related to the overall development of Oldm Village and East Village and kind of the overall project and traffic and a number of those concerns. And so we walked through a lot of history between um Olden Village and East. U the only real concern related to this specific site. Um was the concern over uh adjacency of a sea store being adjacent to another sea store. And then of course the um island barrier in the middle starting to restrict some of the movements that she felt she wasn't going to be able to make coming in and out of the uh post office down there. So we tried to explain the process of how we got to that spot and and kind of got to that point. Um, and then again just kind of talk through overall timelines of the overall project. So with that, we'll stand for any questions you may have.

Thank you. Can we have the staff presentation? Uh, good evening. Hector Jr., senior planner. I'd like to enter into the record exhibit A list of exhibits 1 through 15. Exhibit A 1 through 15 are noted and entered into the record.

All right. As Mr. Schlissa mentioned, the application before you for the preliminary development plan for Dutch Brothers, the image here in front of you is the most recent image I was able to find, which does show the the existing site as scraped. Um, so the only thing that remains is the building there at the hard northeast corner of Purcell's and Olden Parkway, uh, which is not part of the Olden Village development. So, as Mr. Schles mentioned, the application here is for the approximately 1,400 square foot drive-through coffee shop. It does have a a walk up window on the side opposite to the drive-thru. Um, so just just to be clear, I was mentioned in the staff report. Um, we're showing the Casey's facility to the south. That's already an entitled approved development. So, it's not the focus of this application at all. So, just the green area where the the Dutch Bros uh site is. Um, but the Casey site is being shown just for illustrative purposes. So with that, um, here's just to orient those that are not familiar with the site all that well. The the area in red, it's outlined in red dashed area is the entire limits of the Olden Village project. The comprehensive plan shows the overall areas being planned mixed use. Um, like I said, this image here is a little bit of older image that shows all still all the the buildings up the the former storage of the Ford vehicles on the site. The image on the farthest right in teal there identifies the subject property that we're that we're looking at just to show you how this piece of the puzzle fits with the rest of the development. [clears throat] So, the building um has a total of 23 parking spaces on the site as has been

mentioned. Um specific to Dutch Bros., they only require five based on the requirement that that two parking spaces plus one parking space for the maximum number of employees on a shift are provided. So, they're um they're providing well over the number of parking spaces that are required as a minimum. Um so one of the things I'll touch on here is the the inset on the lower right hand side um does show and is same as images Mr. Schllish had mentioned that the original plan for for this overall site had a different orientation and as you can see um on that image that a good portion of it was we'll say underutilized green space. So with this development, they were able to turn turn the site 90° and u shift all this open space to the north and have enough room almost an acre that still remained open, which they were able to take advantage of and to uh develop it with the proposed um coffee shop and drive-thru facility. So the overall change to the plan makes for a more efficient use of the overall property than what was originally proposed. And even though it's not part of this application, I wanted just to demonstrate how with this slide, how taking almost an acre like8 acres off of the original site on the west on the left image um compared to the new image of the proposed leftover development for Casey's um you still have the same size building. your F increased a little bit just by the nature of the fact that the overall site shrunk but you're still able to accommodate all the necessary parking all the same necessary setbacks. So even though one acre was almost one acre was taken off the Casey site just

wanted to demonstrate that we're not hamstringing the ability for them to develop that one as intended. So, uh, the building elevations here, it's it's similar to the one on Shipman Road. Uh, makes a significant use of of brick. Um, has some panels and does have Ephus on it. Uh, the proposed architecture is consistent with the the new architectural design standards that were approved here in in August of this year. So, one of the uh requests from from Dutch Bros was uh the ability to have a total of four signs versus the maximum allowed by right of three signs for a single tenant building. Uh the request is is consistent with other requests that have been made and have been approved for similarly situated buildings with multiple exposures uh for single tenant buildings to kind of maximize the the way finding and identification um for that building. Uh so this particular image shows a total of five signs. Um but based on past president staff is recommending a total of four. Um which four they end up choosing. We're leaving it up to them. They can the the condition was written which you'll see on the following slide is they can have a maximum of four signs but no more than two on a single elevation since there are a couple elevations where they already show two. So, if they want to go one on all four elevation to get their four, that's fine. Um, as long as the overall size and numbers consistent with the the sign code were not prescriptive in where they put their signage in this case. So, there are three conditions of approval. The the third one being that limitation to no more than two wall signs, but allowing a maximum of four. And uh condition number two is since this is a piece of the previously approved Olden Village uh phase 2, we

just wanted to include in there that uh this development is still subject to the all of the conditions of approval associated with the larger Olden Village phase 2. So with that, I'll yield to any questions you may have. Thank you, Hector. Do we have any questions for the staff or applicant? This may be a question. I have one. Does there a landscaping plan at all? What they're going to do with some of this space now that it's been changed? There is a landscape plan. I have

You've got it. Okay. All right. Sneak over there. Get me back here. Are you

So there's the plan. And obviously I think Casey's has come in and modified theirs slightly but orientation of plants through there. Can you is it can you orientate me to this?

Sorry. Yep. So 291 Dutch Bros sitting up there. So Jefferson then Casey's still in the south. So if you're coming in off of Purcell and turning in, obviously Casey's has their own landscaping side of it, but you'd have landscaping kind of at the island area, screening the trash enclosure, front landscaping kind of off at 291 up there on that side, and then some pockets of landscaping around kind of the island areas, and then Jefferson Street being screened. [snorts] Thank you. Commissioner Frasier, when you're headed um east on Purscell's, you talked about the medium that was in yellow earlier.

Yeah. I don't see is there access into if you're headed if you're headed east, is there access into the parking lot? No. So if if you are coming east on Purcell, you will need to make a left turn on Jefferson access here. You're coming southbound on Jefferson, you would turn in here. The westbound access is to turn in that way. Yeah. But yes, if you're eastbound and get into Purcell, there' be no opportunity. That was the traffic movement that was trying to get reduced for safety.

Did I understand you correctly in in the neighborhood? Um that was one of the concerns, not necessarily the access but the median there.

Yeah. More just the idea that it that median is something that has come up many times with old village and I think with some of the previous projects approved south of that Purcell's area with the fact that if you are westbound on Bailey and then into Purcell, you will not be able to make a left turn into it. So it restricts access to that point. And one of the major contributors down there is the post office. So obviously as people come out they'll have to find their ways. So when we did Oldm Village we talked about the fact that there are opportunities to come on Jefferson down to sheer and make some loops but it does create a couple movements that are more difficult than they are now. Thank you Commissioner Trafton.

[clears throat]

So, kind of continuing on with what Commissioner Frasier says around the turning on PCEL's down Market Street [clears throat] to get to those businesses. I know that has been contentious with the businesses in that neighborhood. Um, are is there U-turn permitted on both of those turnways? Well, so, so I should mention that island and pieces. I've shown it just for the purposes of it is under construction now. And so I was just mentioning the fact that it's still being done. It's just not done yet because we haven't gotten to that portion of construction on Oldm Village yet. So, it's not something that we're um able to discuss as far as removing, I guess, at this time because it's getting ready to get built. But U-turn movements out there that are allowed would be um I don't know if I have a map.

The northern left turn lane you could U-turn. Yeah. Let me see if I have a wide enough aerial that'll show you. Turns are permitted pieces. Yeah, unless you mark. So, yeah. So, I know that some of the U-turns, and I don't know that I have that image well enough to show you, but I know some of the movements that were if you were northbound on 291, you'd be able to make a U-turn on 291 to come back and get to the access point on the south side of that development. If you come down to Shear, which is further south of there, you'd be able to loop back up and come to Jefferson to make your right turn to get in. Um, so I apologize, I don't have that map, but when we did Oldm Village, we had a number of map show locations kind of showing where that could go. um to that side.

Uh my question is specifically about if you're heading west on PCEL's at Jefferson at that stoplight, there is a left turn lane. Can you make a Uturn on PCEL's back to go head east? I think that would be possible, but that would be a very tight U-turn to do it. When we had talked about it, one of the options would be to make a right turn, come up through development to get onto Jefferson to come back down to go in. But I Yeah, you have four lanes of travel in there. So certainly you could make a U-turn based on what vehicle you have. It would be debate of how easy it is.

Like you have to go out into the intersection or something, but it's not going to be marked. No U-turn. That I can't answer. Susan Berry, city traffic engineer. Hasn't really been determined yet. We haven't seen the the construction plans for that, but it's very tight. I think we would possibly allow it until we see problems. But if we see trucks trying to make that U-turn, it's going to be marked no U-turn.

Okay. And then like the same question like heading east on PCEL's at the intersection of 291 that looks like it's pretty tight to make a if you were in the further north left turn lane to Uturn back to head west on parcels. That's pretty tight right there. I agree. But that is a mod intersection, but it is very tight. And so we don't [clears throat] know what MOD dot is going to allow there. No. Will we know when they're constructing it before they construct it? Like not us personally, but

Well, I think we'll we will pass the plans along to MDOT to review before we give approval for construction. I just think the residents and the businesses over there is going to be curious about that. So, okay. Thank you. I did get to ask you a question tonight. Thank you, Commissioner Jana Ford. Thank you. Um, so a couple questions. I believe it might be for you, Mr. Schlick. Um, but I see the trash enclosure on the center north side of the site. Yeah.

Um, I didn't see any elevations for that. What does the enclosure look like? How is it hidden? Um, and then when is it going to be used via like trash trucks? Are they plan on coming on off hours?

Yeah. So, so the the trash enclosure, um, it'll be a standard similar materials to the building, whether they use ephus or the same kind of colors of materials, whether it be stone. I'm not sure how they'll finish the outside of it. It will be landscaped around the exterior to start to shield it. The idea of the location is that a trash truck would be able to come in, come through the culde-sac, come back, load, and leave since it's a private street. And then Dutch Bros operationally, I think, would be the ones that would be better to answer of timing, but I would expect most like most of those uh uses, they'll time them off peak of what they're doing, their work on that side. So,

okay. Thank you. Um, and then there's this large swath of land on the west side of the proposed building. Is there any anticipated idea of like tables, chairs, something like that, or is it just going to be greenscape and that's it? Yeah, so it's it's just green space right now. Um grass, maybe we put some landscape plantings in there. The idea, you know, the Dutch Bros concept is more of a drive-thru versus much as a walk up kind of thing. So, the idea was to try to create as much stackable space for the cars in there. So, we pushed the facility east as far as we could, which kind of created that green space. Um, our anticipation at this point is it's probably just landscaped or manicured lawn type area.

Okay. And then the last question, um, just help me understand, you talked briefly about the trash truck coming in, the idea of it going east and then going back west to pick up the trash. Um, all these cars are stacked to exit north into the like I don't know what you call like a culde-sac. Are there going to be no parking signs and things like that? I'm just anticipating, you know, if there's overflow parking, people will park where they see they can put their car. Um, so I don't know how that's going to be facilitated or what kind of um precursor things you're going to be providing for that.

Sure. So, so Dutch Bros being primarily a drive-thru, we don't anticip anticipate a ton of parking and and walking up. However, we have provided, you know, again, five spaces are required. We've provided 23 on-site parking spaces. I don't anticipate that there'll be any no parking out on that private drive, but again, I don't anticipate also that there would be much need for um overflow parking. I don't think there's an event or a purpose that would cause anything to to get out on that site. Okay. My mind was thinking more of what the future development may be up on the north side. So, the north side is um an existing use. It's um a masonry shop that exists and is going to stay there in that location. And that's the termination of the roadway. That drive is that point is actually just a drive to their facility.

Okay. Yep. Well, that helps tell the story. Thank you. Y that's all. Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Tazenski. Yes. Just have one question for Hector, please. Hector, can you pull up the signing plan again? The building signing plan. I think we approved four signs, but if I count three out of the four sides of the building, there's five signs shown on this on this uh exhibit here. So, they're only allowed to do four, and you're not telling them which four to do, but I just want to make sure that they're showing five, but we're only allowing four. Right.

Right. They are showing five. We're only allowing our recommendation, I'll say it that way. Our recommendation is that only four be allowed. Now what like they said what for and where they go that's we'll let them decide but they'll be our recommendation is allowing maximum of four. Now with this exhibit, are they asking for five? I mean, do they want the additional sign or is this just this is is and also is the one on Chipman does it have the five signs like they have shown here? The one on Chipman has three just three only.

Just three. Um they they may desire a fourth or more than what they have now, but when that one was developed, they chose to just comply with a maximum allowance of of three. this one as since they're specifically coming forward with this application for the development of of this specific site, they they started out with six, then the the revised plan showed five. Um, again, staff expressed based on past presidents or recommendation for four. Um, and their understanding of that they've not pushed back on on the four on the recommendation for four.

Well, I'm going to ask our resident expert, uh, Commissioner Trafton, to weigh in on this. Um, between the little windmill sign and the desperator sign, I I don't really find I I it doesn't look bad to me to have five signs here. Um, what are your thoughts on that since I know this is a topic that you frequently love to chat about? He would probably need to wait and do that during comment time unless [clears throat] this helps answer If

I understand correctly, Commissioner Tiski is asking Commissioner Trafton to weigh in on the sign package. Yeah. Um, so that would be new testimony, so it probably be appropriate here. Okay.

Um, thank you, Commissioner Tazinski, for the opportunity to speak. [laughter] Um, I actually am not, you know, I I'm indifferent about it, honestly. I mean, I agree with you. Like, I don't I don't think the windmill is that intrusive to the sign package. Um, you know, but I also understand what staff are, you know, balancing the UDO and trying to also meet the expectations of developers and the community. Um, we do make a lot of exceptions to the sign package and there's exceptions in the city that, you know, are we could talk about further, but won't um but yeah, no, I'm okay with it either way.

Okay. And I guess really Hector, that was my question or my question comment to you was from the way they have it shown on the buildings to me it looks really nice. And so if they came back, you know, and and wanted to take it to the council to ask for the fifth sign, you know, and I guess this could be for more public testimony next, but I'd say I'd probably approve that. I'd be okay with it. Um, but that's really what my question was. Thank you, Madam Chairman. Back to you. Okay. Any more questions from the commission?

Did the applicant have anything to add to any of our questions? I'll I'll only add to the sign conversation on that side of it is that as Hector said, we started at six. Three was what was allowed. Dutch Bros would love five. Hector said he felt comfortable with four. So that's kind of how we agreed and we didn't need a new drawing of it. So we're happy with four. We'd love five, but it's not a big deal. We appreciate staff working with us to get to four. So that's kind of how it got to that side of but Dutch Bros did request five at the last time we asked. Okay. Thank you. All right. Hearing no further testimony, I will close public hearing and reopen. No, you

Oh, I'm sorry. I skipped my line here. [clears throat] Okay. So, do we have any public comments on this? Come to the microphone and state your name and address for the record. was running a little bit late.

I apologize for that. I lost my place.

That's okay. Um Debbie Giddings, um I was the lone citizen that came to the public neighborhood meeting. Um I learned about this when I started getting interested in East. Um Dutch Brothers does have a coffee shop which was approved on the north section. The issue is that there was not done a traffic study with this high impact of traffic at this intersection. So there's already just one through lane to the west and one left turn lane. Eventually they're going to require two left turns. With a median construction, doesn't it make sense to go ahead and put two left turns in with the median being constructed? Also, the right turn lane into that area is coming off of the one lane that is going to go west. Why not go ahead and make the right lane double lane and put a full right turn lane in for traffic coming off of 291 or turning left off of 291 going north. Um, all of this makes more sense to do it at one time rather than coming back. at the council meeting last night approve or two nights ago uh when they approved the east they talked about that every interchange in this area will have a double left-hand turn lane. So there's going to be a double left-hand turn lane turning west there. Either those cars are going to have to go straight or they're going to have to go right. How is a double lane going to be accommodated turning left off of 291 eventually when they hold the the necessity to have all the let's do the construction all at once, not phase it

in. The citizens are tired of construction on Oldm Road. They've had a lot of traffic issues getting around that uh area trying to fix a traffic problem with the staff after this is approved. Even though staff has concerns about the stacking of Dutch Brothers of the queuing getting into Casey's and the people wanting to go through to Dutch Brothers and then turning in and then everybody comes out on that private drive to either get to the intersection to turn left and right and then you're going to have cars coming off of Jefferson that are going to be coming from the north going south to get either to Dutch Brothers or to Casey's. It's just going to be a roundabout, only a larger one with traffic getting in each other's way. Especially, they were concerned about queuing at the AM peak hour at the coffee shop. Well, that's when people are going to want to get gas, too. So, the median is a big concern. Um, I'm the one that raised that issue because that's my post office and it's the majority post office for everything from downtown even Chipman Road unless you want to go to the little one up in Coburn Road. That's it. And so all of those businesses, there's a vet, a public or a physical therapist. All of those businesses, even probably Philip 66, are going to go out of business or they're going to have their business affected by people complaining about how they had to get there. Um, the traffic in the whole area is a mess and I hope you address the concerns that I have. Thank you.

Thank you. Does anyone else want to speak in support or opposition of this application? Any additional questions from the commission? Did you have a response to the applicant or to the um I forgot your name? Debbie. Debbie regarding her. Gibbings. Mrs. Gibbings.

Um I think the the only comments I'd have um the dual left turn is getting built at this time. That's part of the Olden Village construction that will happen. um the stacking and queuing conversation. I think that we've handled that as far as um you know, like I said, we've showed you what staff requires or what UDO requires and how we've exceeded it both on the the stacking and queuing and the parking side of it. So, I think we've handled both of those. Um, additionally, those are all on private drives that are on that side of it. So, I think we have some accommodations we can maneuver around to get if it became a problem. We showed that on Dutch Bros. we could add some additional stacking in the area. I think we have some future plans should there become a problem, but currently traffic state doesn't illustrate that there will be. So, okay. Thank you.

Hearing no further testimony, I will close the public hearing and reopen the regular meeting. Is there any commission discussion on this application? I see none. So, I would entertain a motion at this time. Madam Chairman, I move to recommend approval of application number PL2025-276, preliminary development plan, Dutch Brothers, 10 Southwest Purscells Road, Engineering Solutions LLC applicant. Can I get a second? Second. I have a first and two seconds. So, can I get a roll call vote, please? Ed Yarrington, yes. Sherry Frasier,

yes. Terry Trafton, yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya John Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes. All right, the motion has passed and I will now close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in the matter of PL2025-7338 Preliminary Development Plan Less Schwab Center Tire Center 740 Northwest Ward Road SFP LLC applicant. If everyone would stand up at this time and be sworn in, if you plan to give testimony on behalf of this application, you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help your God.

Does the applicant have a presentation? You would state your name and address for the record, please.

Yes. Uh Dan McGee, Lampine, 911 State Line Road, Sweet 200, Kansas City, Missouri. Let's see. All right. So, the pros projects at 740 Northwest Ward Road. Um, this is part of a three lot uh preliminary development plan. This is the northern lot. Uh, to the southwest uh there's an Andes frozen custard that's been constructed and is in operation. There's a Valvalene oil change that had been uh submitted and approved uh for preliminary development plan to the southeast. And this is the the third and final lot of this development. Uh the Lehwab Tiger Center lot. Uh this is a current aerial. So you can kind of see the connectivity and everything uh that is there. Uh so we are requesting for approval of this revised preliminary development plan to support the the Lehwab Tire Center. As far as who is Les Schwab, so Leswab has been in business over 70 years. Uh founded in central Oregon, have more than 607 stores. Uh they're currently doing an expansion into the Midwest. Uh they've been adding stores in the upper Midwest and uh currently are working on projects in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Um they have over nearly 9,000 employees and they do a promote from within as as part of their model. So each uh employee before you have a store manager, they have to work two years at each position within the store. Um, so they're very conscious of that and want

to really have their uh their culture uh part of their business and that also drives how many stores they open um just to see how many store managers they have uh that are available. Um they also have a generous uh you know profit sharing within their company as well as far as list of course services. So it's basically uh your tire related services and similar type services that can be completed in two hours or less. Uh so uh tires are key. Uh can include brakes, wheels, some oil changes. Um customers kind of expect to be able to get an oil change when you get your tires, things like that. So they do include that as well. Uh hours are typical hours are 8 to 6 uh Monday through Friday and then on Saturdays it's 8 to 5. Um they also invest in communities. So they they sponsor a lot of sporting events and uh also do a lot of nonprofit type uh uh benefits, toy drives, food drives, similar. Uh as far as the proposed development plan, so this this is showing the site plan uh to the right. Uh building's oriented, so it it backs up uh Trilogy apartments are are to the north. Uh there's a shared access that's coming in uh off of Ward Road goes through the site. That's how you get access to the future Valvaline and the existing Andy's Frozen Custard. Uh we have 50 parking spaces uh shown on here. I believe 18's required by code. Um there's some existing parking spaces that are constructed on this site uh that Andy's is utilizing. uh less we're reconfiguring those parking spaces to work better for traffic flow and and try to minimize uh vehicles that might be pulling out into that shared drive aisle. So, uh that cross access parking is still going to be allowed and permitted. So, that's that's part of the reason for the parking is make sure there's enough here for for all the uses. Um as far as the building

orientation goes, the the showroom or the customer entrance is on the east side uh towards Ward Road. Uh there's six service bays with this store. Like I said, facing south and then the west end of the building is the kind of the back of house uh side of the building. Um that's we have a little bit of concrete to the west side and that's where when tires come in, things like that, deliveries, that's where they're temporarily, you know, unloaded and then brought into the building. Um we do have pedestrian connectivity. So going to the east, uh we have the accessible route to rideway. Um and then on the west side of the building, uh we are providing a a sidewalk connection to to to kind of get and connect up to the the apartments. Uh in the existing condition, there's a private uh drive stub that terminates at the property line to the west of the Lushwa building. So, working with staff, uh we didn't want the connectivity from for the drive aisle there. Uh there's a safety concern with obviously unloading and operations for a business and then having just you know um the public or anybody drive through a drive aisle you know right next to that area. So uh a connection was desired. So uh the discussion was to provide a a sidewalk in lie of that uh vehicular connection. Uh so we're also providing a little bit more landscaping there to help with that area. Uh these are some perspective views. Um, I guess in light in the in light of the previous application, we would note that we are showing five signs uh with these drawing as well. So, I don't believe that's a current uh modification request, but I guess we would bring that up for discussion here tonight as well as far as uh what what may be permitted on this project. So, you can see the the bottom views, the southeast views. So, this is looking from like Ward Road if you're looking at the project. Um we we are meeting the the the newest uh architectural design standards um with a modification that we'll discuss here in

a moment. Um so it's got a lot of uh clear glass facing Ward Road and then the top view this is kind of like if you were back on the private street kind of looking back maybe from the SE summit technology campus uh looking at the store that's what you would see that on that side. Uh these are the elevations. we kind of break that down just kind of a different way to look at it, but um got all the material breakdowns and and materials there. Um I would note the proposed we don't have a picture of it in here, but the proposed trash enclosure is CMU uh split face, so materials so it complement the building and and meet criteria. Uh as far as materials, this is uh it's a variety of like pre-cast concrete panels, different types of finishes and textures. Uh I should note we do have uh Jill Lions with BR Architecture here that can speak to any if there's any questions or comments about uh the building architecture. Uh so we have a couple uh UDO modification request. Uh so we are meeting the the fistration requirements on the east side uh where we got the glass and that's where the customers will be. The the way the code reads is we're supposed to provide it on any public or private street. So technically the road to the west is a private street. um that is the back of house side of this proposed uh building. So there's a concern with obviously opening that up of what you see if you see into the building. There's more of a concern of operations if you accidentally break the glass with equipment or something because you're operating machinery and things like that. And we're really not wanting to promote a whole bunch of pedestrian activity over there. We are providing the sidewalk to to meet a little bit of access that staff requested, but that's why we're also looking at landscaping to try to screen that a little bit better and and really, you know, take the interest off that side of the building. Uh that also is where the trash enclosure is proposed, kind of the northwest corner on the site.

And then the the second uh UDO modification request is in regards to the maximum light pole height. So the code requirement requires a 15t maximum pole height. if you're within 100 ft of res residentially zoned property or residentially a residential use. So the Trilogy Apartments to the north is a residential use. Uh their plan was permitted and constructed using 20 foot tall parking lot light poles. Um the development so far is using 18t light poles. Uh therefore our request as opposed to staggering and using different light pole heights across the site is to just go ahead and use 18 foot tall light poles. um we'll still meet the foot candle requirements at the residential property line to to meet that standard. And then I guess lastly, we would add uh add a request on on how many uh wall signs we could be allowed to have on this project. With that, Okay. Adar Bright, Senior Planner, I'd like to enter into the record exhibit A, list of exhibits 1 through 14.

Exhibit A 1 through 14, noted and entered into the record. The applicant is requesting approval of a preliminary development plan for the development of a Lushwab tire center at 740 Northwest Ward Road. There are two modifications being requested and staff analysis will be provided later on in this presentation. The subject property is zoned PMIX which is our plan mixeduse district and that was established in 1999. The PUMIX zoning does mean that the allowed land use is dependent upon the proposed and approved plan along with other site standards such as setbacks, density, height, etc. The property to the north contains the Trilogy apartments and the property to the south includes Andes and then a recently approved Valvaline oil change. To the west across northwest outerview road is the summit technology campus and to the east across northwest ward road are various commercial pad sites. The proposed land use is compatible with the commercial uses and the higher intensity residential use surrounding this property. The future land use map designates the subject property as being within the summit activity center and the activity center includes a range of commercial, industrial and residential options. The center is intended to develop as a walkable mixeduse collection of nodes and the proposed development does not substantially conflict with the activity center designation. The PDP that was approved in 2022 for Summit Orchards West included the subject property and showed it as being retail res or commercial and the PDP is before you this evening. Um that is being required because the proposed architecture is substantially different

than what was approved in a in 2022 which is shown here on the slide. The proposed building will be 8,600 square feet and there are 50 proposed parking stalls, six of the six of which will be the bays themselves. Uh those parking stalls will also work as part of the shared parking for this development. There is the proposed sidewalk along the western side of the property which will connect to the existing stub from the Trilogy apartments and provide that pedestrian connectivity. The neighborhood meeting was held on November 5th and there were zero members of the public who had attended that. The elevations were reviewed under the recently adopted architecture and building design requirements. The UDO requires that primary facades, which are those facing public or private streets, contain three different class one, two, one or two building materials comprising at least half of that facade. The applicant is proposing the smooth pre-cast concrete, aggregate pre-cast concrete and synthetic stone and clear glass to meet those requirements. The secondary facads which would be the north and south in this case are required to contain three different class one, two or three materials which are being met by the previously mentioned materials. There are also requirements for building and roof articulations along with covered entries and all articulation and covered entry requirements are being met through this development. The applicant is requesting approval of a modification to allow the western facade to contain 0% glass within the pedestrian view zone. That pedestrian view zone is defined as the 8ft tall area of the primary facade that is between 2 and 10 feet adjacent to the sidewalk or ground level. The intent behind this code requirement is to

create a storefront and have the design of the building be geared towards pedestrians. Staff is supportive of the proposed request because the storefront on the subject building is in that southeast corner which is where the customers will actually be entering the facility and the applicant has provided an ample amount of clear glass in that area to signify that that is the pedestrian area. The applicant is also requesting a modification to allow the parking lot light poles to be 18 ft tall. The UDO does limit light fixtures to 15 feet tall when within 100 ft of a residential use and/or district. Staff is supportive of the request because the intent is to reduce the amount of spillover onto adjacent properties and the applicant is still going to meet that maximum spillover requirement. Also, the Trilogy apartments just to the north have those 20 foot tall light poles. So, the three-foot height increase is not expected to negatively impact those residents. staff did not review the proposed sign modification as part of this package. Um, we can probably take a minute and talk that over if we would need to, but with the conditions of approval here on the screen, the application would meet the goals of the UDO and the Ignite comprehensive plan. So with regards to the the sign request, staff is not prepared uh to speak to that at this time. Um what we could do is continue the application to have us time to so we could review that and see what exactly they are proposing. Um so we could formulate an opinion on that with regards to support number signs, size of signs, location of signs. Um or the um option other option would be to move forward as is. Um we do have the sign application process that is could be t undertaken separately as a separate application. Um the applicant applicant

could make that request and come before you for that sign application that it's by separate application as well. So couple different routes. Um we could talk to the applicant to see which way they would want to go with that. Would you like to speak with the applicant? We could take a short recess and talk about see what how the like to approach that. Okay, we'll take a 10-minute recess. Yep.

Ever wondered how the city budget works? The total 2026 budget is over $380 million, which includes funding for daily operations, capital improvements, debt service, internal service, and enterprise operations. For example, the general fund is the foundation for the city's day-to-day services and investments like road maintenance, public safety, and fire protection. The general fund is supported by property taxes, sales taxes generated by local businesses, franchise taxes, and other sources like licenses, permits, and fees. For every dollar citizens pay in property tax, the city receives 18. This means the city receives $845 a year in property taxes for a median single family house. These taxes provide public safety, park maintenance, infrastructure, and the best services to keep Lee Summit going and improving. One of the community's top priorities is infrastructure investment, which is reflected in the capital improvement plan. $113 million of the 2026 budget is invested into the capital improvement plan. The 2026 capital improvement budget includes investments like the 291 and50 highway interchange, third street, warden, and purseles intersection, and prior road. The budget process includes guidance from the city council, citizen input, and critical success factors from the city's Ignite strategic plan. To learn more about the city's budget, visit city of ls.net/budget. When the person called on the phone, she said that uh that there was a dinosaur walking down her road. [music] Of course, we had to go out check that out. We get out there and it was a big African tortoise, probably 60 lbs, walking down the road. When they walk, they really stand up tall. So, I could see why she thought it was a dinosaur. I'm Rodney Wagner. I'm the manager of Leisum Animal Control. So, as you can see, we get all sorts of animals here.

You got has some guinea pigs off to the side. All the windows up here are animals that are adoptable right now. Every one of these dogs is ready to go and ready for adoption. And the same thing with our cats over here. A lot of cool cats in here now. So, so this is our 3acre lot we have out back and this is where we do all the walking of dogs exercise. We also have a sideyard off to the side over there so we can let them run loose. They can run together and we have what's called playgroups. Kind of like having a bunch of kids.

Here's our our vet room. We have a vet comes out twice a week. This is our sally port where we bring the animals into. This is one of our animal control trucks and we can hold up to six animals. We have a lift on the other side to put big animals in. We actually have temperature gauges in here and in the truck to tell us how hot it is. Once it gets to a certain temperature, we bring all the animals back here immediately. So, this actually has traps in it, but we do a lot of wildlife trapping. I mean, a lot. So, bats, pot belly pigs, horses, cows, emus, a lot of reptiles. We had a a citizen one time that had over 200 reptiles in his basement. Cayman's and alligators in here that are four or five ft long. You can't keep those. And people do, and they're surprised when they can't keep them. I'm like, really? You're surprised you can't have an alligator in

your house. [laughter]

Our main goal here is public safety and also the safety of the animals. And we have very dedicated people back there and they definitely stay here for the love of the animals, which also includes getting them adopted out. We'll have about uh 4,000 impounded animals a year. Probably about close to 2,000 are dogs and cats. the cats and dogs when they get impounded here, they go on a five-day hold and then after the five days, if the owner doesn't show up, then we can put them up for adoption. Adopt the animal here is actually really simple. You just come in, look what forever animal you're looking for, find the right pick. You have you go to the adoption room up there and see if you get along with them. You spend as much time as you want to in there. From that point on, it's just a matter of uh making sure they're spay or neutered and all their vaccinations up to par and they're good to go. We have a very high adoption rate because we try everything in our power to get animals adopted out. We have Harve America Humane Society that we do a lot of adoptions through. And then we also have other groups. We have some people that literally will just look all over the country for somewhere for a dog to go and we [music] sent dogs up into South Dakota, North Dakota, Washington State. So, it's actually it it's a huge united effort to get all these animals home.

Tarzan's got lots of energy. Hazel's got a weird bell. She wants nothing to do with the other cats. She'll kind of get her grumpy face going.

And the good thing about the people here is that they get all their friends to get animals, too. All of us have probably the limit of all the animals that we can have at home. You know, they are huge animal lovers. If it was up to the people here, we'd have 15 cats running around in here. We had a citizen one time out there and he was bathing his two uh 9 foot long boa constrictors in the front yard. Apparently I was I was garnering some some attention and so we went out there and had to talk to him about that. Why do I do this job? Oh dude, I love this job. I grew up on a farm and taking care of that many animals, you can't help but like animals. This is just like fancy farming, [laughter] you know? You're just bringing animals in here, taking care of them and and find them homes and uh yeah, absolutely animal lover.

This is the best place to work. I love working [music] here. I feel very blessed. I love it here. I look forward to coming to work every day, being a part of this team. Like a family away from home where everyone feels [music] like everybody knows their name. A city that supports you. We see that with our benefits. [music] A pension, vacation days, job security, being able to be heard. We feel valued. [music] We feel respected. Lee Summit is a very progressive city. It's growing. It's thriving. We have this drive towards not just doing a job, but doing it with a spirit of excellence. I had the opportunity [music] to continue to grow regardless of 30 plus years doing this kind of work. It's more than just dollars and cents. We're here really to give back.

Providing a service [music] to better a community to go out and serve people

to be a part of something bigger than yourself. If I would have known what I know now, years ago, I would have been here much sooner. [music] Traditionally, we think as [music] police officers those responding to law enforcement needs within the community, but honestly, we are there [music] to serve our citizens and our citizens do go into crisis. They do have mental health crises and we're being called to those scenes on a regular basis. In order to help serve those citizens [music] better, we did initiate the crisis intervention team program. These are officers that are specially trained to deescalate crisis situations. Recently, we've [music] brought co-responders onto the scene, licensed qualified mental health professionals housed within our police department, and they respond with those officers directly to those scenes where [music] a crisis is occurring, so they can interact with that citizen and get them the help they need right there on that scene. The co-responders are either a bachelor or master level in a [music] behavioral health related field. They wear plain clothes. They don't carry weapons or anything like that. I have a police radio that I listen to [music] all day. Listen for, you know, those key words, mental health, behavioral health, crisis.

There's a lot of officers that just call [music] for me. I have my own radio number. I also have the ability to self-dispatch to them and say 982 is in route. officers in route 914. [music] So, typically I arrive after they've made it safe. I'll make contact and get kind of the rundown and then I just kind of jump right in like, "Hey, you know, my name's Alison. I'm a mental health professional. I'm here to help you. I'm not here to take you to jail or arrest you."

Sometimes all a person needs is a voice, someone neutral, someone outside that, you know, can listen. I do a lot of safety planning, including family, their support network, who's close to you. Can some if they're home alone, who can come over and hang out with you today? Can we lock away your sharps? Can we put up your meds? Do you need meds? Can we get you over to the urgent care to get you assessed for your medications? Some of them also are like, "Oh, I'm so glad you came. This made me feel so much better." Our main goal as co-responders is to one get people connected to the services that they need and also divert [music] from emergency rooms and jails.

And they almost get a different view of the police responding. That lets me know you care and the officers care. Please, how can we help you? My husband. In 2020, we had 722 mental health related calls for service. 2022 by that time, 1479. These mental health related calls for service are [music] increasing. How we're responding to that is increasing the number of crisis intervention team officers we have available as well as the number of co-responders [music] we have available to respond on these calls.

So what I think is important for the community to know about the co-responder program is that we're here. [music] We exist. All you have to do when you call 911 is ask for us. You know say hey I want a co-responder [music] to respond to this this crisis and we'll go. I was really struggling about eight years [music] ago on my personal journey with mental health and I met some amazing social workers and amazing programs that have helped me get to where I am today. [music] I really couldn't see myself doing anything else. We want to help and that's that's what we love to do. So I had a [music] client we got a call she had some suicidal ideations and she really felt that she had nobody and you know and getting to know her story and getting to know [music] who comes around and sees you. Well, then we found a support person and they responded immediately and we made a plan. I [music] called back and checked on her in an hour and then I checked on her on two hours. We were able to get her into additional services to where she talks to [music] someone every week or more. I just applicant come to a decision about what you want to do.

Yes. uh we will want to proceed with it as is and we'll resend the request to discuss the signage or amend any of that at this time and uh go through process to uh submit a sign request at the appropriate time. Okay, thank you. Do we have any questions for the staff or applicant? Mr. Yearington, [laughter] did you present a um a landscape plan to to this property. I don't recall landscape plan. Okay. So, the tra where can you zoom away that the trash over over here to the right? It's all the way up.

Oh, it's right there. Okay. And is is that guarded by [clears throat and snorts] uh evergreens or So, they'll have their actual trash enclosure and then we'll look more in depth at the landscaping once the FDP comes through. We will look at fully screening that with any kind of evergreens, but we do have a mix of evergreens and deciduous trees along the perimeter.

Did you say you have evergreen trees around the perimeter? Yeah. So, we have a mixture of evergreens and deciduous, which are just our shade trees. Larger ones are the shade. I think these ones here are the evergreens. Oh, yeah. I don't see any behind the building towards the apartments. I just see those big three big trees. Mhm. I guess my concern is like the apartments are going to that's parking to the apartments and those apartments like look at the back of that building and that there's nothing to screen the building.

Yeah, we can see if the applicant would be interested in um introducing any more evergreens or screening back there. Since it is PMIX to PMIX, we don't have specific buffering requirements between the two. Yeah, I just think it should be explored further. Um I mean I'm and this isn't comment section, but my that's my concern is that there's not enough screening. I would note too um that this plan right now is just showing the proposed landscaping within this lot. We're not showing existing landscaping. So, I believe there's there's existing trees and landscaping just just to the north there on the other side there. So, when we do come through with the final development plan, Smitt will show uh their landscaping as well. So, I think there is a number of trees that are in this green space before you get to their parking lot.

In addition to that, I would Jill Lions Brch. Um, I would just also remind you that we we changed the back of that building to have the undulation of the building and the and the materials required too to make that um side of the building more attractive to look at. So hopefully we're not trying to hide the building that we just changed all the materials on. Thank you. Did you have additional questions, Commissioner Trafton?

Uh, do I have additional questions about that? No, I think I've asked that question. Um, my other question is related to speaking to the residents. I know you had a public hearing and that nobody from the apartments showed up is my understanding, but like I just concerned about the like input about if people even know what's happening over there and do they want a car tire place right next to their apartment. So, I guess that's my question is like how was it just the public hearing? So, we met the requirement but we didn't reach out to the developer of the apartment complex or whatever. Did you were you guys able to contact anybody over there?

Uh, we did submit the the notifications through the required process, the certified mailings uh to all the property owners. So, a notice did go to the the property owner for the apartments. So, did it go to each apartment or just to the owner? The the owner of the property is is who it goes to. Oh, okay. We don't we don't require it be sent to each apartment occupant of each dwelling unit. And it is to the property owner. That's what they done. The they've done um the people who do rent those. I would just add they're not permanent stakeholders in this area. So,

well, they are stakeholders though. They and they were living there for sure and if the apartment complex owner had wished to share that information they could have but well I think that's the key apartment owner doesn't live there so he owns the building I mean I know we go above and beyond for notification so I just was you know this is um a special it seems like a special circumstance and butts to the property with apartments and there's lots of people over there but um okay I think you answered my question thank you

so commissioner traffic to kind of also touch on that we do post the site as well so that is a visual notification to all the residents uh whether they're notified by mail um the original PDP for this area um approved this as a holistic uh mixed use so it was always going to be residential abuing to commercial u commercial use as well so um that was the original PDP prior to any residents moving in there. So, it was always the expectation that there would be commercial against the uh residential there. Does is anybody having trouble hearing? It seems like the volume is down on yours seems to be low. Shannon, it could be me cuz I I talk. Okay, there we go. That's better. Oh, get on the mic.

That's my fault. Okay. I'm um I have a question for the applicant. Um, regarding noise, um, do you have ways of making sure that there isn't an excessive amount of noise when you are in operation? Would you speak to that?

Uh, well, we are aware that there is the the noise ordinance for uh, Lee Summit. The door, you know, operations must occur with the doors closed. Uh, so aware of that. So that would obviously help uh with with the services that occur at the store as well. Um I know historically they have done noise studies. The orientation of this it's projecting south. So it's it's away from the residential towards other commercial and just the distance that it takes to get you know to Chipman or or other properties south of Chipman is a is a great distance. So um there's I guess there's a limited concern for noise is what I would say. And then if obviously if there's an issue that's something that city could you know provide a co code enforcement or or coordinate with the with the company on that.

Okay. No residents participated in the neighborhood meeting so it didn't come up. And then I think maybe Andes would be the one closest but they didn't show up either. So I I was just curious. Commissioner Jana Ford. Thank you, chair. Um, another question for you, Mr. Applicant. Um, so tires and oil centers, they have technically hazardous waste. Um, how is that being disposed of? How is it being stored? How's it being hauled off site? What does that look like?

Uh, so they they have uh weekly um trucks that come and service their stores. Uh, so for any like tires, uh, uh, those will get picked up and be recycled. Uh, same thing with any kind of fluids, uh, those would be stored inside the facility. Uh there's no external storage on this site. Everything's within the building. Um so those will be contracted out to be appropriately recycled and or disposed as appropriate. Okay. So clarification, none of it's going to be stored on the site inside the building only. That's correct. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Tuzinski.

No additional comments. All right. Do we have anyone who wishes to speak in support or opposition of this application? All right. Comment whenever we get there. Okay. And I'm we well I hear no hearing no further testimony. I'm going to close the public hearing and reopen for regular meeting. And I believe that Commissioner Jana Ford has a comment.

Just one, I do appreciate that you um presented your interest in outreach, like community outreach. I really appreciated that. Thank you, Commissioner Tuzinski.

Yeah, Madam Chairman. Uh, I do appreciate uh, you know, Commissioner Trafton's uh, want to improve the landscaping such around buildings. But in essence, I really appreciated what the the architect for the for the uh, proposed development had stated about how they improved the outside of the building to meet the code to make it look really nice. and then, you know, then us potentially asking for more things to screen it. So, um I would not be in support of adding an additional uh screening above and beyond what's already been asked for on the site and as well as what the architect and the the business owner has agreed to construct. I think it's a nice looking building. I'm glad it meets a lot of our new requirements. Um I understand why that they don't want glass on that one side. I think they've done some things. I feel okay about that. I I don't know if we really need to include class on that one side. I wish it could be maybe a little higher, but I think that's not doesn't meet the whole idea of it within the first 10 ft, right? So, um I'm okay with that part of it. Um I I guess that we're going to live with the three signs for the building for the UDO unless you bring something else in front of us because I guess that's what they're bound to live with. Um, I think that's something that, you know, the engineer needs to ask for next time or at least come by and negotiate that. Um, I didn't believe the signing was really obtrusive. It it didn't look out of place. It looked nice for the size of the building. I didn't think it was a ton of it. So, if if you would have asked if five sides, I probably would have been okay with that. So, uh, lessons learned. Maybe come back again or ask city council for that. Um, but otherwise I do appreciate new companies wanting to come into the

Lee Summit community. They're not here now. They want to be here. Um, and I appreciate that very much because they're bringing in a nice building, too. Um, so I wish them the best of luck. I hope it gets approved. And, uh, that's my comments. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Tisinski. Commissioner Frasier. I also appreciate bringing in new uh different types of businesses. One of the things I did not ask is um about what I'm going to call a staffing plan. Um you know new I can't see them here. new uh [laughter] new uh you know the number of of of employees and and you know we have a a couple of local um uh colleges here that I know train and have have programs that specialize in auto mechanics and that sort of thing. So I would just kind of put a bug in your ear that maybe you could go and recruit in that particular area. But um I also appreciate and recognize that you know you've got competition on on what the south side of your parking lot there but then also recognize that Andy's is over there too. So again thanks for coming and I wish you the best of luck and all be in support.

Thank you Commissioner Frasier Commissioner Trafton.

Yes. Um I I too appreciate that you're bringing in new business into this community. I think it's awesome. I think it'll be nice to see another tire a different type of tire store. And I love the fact that you added the undulation and all the different views of the building. Um I think it's a nice looking it's going to be the nicest looking tire store in Lee Summit. So thank you guys for that. Um now we'll have to step up the standards of for other people to maybe up their game. But um you know I don't you know I don't know that we need a sign on the north side of that building facing the apartment complex. The apartments are going to know that tire store is there. There's plenty of signage on that building. Um you know I am supportive of this. I don't I'm not in support of that sign on the north side. So you know staff they do a marvelous job of trying to stick with the UDO. So, I appreciate their efforts. Um, and I don't think some evergreen trees on the north side is going to like disparage the nice looking north side of that building. I'm looking at it right now. So, um, you know, trees of all kinds. I just think we need more of them in the community. So, uh, I don't think it would hurt to have a few evergreens on that north side. So, um, but I will still be supporting this application to move forward for recommendations. So, thank you.

I I will say I do appreciate you coming to us and I appreciate your willingness to work within the community. That's really important. And the building looks very nice. I will say though that Valvalene came to us. I it's been a little bit. I didn't think it was a good fit for the area quite honestly because of the restaurants around there and I didn't have a problem with the building at all. I just didn't think it was a great fit. I somewhat think this with yours but at the same time Valvaline's there and it now blends with what we've already started. So I would say I I will be in support of it. I do appreciate that you are making an effort to be a good neighbor in the community before you even get started. So, any more comments from the commission? All right. If we have no further, then I would entertain a motion at this time. Chair,

I um make a motion to recommend application PL2025 277 Preliminary Development Plan, Liswab Tire Center, 740 Northwest Ward Road, SFP LLC applicant. I second the approval motion. All right, we have a motion and a second. Can we get a roll call vote? Ed Yarrington, yes. Sherry Frasier, yes. Terry Trafton, yes. Dana Arth, yes. Tanya Jonah Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes.

Okay, the motion has passed. Thank you very much. I'll now close the regular meeting and open the public hearing in the matter of PL 20 PL 2025-275 reszoning from PI to P from oh yeah PI to PMIX and preliminary development plan East Village phase 2 approximately 50 acres generally located at the southeast corner of M291 highway way and Southeast Bailey Road, East Village Investors LLC. Would all of those interested in speaking to this matter please rise and be sworn in at this time?

You promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So, help you guys. And I see that the applicant does have a presentation. Ready? I am ready.

All right. Matt Sliss, Injuring Solutions, 50 Southeast 30th Street, Lee Summit, Missouri. Uh, with me I have Dave Olsen and now Matt Pennington from Drake. So, we have more people to answer questions should you have any. So, we're coming now. Um, it's probably a month ago or so we were here on the East Village phase 1, which is everything north of Bailey, east of 291, and now we're going to step south of Bailey, east of 291. So, um, basically just the the pieces that were hatched out in that last uh, presentation. So, this development will consist of nine mixed use lots with a a mixture of commercial spaces being retail spaces, sit-down restaurants, drive-through restaurants. There'll be one apartment, a town home area, and then a recreational space um in the center to be kind of a community space similar to what we had on the north side. Again, this one has the continuation of some of the traffic improvements that will include a traffic signal being installed on uh Bailey 291 road improvements. That'll be an extension down um of the intersections at Bailey at Oldm and further south. Uh there'll be road improvements to 16th Street, which sits on the south side of the site, currently an unimproved road that'll include curb and gutters, storm sewers, water lines, sanitary sewers, shared use trail extension. So the Matt's desire of this entire project was to have a lot of walkability, a lot of green spaces. So you'll see an illustration of the continuation of the extension of trails 10 foot wide uh connections to the city trail system. Um and then some offsite sanitary and storm improvements that'll lead south of the site um that'll lead for some opportunities for development uh and improvements to the community area uh south of our site. This is part of the envision overlay and we've worked with staff to to complement what the the desires was or were uh the ignite comp plan. This area is shown as mixed use similar to the north side. Currently the

site is zoned industrial with a little piece that is PMIX. We're proposing to make all of it a PMIX uh to match what is on the north side. So if we're looking we're on the southwest side of the site. So, it's 16th Street and 291 looking to the northnortheast um where 16th Street at that point would lead east back to some uh industrial areas, residential areas. This would be the southern boundary of our site. This then is in uh on 16th Street on Summit, I believe it is, looking north towards the Bailey Road Bridge, looking at kind of the southeast portion of our site. This then would be coming off of the Bailey Road Bridge, kind of looking back to the southwest, kind of the northeast corner of our site. Uh, as you're headed west on Bailey towards Zoetas or back towards 291. The overall development plan, as we kind of talked about, phase one was everything north of Bailey. This will consist of the nine lots numbered 14 uh to 22. Technically, 22 is our park area, but 21 is the town home areas. We'll kind of go through um each of those. And then there'll be one monument sign kind of located at the northwest corner of the site. Uh similar uses or similar um styles of the buildings and architectural characters that will continue to develop as the sites are identified as we continue through the process. Um the one you will note that we did not have in the first phase but do have in this phase now is the change in the UDO to start to identify class one and class 2 uh materials. We provided a table on there uh same mixture and use of materials that were on that first phase. We just broke out that classification. Another alternative option for um kind of a mixture of materials and uses as the buildings may develop um on the commercial retail type sites that are lots 14 through 19, which that is the sites that are directly adjacent to 291 and then the one that is in between uh

the signal and 291 on the south side of Bailey. You'll start to see that green space that starts to uh show itself there in the center of the site. The apartment facility is the one that is located on lot 20. Uh 220 units, a mixture of uh studio, onebedroom, two-bedroom, same mixture of uh materials that we had in the first phase. Uh this apartment facility will have all surface parking um surrounding the building on the east and west sides um with some additional shared kind of parking that will be available in front of the community space for the town homes. The town homes then um are a mixture of or use of kind of a brownstone type development where there'll be all more forward facing and then kind of a backloaded garage entries. So all of the front facades will open up to try to get some green spaces in there as well as have a large green space area that's kind of on the south side that will be the retention facility for the this phase of development, but it'll also have some uh use of trails. We're planning to have maybe a dock area that you could start to utilize that that retention facility as kind of a a pond space. There are 100 town home units down in that end. 300 parking spaces. Each of them will have a two-car garage with two um parking spaces in the driveway, but we only counted for three because probably uh they'll be like most people not be able to use both cars uh in the garage, but we do have additional spaces there. We have 40 off streetet parking spaces and then 90 parking spaces at the pool um for a total of about 430 parking spaces down in that town home area. As we start to talk about the continuation of the sidewalk and the trail system, as you'll see, the continuation of the city trail system that goes to the west side of 291 and then the continuation of the 10-ft trail system on either one of the roadways through the overall development. All trying to lead you to the central park area. That'll be

continuation of the trails, gazeos, some type of spaces to have some open areas to play. And then the trails will continue their way to the east into the town homes. and then sidewalks will be installed along 16th Street um to get you back around the entire walkway landscaping. Then for the overall development, we'll have our standard uh streetscape landscaping and I'll show you a detail of that as well as the exterior landscaping around um the site and then some additional landscaping on the north side of 16th Street on the south portion of our site um throughout the entire development. This is that same road section that we're planning to continue through this uh phase of development. So, there'll be kind of two sections of roadways. one that will have um two lanes with kind of a middle turn lane option and then sections that'll have two lanes with the uh median, the landscape median, the increased landscaping with the 10-ft trails on either side of all the roads to really try to promote that walkability and kind of uh break up some of that character of the parking in the areas to kind of make it a more welcoming area as we walk through the site. Phasing, again, just so we talk about it, phase one will be the Costco site. Phase two and three then will be north of Bailey and this would be our final phase four as we come down to the south portion of the site south of Bailey. Similar ideas and same conversations we had talked about previously. There's a number of improvements that are going to be done with phase one of the development. And as we start to continue down south, the mixture of uh improvements that'll be an extension of a through southbound lane on 291, improvements of a signal on Bailey, an additional lane on Bailey Road, a left turn lane on southbound Bailey will be broken up phases of development as a continuation of the process continues south. And then as we talked about the 16th Street road improvements that will take 16th Street from a interim road up to a full developed road. As we start to

look at some of the off-site improvements, the sanitary sewer that is currently listed or existing down by Thompson will be extended up through the vacant parcel to 16th Street and then extended up to the site providing sanitary service for the adjacent uh industrial buildings that currently do not have sanitary sewer. Um, so we believe that that would be a very nice thing that they were very excited about when we talked about it at the neighborhood meetings as well as the water main extension, the storm sewer, the curves and the sidewalks to really bring that entire area um of 16th Street uh up to city standards. We do have a modification or request for the parking setback same that we had in phase one and the same that we've had on Oldm Village. Um, it's the reduction in the west side of the site, the site that adjacent to the highway. The purposes of it is to go from 20 ft of setback to 10. We're still going to provide the same amount of landscaping that would be required by code, but the purposes are that the site currently has 50 to 60 ft of existing rideway out there of green space that you can see. the additional 10 ft on our site we would prefer to have control of versus um just continuing to expand that green space. But again, the landscaping that is required per the code will still be installed and we believe that the net feel will still be the same as was the intent of code. We did hold a neighborhood meeting. We had a number of residents that were there from um the buildings or the industrial buildings there on the 16th Street side of it. Um good discussion. I think a lot of them are excited and hopeful that this project will will stick. They said they've been to a number of those meetings and and are hopeful that this one with the the driver of Costco on phase one will really start to get this project moving along. And so we're hopeful as well. Uh a number of them were excited to hear about the improvements to 16th Street, the sanitary sewer, the water man, the roadway improvements, and some of the

improvements that are down in that area. Um general development project schedules and pieces of that. We kind of talked through um conversations about incentives which um are part of this project um were discussed and I think that's all the general comments that side of it. So with that we are here for any questions you may have.

Thank you Mr. Sto. Good evening. Hector Sodto Jr., senior planner. I'd like to enter into the record exhibit A, list of exhibits 1 through 20. Exhibit A 1 through 20 are entered into the record. So, just to reorient everyone to the the general area. So this application is for the southernmost 50 acres of the general area that's bounded by US50 highway on the north, 16th street on the south, up railroad on the east, and south 291 on the west. So it was just just short of a month uh two days short of a month that you did hear the preliminary development plan that was anchored by Costco for phase one which is the area north of Bailey Road. So this application now for the southernmost 50 um is for that area just south of Bailey. Um, from an overall square footage standpoint, uh, the heavy lifting of this development is carried most is really carried by the area north of of Bailey Road. The area south of Bailey Road consists of 21 a little bit more than 21,000 square feet of commercial square footage and has 320 multifamily dwelling units. Mr. mentioned that the area for the residential is broken up into two um housing types. You've got the southeastern eastern portion of the

property that is composed of 100 town home units and you've got the one larger 220 unit apartment development um basically in the middle of the site. So in addition to that preliminary development plan as Mr. had mentioned most of the property is zoned PI. There was just a little sliver of it that's zone PMIX. Uh so this application is for reszoning of the bulk of the property from industrial to PMIX um as well as the associated preliminary development plan for the overall development of the site. The proposed reszoning to PMIX is consistent with the plan mixeduse land use designation that's included in the Ignite comprehensive plan. overall the nine lots um and here I'll just kind of be somewhat kind of recapping what was already mentioned the the overall nine lots that make up this this portion does have is composed of six commercial lots two multif family residential lots and the one open open space park right in the middle of it as a site overall there's more than enough parking to satisfy the needs the projected needs for the for the uses as As currently shown, the proposed building elevations are consistent with those that were provided actually that are the same ones that were provided for uh phase one north of Bailey Road. As we said that this this application is a continuation of the area north of of Bailey. Uh these elevations are also consistent with the typical building elevations that were proposed for the Olden Village development to the west. So the material pallet includes brick, stone, ephus, wood composite for composite wood and some metal features primarily the metal primarily at this point more for the canopy features that'll provide cover for the entrances.

Uh similarly the elevations here um call out the use of brick CMU stone fiber cement on the apartments and the the town homes would be brick stone fiber cement. The I guess maybe this might be an area for I'll ask Mr. Schles after a while to maybe come up and confirm. Um, so the site plans that had been proposed that were submitted show the proposed large monument sign to be not at Bailey Road, but at the southernmost corner of the U of lot, that'd be lot 18. Um, phase one included a large monument sign here at Bailey Road and 291. So based on the plans that were submitted, um I saw that the the additional fourth monument sign to serve the overall development was actually down at the southernmost most corner to serve as more of a gateway signage for vehicles traveling north along 291 highway. Um but that's something we'll have the applicant just confirm um in a bit. uh the monumentation that's in front of you similar to what was proposed and approved for Olden Village across the highway to the west and is consistent in size and u overall size and height as those the three that were recommended for approval for the portions north of Bailey Road. So to echo the mod the modification request that was brought up um previously for phase one is similarly being brought up here for phase two for reduction of parking setback for along the public ride of way along 291 highway from 20 to 10. And here's a snapshot of the elevation or the landscape plan that

was included in the site plan. And although the parking setback from 291 highway is being reduced or is requested to be reduced from 20 to 10, uh the calculations here provided on the landscape plan show that they're still able to meet and exceed actually the amount of park of landscaping that will be located within that area. So you're not sacrificed, you're not sacrificing any amount of amount of landscaping along the square footage. just in some areas they'll be squeezed down to 10 feet from as far as the separation from the parking lots to the right of way. Um similar to what was done phase one and Olden Village phase phases one and two. Um there is a a broader modification that's being requested from the established um LS commercial standards uh to accommodate the the proposed development. Um, actually that's not true. This slide actually that's not true. Um, so this one actually mistakenly held us over from phase one. So all of this development is located in the Grove area which which was associated with but explicitly excluded from um from the standards of Envision LS. So the Envision LS area are the three um there are three sub areas. There's the the lime colored piece there, the camel colored piece here, and the alexandrite colored piece here. Um, closer to to 50 highway. Um, so this area here that was formerly the grove was not part of it. But there were some similar characteristics associated with some of the design that was provided. Uh, but there was no standard specifically. the proposed development here, this preliminary development plan would supersede any previously approved standard since that

application is no longer valid, would no longer be the governing development plan for the area. This is just kind of a summary of some of the road improvements that that were discussed uh with the development uh particularly north of of Bailey Road there. This will be a signalized intersection right before uh taking travelers up and over um the the Bailey Road Bridge. Um it does call out as Mr. Schllish had mentioned the the proposed road improvements along 16th Street and there are just some a number of associated area turnling improvements along 291 and in Bailey Road. So this application does have a total of six conditions of approval uh including the modification request reducing it the parking lot setback from 20 ft to 10 ft. And uh with that I'll yield to any questions you may have.

Thank you Hector. Do we have any questions for the staff or applicant from the commission? Commissioner Frasier. Can you show again the map that outlines the um the connect continuation of the city trail? I think that was one of the first ones you did. Yeah, that was on I'm trying to see where Which one is it? That he is.

No, there we go. Well, there's there's two. There's a city the city trail and then there is the other one, right?

Is that what you're asking for? Yes. And then yeah, the the city trail is the continuation across 291. Okay. On the south side of Bailey, there's a continuation of the city trail on the south side of Oldm to the west side of of 291 getting up to go north into the city downtown type area. And then also this continuation that gets back to a sidewalk that eventually makes its way up and across Bailey Road Bridge. But then they also connect and this is a question to the green space both I think that says park one and park two is that am I reading?

Yeah. So so all of the roadways that are three lanes will have 10-ft sidewalks on both sides or trail systems that connect all the way from the southerntherly tip to the northern and all of them will lead you to a point of getting to the park as well as being able to touch every site with the trail. So you can go on a walk or you can go on a hike and give you an opportunity to have some pedestrian activity. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Trafton, do you have any questions?

Yes, I do. Um, just one question about that property adjacent to lot 18 and track F down there, the corner spot on 16th and 291. like is that not included because they couldn't acquire the rights to the property or it's just like a vacant lot that correct it's it's a parcel that the current land owner chose to keep to themselves keep for themselves for future development or whatever they would like

to okay yeah thank you you answer that question um how what's the help me understand the signal light like next to the street like you have the main thorough fair going through the development from Costco down to Bailey and then you choose to put the light on the other I mean it seems like you'd have more traffic going south I don't know the name of that street but it goes between 14 and 19 correct so the idea is that too close to 291 or because you have the light up there sorry go ahead

exactly yeah so so as We decided and and started drawing this. Um we worked with staff and traffic engineering here as well as with MDOT and the extension of Oldm. The signal location was very tight to 291. So we pushed as far east as development possible and where we could make a reasonable uh location still work with all the access points. The preference for the development team was to have the signal here. However, based on staff and MDOT, their preference and desire for traffic safety was to push it to the east side of it here. And so, what we've agreed upon is a threequarter intersection at that point. So, you'd be able to come westbound on Bailey and turn in. You'd be able to come south out of phase one and turn right, but you would not be able to come out southbound and turn left. But, if you're coming eastbound on Bailey, you would be able to turn left into the development. So, this was a safety concern reason that the signal got moved further east.

Yeah. I mean, I just think most people are going to be on that road wanting to go south. And now I I mean, it just seems like more of a pain point for people and traffic flow than it is. So, okay. Well, you answered the question. Thank you. Um, the other thing I think you know I'm going to bring up is around the 10-ft easement that um well, I'll reserve my comments till later, but um is there more I I see that you're adding more landscaping? I don't know that I'm seeing are those evergreen trees. Is that the greens and the yellows?

This time it's it's a mixture. Um, you know, so during the preliminary side of it, we're still trying to figure out exactly what they are. So, we really just do more of a a mixture of plant styles and colors to illustrate that they will be evergreens, there will be um just standard deciduous trees, there will be shrubs and pieces of it. So, I don't have an exact count. You know, we do have on our landscaping chart some initial ideas of mixtures that we call our trees and evergreens and ornamentals and shrubs. um those kind of get more defined as we get the final development plan side of it. But yes, it'll be a mixture of of all of those through that area.

Okay. Um thank you. You answered that question. Oh, um track C that I'm looking at. So that's going to have water in it. It will. Yeah, it's a it's a retention facility, so it will be a wet wet basin. And did you get any comments from the property owners to the south of that? I mean, it seems like they might have some concern about it.

So, when we spoke to the residents to the south, these are not residents, but the owners to the south, their biggest problem right now is that along this area is a significant amount of impounded water and doesn't drain very well. A lot of it drains right through and between these buildings. So, the thought and idea of having a storm controlled system upstream of them was um I don't want to speak for them, but I think they were happy to hear that there were going to be some improvements that would start to install a storm sewer system that's going to pipe that water through their lots and get it to the southside as well as start to control some of those peak runoff flows. So, I think it was met with um more happiness than concern.

Okay. All right. Thank you very much. I answer my questions. Commissioner Gina Ford. Thank you. Um yeah, just a couple clarification questions. Um so in phase one, lot 20 or lot 12 um is a green space with surrounding parking. So I assume the idea is that it's a um leisurely spot to stop at, hang out. Um but on phase two you've got lot 22 which can you help me understand is the intent similar or is it different smaller larger scale?

Yeah. So I think I think there's kind of a a mixture of uses. The idea in phase one um with that space um is to get a local coffee shop and give them a space to have meeting. Um directly north of that is lots four and five which we call our fine dining restaurant experience. So, we believe that that lot 12 will turn into a gathering space maybe while you're waiting for your table. It's also centrally located for the apartments. So, hopefully that becomes the space that maybe they go out and play, have more of a green space to kind of have a little larger area that that's where they're taking their kids or doing activities on. Lot 22. Then, because we don't have as much of a residential component down there that's directly related to it like we did with the apartments, we still stuck it out in front of our one apartment down on that end. still the same idea of having trails that go to it. It's a little smaller scale. We don't we're not going to put anything like a coffee shop or something with it. So, it's more of a um passive space from the sense of having trails. Maybe some benches or a gazebo. Um but thinking more the stuff on the north may be more of an active one and this may be something more of a a walking point to get to to kind of just relax on that side of it.

Okay, that helps. Uh there's one diagram you have where it shows lot to 22 has a yellow rectangle box. [cough] Uh yeah, that one. And so graphically it shows that your yellow um this Yeah, that one more of just a structure of some sort. not really identified yet, but thinking it's more of like a gazebo or pavilion or something they could come to with the idea that there's a trail system that could come around the pond and give you around the town home. So, if you were a person in there, you could stop there and have a picnic or whatever it may be depending on whatever these end users end up being commercially speaking.

Okay. No, that that helps. I was just wanting to understand the idea. Um, and so now it makes sense why there isn't as much parking for lot 22 as there are for lot Yeah. 12 we believe would be more of like a drive to destination. Maybe you park there and then you walk over to a restaurant at four and five. Lots four and five. And then this one would be more like you're walking somewhere and you come to this point and you walk to it just as a stopover maybe. Okay. Um, and then the only other question I believe I have, um, where you've got the bend and track C, you've got the two like racks of, um, duplexes and in between you've got parking. I don't know if you're able to follow that at all. Uh,

yep. Keep going. Yep. That one right there. Sure. Um, I just have some concerns about folks leaving the last eastern row of lot 20 parking and then the parking lot that you just hovered your cursor over. [clears throat] Meaning the

just like conflict of people trying to leave the parking lot and people trying to get out of that little parking for the duplexes. Um, especially since that seems to be the entry into the duplex villa. Yeah, there are I mean so there are three primary entrances into the town home areas on the north side, the south side and off of 16th Street. And the idea of these little pods will continue to develop as time goes on, but it was to try to provide some visitor parking spaces.

Um so often in these communities, you find it difficult to have a friend or whoever stay over um just to get parking spaces. So, I understand your point and maybe we look at that one a little more in detail as we kind of finalize that plan to make sure that there's no impact or complication of of interactions. That's all. Thank you. Appreciate it. [snorts] Commissioner Tazinski, no additional comments. Thank you. Okay. I had a question. Um, when would this phase begin as far as construction? The crystal ball. Um, you want to have a Yeah, we're going to we're going to let the guy who takes care of that.

Good evening. Uh, Matt Pennington, CEO of Drake Development, 5841 West, 135th. Um, it's we we do have a schedule, but I mean I think the focus is obviously phase one is Costco. That'll start hopefully immediately here in January. Um, and depending on we do have some uh buildings going on the west side as well with Olden Village. So we will have to stagger the multif family in phases. This will be a you know a 6 to 8year project just due the magnitude and the size of it. So we may start the town homes um you know sooner than later just because it is a different product type versus what we're doing on the west side. So this we could bounce around having different timelines that could be faster, could be you know on schedule or or such just depending on the market need and and I guess timing of what we think is appropriate at that at that point. Okay, thank you. I have another question for the applicant, but I don't know if you can you can answer it, Matt. I think it's not a high level question, I guess, is what I'm saying. No, this one. Um, on those town homes, the the garages in the back and then you have um parking in the garage and then there's parking on the you said one spot on the driveway. Is that right? Well, so it's a twocar garage and you'll have two spaces in the driveway. I was just more suggesting we show 300 spaces, which accounts for three. So, conservatively, we said from a town home perspective, each unit would have three spaces on site. Technically speaking, they would have four with two in the garage, two in the driveway, and then we have some additional off street parking that's available as well.

Okay. And so a lot of times when you see town homes, the parking is very crowded on those driveways. Um, how are the driveways long enough that it doesn't look like that? I know it's going to be in the back of the town home, but I'm just curious it. So I think currently shown we have 25 feet I think from the garage to the curb which would be more than sufficient room to park a car and still give space to let the sidewalk have movable space behind it.

Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any more questions at this time? All right. I know we have someone who wishes to speak in support or opposition of the application. Um, Miss [clears throat] Giddings, if you want to come up to the microphone,

Debbie Giddings, I'm here in opposition of this plan. Hold on. Can you Can someone turn up her microphone? Or maybe you just need to get closer to

have the computer keyboard out. That's what it is. Um, for this development, the citizens are getting maybe a restaurant and a retail space, but five fast food places and four story apartment complexes and threetory town homes. Adding all those together is five uh 320. There's 570 apartments north of Bailey. 370 across 291. That's almost,300 apartments or town home type development in this area. In regards to the traffic that would be generated by that many, this only this uh allows for 10,000 trips to be generated just from this project. the road to access the fast food and restaurants does not have 300 ft spacing. So, shared driveways are proposed just like uh across uh Bailey as well as um Dutch Brothers has a a private drive. So, those are good ways for the developer to get around the problem and justify it as a private road. that excess basin that you were talking about. They have concerns about that and hopefully there'll be funds available in 2028 to address the capacity issues. Um that's another item the developer was able to get approval for and then hope for the fix to be citizens tax dollars and not the developers. There are six intersections that do not meet distance requirements. Recommendations development. the the recommended development revisits the site to see what accommodations can be made. Has that happened? Right turn lanes are not provided at four intersections that code requires. Again, it's recommended the developer

revisits the plan. Adding that traffic signal to protect the cars going right at that first interchange is to make sure that the cars turning left don't get hit by the cars that are coming from the east, but those will also be making a U-turn. That particular intersection, the developer is having to put $100,000 in escrow by the city to change that intersection once it's proven it doesn't work. Um, the ability of anybody to access their home or apartment is going to have to be on Bailey Road. The only way to get south from those developments is to go north because 16th Street is a right in right out. So if you're in one of those town homes and you want to go south, you either have to go to a area that's going to be unimproved down to uh the wholesaler. Um, so I'm just Anyone that has to go south is going to have to go north and anyone coming south trying to get to that little road can't get there because there's no access across 291 to 16th Street. Uh, the last thing I'm going to say is that in regards to this whole development last two nights ago at the city council meeting, they approved your plan of the north side of Bailey Road. However, they removed your suggestion of not having

that number one of the back setback. So that's it. It'll get changed. I don't know whether you want to worry about that. The other thing is that it was approved and at the end of all of that, there was discussion by the council members about what the impact this is going to have on 50 highway. Seriously, after all of that, they're they're concerned about 50 highway. Well, 50 highway wasn't even included in this discussion. They didn't include anything across the bridge or on Blue Parkway. All of that area that's going to be accessing this area was not even considered. How can that happen? That's just ridiculous. Thank you.

Do we have any additional questions from Well, do we have anyone else who wishes to speak in support or opposition of this application? Are there any additional questions from the commission? Yes. Okay. Commissioner Yrington.

Yes. Is there um this is for the developer. Is there any um safety precautions for the residents during during the construction of the phase 2? Do we have like when they're going in and out with their construction vehicles? Is there any safety precautions to make sure that there's not congestion? Um because this is is it going to be concurrent with phase one to phase two? Is are there going to be any safety regulations or how are you going to mitigate all that construction traffic that you guys are going to have with the residents?

Right. So, so I think from a a construction standpoint, just like we're doing on the west side, right? There's there's times when construction activities go on where right now roadway is closed completely and then we detour around and find a way to make the construction on the east side as Costco's done. Oldm is going to be completely built. So they'll have an access point. The construction traffic would access from the south and not up that way. And then we're planning to build the westerly side of the roadway and then flip to the easterly side of the site. So it kind of Okay. phasing wise. So yeah, they've got a timing of phase to how it could approach. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional questions from the commission?

All right. Does the applicant care to respond to the public comments? I don't think I have any of those, but I do think I owe Hector a comment that he's right on his sign location. I mismarked my bubble and he is correct in his location of that sign on the southwest corner of phase 2 that I'll update on my We probably shouldn't question Hector because he's also a master at color names. Never should. All right. Well, hearing no further testimony, I'm going to close the public hearing and reopen the regular meeting. Is there any commission discussion on this application?

Have some, you know, I have some comments. Um, I love this development. I'm excited to see it happen. I'm still in strong opposition against the easement modification that staff is recommending and that city council approved last week. So, thank you, Miss Gibbons. I did I did know that happened yesterday or Tuesday. Um, I think we really, Miss Alpers and Mr. Magguire, I do think the city needs to be looking at the UDO standards and are we going to continue to do development without proper landscaping easements? You know, do we want another 291 north in 20 to 30 years from now? I don't think so. It doesn't look good. And I understand even if we change the UDO's that we can make modifications, but is that what we want to do? I don't know. I know I did get some support from my fellow commissioners, so I appreciate that. I'm not going to try to move forward and waste our time tonight with anything different. Um, but I do want to voice my concern about it. So, I'm still supporting this with hesitation. So, you know, I guess you could say I'm supporting what it's going to look like in 20 to 30 years when it gets developed after 8 years. And I know it's going to be a nice area and I know that the developer has made improvements from their other developments to make this a nicer community. I'm excited about the town homes actually because I think we need that kind of product. And so I appreciate the effort to do that, bring in a different kind of product instead of just multi- multi-ousing units. So um but that will be my comments. Thank you,

Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Trafton. Does anyone else have comments? Okay, I do. I have Commissioner Frasier.

Sorry. I I have watched and listened to um a number of of communication surrounding the vast number of multifamily um development that's happening. But I can say this, I appreciate the the desire or the incorporation of of the green space that you that I've seen not only in this phase but then in in previous phases too. And that's why I asked the question about the um the connection of trails because that's important to to um many of us that are trying to um maintain our youthful vi vibrance and that sort of thing. So um I appreciate that. I appreciate the green space also because um many times we we assume that the multifamily um uh units are just for you know individuals and that sort of thing. So we need a space to whether it's to to congregate whether it's to to um you know bring our children or family outside. So um just wanted to say I appreciate that. I have not seen that in in previous developments. So, um the fact that that it's incorporated here and the trails are continuing um not only in in this part of Missouri, I I appreciate that. Uh the town homes in addition to the the studio, the one-bedroom, two-bedroom, that sort of thing. I that I I think that brings a nice mixture and variety into options we have for uh different generations. Thanks.

Thank you, Commissioner Frasier. Um, I want to I want to comment about this application. Um we talk a lot about the Ignite plan and um I I was involved in that process and when we started um we talked about what where we wanted to head with with housing and um we started out with multifamily 72% 13% missing middle which are the um town homes and and properties ending with the word plex I will say and then 15% um multi uh multifamily family. Um, according to that plan, we were to start building up our supply of the middle, the miss, we call it the missing middle. Um, so we started at 13% with the missing middle. We're still there. Um, single family's gone down to 66%, multif family's gone up to 21%. I I struggle with this because we're making a a resoning request from industrial to to the PMIX yet we're not doing what we need to do on that missing middle. Um I will say I like those town homes and I'm happy to see that. However, we're looking at 6 to 8 years out and we still aren't focusing on the missing middle and as time passes, we lose the opportunity to get that product. Um, the missing middle is is very important because we have a lot of people that are going to be retiring and they are going to want to downsize. So, we we need to be thinking ahead, I believe. And we need if that's part of our comprehensive plan. I I keep thinking when are we going to start doing it? If not today, when? Because as time goes on, we can't we can't turn it back. So, I would say that like I said, I like those town homes. I actually love the

driveway in the back. I think that makes that look really nice. But I can't support this um because I feel that we're just not paying attention to that one piece of the Ignite plan. But I thank you for coming and at this time I will ask for a motion. A motion. I move to recommend an approval of application number PL2025-275 reszoning from PI and PMIX to PMIX and preliminary development plan East Village phase 2 approximately 50 acres generally located at the southeast corner of South M291 highway and southeast Bailey Road East Village Investors LLC.

Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Can we get a roll call vote, please? Ed Yarrington, yes. Sherry Frasier, yes. Terry Trafton, yes. Dana Arth, no. Tanya John Ford, yes. Chip Tazinski, yes. All right, the motion has passed. Thank you. And now we have, let me see here. Okay, I guess it's time for round table. Do you have something, Mr. Maguire? Uh, I'll let the commission go first if they have anything. Oh, you're saving the best for last.

Oh, yes. All right. Always. Who has something they want to do? Oh, well, the commission doesn't have anything. Oh, I'm sorry, Commissioner Trafton.

Thank you. as the representative to the CEDC, I just, you know, always want to make sure I report out to the conversations that are occurring there and what council's considering related to economic development in the city. So, the hot topic yesterday was carnival regulations. And so we had a lovely presentation update from our wonderful police force. Uh the the um director, not the director, the chief of police, which get it right. He did a he did a wonderful job of explaining theory behind um routine activities theory. I don't know if you guys have heard of it, but it's an interesting idea of how risky behavior increases and large crowds and um with lack of capable guardianship around um so the whole issue around unsupervised minors that that um you know get emboldened to do things that they shouldn't be doing cuz we know you know their brains aren't fully developed. Um and so um that was lovely. He also brought um data which I really appreciate. If you guys don't know there there has been a significant increase in um incidents at our public um carnivals uh festivals whatever downtown leis downtown days and Oktoberfest is what we're talking about to be explicit. Um so he brought data there's you know significant increase in the a 23 to 32% increase over two years and so it is an issue that I think you know is a

concern. There's also increased staffing cost related to police force. Um and so really they're talking about you know options on the table. Should we, you know, get rid of carnivals in our, you know, and just eliminate them? Should we restrain or restrict age requirements, types of um um things, etc. So, I'm not going to get into all the details. They're still debating it. I think really kind of where they're at at this point cuz downtown days is 6 months away. They need to make some kind of decision. City's recommending, you know, certain things. Uh the police department's recommending certain things. Um council is interested in certain things and the you know the chamber and downtown Leummit Main Street who run these two festivals which are significant fundraisers for them as well as providing things to do in the community that are is fun for our citizens. Um, and so I think there's like some intermediate steps they're going to look at trying to to make a decision on here in the near future. I want to say they're going to make it in the next meeting. So hopefully I think they're hoping to make that decision if they can kind of get to some kind of point around, you know, do we add more barricades and fencing and do we use more private security? Do we increase surveillance uh with cameras? yada yada. So anyway, I have now educated you on the hot issue of carnival regulation.

Thank you, Commissioner Draft. And I'm I'm actually glad that it's being talked about because it has changed the way people have felt about since we've had some incidents. It's been a little scary. I'm done.

All right. just to kind of tack on that if you guys are interested in seeing that presentation those videos are available on the city website uh not just la last week or yesterday's but last month as well as part of the conversation so um they will be back in uh January um having additional conversations as well so on that so uh from staff's uh roundt update I just want to um let you know the joint city council uh planning commission date that was rescheduled from uh earlier this week originally. Um we're still tenative looking February um time frame. No date has been identified yet, but once one is, I will uh send out the calendar invite as um to get that on your guys' calendars. Um it is the end of the year, so this is our last uh planning commission meeting. I just want to take an opportunity to kind of thank you guys for all the work that you've done. Um we've had some some pretty late meetings, a lot of hard work from you guys. So, um, the city wouldn't operate as well as it does without you. So, uh, thank you for all your work you do. Um, and then just a reminder, our next meeting is January 8th. So,

go Chiefs. Well, thank you guys.

I will adjourn the meeting at 7:40. Heat. Heat. Baby, hey, baby. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey.