Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

meeting um to order. Please stand and say the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat]

And this is David Pavich. We do have some camera difficulties today, so hopefully the audience can bear with us. Um in I'll do roll call for you right now. We have Paul Len Noble presiding over the meeting. We have Kathy Barker. We have David Leman. We have Keith Hall. No other members are present. We do have four members. So there is a quorum. Um we have in the audience David Pavich, city staff, Eric Marshall, parks director, city staff, and Larry Reynolds here on behalf of uh the parks department uh with for tonight's application. We'll do a share screen for tonight's agenda item. Perfect.

All right. First item, the consent agenda. Move to approve the minutes from the January 12th meeting. I'll second. Oh, announce your Okay. He wants us to announce your name. Yeah, you can announce your names when you do. Yeah. This is Alderman Layman. Keith Hall. Second by Keith Hall. Excellent. Right. Any discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion carries. All right. We'll go to item 4A, Hall Park site plan.

Hall Park site plan. I'll try and do a share screen so we can see on the screen. Um, Hall Park. Maybe if Ryan could let us know if um we got the share screen working. That's possible. Uh it is not sharing anything and it didn't say you shared.

Okay, let's try this again. Simple download. See if we can link here. Did you now?

I see. It looks great. Yay. Uh, in the audience we have Larry Reynolds um with Vario who would like to speak on behalf of arts department and the ballpark section plan and then I'll I'll scroll for you if when you're ready to advance.

Okay, great. As David said, I'm here to speak about the ballpark plan. My name is Larry Reynolds. I'm a landscape architect with Furio. Been working on this for some time now and um we're kind of at the end of the the road before we go out for bid. Um, so I I'm gonna walk over the presentation here and just kind of walk through some things just to orient ourselves really quick. This is the lot at the northeast corner of Highway 92 and South Prospect Street. Casey's is right here. The fire department right over here. [snorts] Next slide. So this park is intended to uh specifically accommodate older adult populations. So, we have a fitness court that's kind of geared to that um age segment. Um we also include a shelter, uh a pre-fabricated restroom like you would see in Lens Park or pick courts, game tables with camel lever shade structures over them. Game tables are here and these are picnic tables. uh new parking lot. All of the runoff will run into a biotention cell. So, we're treating all of our storm water runoff uh from a sustainability standpoint and green solutions. It'll cycle over through pipes down to a vegetated swale into another small retention basin before it gets released out into the inlet along the 92 highway. Um, a couple other things we're looking at is a park monument sign on the corner here. That'll look similar to what you see in Lance Park. All made of stone. We have an alternate for a flag pole to go in. This is kind of the high elevation high point of Carney 92 so it have good

visibility. Um, and then a fence that will go around the perimeter on the south property line and the east property line. Did I miss anything? Nope, you're good. Uh, this is an elevation drawing of slide down a little bit. Um, go the other way. Excuse me. [clears throat] Other way. It'll show what we He was talking about the the shelters and stuff like that.

Yeah. So here's you can get a good glimpse of what that shelter will look like. It's 24 foot square. Got kind of a clear story on it. BMPs are stormwater bio retention cells. There's a space in between the encer shade structures that have a game tables and picnic tables and that's kind of intended to be a flex space where you might have yoga and park or cornhole what have you. um fitness equipment and then those came structures or like what you see in Lions Park around the splash pan. The monument sign, this is a an elevation view of of what that'll look like. It's about 15 feet long and about a foot wide. Um and again, it's going to look similar to the same kind of stone that's on Lance Park. Um, this is a 3D rendering of where it will sit on the site and then how you'll see it go as you go eastbound on Highway 92.

That is it in a nutshell. You have any questions? Um, talk to me about the planting. Are you are you guys responsible for planting? Are they native plants? for native plants. And yes, we'll do the uh we've done the the plant design.

Larry, there's you were showing a porch swing and pergola. Is that another alternate? Yes, I'm glad you brought that up. Um so this is a little bit older drawing, but where we had these benches, we've added two porch two porch swings instead of of that. I believe you can see a copy of what that looks like in your packets.

This segment, we've got several alternates on this project. So, this whole piece right here is an alternate. So, um we're not sure if it will fit in the budget in our discussions with the whole family. Um um prior the porch swing idea was really um something they wanted to include whether or not it was in alternate one and that's why we've located it here and we've spread those three benches out around. So that'll be one bench here, a bench here and I believe we have a bench over here. Um other alternates we're looking at for fencing. Fencing can be rather expensive. So, our base bid is a split rail wood fence that would go along. Um, and then we're also looking at concrete split rail options. Um, and then the third one is the decorative fencing like you would see at Lance Park. So, that rod iron kind of look. This project is uh if I may um say uh has been a long process. By the time we got the grant uh and they notified us that um we got the grant, we were dealing with some issues with MDOT on on the drainage. So that put us back. Um but by the time we had to submit our application in for the grant uh till they got us the grant. Okay, we're over two years, so the price fluctuation is really, really different than what we thought when we submitted the application. And we're trying to keep as many um items in the project. That way, we suffice the grant application and so on and so forth. And

that's why we had to uh take out the um the extra sidewalk um in the port swing pergola to the alternate on the east side because originally everything was in the grant application. So that's where we're at right now.

I assume that there's water at the restroom. There's there's water and Yep. will be a drinking fountain with a dog bowl right here as well. Good. Yeah. Sewer, water, liquor. Shelter will be lighted.

Well, I love it.

I sure we'll come back to the board of alderman. Uh Ryan and I have discussed this um and put um specific hours. All the parks have specific hours uh up until 11:00 except for Lion's Park and that is a a dawn to dusk park unless we have special events like our movies in the park. And uh Ryan and I were thinking we were going to have specific hours tailored more towards that instead of 11:00 uh because we this is going to be a uh geared more towards um 50 plus age [clears throat] too. So anyway,

probably going to be very popular with the middle schoolers. So yeah, I think block even. I think it's going to be super popular with the middle schoolers. Just go to Casey's, get a drink, and go. My kid would have loved it. I think it's been a long time

working. I was on the park board when this first started coming around and was donated to the city December 2012. Yeah. So, it's a neat uh neat project if hopefully the middle schoolers will respect it. So, I bet they'll be very hightraic, high visibility area across from the fire department. I think they'll be good. Any other comments, questions? Kathy Barger. I move that planning and zoning commission recommend the board to the board of alderman approve or recommend that they approve the hall site the hall park site plan.

This is Keith Hall. I'll second. Any additional comments? I think it's great. All right. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries. All right. That brings us to the end. enclosures. Just the usual, the rate usual. We actually had in January 11 single family permits, uh, which was the most permits issued in a month since June 2024 and we had 12. And then before that, it was 19. There were 19 permits, I think, in 2020. 2022.

So, where were these permits at? Are they most of them are Greenfield? Greenfield. Yeah. So there were of the 11 I think nine are green field two are uh I'm sorry eight green field onecot two Noah's landing and then we have two more in green field lined up that are in the new phase

something like total there will be total 15 soon and the breakdown is is yeah one that I've caught two to four Noah's Landing and then the rest are

and then just to let you know Westwood North First Plat if you guys remember that last summer they're getting ready to do workout get ready by the end of the year this year that you know, be open which is pretty good because we're running out of available lots really. So, plus you got the 22 lots and fifth plat. Yeah. Same kind of boat as as the Westwood. Not quite there, but we'll be before the end of the year. Yeah. Are you talking about Cotchwood? Cockman. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. At least we'll have some buildable lots. So, that's good. Well, any other motions people want to make? This is Layman. I will make a motion to adjurnn. This is Keith. I'll second. All in favor?