Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

Going to call this meeting of the city of Waverly's Planning and Zoning Commission, April 2nd, 2026 to order. Paige, could you help us with roll call? David Larson, present. John Meyer here. Pete Fuller, Stephanie Garner, present. David Huer, present. Kate Payne, present. Kathy Olsen.

All right, we have enough for a quorum, so we'll continue. Item C of our agenda is uh approval of the agenda for the meeting tonight. Move approval of the agenda. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. Hearing none opposed. That passes. Item D, approval of minutes from our last meeting as printed. ask for a motion there. Uh me I move that be approved as presented. Second. All right. I was waiting for you. I just figured we just want to wait just in case. Yeah. Motion. All right. All in favor of that passing say I.

I. Hearing none opposed. That passes as well. All right. We're item E of our agenda tonight. Uh regular business section. We have platis survey separating uh partial AE from partial ID 0902226052 here in Waverly. Paige, could you walk us through that agenda memo?

Um yeah, the property owners requested that supply a survey just to separate this um proposed parcel AE from the remainder to allow a for a single family residential lot. Um all the dimensional requirements are met with this. Um we've discussed it with our attorney due to the other split offs. Um they're on board with doing a plat survey for this one with the concept plan that you see in the attachment um for a potential. It's not set in stone for that for future development, but at least to show that the access points, things like that are still um available. So if I understand any additional split whatever has to come through a subdivision process and development.

Exactly. Yeah. We're we're done doing one carveouts. Yep. Okay. And on that topic, yes, we're going to clarify some things with the codes on the minors versus major subdivisions um in the coming months as well. Somebody could come in and argue this one. That was my only concern. We had talked about it. Yeah. Previously when Bell's built their house um about the number of divisions that had already been. We had found that this was still okay. And so Oh, is it okay? Well,

that's good. I mean, true. I I think it's pushing things a bit, but this one makes logical sense. I mean, it's a I only my only question is about the rest of the property and if it's developed, where is the access to it from Third Avenue Northeast to correct that little and and also conceivably from Timberwood? Yes, Timberline stubs in right now. Be pretty. That's where it goes in and his driveway goes up to his house. Be pretty steep. There's a lot of elevation through that section. Timberwood goes in and Okay.

kind of follows it. Yeah. So, you've got Timberwood or Third Avenue northeast. Okay. And Well, and if something goes north, Asbury could go through, too, I suppose, right? Yeah. Something to the south or whatever. Yeah. But like they mentioned, there's some topography on there. and um saw a lot of it when Bells built their first house, too. And that area is quite wet as well. There's a lot of water that runs through that remaining property.

They could harvest a lot of firewood if they had a disposition to do that with some good healthy family members. All right. Other discussion on the topic here. Mr. Chairman, I move that the planning and zoning commission recommend approval of the plat of survey separating parcel AE from parcel ID 0902226052 Waverly, Iowa to city council.

I'll second that. All right, it's been moved and seconded. We ask all in favor answer with an I. I. Hearing none opposed. That passes. Thank you. All right. So, now we're on item two of our regular business on the agenda, which is a plat survey for creating parcel Q and parcel R. Do you need to do something for him to know? No, if we have questions, we can reach out to him. But it doesn't show. That's it. I think he's okay. Oh, he's on. Oh, I know. But it wasn't showing. I'm on. No, he he can see us. Oh, there it is. Okay. I knew earlier it was the full screen, so Okay.

All right. Paige, could you walk us through this agenda memo?

Um, yeah. So, the members of Myer Hansen are proposing this plat of survey. Um, basically creating parcel Q. parcel R is more of a just a reservey of what's currently there um just to um improve the marketability, show exactly what they own, combine those three lots into one of parcel Q. Um so that's about all the information I have unless you guys have questions on it. think it makes sense. I guess the Waverly online question is going to be is which one is to be Culver's?

Send Send them Send them that suggestion. Okay, I'll go ahead. Nobody else wants to. I move that the planning and zoning commission recommend approval of the PLA a survey treating parcel Q and parcel R to city council. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. I. All right, that motion passes as well. Thanks for your time this evening, folks. Appreciate it. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Doug Dy. Oh, Droppy. Droppy.

Yeah, cuz I knew I'd say it wrong. Eugene Droppy. Who's pass? Is Doug Eugene's grandson or is that Dave Droppy's son? I think Dave. Dave. Dude Farms over by Chipo. All right, staff updates, Paige. Anything?

Um, not a ton, but kind of what I hinted out earlier, we still have this proposed zoning and subdivision code rewrite in the budget. The budget's looking to be finalized by on April 20th. Um, so if that goes through, um, we've been discussing with some firms, um, and hopefully we'll have an agreement to council in May potentially to start July 1. Um, so with all these platter surveys coming through, it's kind of the question of how many times have they been platted before, now they need that uh preliminary and final plat. Is there a difference between the minor plats that don't involve street right ofway versus major subdivisions? So, a lot of those things will be coming to you guys just to let you know that um I really want to work on that code and get it up to date and clear um so we all know exactly what's going on. Are you thinking of managing that through our regular meetings or through something different?

Um, it'll probably be a lot of staff driven and then come during regular meetings with um questions or things like that. We'll see if we need to do a task force. Um, yeah, that's what I asked. Okay. Yeah. Anything else? That's it. Is this going to be the standard that's accepted around the state? That was the big thing um that I had let them know that we want to be similar to what other Iowa cities are doing. Y so we will be comparing to other communities.

Yeah. Is that is it going to include include uh stuff on Bitcoin mining and stuff like that? I know. I'll be curious to see a lot of items come up. Some interesting topics out there. All right. I don't think that W utilities has enough power to take a care of a mining. That's it. Takes a lot of I don't think uh CFU does either. That's why I want to build a new one. There are we on live.

Mhm. There's there's some farms up um got to be careful here up uh oh what's the uh off of 35 I can't think of a little town where it's out in the middle of nowhere but there's a high power line going through and there's no you know nobody around there looking at buying a a whole section barely uh paying a pretty nice price, but there's a major power line or something that goes through there that they can hook up to because that's what they need as power. So,

and yeah, I guess the last update was that that introduction to planning zoning workshop is April 21st. I know I'm taking um Pete Fuller with me from this commission and two board members um board of adjustment members will be gone. So, I'll bring share any information that we learn um with you guys. Where's it at? Grady Center. Remy Center. Yep. Excellent. All right. Bring us back some books. Hopefully. Yeah. All right. Anything else? Nope. Commission updates. I don't have any. Anybody else? Nope. Okay. Brings us to adjournment. I move that we adjourn. I agree. We are adjourned.

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