Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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I have several questions. Call the meeting to order. Chris Crow will do our invocation. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we gather before you tonight to help make decisions for the future of our community. We pray that you'll be with us as we look at the information and consider the options and that you'll forgive us of our sins through Christ our Lord. Please join me in pledge to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. comments public comments All right, we'll move to staff reports. One announcement tonight from our long-range planning division, there's an upcoming meeting on Thursday this week on the 30th for the Hartsville Pike study that's been ongoing. It'll be held at First Baptist Church starting at 6:00, so if you're interested in being a part of that meeting, we encourage you to attend. It'll be a kind of a workshop style meeting, so it'll be very very interactive. But if you have any comments, come to that meeting. Otherwise, you can find out more information about the meeting and the study itself on our website. There's a Hartsville Pike area plan page or you can reach out to Paul Corder for more information. committee reports, all right. Changes to the agenda. New business items number three and four have deferred to the October Planning Commission meeting. Okay, we'll have a public hearing.

We have one public hearing tonight and it's on the proposed amendment to the future land use plan of about 0.82 acres at 690 Franklin Road from residential two units per acre to residential public institutional in Ward 4. I'd like to speak to this item. No comment, then we'll close the public hearing and go to approval of the minutes for the meeting of February the 24th. Motion to approve. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the minutes for February 24th. Discussion? All right. Aye. All opposed, minutes are approved. Go to the meeting of March the 17th. Motion to approve.

Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the minutes of March the 17th. Discussion? Not all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, those minutes are approved. We'll go to the meeting of April the 21st. Motion to approve.

Second. Made and seconded to approve the minutes for April the 21st. Discussion? Not all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, motion passes. We'll move to the consent agenda. There's six items on the consent agenda tonight. Item number one is a request by HER Properties LLC for final plat approval for Brookside Farms 2C, a 44-lot conservation subdivision on about 28.67 acres at an unaddressed property on Ambers Way, zoned RS20 in Ward 6. Consent agenda item number two is a request by SB Barton Village LLC for preliminary plat amendment approval for Barton Village Commercial Roads, a four-lot subdivision on about 21.87 acres at an unaddressed property on South Hartman Drive, zoned Barton Village North Specific Plan in Ward 3. Consent agenda item number three is a request by Clayton Properties Group Inc. for final plat approval for The Preserve at Bell Point Phase 2, a 127-lot conservation subdivision on about 6.6 acres at an unaddressed property on Fiona Drive, zoned RS12 PUD in Ward 6. Consent agenda item number four is a request by Cedar City Hospitality LLC for preliminary site plan approval for Town Place Suites, a non-residential development on about 1.99 acres at 1002 Cumberland Center Boulevard, zoned Interchange Commercial in Ward 2. Consent agenda item number five is a request by Bob and Blair Zanker for preliminary site plan approval for Taco Bar Restaurant, a non-residential

development on about 0.6 acres at 118 and 120 East Market Street and 116 and 120 North College Street, zoned downtown mixed-use in Ward 3. And consent agenda item number six is a request by PFRF Hangar Properties for preliminary site plan approval for PFRF Hangar Lot Number 4, Westside Lebanon Airport, a non-residential development on about 0.86 acres at 400 Aviation Way, zoned RD9 in Ward 4. Does anybody object to any of these items remaining on the consent agenda? [clears throat]

No objections, we'll bring it to the Planning Commission. Motion to approve consent agenda. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Any discussion? And they'll be meeting the code as it says in the We're approving it subject to meeting the code, right? Just I don't know if that's necessary for staff, but consent agenda that met the code. [laughter]

All right. There's no further discussion, then all in favor of approving the consent agenda say aye. All opposed, the consent agenda is approved. Move to new business. New business item number one is a request by Horizon Development for preliminary plat approval for Bethlehem Road subdivision, a 178-lot conservation subdivision on about 111 acres at 225 and unaddressed property on Bethlehem Road. It's zoned RS20 in Ward 5. There is minor corrections that are needed. There's two outstanding items that have variance requests. For front-loaded lots, there's a required 10-ft side setback minimum to allow for parking. An alternative side setback for side-loaded units has been proposed, a 5 ft on one side that does not have the driveway. And staff recommends approval of this variance for lots with side-loaded units. And number two, 10% of the site needs to be usable open space. The trails and adjacent land to the trails shown on the plan do not meet those requirements. But staff recommends approval of this variance with the inclusion of an additional nature trail through the steep slopes on the west side of the site connecting Bethlehem Road to the two greens on that side of the site. This item was removed from the agenda last month by staff and will need to be voted on this month unless the applicant takes further action. Staff recommends approval of the plat with both variances conditioned with staff comments. I'd like to speak to this item. Mr. Chairman, Kevin Gangwer, CSDG, engineer for the project. Just here to ask for your approval, answer any questions. Do have one kind of I guess on the floor question that I would like to ask if appropriate.

Of course. So, Josh has been super helpful in helping us work out the open space on this. He suggested and recommended the pre-planning commission meeting last week, the orange line that you see on the screen there. That will access the steep slopes which are to the left of that orange line. That will be a nature trail and that will allow us to use the steep slopes as part of the usable open space. And so, thank you so much for that. Our our request that's in front of you was to ask for the blue line the blue areas which are about 11 acres. I think I've got that right. To be used as usable open space. Well, thank you to Josh for because we can use the steep slopes, we don't need all of that blue area to get to the usable open space that we have. So, we only need a portion of it. And so, what we're showing is a trail system that runs through there to get access to those meadows. There's a lot of open space available to be used, played in, you know, hunted, you know, kind of explored, I guess in there. So, we provided a trail system to be able to access and get through there. Our request on the floor today is as we're doing the nature trail on the orange side, could some of these trails be nature trails instead of paved trails? Because we we initially were asking can we use all the blue space for open space, but because we don't need all the blue space per se, but we do want to be able to access that with trails for the residents who live in this area. But could they be some of those be nature trails instead of paved trails? Is that is the question on the floor. Who's commenting on it? And this is new to Josh, by the way, so.

I mean, if you they're requesting a variance, so if you want to include in your variance that they can be unpaved, that's fine. On the plans right now, I believe it calls it out as a 5-ft sidewalk typical. So, we assumed that meant it was a paved trail. We have not reviewed it as a nature trail. I know some of that longest stream I don't know if it gets into the buffers where the trail shown or not, so that might depend on whether it can be paved or not. Instruction documents, if you just want want staff to handle this and then use our judgment, that's fine. And we can work it out with the applicant just to see, you know, some of it may be paved, some of it may be not just depending on where where it is. But if you want to make some of it be able to be nature trail, that that's fine if if you just want us to work that out. But when we vote on that variance, it needs to specify that we will delegate this to staff.

Yes, I would include that in your motion. I would include the addition of the nature trail on the on the steep slopes on the west side, that orange line shown on the screen. Make that a condition of the variance and then also that they come to an agreement with staff on whether to pave or not pave the Is that the third variance? No, it's all one variance. And which one is that? Number one or number two? Number two. Okay, good. All right. Anybody else want to speak? If not, we'll bring it to the planning commission. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve this, approve the first variance and the second variance. I would like to include that it could all be a nature trail just because the continuity of going from one section to the next and going out in the middle of those fields, you know, if kids want to play football or whatever, I don't want them to get hurt on concrete, so I would make it all nature trails. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the item and approve the first variance and the second variance with the provision. Is there discussion? I mean, I like that idea. I guess the only question that I would have at some point is just about maintenance that you all work that out with staff cuz at some point over time that could be an issue, so. But nature trails are great. Further discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much. You're welcome. New business item number two. New business item number two is a request by Joe Adams for preliminary site approval site plan approval for Dutch Bros, a non-residential development on about 0.78 acres at 506 South Cumberland Street. It's owned interchange commercial in ward three. There's two outstanding comments with variances. Number one, a minimum of 20% transparency is needed on all facades facing a public street.

On the side facing 231, they have a covered pavilion or covered patio area for their patrons to use and and come up to my place their orders. So, we think this covers the that need instead of providing windows, it's just an open space. So, we think that is acceptable alternative. So, staff recommends approval of this variance with the inclusion of that covered outdoor patio space. And number two, a primary pedestrian entrance is needed facing a street. They do not have one shown, but similar to variance one, this outdoor patio space is where patrons will be interacting with the business anyway. So, we think having that facing the street meets that intent. So, staff recommends approval of that variance with the inclusion of the covered outdoor patio area. Staff recommends approval of the site plan with both variances conditioned on those staff comments. May I speak? If not, we'll bring it to the planning commission. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve with both variances being approved with the staff recommendations. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve [clears throat] this site plan with both variances. Is there discussion? If not, all in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Three and four has been deferred. We'll move to five and six. New business items number five and six are request by Deborah Bow for future land use plan amendment approval for residential two units per acre to residential public institutional and rezoning approval for about 0.82 acres at 690 Franklin Road from RD9 to Bow Aviation Youth Education Center text specific plan in ward four. This is a request to rezone the subject

property from RD9 duplex residential 9,000 square foot to text specific plan for an Aviation Youth Education Center. The reference zoning district is being called out as RPI. A future land use plan amendment has been requested to support this request. This request is to replicate the use of the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum across the street with one additional use and that use is overnight room and board for aviation camps. The existing house will remain and serve this purpose. Staff recommends approval as the desired use of the property along with the affiliated Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum provides a unique educational experience for this community. So, question.

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We're dealing with recommendation on the rezoning. We're not dealing with the future land use plan, is that correct? It's it's for both of them. So, we had the public hearing for the future land use plan amendment and so, you're just it's it's one vote, but it'll cover both of them. Anybody want to speak? If not, we'll bring it to the planning commission. Motion to approve. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve both the recommendation to amend the future land use plan and the rezoning. Is there discussion? Discussion, Mr. Chairman. This will be a great addition to ward four. Mr. Deb Yanojan would be proud and looking forward to seeing it get going. Further discussion? If not, all in favor, say aye. Motion to approve. Opposed?

[laughter] Motion passes. Thanks. Is there any other staff comments? The meeting is adjourned.

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