Planning & Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday, December 15th at 6 p.m. to order. Roll call, please. Here Maxwell present. Thank you very much. At this point of the meeting, I'm going to ask for an approval of the agenda that's been submitted. So move. We have a motion to approve the agenda by right and second. Second. Second by Fellowam. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. The agenda is approved. At this point in the meeting, I'm going to ask for an approval of the minutes from our December 1st meeting. So moved.

We have a motion to accept the December 1 minutes from Flarity. Second. Second, second from right. All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. The minutes from last meeting are approved.

This is the public participation portion of the meeting. This is the portion of the meeting where you are, if you are here to speak of something that's not on the agenda. We invite you to come to the podium and address us now. Seeing none, I'm going to close the public participation portion of the meeting down and I'm going to open it up for new business. We have two items under new business. The first item under new business is a public hearing. So, I'm going to open up a public hearing for this is a petition by the Specialized Education of Illinois, Inc. for reszoning from the LI Light Industrial District to the LC Light Commercial District for a portion of the property located at 315 North 6th Street. In addition, a petition for a special use permit for a private therapeutic day school for the property located at 315 North 6th Street is also requested. Is there a presentation to be made?

Yes. You can come to the podium, please, and state your name. My name is Sanchez. Good evening, commission members. Um, as I said, my name is Lindsy Sanchez and I am zoning counsel for specialized education. You might hear us also refer Am I on now? Can you guys hear me better now? Great.

Um, so yes, I'm Lindsay Sanchez. I'm here um on behalf of the Applicant Specialized Education of Illinois, Inc. Um, again, you might hear us refer to them as Cessy just because it's a long name, but that's the abbreviation that we use. Um, on behalf of my client and our team, I just want to thank you guys for taking the time to review the application that we have submitted, um, including all of our exhibits and considering the requests that we're making tonight. Um, I thought I'd just start by giving you a little bit of overview of our team, the property, um, what my client intends to use the property for. Um, and then I'm also going to invite one of our team members, um, from the applicant to come up just to give you a little idea of what the applicant actually does so you can get to know them a little bit. So tonight I have um Teresa Smith. She is the deputy deputy superintendent and regional vice president of the applicant with us. Um then we also have Lisa Sharp with Sharp Architects which is the architect that's been engaged by um Cessie and then also Mark Ghart um with Willlette Hoffman and Associates. He's doing um the engineering on this project. Um and as I mentioned Teresa will come up in a few minutes to give you a little idea about what the the organization does. So um uh CESI is actually a division of a larger organization called FullBloom. Um they operate these types of schools throughout the United States. They've got a very long history of operating therapeutic day schools. Um this one specifically um CESI will partner with uh school districts to operate um a therapeutic day school for students whose uh needs can't be met in a traditional school setting. Um so they include students that may have emotional learning, intellectual disabilities, um other health impairments or other specific learning disabilities. Um they provide educational therapeutic services to the students throughout the school year. Uh they currently actually operate a therapeutic day school in Belvadier. Um and the intent is is that they will be relocating that therapeutic day school here in Decalp. um the

opportunity arose um to relocate here and um Cussy is uh very excited and welcomes the opportunity to move to DecalB um because they do actually service students that are in this area as well. So um it actually is in a welcome opportunity to them. Um the property that is subject to the application Dan did I do this correctly? There we go. Um, so this is an aerial as we mentioned. It is located at 315 North6 Street. Um, and it is currently open owned by JAR LLC. Um, and the owner has consented to this application. We've been working alongside the owner um, uh, to negotiate a lease. Uh, the intent is is that, uh, Cessy would lease the property. Um, it consists of approximately 1.81 acres. Uh there's the one-story building that is located on the property and it is currently actually developed to be used as some kind of day school. Um the interior of the building um if I advance a couple here, the interior of the building is actually um already outfitted with some classrooms, um offices, storage rooms, two multi-purpose rooms, food preparation areas and warming areas, and then therapy rooms and bathrooms. So, it currently does have the facilities that would be necessary to operate the therapeutic day school. That being said, um Cussy does intend to invest a significant amount of money to upgrade the interior of the building um and make some modifications, but we do not intend any modifications to the actual floor plan of uh sorry, the exterior of the building itself. It would all be internal. Um as I mentioned, the property is currently vacant right now. Previously, it was operated as a therapeutic day school by Camelot Schools. Um, Camelot was actually acquired by um, Cesi's parent organization a couple of years ago. So, um, there is some continuity there as well, which is very nice. Um, as I mentioned, they intend to lease the

property. Um, it would serve children between the ages of 3 to 21. Um, with the an emphasis probably on kids that are on the younger age. Um, these students do have heightened specialized needs. Um and this is something that uh Cussy can can provide to them. Uh we the applicant will partner with school districts. So there will be students there that um the school districts can't properly um serve their educational therapeutic needs. Um so we partner with the school districts to be able to provide those services to the students. Um they the applicant is going to employ uh teachers, therapists, educational support staff and other support staff. Um right now the current expectation would be at maximum capacity the applicant would um serve 100 students here and have a maximum of 64 staff members. Um the expectation is that that would take about 12 to 18 months to actually fully maximize um the space with the number of students and staff. Um the location that is in Belvadier right now currently has 60 students. Um the school itself will be funded primarily through um funds from school districts um because of that partnership with them. Um the school is currently um the Belvadier school is currently approved by the Illinois State Board of Education as a non-public school program. Uh this new location will similarly be um approved by the Illinois State Board of Board of Education. Um the intent would be to change the name of the school. So the school would be the High Road School of Decal. Um and then Assessi is also accredited by an organization Cognia. It's a global nonprofit organization that provides accreditation for a variety of different educational institutions. Um so as we've laid out in our application, uh we're currently making two requests uh today.

The first is to request a map amendment um to change the zoning classification of a portion of the property um from LI light industrial to LC uh light commercial. So as you can see currently the property has two zoning designations and so the uh request would be that the entire parcel be um zoned uh as light uh commercial. The second applica uh request that we're making then is an application for a special use permit um to operate the subject property as a private school, namely a therapeutic day school for children between the ages of 3 and 21. Um this would be a uh special use that is allowed under the LI district. Um so as we've set out in our application um reszoning this property um to one contiguous uh zoning designation uh would have a significant benefit to the property. Uh as I noted it is currently uh laid out and designed to be used as a day school. Um and a day school is not currently allowed in the LC district. Uh but it is allowed in the LI district. Um there are a few uses under the LI district that would um work with the way that the property is currently laid out. Um so that would be um a very beneficial contiguous um resoning. It also would be consistent with um the 2020 comprehensive plan for the city of Decal um which notes that the subject property is intended to be used for commercial uses. Um so it would be consistent with that as well. And as I noted, the subject property itself is um very well suited for our specific use. Um it has the infrastructure that we already need. Um so while the um applicant is intending on investing a significant amount of money to upgrade the building, um it's not necessary for us to do massive demolition uh to make the property work for what the intended use is. Um so at this time, I'm going to actually introduce uh Teres Teresa

Smith. I'll let her come on over here and um just give you an idea of the organization itself and then I'll come back and talk about a spec a couple specific issues that are addressed in our application.

Thank you. Uh good evening everybody. I'm Teresa Smith. I've been working with the schools um in Illinois under the umbrella of Specialized Education Services Inc. for the last um 19 school years. I also worked with the organization when it was Camelot which was um who ran the program previously and to kelp. So I'm familiar with the building the space um the area and we are excited with the potential opportunity to come back and bring our programming there. Um what we do really is we're helping children um that just aren't able to be served in their traditional school setting. So we do take children in um we would take children in from Dalb and surrounding areas and we would provide their school day to them. And what we do a little bit differently is we're able to really customize the schedule for the children and we provide extensive therapy alongside. So the plans that have been drafted up include spaces for your more traditional academic learning along with therapeutic supports and services. So we do feel that the space would be um optimal for the work that we want to do with children. Does anybody have any specific questions about what we do and how we do it?

I think we can uh you give your presentation and Okay. that will give the city's presentation. At that point, we'll probably have questions. Okay. Great. I'm not sure how much detail you want me to go in, but um I'll look at you're behind me. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Um so, the intention with this uh property as well is that it would operate on a traditional school schedule as well. So, the hours of operation would be [clears throat] what you would typically expect for a school as well. We set the specific hours um in our application, but again it would be your traditional school hours roughly 7 to 7:30 for staff to arrive. Um and the latest that people would be there would be about 4 or 4:30 as well. Um so a couple of specific um issues. Again, um I've noted that we we did put together a very extensive writer. Um we also addressed all of the different factors in the UDO regarding the reasonzoning as well as the special use permit. Um, I was in the interest of time. I didn't want to go through each one of them with you guys. I'm certainly happy to if you want to, but I do think we've covered them pretty well in our application. Um, more than happy to answer any questions on those if you would like us to. Um, some of the things that we do want to address specifically. So, um, parking is one of the issues that we have looked at with respect to this property. Um, so currently right now on the property, uh, if you look at this map right here where it says LC district, um, that property itself, let's see if I can work this properly up here. There we go. That is our parking lot right [clears throat] there. Uh, we have determined that that lot in and of itself is not sufficient for the number of parking spots that we would need. However, um, the property owner also owns this lot down here. Um and so we are in uh current negotiations with the property owner to include that parking lot in the lease. Um so between the two lots themselves that would provide sufficient parking spaces uh more than sufficient parking spaces for what would be needed for the school. Um so that was one issue that we did identify and um we were able to address. Um and again that parking lot would be the blue lot that is highlighted right there. Um, another issue that um, oh, let me go backwards that was addressed is um, the traffic flow. Um, so one of

the things that we were trying to address is uh, balancing traffic flow along with student safety. Uh, we want to make sure that the students are dropped off as close to the building as possible. It is my understanding previously when the property um was operated as a school that the drop off was actually on North Sixth Street. Um that was before it was converted into the oneway. So that was one of the things that we needed to look into. Um and so what was determined is a bus pattern that would actually allow the buses to come in off of the north street in use the alleyway to come alongside so that we can get them in that first lane um to get them dropped off as close to the school as property. Um we would so they the idea would be that they would be coming from either this direction here and would come along here or they would come in from this direction and circle in here. In either circumstance, they would need to exit right here. So we are proposing to put a new um curb cut exit right there. Um but in this instance then we can there's a door that's right here at the property. Um it would allow the students to be dropped off from the buses on the correct side so that the students aren't having to cross in front of bus traffic as well um and safely get inside the school. Um I believe uh Dan has an updated one of the issues that was raised was whether or not um the buses their turning radius would actually uh be sufficient enough that it is our understanding there are some cars that park along the street here for the residential properties. Um Mr. Ghart was able to run the calculations and confirm that there is enough space here for the buses to safely make the turn uh without impacting any kind of vehicles that would be parked along this side. Um so we believe that this would be a sufficient traffic flow um for the buses. There is also a proposed traffic flow um and I know it was here we go for smaller vehicles. So this would be for just regular cars. Um, some of these

students are they're typically uh transported to and from school either in buses um sometimes like a van uh provided by the school district or uh some kind of ride share service. On rare occasions, the parents will also drop them off um but it's typically transportation that is provided by the school district. Um, so we do also have a plan that would have um traffic coming in, smaller traffic, cars or smaller vans coming in this way and then just circling around, dropping the students off here and exiting the same way. Um, so we do think that this would be a sufficient traffic flow um that would hopefully uh not impede traffic flow too much, but also would um protect the students the best that we can. Um, one of the things that we also um have noted is um with respect to just the parking in general um and we've reviewed I the staff report has three conditions in there. One of the conditions is that um we would get the lease for that uh additional parking lot. We are certainly okay with that condition. We have no issue with that. Um, another one of the conditions is that we would adequately um put adequate signage up in the um parking lot so that we can direct traffic the right way. Um, we have absolutely no objections to that. Um, and that would absolutely be our intention um to make sure that everything is is properly signed so that buses and um anyone else dropping people off know where um to go. Um and then the additional one would be that all staff would be required um to park in the parking lot either located on this lot or across the street. And again, we have no issue with that condition as well. We believe it's reasonable and would have no problem with that. Um so with that, um we're happy to um answer any questions after Dan um gives his presentation, but we uh very much appreciate you guys taking the time to consider this. Um, like I mentioned, um, Cessy is is very excited about the

opportunity to come back to Decal, um, and reestablish its presence here. So, thank you. Thank you, Lindsay. Is there staff report, please?

Yeah. Yes. The staff for Port Lindsay went very thorough through the report and the request u again it's uh two requests. One is to reszone the southern twothirds of the site from light industrial to light commercial. Light industrial private school is not permitted or special use. So in light commercial it's a special use. So thought was to make the entire lot one zoning district like commercial and then the applying for the special use for the uh private therapeutic day school. And as kind of discussed uh by Lindsay, the big thing we were looking at and knowing that was previously Camelot school there is very similar operation uh was the parking and access student uh drop off pickup. How would that work? So, and they uh provided um very detailed plans and how that would work uh with um the existing parking lot paved here in the north side of the site. Uh putting in employee staff parking with access off of North Sixth Street and then um a drop off area um right in front of the uh building here, access off the alley off Pine Street exiting out. As mentioned, they'll add a new curb cut to North Sixth Street. There'll be two diagonal spaces lost with that. These uh the front of the building from a few years ago, this is uh this from the summer. Uh there'll be a new curb cut generally where this car is right here. And this

is a north parking lot. There's already existing curb cut there. Uh as mentioned it was uh in 2021 this was made from two-way to oneway street northbound and diagonal parking added uh the west side and a few on the east side too. Um did a general survey in the last week or so out there. It was kind of hard because a lot of snow cover I think snow was covering some of the parking spaces but uh there was generally two to three open spaces on the west side. on the east uh there's six spaces a couple were open so but again the the snow cover I think some spaces were covered up so that was changed a few years ago to allow some of the businesses particularly the housing authority to have some parking availability for them um most of those over here do not they have just a few on-site u parking spaces and rely for their employees to park along North Sixth Street. So that was the cause of the condition which they've agreed to that employee parking for the school be on the north side the parking lot or in the parking lot across Oak Street. No parking allowed Norix Street for the employees. That would be for the u uh other people that work in that area. It's public parking open. Uh but uh that's a condition we'd uh want to ensure that uh make sure that the parking is kind of reserved for those other businesses that do lot a lot of on-site parking or have very little. Um again the required parking based on the number of students and our formula in the UDO with 64. Uh the parking on the north side they're going to get about 40 and then that parking lot to the south would accommodate 50 spaces. So they

have plenty of parking between the two uh for their staff. And they provided um a drawing showing the turning movements for buses and for vehicles uh for pickup and drop off. Uh that they'll be able to make that turn and not interfere with any of the parking that a little bit of on street parking allowed in front of the uh there's some homes over here. Single family here right over here. There's a few homes and they park on the street parallel space and not diagonal. Uh so the buses will be able to turn and these buses are not they're not like school bus size they're going to be some will be smaller as I understand not fully all school buses of course a lot of smaller half the size or a quarter. So, uh, we were happy with those, uh, items and those conditions. Think it'd be a good use for the site. Um, this is a zoning map. You can see there is light commercial across the street and to the west, too. It's right on the edge of the central business district. So, the light industrial is just kind of a antiquated zoning for that area. uh based on some previous uses and I think the light commercial is appropriate and the special use they meet all the findings of fact that were in the staff report very thorough analysis there uh so with the we're recommending approval based [snorts] on the findings of fact and with the um conditions the applicant obtain a lease to park the vehicles on the southwest corner of Oak and North Sixth Street. Uh again, the employees only park on the north parking lot or the lot across Oak Street and directional sign is added to direct traffic through there. I would also add in and at the applicant they're okay

that uh we which is the request maximum of students of 100 between the ages of three and 21 for the site for the operation and they've agreed to that. So I think there probably should be a max number of students in there and that's what they're actually requesting. So, okay. As part of the motion, I would ask that you just add that u additional condition maximum of 100 students. Yeah. Of 100 uh students between the ages of three and 21, which is what they're requesting. Okay. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Dan. I do have one speaker request form in my hand. So, I'm going to ask Randy Bordis to come up to the podium. Welcome, Randy.

Good evening, commissioners. uh Randy Boue uh here representing the housing authority of the county of Decalb and we are just here publicly to welcome um and and support um Cesy to our neighborhood and um and want to thank the city of Decal for uh ensuring that our parking spaces on Sixth Street are secured because we do have limited parking network of Nations just moved into the neighborhood and they are very active uh with their community and then of course we've got um aid but Um, we just want to say we're here to support it and welcome somebody in that building uh and use it and it'll be a good good neighbor to have. So, thank you. Thank you, Randy.

Is there anybody else in the public that wishes to speak on this matter? Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing at 6:26 p.m. and open it up to the commissioners for questions and discussion. Does anybody have any questions they need to answer? Just Oh, go ahead. Just for frame of reference, how many students were uh enrolled in Camelot or did it vary greatly? Uh that's a good question. When we were there previously, we had two buildings. We had the building that we're discussing today and the building across the street. Okay. So the building across or I guess it's across like the

alley alleyway

that was our main operation and so our kind of overflow was the building that we're talking about now. So when we pushed towards upwards of a hundred children is when we looked to um kind of uh revamp what we were doing and we moved um our program for children with autism to Genanoa. We partnered with the Genanoa Kingston School District and uh rent one of their schools and we have a very robust program there. and we moved um another portion of that building to Belvadier. So what's interesting is the kind of the the rethinking and the reconfiguring into one space.

So roughly the same number of students. Okay. My question is probably a Dan question. Um does the south parking lot have to be reszoned? No. The CDO allows um off-site parking if it's within 300 ft to meet the required parking for a lot. You can park offsite if it's within 300 ft. And the zoning of that lot is light industrial which allows parking lot. So um which so it's allowed. So we don't need to reszone or touch that lot in terms of zoning.

If I may just address um your question as well regarding the number of students. The other thing is is that the max number of students is set by law. Um so they would be the 100 um students is the cap the max of what they could have as well pursuant to the state board of education regulations. So there's a specific number of students that they can have per classroom. Um so that's how we came up with that number as well. So just for a point of reference. Okay, cool. Does uh will there be students that are outside of 428? Pardon?

Uh yes, there will be. So whereas we'll serve um hopefully children who need our programming from Dalb, we will also service children uh from about an hour radius around where the property is located. Um, and so there's a a number of district partners. We'll have probably at some point we'll have between 20 and 25 different district partners that will be sending children to us. Does the Cal currently have uh what's what's going on at Cheesebor? I thought Cheeseboro was something.

They also that Cheeseboro has a another uh non-public school program in there right now. All right. Similar to yours. That's correct. Yes. Different type of programming and probably maybe different types of children, but they've gone through the same approval process that we did with the state board of education. So, similar in that way.

I have a question. It might be for you Dan. is if Camelot was operating in this location and it's light industrial now, did that did our our code change or did Yeah. Uh that occurred before I we didn't find any uh ordinance or special use permit. So it was uh whoever at the city at that time determined it was allowable use I guess at that time. So there's they didn't have to reszone it. There was no special use permit that we could locate. So Okay. All right. So, just so I'm understanding, right? I mean, well, you you worked at Camelot and Camelot was purchased by Cessy.

They were purchased by Full Bloom. Um, it'll be five years on December 18th of this year. Um, and we were acquired by them. Okay. Yes. And what you're proposing is we're going to basically bring something like this back to this location. That's correct. And there's no issues from the neighbors that I'm hearing anything from. So, All right, that being said, this seems like a makes sense to me. Yeah, it's filling a vacant building that it's kind of unique and was set up for kind of a school, so it's easy to go into and it's been vacant for a few years, so uh thought this would be a good use for that location. Okay.

Do you have um full use of are there other things going on in that building besides the school? There's not. In fact, what's unique about the building is um it still has the murals that we painted when we were there. So Craig River, who's here, uh he he ran the program and painted some of those murals and all these years later, um you know, we stepped back in and they're still there. And that's kind of kind of sweet to see. Now, isn't there a huge lower level to that building that It's a very interesting lower level, but we do not have interest in using that part of it. Okay.

Any further questions? If there are none, does anybody want to make a motion on this? Adding I will adding to the maximum number of students into their

Yeah, I'll do it. Based on the submitted petition and testimony presented, I move the planning and zoning commission forward its findings of fact as stated in the staff report and the applicants narrative and writer to the petitions and recommend and recommend to the city council approval of the reszoning from LI like industrial district to the LC light commercial district for a portion of the property located at 315 North 6th Street as described in exhibit A. In addition, a petition for a special use permit for a private therapeutic day school for the property located at 315 North 6th Street described in exhibit A is recommended for approval subject to the site plan dated 11525 attached as exhibit B and subject to the following conditions. One, the applicant obtains a lease to park vehicles on the lot at the southwest corner of Oak Street and North Sixth Streets. Um, two, employees of the therapeutic day school are restricted to park in the area north of the existing building on the subject site or in the parking lot at the southwest corner of Oak Street and North 6th Street. Three, directional signage meeting the UDO requirements shall be placed on the site to guide buses and cars through the parking lot and student drop off and pickup areas and four um maximum of 100 students between 3 and 21 years of age.

We have a motion on the second floor from Larity second from right roll call please. Uh, Philip Bomb, yes. Oaklair, yes. Wright, yes. McMahon, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. Good luck. Our se our second topic of new business tonight is an amended final development plan and final plat. An approval of an amended final development plan and final plat for 217 Franklin Street. safe passage. Is there a presentation to be paid?

Good evening. Um my name is Christine Colina, development director at Safe Passage and this will be a brief summary since this was um an approved site building plan on December I think it was almost about December 15th or December something, 2020 is when you all heard this for the first time. So, this is our revise revision um from the original New Beginnings building from a 42,000 square foot two-story structure to a more efficient onestory 14,025T building with an additional 2800 square ft for a basement. This change reflects both the availability of funding, including a $2.5 million federal appropriations grant, and our commitment to being fiscally responsible while still meeting the needs of Dalb County. The updated design includes 18 residential dwellings, improved program flow, and a layout that better supports the trauma-informed care. The reduction in size allows us to focus on what the community truly needs while creating a sustainable facility we can operate long term. So, we've been in the facility that we're in for 43 plus years, and this new one will be there for over 43. The new site plan also increases on-site parking for both clients and staff. In addition, we continue to work with the church, which is located south of our building site, on a shared parking agreement to support overflow and peak hour needs. We do not have that agreement just yet, but we are still in the process of working towards that once we get a little bit further down the road here. Regarding access and landscaping, the revised drawings eliminate all building asset access points on the Franklin Street side. There is an egress door that faces Franklin Street for the second means of egress from the basement. This door will not have any access from the street, but

has been designed for exiting only. Landscaping along the south side has been adjusted accordingly to reflect the new entrance locations and to maintain appropriate sight buffering. Additional landscaping buffering along added along the north property line to screen the additional parking parking and a courtyard has been created and a privacy fence designed to ensure the safety of the clients utilizing the facility. If you have no further questions, I'll let Dan take over from here. Thank you, Christie. Dan, do you have a presentation?

Yes. Uh, thanks Christie. Uh so background in uh 2020 the city reszoned this site from central business district to plan development commercial for the u shelter. Uh the ordinance required submitt of a final development plan um which they did submit. Uh this is a 2021 approved layout plan that was part of the final development plan. Uh larger footprint building. They had parking on the east side of the site. uh access off Franklin and Third Street and also a little service uh access over here on Second. It was a two-story building and much larger as Christine's uh described. So, that final development plan was approved in 2021. Um as you can see with the changes now, particularly it's a one-story building. Uh totally different look, smaller footprint in terms of the square footage as Christine described. So enough of a change where we have to bring it back to the commission and council. Uh they added more parking to the site which is good. Um went from 18 to 29 spaces on site. This site actually is in a location where they've not required any on-site parking but they're providing more uh for their clients and visitors. And of course, there's a large uh lot of um public parking in the adjacent area, too, with the Vaughn lot up here to the northwest. And then, as mentioned by Christine, they're working with the church, Greek Orthodox Church, to perhaps use some of their parking across uh Franklin Street. Uh they're also doing a final plat, which is a one lot uh resubdivision of the lot. They updated the certificates on there and there's an easement for a sanitary sewer that runs through the site. Um

Oh yeah, that was a thing. Yeah, that was a weird thing. Ran right under the building, the old decal clinic. So that was relocated. There was an easement on the plat covering that. So the KWRD has access to that. Uh so they've submitted a um in your background materials too a landscape plan, the lighting plan uh in compliance with the ordinance. The building will be fully sprinkled, an alarm system, security system will be there. So um and they're looking to start construction uh soon. They did a ceremonial groundbreaking recently and hoping to be open late 2026.

So we'd recommend approval. There's a sample motion there. Uh, provided to you. Very good. Thank you, Dan. This is not a public hearing, right? Is there anybody here that has anything to push? I don't think there's anybody here. Okay. So, I'm going just open it up to the commissioners for questions, comments. Looks good. I just hope you're I hope it's big enough. It looks like it was significantly sliced in half. Yeah. To be physically responsible, you know? Yeah.

Does this uh I mean, so you're doing this. Does this mean you're going to keep the other properties that you currently operate? Now,

if you go to the mic, Christine, just so we can get you on video. Thanks. So, we're in heavy discussions right now with our um capital campaign committee people and our board right now to repurpose the properties that we do own. We do own kind of in a little corridor about six buildings including the shelter that our clients reside in right now. Um we don't have that marketing plan out there yet as far as which buildings we're going to start selling off but yes that is the plan is to um move forward and we will so right now safe passage we rent the old city annex building from Papis development and we will continue to lease that from him for our overflow staff but our residential staff and um some of the programs that we run for our residents will take place in the new building for sure. So, no need to hold on to all of those spaces when we're trying to condense down into just two spaces. We have a couple other spaces that we rent. We got a legal our legal team is over in Sycamore and then we also have a space downtown Decal that we offer another program in. But, um, and we'll continue to hold on to those if we need them. So,

how many how many people do you serve now? How many clients do we have in our facility now? Yeah, somewhere between 20 and 28 if there's children that we can accommodate in the shelter that we're in right now in five bedrooms and two bathrooms. This is a a pretty good increase for you then. For sure. Yeah. Well, the original plans were even bigger, but really too much for us to financially probably hold on to for a long period of time. I'm glad you figured that out. Thank you. Any other questions?

Seeing no questions, does somebody want to make a motion on this one? I make a motion. I move that the planning and zoning commission recommend approval of the amended final development plan and final plat for the safe for the safe passage facility at 217 Franklin Street per the plans in exhibit A and subject to all staff comments. uh being addressed prior to the insurance of uh a building permit and recording of the final plaque. We have a motion on the floor from right. Is there a second? Second. Second from Felibomb. Roll call, please. Fellow. Yes. Oclarity. Yes. Right. Yes. Yes.

Motion passes. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you for coming back. Good luck with your planning. Thank you for all your support. Thank you. All right, that concludes the new portion business of the meeting. Now on to reports. Staff, are there any reports for us?

Yeah, next meeting on January 5th in the new year, uh we'll have one hearing regarding the annexation that would be made uh public or posted in next few days, the commission will get information on that. And then we'll have a reapproval of preliminary and final plan for 145 Fisk Avenue. That's the old St. Mary's Hospital. It was approved for apartments few years ago. Uh we did get the U plating and final plans for the site and the final plat. So that's going to go routed back through the planning and zoning commission actually expired. So, um that's getting routed back through and then um the uh city council on December 8th approved the project vector data center unanimous and also the youth shelter at 220 College Avenue was approved too.

Saw that which went through the commission. Um and thanks for hard work this year and merry Christmas to everybody. Thank you, Dan. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any reports from the commissioners? If not, is there a motion to adjurnn? So move. Motion to adjurnn from right. Second. Second. Seconded from Felabomb. All in favor say I. I. I. Same sign. Merry Christmas everyone. All right. Merry Christmas.