Planning and Zoning - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Welcome to planning and zoning meeting for commission for meeting for February 19th, 2026. At this time, I would like to call the meeting to order. The commissioners who are present for this evening's meeting are at city hall. We also have staff from the city attorneys and the city clerk's office as well as the city's planning department. If you're joining us on Zoom this evening, we can see that you are here. You may observe the meeting. However, your ability to be seen or on screen and talk will be muted. During the public testimony of the meeting, you will be unmuted and then be able to comment. Please note that we cannot take questions until the public testimony of the meeting. If you have a process question during the meeting, please email city clerk@meridiancity.org. org and they'll reply they will reply as quickly as possible. If you simply want to watch the meeting, we encourage you to watch this streaming on the city's YouTube channel. You can access it at meridiancity.org backlive. With that, let us begin with roll call.

Mr. Clerk, thank you, Madam Chair. Commissioner Garrett here. Commissioner Gamino, present. Commissioner Sandavville. Commissioner Stole here. Commissioner Smith here. Commissioner Perau, Commissioner Larger here. The first item on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. Please note that item number five is going to request a continuence and other than that there are no other changes. Could I get a motion to adopt tonight's agenda? Move to approve the agenda as presented. Second. It's been moved and second to adopt tonight's agenda. All those in favor say I.

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda, which is to approve the meetings of the planning and zoning meeting of February 5th. Could I get a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented? So moved. Second. It's been moved and second to present the consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. At this time, I would briefly like to explain the public hearing process. We will open each item individually and begin with the staff report. Staff will report their findings and how the item adheres to our comprehensive plan and unified development code. After staff has made their presentation, the applicant will come forward and present their case and respond to staff's comments. They will have 15 minutes to do so. After the applicant has finished, we will open the floor to public testimony. Each purse will be called only once during public testimony. The clerk will call the names individually of those who have signed up on our website in advance to testify. You may come to the microphones and chambers or will be unmuted on Zoom. Please state your name and address for the record and you will have three minutes to address the commission. If you previously sent pictures or presentation for the meeting, it will be displayed on the screen and our clerk will help you run the presentation. If you have established that you are speaking on behalf of a larger group like an HOA where others from that group will allow you to speak on their behalf, you will have up to 10 minutes. After all those who have signed up in advance have spoken, we will invite any others who wish to testify. If you wish to speak on a topic, you may come forward in chambers or if on Zoom, press the raise hand button in the Zoom app or if you're only listening on the phone, please press star 9 and wait for your name to be called. If you're listening on multiple devices, such as a computer and a phone, please be sure to mute those extra devices so we don't experience feedback and we can hear you clearly. When you have finished, if the commission does not have more questions for you, you will return to your seat in chambers or be muted on Zoom and no longer have the ability to speak. And please remember, we will not call on you a second time. After all testimony has been heard, the applicant will be given another 10 minutes to come back and respond. When the applicant has finished responding to questions and concerns, we will close

the public hearing and the commissioners will have the opportunity to discuss and hopefully be able to make final decisions or recommendations to city council as needed. With that in mind, we are going to start with start with num item number two H2025-000040. Rolling Hill subdivision has requested a continuence. U Mr. Clerk, do we have a date a suggested a suggested date for this continuence? Madam Chair, I believe staff said March 5th. Yes. May I get a motion to continue Rolling Hill Subdivision for March 5th?

So moved. Second. It's been moved and second to continue Rolling Hill subdivision till March 5th. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We're going to go to out of order right now and do item number five for Singoringa Crossing mixeduse development. Um they have also asked for a continuence. Mr. Clerk, do we have any date suggested for this continuance? The applicant is online, but I believe March 19th. Uh may I get a motion to continue Seringo Crossing mixeduse develop for March 19th? So moved. Second.

It's been moved and second to continue H2025-007 Seringa Crossing to March 15th. All those in favor say I. I. Did I say 15th? 19th, right? Sorry. Amend. Please make it the 19th. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item number three on the agenda is H2025- Z0056 for the T- box at 535 no North Locust Grove Road for a conditional use permit and we will begin with the staff report.

Good evening commissioners. Um so tonight we are here for um a conditional use permit. Um is requested to operate a golf and fitness training facility from um is from an existing 16,000 foot industrial building um on 1.427 acres of land. It's in the IL zoning district. The facility will be about 4,000 square ft of that building. So this is an existing building. um that was approved under an administrative application um in CZC-05-059 and the property is part of a larger um subdivision. It was a railside park subdivision that was recorded in March of 1997. So this is the floor plan that shows the portion of the property that will be uh of the building that will be occupied by the T- box. So it includes golf simulator bays, a fitness area, putting greens. Um the space will be retrofitted with three golf simulator bays, state-of-the-art putting surface, and a small fitness area with weights and golf related exercises and an office and conference room. The indoor golf facility has the capacity to allow a maximum of 18 clients at a time. Uh and they have a total of 63 parking spaces for the entire building without assigned parking for that building. So although an indoor recreation facilities uh is not standard use within an industrial area, um they are considered um through a conditional use permit per our UDC. As such, the planning and zoning commission um should evaluate whether continue expansion of commercial uses with an industrial area remains appropriate. So that is what staff is asking of you. So if this is deemed

appropriate, staff finds that the proposed golf simulator and fitness area to be an appropriate use in this industrial um area based on the analysis that were provided in the staff report. So at this time um well other than that, I'm sorry. So, these are site photos and the only we put did put a condition in there. There are two garbage bins that are up by the front entrance of the site and we are asking that those either be enclosed based on our code or relocated to the rear next to the existing enclosure. And with that, I will stand for any questions that you guys may have on this application. Would the applicant like to come forward? Hi. If you can state your name and address for the record.

Okay. I want to just ask Commissioners, do we have any questions for the applicant at this time? Madam Chair, Commissioner Perau. Hi there. I just wanted to double check that you are agreeable with staff's request to screen the the garbage dumpsters. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Clerk. Is there anybody to testify? Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were Madam Madam Chair. There's no one to testify. And you've said everything that you would like. Anybody in chambers? So, we're good there, too. Okay. Uh, and do you have any other comments or you're good? All right. May I get a motion to close the public hearing? So, moved. Second. It's been moved. and second to close the public hearing for the T- box. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries.

Um I'm pretty familiar with this area. Uh right next door to them is a rescue for dogs. I think they're pitbulls if I'm not mistaken. Um there's a trucking company next door to that. I know Big Wood Cabinets is across the street. They also accept uh customers to be able to come there. And if you go around the corner, um, uh, 80 county parame paramedics is paramedics are there as well. So even though it's technically an industrial park, it's not um, and there's big trucks coming through through the trucking company, but you know, other than that, it's not like huge volume um, coming in and out. So you did pick a good location to be able to um, have your facility uh, for those serious golfers that want to come through. I'm in favor of um this conditional use permit.

Any other comments? Madam Chair, Commissioner Perau, I agree. Um it's it's not really possible to put any kind of heavy industrial in a 4,000 foot space. So, I mean, this is really designed with the likelihood of the user being being much more light. And um yeah, I think there's a gym in there nearby and and so it's um it's pretty conducive to the to that section of of Locust Grove. All right. Any other comments? Madam Chair, Commissioner Smith,

after considering all staff applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to the city council file number H--2025- Z0056 as presented in the staff report. Madam Chair, uh, for one moment, this is a conditional use permit. Sorry, I missed I read this uh just reading off the thing. Um, I move to approve item number uh H--2025-0056. It's been moved and second to approve file H20250056, the T box. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much, gentlemen. All right, moving on to item number four on the agenda is H 20225- Z0051 for Driftwood Town Home Subdivision off of for a development agreement modification reszone and preliminary plat. We will start with the staff report.

Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the commission. Um, as you noted, the applications before you are request for a development agreement modification, a reszone, and a preliminary plat. This site consists of 4.81 acres of land. It's zone CC. It's generally located north of West Eustic Road on the west side of North Venable Avenue. The comprehensive plan future land use map designation is mixeduse community. This property was annexed with CC zoning in 2008 with a commercial um for a commercial development. A development agreement was required with the annexation which was later modified in 2016. A new development agreement was approved in 2022 which replaced the earlier agreements and changed the use from commercial to multifamily residential. The existing development plan allows for the development of 57 two and threebedroom, excuse me, two and threetory um town home style multif family dwelling units on one building lot on the northern portion of the property at a gross density of 11.85 units per acre. and two commercial buildings on the southern portion of the property. Um the drawings there on the left side are the existing entitled conceptual development plan and the building elevation um directly below that. The applicant is proposing a new development agreement for the northern portion of the property with a new conceptual development plan as shown there on the right for 61 two-story town home dwellings on individual building lots and updated building elevations. The proposed development is very similar to the previous plan except the community uh center and the plaza area has been removed and four additional dwelling units are proposed for an increase in density of83 units per acre. The same number of dwelling units is proposed adjacent to existing homes to the north in Woodburn subdivision and to

the west in Woodburn West subdivision. One fewer unit is proposed along the west boundary adjacent to the large residential parcel. The additional units are located along the east boundary of the site adjacent to Venibal Avenue which shouldn't impact adjacent residential properties. A mix of front-loaded and alley loaded town home dwellings are proposed with access provided from internal private streets and alleys. The proposed town home dwellings are a desired housing type in the mixeduse community future land use map designation and the proposed density of 12.68 68 units per acre is consistent with the density range of 6 to 15 units per acre desired in MUC. A reszone of 5.01 acres of land is requested from the CC to the TNR zoning district to accommodate the proposed development plan. A preliminary plat is proposed to resubdivide lot one block one driftwood subdivision into 61 building lots and five common and other lots with private streets on 4.81 acres of land in the TNR zoning district. Subdivision of the property will allow individual units to be sold which should allow for owner occupied and rental options rather than just rental options. The subdivision is proposed to develop in one phase. Access is proposed via North Buckstone Place, a local street at the northern boundary of the site and Windrift Lane, a proposed private street along the southern boundary of the site via North Venal Avenue, a collector street. Private streets and alleys are proposed for internal access. The director has approved the proposed private streets uh contingent upon council's approval of the proposed plat. Sidewalks are proposed along internal streets except along the eastern north south alley. Staff recommends a 4 foot wide sidewalk

is provided along the west side of alley A for safe pedestrian access. And that is in this location right here. As you can see the the blue and the um the blue sidewalks are proposed as well as the 5- foot wide detached pathway and sidewalk there in pink. Because this site is below 5 acres in size, qualified open space and site amenities are not required. A total of 0.51 acres of common open space is provided along with a dogway station as a pedestrian focused amenity. Settler's park exists to the east which is approximately an 11minute walk and provides act active and passive recreational opportunities. Additionally, a city community center is planned directly across Venable Avenue to the east, which will provide additional recreation and amenities. Written testimony was received from Eli Bensky Brighton Corporation, the applicant, and they are uh requesting a modification to the development agreement. Um, and they will cover that in their presentation. Staff is recommending approval with conditions. staff is um amunable to the applicant's request for a modification to that DA provision. Just by the way, thank you. Would the applicant like to come forward? Yeah, it should pick you up from the table.

Good evening, Madam Chair, members of Eli Ben 2929 West Navigator Drive. Sonia, as mentioned, we're here for Town Homes for the preliminary resone and development agreement. As mentioned, we are generally located off of Ben. I'm getting the full setup. You guys hear me? Yep. Go ahead.

Okay, perfect. Um, this property is located in the future land use designation of mixeduse community. We are not proposing a modification to the land use map. The current zoning is community business. We are proposing a reszone to traditional neighborhood residential. We are proposing to keep the southern properties commercial. As mentioned, this property has already been platted and has a prior CUP approval. The previous plat was for four lots. There was the commercial lots to the south, the commercial drive aisle, and then lot one block one, which is what we're here today talking about. Lot one block one was one lot with the 57 multifamily units. As mentioned, the units that are directly abuing the residential portion that is already existing, that configuration and lot count remain the same with the current proposal. We are proposing 61 buildable lots, five common and open space lots with a total density of 12.7 units per acre. The expected density within the mixeduse community uh future land use map designation is um sorry is ranging between six and 15 units per acre. So we do fit just right in the middle of that uh request from the comprehensive plan. As mentioned, this property is served by internal private streets notated here in the red and the middle portion of the homes are accessed via the alley or what we like to call a carriage lane and that's notated in the blue. Part of the road improvements that we are doing with this is we are going to be providing a center turn lane at the venable and wind

drift intersection. One thing to know and as Sonia mentioned, this is part of our condition modification that we're requesting. We have previously agreed with the city parks to help manage the signalization of Ustic Inventable. Um the wording on it is the top portion here. We wanted to simplify and clarify our involvement with that signalization because it is completely disconnected from our development. We wanted to make sure that it was clear that this is a CDA that if entered in, we will then manage. We can't force the CDA to go through. So, we just wanted to make sure that that verbiage was very clear. And so what we're requesting is the second portion that text in italicize. I'm going to go ahead and move forward.

Will you go back for a second so we have a chance to read that please? Of course.

Okay. Thank you.

As mentioned, we are providing 4ft wide attached sidewalks throughout the development. On the perimeter of the development, there are going to be 5 foot wide detached sidewalks. This will help better circulate residents to the greater Meridian area with settlers being across Venable as well as some of those commercial uh community services. There's a fuel station, a salon across Venal. So, all this all these will help articulate that movement of pedestrians. As Sonia mentioned, she they the staff has recommended that we put in that sidewalk to the on the west side of that alley. We are okay with providing that access there. Um in red, that red dot, that's where we're going to be putting the dogway station. We thought there's going to be a lot of people moving with their dogs walking over to Settlers. So, that's a good stopping point for people to pick up after their dogs and make sure that they're disposing of waste before they're entering into the park or coming back from the park. Driftwood Town Homes really is the middle of what's happening around here. And I'll get more into detail in regards to the uses that are surrounding this site, but in the middle you'll see the town homes. And then on each side, you'll use see the other intensities of uses. Single family homes are a lower intensity of use. They allow for people to have that personal autonomy. They allow for people to just have their own space. We do have that transition of town homes where people might not be ready or financially able to move into a single family detached home. Town homes allows for a little bit more autonomy more than in a multifamily building. And it also allows people to start that process into ownership. Since these will be individually platted, they

have the opportunity to buy and or rent. At the higher intensity of uses, we have the commercial and multifamily. Directly to the south of this property, we have commercial. And directly to the east of this property, we have multifamily. the image that's lo that's in this slide for multifamily that is actually what's there for the multif family directly to the east. Um, so in terms of scale, they're not like eight floors, they're not huge, they're just twotory multifamily. I believe they're eight plexes. Um, so that just gives you a v a visual of what that transition is here in the area. This gives you an aerial view of what is happening in that area. So in red is where our project is located and surrounding that directly is the single family dwellings to the north. to the east, the future city community center, settller's park, as I mentioned, the commercial where there's the fuel station, some salons. I believe there's a not sure if it's a doggy daycare or a doggy puppy store, but dog related. And then there's multifamily across Eustic. There's more single family dwellings. There's bigger multifamily um also in that area. And then as you get closer to Meridian, you know that there's more commercial and more residential on that side. Here's what our front access type A homes will look like. They are combination of either attached in three or attached in four. The visual here shows what it looks like for the four attached. All of them have a twocar garage with a twocar parking pad. So each home will have parking spaces for four vehicles. um those are the ones that are going to be located at the perimeter. So the people that or the residences that are directly north that they will see a

traditional style home. Yes, they're attached, but they won't see garages or, you know, any lights in their back. It'll just be a traditional backyard. Then the second style of home that we have are the carriage lane homes. These are the ones where the fronts are just the front access doors and then the garages are in the back. These are the ones highlighted here in pink that are at the center and facing Venable. One thing to notate is that all our homes will have sidewalks that connect directly to these pathways, including these carriage lane homes. With that, I conclude my presentation. We concur with the conditions of approval with that requested modification of condition 4A14 and we request your recommendation of approval for the preliminary plat reszone and development agreement modification for Driftwood Town Homes. I stand for any questions.

Commissioners, do we have any questions for the applicant at this time? Madam Chair, Commissioner Perau, just one quick question. Um, with the width of wind drift, was there a reason that you decided to make that private instead of keep it public?

Yes, madame chair. Um, may that back up for you. In the previous in the previously recorded plat, that was its own lot and it was originally supposed to be a commercial drive aisle. Um, in order to have the access shared between the commercial and these private streets, we thought it would be best to have access from the private street

in the um for the venable and uh you stick signal. Has ACD agreed to having you uh manage the um contract with the construction? Madam chair, uh we have not entered into that CDA yet. We are in conversations with them. So still still in discussion. Okay. And that's the main reason for the clarification in in the verbiage is we have not entered that agreement yet. So it got kind of sticky. We wanted to make sure it was clear. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Mr. Mr. Clerk, do we have anybody signed up to testify?

Madam Chair, nobody signed up in advance, online or in person. Is there anybody in chambers that would like to testify? Would you like to come up?

Hi. If you could just state your name and address for the record. Lisa House, 994 West Ashton. Okay. Uh, so I'm just north of the subject property.

Okay. And my concern is not getting the approval and starting the building unless there is um approval on a signal. It's already horrible there. And with the new um property that's being, you know, expanded from Settlers Park, it's that's going to increase traffic. I mean, and you could sit there for like 10 minutes trying to get out of the neighborhood. Okay. The only thing we will address that with the applicant. Thank you. Anyone else in chambers? Would the applicant like to come back and clarify again the uh or any other comments.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We understand that traffic is a concern, especially in that area with Settller's Park. There's people that are using Venibal to access Settller's Park. I've done it before, too. Um, so that only adds to it. I'd like to note that ACD is not requiring the signal. They've done their studies. They're not requiring it with the development. It's something that they've deemed not necessary. It's something that we still also believe needs to be there. That's why we're when willing to enter into that CDA with ACD and the parks department, but because it's not required in our development, we don't want it to be tied directly to the development as it's already deemed not necessary. We have previously done something like this where it wasn't part of our development that deemed it necessary. However, other factors that are happening in the area deemed a signal necessary and we entered into a CDA. the signal out at Discovery Park off Lake Hazel that was in that same modality where we came in after and we helped. We did a little bit of a partnership there as well. So, we are more than willing to help with that. It's just not with the development because they're not tied if that makes sense.

Um, is your organization um also for the development of the commercial use in front of this as well or is that a different company? St. Luke's owns that property. Okay. All right. Madam Chair, Commissioner Perau,

um I have a a lot of concerns about how vehicles are going to move through this development. We've seen um several similar to this. Um and there's a lot of congestion when you have these private streets and then you have the units really close together where you don't have space between the units. there's not space for cars, vehicles to park between the driveways. And so I'm wondering if the applicant would be open to adding um at least the same amount of parking spaces as you have on the north into the south at minimum. And then also if there would be um a possibility of adding a larger parking space in the north and in the south for utility vehicles like um Amazon delivery, furniture delivery, HVAC trucks, contractors, you know, tree trimmers. Um when you have those size of vehicles that park on these 24 to 27 foot wide streets, um it just creates a lot of issues with safety, especially on trash day. and you have all these um you know all these trash cans and you have these large vehicles and you have people coming home from work. It's just really really a challenge. Um I don't love alley loads, but they've become more common and uh even when you have that 20ft driveway with those alley loads, it's just so narrow when you have um you know delivery trucks coming. And I live in a patio home community and during the holidays I probably counted 20 different Amazon, FedEx, um, you know, type of trucks coming a day. And so I have a lot of concern about that with these narrow private streets. And so I'm wondering if that was anything that was discussed and what um, what might be done to to rectify that possible situation. Madam Chair, thank you for that question. Are you just for clarity, are

you meaning the parking stalls that we have there at Buckstone? Are you requesting that we add additional parking? Correct. There's what about six stalls there? Yeah. I just think that's such a a really very small amount if someone's going to have people over an event. Um, definitely think we need at least that many on the south side of the property.

Thank you for that clarification. We have thoroughly looked at the parking in this area. It is pretty tight as you can see. I mean, it's just under five acres. I don't believe we could fit additional parking. That's something that I think we could probably talk about. Yeah,

Madam Chair, commission members, Mike Wardle, uh also of Brighton 2929 West, uh Navigator. Uh I would just point out that all of the uh interior block frontages, there's there's no conflict with driveways there, so there's parking all the way around that interior block. Uh plus all of the units have the two parking stall uh pads in front of their garages. So, it's not like there's not going to be a good share of parking, but obviously under any circumstance, there is u the 100red-year party um or whatever. But so, this is not deficient. It's uh we understand the concern, but uh there's really no way to add more to it than what it is. But it's basically the same concept as we have in all of our cadence projects, which allow parking on one side. And in this particular case where there's no garage frontage on that on those alley uh uh units, we've got all of that frontage to park.

Any other questions, Madam Chair? Commissioner Smith.

Um yeah, looking so um Commissioner Pro and I have to have a discussion because I actually really like Ali Lomes. Um but that's not my concern. Uh my concern is looking at this north uh east section of the property um the boundary with the the property to the north and that kind of corner there. I'm seeing like six a six to1 ratio looking in backyard to backyard and that for me is kind of the thing where I don't it causes me a little bit of pause. Um the this commission's been pretty big on transitional space and I I think as a whole, you know, at a high level, this does a good job transitioning from single family to to this commercial, but I'm curious about this kind of transitional pocket here. And I'm curious if there have been any discussions internally about other approaches or ways to mitigate that or or has there been any discussion or planning or trying to solve for that?

Yes. Let me grab my laptop. I actually do have an additional image that will help answer this a little bit better. One second. Thank you. And to clarify, Commissioner Smith, you're just speaking of these units right here on the northeast side. Or are you talking? Uh, I'm talking about the north. So that's the northwest. I'm talking about the northeast right against Vandable. Yeah, right here. Okay. On that corner. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you. So we have looked at different configurations. We had tried doing a three attach there instead to obviously make that a little bit less. What ended up happening is kind of a game of rotation. So instead it ends up putting two fours over here and then same thing. This is a single user or a single residential um with this outlaw out here. It it was really difficult to figure out essentially who ends up with an additional lot. I don't want it to sound like we weren't thoughtful in this process, but when you have a backyard neighbor who has that corner lot whose lot ends up being, I guess, trapezoidal in the backyard, it is really hard to accommodate how many lots and units are back there. it. I have a image of what that looks like streetwise. So, this is actually their backyard, the house in the brown. It looks a lot wider on the aerial than it does in like when you're doing a street view. So, I took that based off of like that yellow star. That's where that is. So, I don't know if that helps. with that qualm at all. But it is I mean it is difficult to plan those lots when when the backyard itself is like that when you look at all the other neighbors when it's a 2:1 ratio with all their other neighbors. It's just because it's a corner lot.

Thank you,

Madam Chair. Commissioner Perau. Um, so I was just looking at the kind of ratios or percentages of residential to other uses in this mixeduse community area. And it feels very heavy on the residential. I know you already have a cup that's approved for um similar size project. So, it's not something that's necessarily going to be um anything that staff would assess at this point, but just wondering if you took any of that into account and or or had made that a consideration as you're you know requesting to change this um to TNR. Yes, it is one of Madame Chair uh Commissioner, it is one of the considerations we make when we are reszoning, especially when it's in a mixeduse area. We do work closely with staff to make sure that we're not hitting over the threshold of what's allowed in those residential uses. And we do try to look at not just what's in within that mixeduse area, but even further than that. Usually if the residents can benefit from more than just what's directly adjacent to them, we also take that into account.

Any other questions for the applicant? Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you.

May I get a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second. It's been moved and second to close the public hearing for Driftwood Town Homes. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Um I know that the site is small and they have adjusted it but the previous application that was approved for twotory and threetory there before even though there's more technically more units it's we lose uh the height some of the height and the density as far as a number of apartments are concerned and Um, they did mention that the north boundary did not change. So, since we have already we've approved it before, I don't know if we had heartburn when we approved it before or not. And there's nobody here for public testimony in regard to those um adjacent lots to the north. I don't I don't have a problem with the way they have set it up right now. Um, I think whenever there's going to be density, you know, drive aisles and service trucks and garbage and Amazon trucks and whatever, that is always going to be a challenge because that's the way our community works these days where we're seeing more u possible box trucks, but I do know Amazon delivers with a lot of vans as well, and that's just part of our um way we do business these days. uh people like it home delivered. So again, the the parking stalls um although it would be lovely to see more, but the fact that each driveway has two spots that you can park around the entire alley load with a couple extra uh I'm okay with that as well.

Madam Chair, Commissioner Smith.

Yeah, I I think I tend to agree. There's a lot of things that give me I have, you know, I have nitpicks with this that I'd like to, you know, if I could wave a magic wand, I'd like to see a little bit different, but I don't think there's anything in here that is outright offensive to me. Um, I think uh I I I am big on um mixed use, not just meaning residential next to commercial. I do think that this is kind of small enough of a project where it naturally integrates with the surrounding area um contrary to some others that are are much larger kind of neighborhood um block size kind of breakups. Um so I don't really have too much of a concern with this. Sure, I' I'd like to see a little bit better of a transition in that one corner. Sure, I'd like to see a little bit better of a parking scenario, but I don't think there's anything that is um you know, crippling to this project that that with the kind of the changes that have been made um that we shouldn't approve it if we've approved it already.

Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. Commissioner Perau.

Um so, uh I really appreciate um that that Brighton has taken to in consideration to have town homes that that can be owner occupied. that's really important part of our community. Um, and I realize all of the the adjustments and stressors that come with urbanization. Um, and uh, but I I just am for for me I'm just not in agreement with a resone from CC to TNR. I really feel like it's too heavy residential in this area for the mixeduse community intention. Um I I this whole corridor on Ustic Road from um Linder to Meridian Road just doesn't have a lot of community serving uses. Got a little down at the end of Linder Road. We don't have any on the on the um you know the on the Meridian Road side. There's just just a small uh couple of businesses there, but because of the park, there isn't a lot of of community serving uses. I'd really prefer for this to stay uh to to not be a residential use. So, um that being said, I I will be voting um in denial this evening.

Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. Commissioner Stall,

um I like the project. Um it's I I think a nice nice compromise on the transition um between the um the area for the residential. Um I appreciate the fact that there's concern regarding traffic. Um I have that same concern regarding the increasing amount of traffic in our community, but it doesn't meet the ACD's warrant for a a signal signal to be put into place. Um, and I think that uh the parks department and the applicant have come up with an approach that will actually get the signal put into place if the um agreement can be completed uh between the three parties in a faster time period than if we just wait for ACD to do it to when it meets their warrants. So, I will be voting in favor of the application.

Okay. Any other comments? I guess Madam Chair, I I would ask if we could pull up the requested change for the modification, the requested modification if that's what we want to add before anyone makes a motion, just so we can make sure we get that right. Um, Sonia, do we have to add it into our motion or is it already in the staff report? Um, chairman, it is not in the staff report. It was in the applicant's response to the staff report. It's in the public record. Okay. If you'd like me to read it off, I c can

I guess. Yeah. I just I just want to make sure we're we're changing it to the to the right verbiage if if staff and the applicant are in in agreement. Thank you. Um or if there's a second reference as as defined in this. Yeah, I I have this here. We can pass. We'll make do. All right.

Madam Chair, Mr. After uh considering uh all staff applicant and public testimony, I move to recommend approval to city council file number H-2025-000051 as presented in the staff report with a modification to read to to modify condition 4.8.1.4 to read as follows. Settlers Park requires a signal at Venable Ustick intersection as part of their mitigation for the future community center. The developer will will continue to pursue a cooperative development agreement if the city's parks department ACD and the developer enter into CDA. The developer will manage the construction of the signal. Second.

It's been moved and second to approve Driftwood Town Home Subdivision with uh the one uh modification for signalization. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any those opposed? Nay. And one nay. Motion carries. Thank you very much. May I have one more uh motion, please? Move to adjurnn. Second. It's been moved and second to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very