Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

April 9th, 2026 planning commission for the city of Watertown to order. Randy, would you please do roll call? Yes. Darus Johnson Kay here. Gohane here. Jesus here. Tate here. Spire.

Spire. Bill, we we we can't hear you. Hello. All right, perfect. We have a quorum. Go ahead. Catch and Albi are absent and alternate Tupperware is as well. I would entertain a motion uh to approve the March 19th, 2026 meeting minutes. So moved.

Motion by Tate. Second by Kay's. Uh any discussion uh questions, concerns regarding the meeting minutes perhaps other than what was discussed previously? So this is the one where it lists uh Miss Churnis as being present but she while she was physically present she was not present in voting. And you're saying that we did not she's absent on roll call. She was absent on the board of adjustment meeting minutes. she shows up as present in the planning commission, but my understanding is although I was absent that she was present but non voting at that one. That would be the correction.

I mean that's consistent with what board of adjustment showed. Board of adjustment indicates she's absent. Charis.

Okay. So, I will just make them consistent subject to those changes. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor of approving say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Uh abstaining. I'm going to stayain because I wasn't here. Motion passes. Minutes are approved. Any disclosures of conflict of interest or export communication with any of today's matters? Good. Any declaration of new business? No.

Okay. Same thing. Uh there's time at the end of the agenda to discuss matters uh to discuss matters that do not appear on the agenda. Please let Brandy know if you fall into that category and we will take that up at the end of the agenda. I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Motion by K, second by Doug Johnson. That uh all those in favor or excuse me, excuse me, any changes or issues with the agenda. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval of the agenda say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Agenda is approved. That brings us to 8A, which is annexation and zoning of bourbons.

Okay. Thank you, Liam. So, as stated, this is an annexation and zoning of lot one of Bourbon's addition, which has been platted within the C um county, and it is being proposed. It's 10 acres uh adjacent to city limits, and it's being proposed to be brought in as C3 Highway commercial district. And with that, I'll stand by for any questions.

Board have any questions for Miss Hatton? Wonderful. So, we're going to have a public hearing on the annexation and zoning. Just for procedural st standpoint, we'll have a public hearing and then we're going to have commission action on the annexation and then action on the zoning. Everybody understand? Okay. I'm going to open the public hearing on both. If there's anyone here to speak on behalf of the annexation and zoning, come on down. Introduce yourself. Okay. Wonderful. Anyone opposed? neutral or in favor of the annexation of zoning and zoning going once, twice, three times. I'm gonna close the public hearing and I would ask for action on 2026-11 which is the annexation.

Mr. Chair, I'd so move the annexation. Motion by K, second by Darus Johnson. Further discussion regarding annexation. Just I know that u from the county's perspective they just assume have this in the property of the city as well and I don't think we have a history in the city of rejecting people that want to come in property tax looks pretty prefuncter to me. Any further discussion? All right because Spire is gone or uh online we you want me to do a roll call? We'll do a roll call, Brandy. Okay. Darcus Johnson, yes. Kay, yes. Cohane, yes. Trenis, yes. Tate, yes. Spire,

yes. Six, yes. Zero, no. Motion passes unanimously. I would entertain a motion on 20 26-11. The zoning ordinance. Motion by Darcus Johnson. Not all at once. Second second by K's. Any further discussion regarding the zoning? Go ahead. Uh the proposed zoning is in line with the comprehensive land use plan to band. That is correct. As stated on the agenda, too. I did not note that, but thank you. Thank you. Again, looks pretty prefuncter. Any further board discussion?

Hearing none, I'd ask for a roll call, Brandy. All right, bring it back. Spy, yes. Tate, yes. Turtis, yes. Cohane, yes. Kay, yes. Darcus Johnson, yes. Six, yes. Zero, no. Ordinance number 2026-11 passes unanimously and Watertown just got a little bit bigger. That brings us to 8B 2026-12 Pur Hills Development. Go ahead, Brandy.

Okay, thank you, Liam. So, this is a reason request for uh Prairie Hills Development. Uh, let me get this. Prairie Hills Development First Edition. It is currently zoned C2, local commercial district, and the applicant and owner is proposing to reszone to allow for some R2 single family attached residential lots, actually three to be specific, to be on the north to be reszoned on the north side of the property. um those lots would be conforming to the zoning requirements for that zoning district and it is in line with the comprehensive land use plan as well with residential being nearby. So with that, I'll stand by for any questions.

Does the board have any questions for Randy?

Hearing none, I'm going to open the public hearing and if the applicant or someone on behalf of the applicant would like to come in and explain what's going on, come on down. Seeing no one, is there anyone uh opposed, in favor, or neutral that has anything to say regarding amending the zoning of this particular piece of property? Anyone online? Once, twice, three times. I will close the public hearing uh and ask for commission action on resolution number 2026-12. Make a motion to approve.

Motion by Darus Johnson, second by Curtis. Further board discussion.

Again, looks fairly prefuncter. Uh there's R2 adjacent. Looks fairly standard. I don't really have any comments. And of course, you would address the comprehensive land use plan. Uh, is there any reason why we're not doing the whole thing in R2 as opposed to I had forgotten that there was C2 there? I think just to allow still some commercial excuse. You know, he does do concerts out there um every so often. Okay. All right. Any other f further board discussion? Hearing none, I'd ask for a roll call. Brandy. Okay. Darcus Johnson. Yes. Case, yes. Cohane, yes. Turtis, yes.

Tate, yes. Spire, yes. Six, yes. Zero, no. Motion passes unanimously and the zoning shall be amended. I think I guess maybe it has to go to the city council, but recommended as far as we're concerned. It's now R2. Uh, that brings us to termination of the lot agreement for the stencil one and two, resolution 2026-10. Randy, go ahead.

Okay. Thank you, Liam. So, oddly enough, this is the second one we've seen this year, and we had not we I've never seen one before. So, uh when these come about, it really is just when you do the development lot agreement that can be done. We just signed one today that can be done administratively per ordinance. Um and that's just tying two lots together to be utilized as one. And but it is binding and it's recorded. So, then the properties cannot be split. So, this termination is for the Stencil property. And when they did phase one of the Oaks One project, we tied the two lots together because they were extending the parking lot over onto lot two. And now that they are ready to move forward with phase two, we can dissolve this because we also have this development lot agreement because we also have all of the other requirements for access um included on the plat. So like the private street is platted. Um and so yeah, we can now we can break these two parcels or these two platted lots apart and all of ordinance requirements will be met. Um and parking will still be met as well even though a portion of the parking lot was included on to lot 2. that was really for turning movements for um you know garbage refuge pickup and vehicle vehicle like traffic movements. So um that was the main requirement or the main reason there but because it was going onto a separately platted lot we had to do this and now we are ready to terminate

and ostensibly Brandy phase two is going to extend that parking lot into the into lot too. Yep. Okay. Any other board questions or comments? Uh for Miss Hton, I'll get to you. Sorry, M. Go ahead.

That is the secondary access for emergency for emergencies only.

The access is off 19th. Right here is the secondary emergency access. So it will be it will be blocked off or gated off for all unless the need for emergency access comes comes about. There's it's actually a private road. So it's a platted private road that in theory like it they have they can't deny them access because that is it's a pla like if they don't get along like that's unfortunate but they have like the legal it's platted and that's their legal right to have access

and there's a maintenance agreement between the both properties correct Mr. Go ahead, Miss Date. This just for a clarification, this um lot two was as part of the TIFF that we um that we approved back in February, correct? It's the same place. Yep. Any other further questions for Miss Hen? Wonderful. Uh then I would ask for board action on resolution number 2026-11 or 10, excuse me. Move. Second.

Motion by K. Second by Darus Johnson. Further board discussion regarding this termination of development lot agreement. Again it seems kind of prefuncter I think again but this was like you mentioned kind of the first one. Caught me a little bit off guard. The first one that I can remember but maybe this is the second one I've been a part of. And you might have been according to the minutes maybe you were absent. I don't Yeah, who knows? I maybe maybe even not physically but mentally I was absent. So uh chair so with that the tiff I guess I didn't even think about that. That does not affect them whatso I mean the the tip was on only lot two

right? That's what I mean. So that doesn't change things for them. No it doesn't. It actually it like this also needs to happen so they can have it be in a separate entity. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Further great questions, great discussion. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Brandy ask understanding is that the uh the lot agreement was only really needed for the development one. It's not needed for lot two. Uh so now that they're combined, like you said, it's per Yes.

Correct. Thank you. Any further board discussion? Roll call. Brandy. Okay. Spire. Yes. Kate, yes. Turtis, yes. Cohane, yes. Kay, yes. Darus Johnson, yes. Six, yes. Zero, no. Resolution passes. That brings us to open public comment. Is there anyone here to speak on anything that was not on the agenda? New business? None that I have. Old business. I don't think we've any need for executive session. No,

but I'll defer. Uh then we are adjourned and have a great Thursday afternoon everyone. Thank you guys. Mr.