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Planning Commission Minutes
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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes
City Council Chambers, City Hall
May 7,2019
CouurssroxeRs:
Present: Stephanie Bailey, David Bernstein, Suanne Martin Smith, Trish Tiemey, Mark Trenary,
Kathleen Wilson
Absent: Marcus Lane, Annette Stewart
Sr.rrp PRnseNr:
Code Enforcement Officer Doug Price, Long Range Planner Keri Sallee
1. Call ro ORDER:
Vice Chair Bailey called the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. and led the pledge of allegiance.
2. Busrxnss rrEMS:
Introduction to 2019 Comprehensive Plan Amendments. Long Range Planner Sallee gaye a
summary of the City's 2019 Comprehensive Plan amendment package. The proposed
amendments include updated Appendix B text references for the City's 6-year Transportation
Improvement Plan and the Bethel/Sedgwick corridor plan appendices, as well as revisions to the
terminology and sizes of the City's adopted local centers in the Land Use Element. The
Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and provide a recommendation to City Council
at the June 2019 meeting.
Discussion: Development Regulations Updates. Code Enforcement Officer Price presented
several new and amended draft code sections in Title 20 POMC, regarding the regulation of
garagelyard sales, temporary uses, and vehicle service/repair on residential properties, and
providing for criminal penalties and other legal options for code enforcement. The
Commissioners requested that Price make several revisions to the garagelyard sale and vehicle
service/repair draft regulations, and bring them back to the Commission for review.
Commissioner Tiemey made a motion to recommend approval to City Council of the code
enforcement provisions and penalties code amendment as presented. Vice Chair Bailey seconded
the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
Commissioner Tierney made a motion to recommend approval to the City Council of the vehicle
service/repair code amendment, with revisions as requested by the Commission. Commissioner
Trenary seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
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Sallee gave an overview of proposed revisions to Title 20 POMC that would allow nine-lot short
plats (an increase to the current 4-lot limit), require onsite recreation space in new residential
subdivisions, and establish tree canopy requirements that will be applied along with significant
tree requirements for new developments.
The Commission will hold a public hearing, re-review the code revisions, and provide a final
recommendation to City Council at the June 2019 meeting.
C. Potential Rezones. Sallee told the Commission that when the City's new Zoning Map was
adopted in March 2019, several church and City properties were given incorrect zoning. The City
also received a request to downzone a number of small and/or undeveloped parcels east of
Mitchell Ave, so that duplexes and triplexes can be built as well as apartment buildings. The
Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and provide a recommendation to City Council
on the rezones at the June 2019 meeting.
3. lppRovAl oF MTNUTES FRoM Fnsnu,{Ry 5,2019:
Commissioner Wilson made a motion to adopt the minutes of the Planning Commission meeting of
February 5,2019. Commissioner Martin Smith seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
Ao.rouRx: Vice Chair Bailey adjourned the meeting at7:36 pm.IW
Annette Stewart, Chairx
Nick Bond, Community Development Director
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