[0:06] All right. Hey, Josh.

[0:11] Are you there? >> I am, yeah.

[0:14] » Are you I just wanted to make sure you could hear us. Make sure my

[0:17] » Got you. >> Sorry for the delay.

[0:20] » Oh, you guys are good.

[0:27] » Meeting minutes. The minutes.

[0:37] Five. I'll approve the minutes for the eight.

[0:41] Comments? >> Yeah, I'd like to um

[0:44] make a correction to the the minutes. The uh roll call shows that I wasn't

[0:49] here. But I just want to make it clear, like

[0:52] clarifications to make sure I'm just counted as present.

[1:03] That's the only correction I had after looking at the

[1:06] » I got them on the phone here. >> Okay.

[1:08] » All right. See, I spoke >> The minutes.

[1:12] » I move to approve the minutes. >> I second the motion.

[1:22] » On public hearing, any other motions besides

[1:25] What about that first public hearing then?

[1:27] » This is to be uh 519 Skyler Okay, I'd like to make a motion to open

[1:33] a public hearing for the first item of business considering

[1:38] the advisability of rezoning 519 West Skyler

[1:41] » No, no, Mill Road. >> Yeah, other other

[1:43] » You're going to You're looking at the minutes.

[1:47] » Other side. >> Yeah.

[1:50] » Um scratch that. Let me start over.

[1:54] I'd like to make a motion to open a public hearing to consider the

[1:58] advisability of rezoning 915 Mill Road from an R1 to a light industrial

[2:04] district. >> I second.

[2:11] » Favor. >> I I vote yes.

[2:15] » Waiting for it, John.

[2:21] » Hey.

[2:24] » All right. So, the request before you is for a rezone to R1 from R1 to I1.

[2:31] If I can get my Where's my mouse? There we go.

[2:36] Um the request is filed by One Gas. Um

[2:40] um this property is kind of a strange property.

[2:44] It was cut off by the See if I can

[2:48] Yeah, it's not going to work for me. It was cut off by the bypass when it first

[2:53] came in. And it was kind of a no man's land.

[2:57] And then when the city sold this property to One Gas,

[3:02] I then assigned it the default zoning because

[3:05] I felt it was most appropriate for us to actually hold this hearing rather than

[3:08] just assign it. I have some authority to do that, but it's better if we do it

[3:13] this way. Um so, this property again is 915. It's surrounded by industrial uses.

[3:19] Uh well, it's ATM is on the east of there.

[3:23] Um and of course the bypass in the background. When you're on this

[3:26] property, you're not seeing anything um over here.

[3:30] Um property is 4.8 acres. And again, that's the default zoning. Um

[3:35] the proposed use of this property is Kansas Gas

[3:39] Service. Um they want to relocate their their yard there

[3:44] um and their offices to that location. And so, I1 is probably the most

[3:48] appropriate zoning for what they're wanting to do there, and it and it it's

[3:52] railroad. So, this this property does have a history of industrial use.

[3:57] Um I believe there was a truck yard or something there at one time, but

[4:00] somebody can correct me if I'm wrong there.

[4:03] Um but the city sold this portion of the

[4:06] property after it was split off from the bypass in 2024.

[4:10] Um Yeah, well, I guess I'll do the rest of

[4:13] that. So, let's not go into that again. So, the

[4:18] future land use plan also does not have a designation for this property because

[4:22] again, it was just right away um at that time.

[4:27] Uh it does make sense to designate it as industrial if we were to go back to

[4:32] their comprehensive plan, we probably would label it as industrial.

[4:36] Um it does There is a a goal in chapter 8

[4:40] of the plan to provide adequate area for industrial land for

[4:45] um action industrial areas should have

[4:47] convenient access to highways, railroad facilities.

[4:51] Um

[4:54] And obviously it's right on the highway, so

[4:57] it has good access for that. Um

[5:03] » Hey, can you go back for a second? >> Sure.

[5:12] You're reading that? >> Yeah, yeah.

[5:13] » Okay.

[5:16] All right. So, as far as zoning, again, it is

[5:21] I2 over here for the mill, and then there's the

[5:26] um substation electric substation, and then

[5:30] this is Valero, so it's kind of industrial along here.

[5:33] Um this is actually industrial, too, even though it's it's just railroad

[5:37] property, basically. There is residential over here.

[5:41] However, again, it's separated by the bypass, which is obviously elevated um

[5:47] as well cuz it's getting ready to go over the

[5:49] bridge right there. And so, again, it's default is that I1

[5:53] or R1. Um so, the proposal would be to switch

[5:57] to I1. Um there's two different classes of

[6:00] industrial, light industrial, heavy industrial. The heavier is for things um

[6:06] like uh that are offensive kind of leave the site like the mill.

[6:10] Obviously, there's a lot of traffic there. It can get loud. Um and then just

[6:16] the activities of a mill, it's fairly offensive. So, it's that's

[6:21] why it's zoned a little higher. I don't think it's necessary to zone this one

[6:23] that high based on what they're doing. So, that's why I proposed I1.

[6:29] Go ahead. >> I was going to ask the It says they

[6:31] don't generate smoke or odors or anything like that.

[6:36] » No, it's certain. Yeah, I'm with the I'm architect.

[6:40] Yeah, no, there's no dust, odor, noise, smoke.

[6:45] It's really just an office building with a loading dock space.

[6:52] » So, this is what the property looks like from the bypass. Again, it's just kind

[6:55] of a bowl there between the the bypass and the mill today.

[7:00] Um pictures from when they were doing the

[7:04] construction. Um this is just looking back towards the

[7:07] other angle um looking towards the south from the

[7:10] railroad. And of course, you can see the railroad and you cannot see any houses

[7:14] or anything. There's a bunch of trees. The the canal is also back in there.

[7:20] And this is just looking oops. This is looking at it from the other angle from

[7:25] the railroad crossing. So,

[7:29] just to give you an idea of what it looks like. And of course, the mill is

[7:32] across the street.

[7:35] » Did we lose Jody?

[7:39] » I think we lost her. >> Got me back.

[7:42] » I did. We did. Okay, we're back. >> Do you have a quorum?

[7:46] » Yes, we do. >> Did you Did you get Lloyd?

[7:49] » We got Dwayne on the other phone. >> We got Dwayne. That'll do.

[7:53] » Yeah. >> Good guy.

[7:55] Good. >> Okay. So, I'm sure you missed most of

[7:58] that, Dottie, but um so, what we're what I'm recommending is go ahead and rezone

[8:03] it from R1 to I1. The lot has been vacant since at least the bypass.

[8:10] » Say that again. >> The

[8:12] I said it's been vacant since the bypass has been in.

[8:16] » Where is this? >> So, this is 915 Mill Road across the

[8:20] street from from ADM. >> And what are they doing?

[8:25] » So, they're going to put down their laydown yard and their office for Kansas

[8:29] Gas. >> Okay.

[8:31] » So, they're >> But

[8:33] » that office is up at uh Wilson saying building where Virgie is.

[8:37] Way up north. >> There's no There's no need to turn them

[8:40] down. It's It's a good plan. >> I would agree.

[8:44] » Yeah. >> That's all I have.

[8:46] » Okay. Okay, you got a motion?

[8:51] » I got >> Good.

[8:52] » You can make it. >> I just um

[8:55] what is a laydown yard? What is the definition? Like, what

[8:58] What kind of stuff do you have there? >> They're storing um supplies, some tools,

[9:04] some wire, just things like that. >> But no actual like um

[9:08] gas or oil or anything like that on the site.

[9:11] » Yeah.

[9:15] » This stuff's already in town. It's just a different location.

[9:18] » Yes. And they're they're needing to leave their tenant space as soon as they

[9:21] can. So, we're trying to get this um started very soon.

[9:27] » Virgie must be booting them out. >> There's not much that you could That's a

[9:30] bad site. It has a a hole. >> Yeah.

[9:34] » It's a challenging site to develop, for sure.

[9:37] » Will there be any impact with the development to the river or any of the

[9:42] any agricultural land in the immediate vicinity?

[9:47] » It shouldn't be cuz one of the things that they'll have to do is provide

[9:50] detention for storm water. >> Yes, of course. We have a plan for that.

[9:54] » Yeah. >> So, we submitted that. That's part of

[9:56] our packet for the rezoning.

[10:04] » Okay.

[10:09] Who's going to make the motion? Does anybody want to make a motion?

[10:13] » I make a motion that we pass this.

[10:20] » It's been moved and moved and seconded. You want to get it correct? Dwayne up.

[10:23] » I trust >> Okay, thank you. You seconded it.

[10:26] » He did second it. >> All right, motion and a second. Repeat

[10:30] the Do we need to do a roll call vote?

[10:33] Uh so, Chris Johnson. >> Yes.

[10:37] » Travis Pearman. >> Yes.

[10:39] » Dwayne Eastman. >> Uh yeah.

[10:42] » Sounded like a yes to me. Cody Richardson.

[10:45] » Yes. >> And Audie Smith.

[10:48] » Yes. >> All right.

[10:51] » All right. >> So, this will go before the city

[10:55] commission in September.

[11:01] » So, this was part of the plan when it was sold to

[11:04] them, I assume. >> Yes.

[11:06] » So, they mean they're already aware that it's starting. It's to

[11:09] » Yeah, they they knew that zoning was a prerequisite.

[11:11] » Yeah, this was already >> It's just now we're finally to the point

[11:15] where >> Yeah, no, we just wanted to have a

[11:17] better site plan and and plan for the detention and drainage cuz that site is

[11:21] very it dips down real low. Like you have that culvert right there. So, we

[11:25] just wanted to make sure we understood how we want to lay out the office

[11:28] building and lay down yard and have those drives cuz that mill those semi

[11:32] trucks turn real quick, so we have to kind of just work to figure out how to

[11:36] be a safe driver. >> Yeah. And we may we this actually come

[11:39] up, we may have to work with the mill at Harvest Bank

[11:44] » Yeah. >> to make sure they're not blocking the

[11:46] drive. >> Thanks, we only have about seven

[11:48] employees specifically, so >> Shouldn't be terribly too bad.

[11:54] » All right. >> All right.

[11:55] » I'd like to make a motion that we close this public hearing for

[12:01] the rezoning of United 15 Monroe.

[12:06] » I'll second.

[12:09] » All right. >> Ready for the next one?

[12:11] » Yeah. >> Now, we should open the next one.

[12:14] » Josh. >> Yeah.

[12:16] » Um we couldn't I didn't realize we were in a public um hearing. We can't make a

[12:20] vote in a public hearing. That motion and second and vote has to be

[12:24] » She's not wrong.

[12:27] » Well, we can redo it. >> Yeah,

[12:29] um >> I just close

[12:30] » I make that motion again. Whoever seconded can second it, we can have a

[12:34] vote. >> Vote again.

[12:36] » I'll second. >> Second that we close the public hearing.

[12:39] » Yeah. >> Yeah, I'll feed it back.

[12:40] » Roll call. >> All right, Chris Johnson.

[12:44] » Yes. >> Travis Pearman, Dwayne Eastman,

[12:48] Toby Richardson, >> Yes.

[12:50] » and Ardyce Smith. >> Yes.

[12:53] » We're good. >> Yeah.

[12:55] » They're ready to open the other hearing. >> Okay.

[12:58] Um Um make a motion to open a public

[13:01] hearing to consider the advisability of rezoning 708 East Madison

[13:06] from uh

[13:08] from an agricultural district to C3 >> general commercial district.

[13:13] » I'll second. >> Favor.

[13:16] » I. >> I.

[13:17] » All those >> I.

[13:19] » All right. >> With Harris.

[13:21] » So, I'm combining these two items into one for the purpose of this part, but

[13:28] technically it needs to be two separate actions.

[13:33] So, this just makes it faster.

[13:36] So, this is a proposal to build a self-storage facility, so that we have

[13:42] to rezone it, and then we have to do a conditional use permit to allow it in

[13:47] that district. Usually what we do in this situation is

[13:51] we try to find the most restrictive zoning that allows the use.

[13:55] Uh we've done several of these self-storage facilities where they

[13:59] needed this same process. This is nothing new.

[14:03] Mayor Mike, I think you even went through one of these on High Street.

[14:07] Um

[14:10] So, this property is owned by BDK Land Holdings, which is the same company that

[14:14] that's Weed Out. Um we did a rezone for them for 706 East

[14:20] Madison last year, maybe the year before.

[14:23] So, this is just an expansion of that.

[14:28] » Didn't we just recently do a rezoning on the back side of that block right

[14:33] there on the 708 side?

[14:35] » So, it's 706, so it's this property right here.

[14:39] » Okay.

[14:41] » That one was zoned from our I'm sure residential was, but it was

[14:46] residential to C3. So, this will match that.

[14:50] » Cuz they were going to build a garage or have vehicles or something like that if

[14:53] I remember right. >> Yeah, and they're they're actually

[14:57] working on that right now. We're we're almost to that point where

[15:00] it's going to be built. So, this area is

[15:04] commercial and industrial kind of mix is probably more commercial than

[15:09] industrial. However, there is a storage facility across the street.

[15:12] » All right. >> Um so, this property is actually pretty

[15:16] large, pretty expansive. It's about 5 acres. It goes all the way So, here's

[15:21] the the business. It goes all the way up here.

[15:24] I think that's perch.

[15:27] No, it's not perch.

[15:31] But, it goes up quite a ways. Um

[15:35] So, this is the most of like I said, this is the most restrictive zoning that

[15:39] allows this kind of use, but it's still conditional use.

[15:43] So, the existing shop building in the southern portion was built in the '70s.

[15:47] Um I found out I don't think I even

[15:51] reported this on the previous rezoning, but this was affected by the 1998 flood.

[15:56] Um but, the property is no longer in a floodway.

[16:00] So, it's now protected by by the bypass levee.

[16:05] » Yeah.

[16:08] » Uh the comprehensive plan does have this if it would load

[16:13] as agriculture, but that's because when we did the comprehensive plan um this

[16:19] property was not being used for anything other than it's actually vacant.

[16:24] Uh so, we just left it as ag.

[16:31] Uh there is a plan in There's a goal in chapter 4 of the comp plan to try to

[16:36] retain businesses and support their expansion.

[16:39] This is Basically, it's it's a little different business, but it's owned by

[16:43] the same It's just uh the Kimmel's

[16:47] uh plan to expand their operations. >> Is this affiliated with the other

[16:52] storage units across the street or >> No, so it's a different competitor.

[16:57] Okay.

[17:01] This So, this is probably confusing, too.

[17:04] » Yeah. >> So, it is just is this whole thing here?

[17:07] » Okay. >> To simplify things, you're actually

[17:11] rezoning a portion of it from C-3 to C-3.

[17:15] » Okay. >> So, we're just rezoning the entire

[17:17] property for the ease for legal certainty.

[17:21] » So, the the So, it's one parcel that has two two separate

[17:25] » Yeah, right now it has two separate zoning districts. Okay.

[17:29] Which is unusual, but again, it was trying to match the uses at the time.

[17:37] And if it would hurry up and draw the zoning districts there, you can see it.

[17:41] So, again, we rezoned this in the past to C3 as well. So, that

[17:47] would make this whole Assuming you approve this, make this

[17:50] whole block here all C3 cuz the the uh Pepco East is also in a C3

[17:58] district as is Arc City Tire. And then, of course, it is also C3

[18:03] um where the Groves gas station and propane places as well.

[18:10] So, definitely compatible with that neighborhood. So, this is Again, this is

[18:14] the the building that's existing today. That building that we were just talking

[18:19] about is going to be over in here. And again, it should be permitted

[18:24] anytime. >> Can I ask you a question? Sure.

[18:29] Okay. On that map, there was another parcel

[18:32] behind that that was also zoned agriculture. Is that the same owner? Is

[18:36] that a different >> That's a different owner. In fact,

[18:38] that's the city actually owns that property.

[18:43] » Okay. Somewhere right in there is a bunch of horses.

[18:47] Will this rezoning impact whoever's keeping horses there? And Okay. All

[18:53] right. >> Yeah, I think that's in here.

[18:56] We cuz we've been leas- the city has been leasing it to

[19:00] the I I don't know if they're actively putting horses in there, but that's

[19:05] historically, it's been a horse pasture. >> Okay.

[19:08] » And on this ag is uh Bert Wilson. And he farms it, actively farms it.

[19:19] So, this is This is what the This thing's driving me crazy today.

[19:23] This is the area that we're talking about. So, he's already got it cleared

[19:27] where he's wanting to do this.

[19:32] And this is just a little bit further in G. That's Arc City Tire. This is the

[19:36] storage units that's behind Arc City Tire.

[19:40] And well, and this is also storage unit.

[19:47] So, again, I recommend that we do this rezoning from Ag to C-3 is more

[19:52] appropriate really anyways for this neighborhood

[19:55] and it certainly would be compatible with the surrounding area.

[20:06] Hang on. I don't have a slide for you.

[20:11] What's the name of the road again? >> Yes, okay. I make a motion to close the

[20:15] public hearing. >> Second.

[20:19] » Favor. >> Aye.

[20:21] » Oppose. >> Aye.

[20:25] » All right. So, public hearing is closed. So, we

[20:28] just need a motion to to rezone first and then we're going to

[20:33] talk about sewers. Okay. >> Technically need two public hearings.

[20:36] » Gotcha. >> Okay. I I'd like to

[20:39] uh if the chair would recognize, I'd like

[20:41] to make a motion to rezone 708 East Madison from agricultural to a general

[20:48] commercial district. >> I second.

[20:55] » It could be one or two reasons. >> Roll call.

[20:59] » Uh Chris Johnson. >> Yes.

[21:03] » Uh Travis Pearman. >> Yes.

[21:05] » Dwayne Eastman

[21:10] » Did you hear that? >> Yeah.

[21:12] » All right, we don't have you very loud, Dwayne.

[21:15] Um >> Well, I had a question, so I figured

[21:17] that

[21:20] » Uh Cody Richardson >> Yes.

[21:23] » And Dottie Smith >> Yes.

[21:26] » Okay.

[21:31] » I'll move on to the next public hearing. >> All right.

[21:33] » I'll make a motion to open a public hearing to consider advisability of

[21:37] granting conditional use to the property at 708 East Madison.

[21:53] » Second the motion. >> Now, you're the first to speak over

[21:56] here.

[22:00] » I second that. >> I second.

[22:02] » Oh, I thought Dottie said I >> Oh, maybe she did.

[22:05] » I just double-checked what I said. >> You second?

[22:07] » You seconded, Dottie. >> Yep.

[22:10] » All right.

[22:13] Okay. You want to vote on that, sir? >> Sure.

[22:16] » Good. >> Close the public hearing?

[22:19] » Now, open the new one. >> Oh, yeah.

[22:21] » You need to vote. All in favor? >> Aye.

[22:23] » Aye. >> There you go. There you go.

[22:24] » All those opposed? >> All right, so I'm just going to quickly

[22:28] explain what we're doing here. Um So

[22:32] in SC3 district because now effectively SC3 district Uh

[22:39] a self-storage facility has to have a conditional use permit.

[22:44] Um and so we assign conditions to the property

[22:48] um based on what what the use is going to be.

[22:53] I just recommend that we put a condition in there that it has to meet the

[22:59] the requirements that are already in zoning regulations for this kind of

[23:03] facility. Uh

[23:06] talks about fencing, security, um the doors generally are supposed to face

[23:12] away from the right-of-way. Um that sort of thing. Those are the kind

[23:16] of standards that are Uh from what I got from Brad, and you

[23:21] can correct me if I'm wrong, um he's going to be meeting

[23:25] those standards. Uh with that issue, so

[23:29] Okay. Yeah, you can assign other conditions if

[23:33] you desire. Um I can imagine what that would be.

[23:36] That's fine. >> Um Josh, will this be fenced?

[23:41] » Yes, it will be. That's one of the requirements. They will have to be

[23:45] fenced. And it has to be has to have security,

[23:49] proper lighting, that sort of thing.

[24:01] » Anything else? >> I don't have anything else to discuss.

[24:04] » Okay. >> I move we close the public hearing.

[24:09] » Second. >> All in favor?

[24:12] » Aye. Aye. Opposed? >> All right. Public hearing closed.

[24:18] Vote on this then. >> Yes, sir. I'll make a motion.

[24:22] » Get the system to keep rolling. >> I I move that we grant the conditional

[24:27] use permit for the self-storage facility in the C-3 zoning. Um with the condition

[24:34] that they must meet the requirements of regulations in section 9-602.

[24:41] » I second. >> I thought he got it.

[24:47] » Okay. Uh Chris Johnson?

[24:50] » Yes. >> Travis Pearman?

[24:52] » Yes. >> Dwayne Eastman?

[24:59] » Cody Richardson >> Yes.

[25:02] » And Addie Smith.

[25:13] Yeah, I will just let you know that there is going to be a meeting in

[25:17] September. Um, we have

[25:20] we haven't had plats in like 2 years, but we have two

[25:24] on the agenda for for September. One of them um is for

[25:30] uh Casey's North. They're splitting off a piece of the

[25:34] property. Normally, that would just be a lot split,

[25:38] but we ran into a lot of problems when they did title work.

[25:44] And so we're doing some stuff with some easements.

[25:47] Um, we also discovered that part of Skyline Road is

[25:51] not properly dedicated as a road. And so this would also fix that at the

[25:57] same time. So, we're cleaning up a lot of stuff by

[26:00] doing it in the same platform. The other one is for a property that's

[26:05] at Spring Gates and Madison. And this is a property they're splitting

[26:10] into three pieces. They There's a house on it.

[26:13] Um, but it's a pretty good size property they're splitting off into three so they

[26:16] can sell off the other two pieces. >> What What kind of property is it now?

[26:22] » I'm sorry, what was that? >> How large of a property is it now?

[26:27] » Um, um,

[26:30] probably it's several acres. It's probably four or five acres.

[26:34] » Okay. >> I don't have that in front of me, but

[26:38] » Thanks.

[26:40] » But yeah, those So, those will come before you at the next meeting. I've got

[26:43] all of the effective battle paperwork. Now, we just obviously have to go

[26:47] through the motions of making it a public hearing and

[26:51] and publication and stuff like that. >> I'll be there.

[26:54] » All I have. >> And what day will that be, Josh?

[26:59] » That will be on September 8th. >> Okay, I'll be available.

[27:05] » I'm sure Cody would appreciate that.

[27:09] » It's a good time. >> I won't be in Kansas,

[27:14] but I'll be available on >> Oh, well, that's what she's saying. So,

[27:17] you know, you're not off the hook. >> Okay.

[27:21] » All right. Yeah, we made it.

[27:24] » Yeah.

[27:28] » All right. >> All right, Josh.

[27:30] » Motion to adjourn. >> Yeah.

[27:32] » Second that. >> Or for anybody.

[27:35] » I second. >> All right, we're out of here.

[27:38] » All right. >> All right, go home.

[27:43] » We made it. >> Yeah, we did.

[27:44] » Good job. >> I was in question there for a minute.

[27:51] » Where is Springgate? >> Oh, well, I guess we didn't answer that.

[27:55] Um, it is at the >> Oh, I see.

[27:57] » Oh, okay. >> Is that It's a kind of pretty run-down

[28:00] house on the corner there, right?

[28:04] » Yeah, it's Springgate. I second. >> Exactly. So,

[28:07] » Yeah, and there's a whole lot of covered trees. It's kind of a nice spot there,

[28:10] yeah. >> I don't know all of what they're

[28:14] planning to do

[28:17] there, but I

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