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number 26
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of America and to the republic for which
it stands.
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One nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
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» We'll do a roll call.
Jim
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» here.
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» And I present
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from
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Madam Chair, I move we approve the
minutes from
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artist.
>> I'll second.
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» We'll take a vote.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
>> Yes.
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» And I voted yes. Are approved.
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Hey, madam chair, commissioner Tim,
planning zoning director. I I'll be
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brief tonight. There's not a lot of new
activity. Um, as you see on your monthly
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report, we we're still becoming robust
here with single family housing. Um this
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is all mostly what been approved some
time back.
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Most of our new subdivisions still
haven't um new building permits tall.
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So this is some of the good work this
body has done in the past and well
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positioned well placed growth city
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broken ground
they long day
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that puts them sometime in November if
they're going well and so far it looks
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like they're cruising
uh we do feel that we'll have some
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building permits out of that That's
parallel east of 155th south of the
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intermediate school.
Earlier thoughts were that it would be
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more like late February [clears throat]
March, but they're making better insist
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chance
of November early December.
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So that would be another variable to our
housing stock that that's the overall
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balance that we have. We still
anticipate some housing permits be at
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the Falcon Lakes and areas that this
body is already pre-approved. We just
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have not seen the construction plan
infrastructure from the developer yet.
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That's usually not a very long period
because that's usually have been get
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driven how fast they turn in
information. We brought about a 21 day
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plans which for city staff that was
pretty pretty quick. So they still have
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a chance to start a construction this
year.
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Um we hope to be announcing a few more
commercial projects in the next 30 60
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days. So bearies
you have to get used to this job. A lot
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of people call you talk to you and then
they just go away. So you try not to get
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too excited when they you hear the name
brand or some water bust. But that's
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just as far as business. Anytime you
want to call me or Alex about questions,
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feel free to have a question about
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new business. Item number five, your
visions to the approved Greymont and
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Prairie Gardens final development.
>> Good afternoon,
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assistant director.
Five for you today is a revision to the
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previously improved final development
plan for the Crayop subdivision. Um, as
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you may recall about a year ago now, we
went through this process with the same
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subdivision on phases sixth and seven to
modify those phases. And the process is
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um that whenever the developer gets the
development plan approved, some
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preliminary engineering work goes into
it, but certainly not to the full
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construction level depth, which at
sometimes may uncover some issues. And
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this process is in our zoning code to
allow the developer to come back and
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say, "Hey, we uncovered this issue. Is
it okay if we modify it without changing
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the intent of the development in order
to accommodate any issues that they ran
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into?" This request is to move the
entrance and access point that will um
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go to 166th Street about 300 foot north
um from where is it is currently
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located. The applicant and the engineer
came to the city a while ago and said
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that the current
the current access point and the grading
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have such wouldn't allow for very good
drainage. Um and with it being situated
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right next to that flood plane um as
well as a very easy alternative of
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moving a 300 foot north um that this is
in front of you today. As a reminder,
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the only thing up for consideration is
the changes that are proposed on any of
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the previous developments as those are
largely already built out. This will
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result in seven new lots being added to
the subdivision as a result of the
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reconfiguration
largely due to the lots being able to be
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on both sides of the access road with it
being 300 foot north. There wasn't any
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houses or any lots on the southern
portion of it being claimed.
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Staff recommends approval of the side of
the applicant is also here questions.
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» Yes. Um the access road goes out into
66.
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» Yes, that's correct. It'll be just north
of the current access road to the very
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submission.
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Just a couple um where are the new seven
lots? Are they more concentrated to
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where that new opening access road will
be?
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» Uh yeah, most of them are are featured
just right around the western most part
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here 166.
>> What is immediately north of
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the new access road? uh the large lot
that state uh it's none of it is in
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based for city limits but it's it's
large lots
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and I've looked at the aerial that
remind me if we move the road 300 ft to
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the north what what else is around there
for egress or ingress or any other
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properties either east or west side so
there's a hidden ridge subdivision has
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the current back road and then
previously vis
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for an additional phase to grant access.
This road was originally going to line
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up with that with the 3 north that
provides the most distance that staff
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and our engineers feel comfortable with.
But those are the only two major points
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of access until you get up to parallel.
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Thanks.
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» I move for the approval of the Greyhawk
final development plan revision request.
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I'll second.
>> We'll take a vote.
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» Yes.
>> Dennis,
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» yes.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
>> Yes. I vote yes.
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» Item number six, consideration of a
final development plan for Sundance
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Villas.
>> Afternoon, commissioners. It's obvious,
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assistant director of planning and
zoning. This final development plan is
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for Sundance Villas. This will this
development plan was supported earlier
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this year. It's a twoacre
on 15th Street across from Maple Street.
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The final development plan for
consideration. I do feel like this is
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one of the first development we had for
approval in a while. So just as a
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reminder, the final development plan
consideration is just to make sure that
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it follows the preliminary nothing
significant has changed. There are a few
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modifications that are allowed such as
moving a building a few feet, increasing
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ground coverage, but in for the most
part all development plans are just go
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into greater detail whether it be on
topic studies, storm water studies,
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drainage, sewer architecture, then the
preliminary development plan. So before
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you today is the Sundanceville
development plan that is an exact mirror
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of preliminary development plan you saw
with one minor change um being a fire
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turnaround point in the middle of
development. You may see the the um
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trash enclosure followed by a a stick
out of the road that was placed in there
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often to the common office by staff that
if a fire truck were to ever enter into
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this development and go to buildings A
or B, it's going to need a place to swim
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around to avoid going into driveways. U
there were there was a different
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solution on the preliminary development
plan and this is the solution on the
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final development plan. Outside of that,
there are no changes. The the final
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drainage and storm water study are all
satisfactory is reviewed by the city
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engineers. Um, as well as all of the
architectural detail that the applicant
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went further in depth for um so staff
recommends approval of this item and I'm
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happy to answer any questions.
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assuming that
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» that's right. gold stripes inside
according
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and
what's going to be the uh the finish of
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the of the
area
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the back quarters
15th Street I'm looking at the at the
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plans and it doesn't go down to that
amount of detail so I'm going to require
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require some kind of inter.
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» Yeah, they'll have uh they'll be
required to go into the city
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specifications and requirements which is
is currently for the approach as long as
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you're directed. It's not shown exactly
on on the the drawings or the
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renderings, but they'll be required to
go curve and gutter like you see
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on the street. Yeah. Okay. And
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This might be a side
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the community spot seems to be where
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that's part of
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the recycling center is just south of
this development. Um, so this would not
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be touching that property. There's a
>> gonna be close, but
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» it'll be just north of that. So there's
the baser market and then there's the
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recycling center and then there's a a
few hundred feet before you get into the
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single family homes as you get further
north. Right.
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» This will be just across from Maple
Street 155th which is north of cycling
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center
but it will
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eliminate a lot of the park.
>> Um this
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» perhaps you'll
uh they do provide adequate parking in
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front of the community building as well
as some extended driveways. Uh it I
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would I wouldn't imagine that uh many
people would would park in that area,
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but it is in your approxim
just a couple nights away.
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» Well, looks like
along the street.
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» Is is there anything that prevent
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the new development whether it's the
ownership or the HOA? I don't know,
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but um put parking for
Sunday.
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Yeah, it's very likely that there'll be
signage. That's not included typically
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in a final development plan and the
signs in front of each individual
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parking spot, but it's likely,
especially if they run into issues, that
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they'll put signs in front of the
community building.
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Would
it be possible to get page 23 up on the
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screen, please?
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Alex, based upon previous comments, the
the the little bitty
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building, but just in the south, that's
the recycling center. Yes, that's
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correct.
And then where where is Maple Street?
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» Maple Street is the name of the street
is directly across that lines up with
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that entrance.
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» Anybody else have any questions?
And and just one more north if you will
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to the far east.
Is that a underground
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water?
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some sanitary lines that run to the east
off of those properties which I'm not
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sure if that's what created those lines
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but right just just to the building
>> what is what is that looks like
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that
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Yeah,
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» this is our
>> right
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» our detention basin,
>> right?
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» And it's a dry bottom not meant to be
wet. So when it gets to a certain level,
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the engineering performance this um this
is an outflow. It's going to be existing
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soil system that makes it way here. So
this is our two flutes that come out of
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there to prevent erosion. So this is the
dry basin
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design water and it looks like
still right next to that.
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Anybody
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else have a question?
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» Yes.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
>> Yes. Yes.
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Yes.
>> Yes.
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Item number seven, next amendment
regarding architectural design standards
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for res.
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Thank you, Mr. Sherman.
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Responded about three months ago to
approve the architecture classes.
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Before we went to city council, we
decided to hold a few stakeholder
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meetings. um consult with our special
counsel even though we did beforehand.
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It's always nice after it comes to this
body to uh revisit the u proposed. Uh
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during such time we receive feedback
both from our special counsel and some
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of the stakeholders which usually are
developers developers um to maybe work
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forward some modifications. These are
pretty small modifications, but I'd
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advise the council support to
incorporate these back into the
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document. Most of the time, it allows
the director, you know, i.e. the city to
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um allow for some deviiances to
materials where if it's applicable and
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have a legal standing within the
document. In other words, before we were
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leaving more implied, the new language
will say as per directive approval. Um
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one of the uh major changes too was
by bringing single family into this the
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it's called the foursided design there
was quite a bit of concern with the
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building public that we were now going
to be asking for architectural
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enhancements like the back side and I
couldn't find anybody in the metro that
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went to that level so now we added
language saying that the emphasis in one
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family drawing just for the streetscape
or the front facade as as intended to be
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in. Um it was just the wording in the
beginning because poor sighting. We
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still want to leave that for all our
other because this this counts for like
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a farm complex. We still want to leave
that. We didn't want to adjust that
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language. Um, it also leads the
directors now to u what our special
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counsel was concerned about when we do
have kind of a flat facade without a
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mineral door. We had language where you
need to enhance that architecturally to
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make up for the flat side. Well, we
didn't really have a approval method and
[20:48]
some council said you should have as per
director of approvals to make sure that
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that's consistent, fair, and everybody
that um then kind of one of the one of
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the more important ones um the 40% that
had always been in the since 2010 been
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in the architectural design. That's the
masonry coverage. Um, we did some
[21:13]
research and talking to some other
jurisdictions. We couldn't find anybody
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that had 40%.
Um, we did find a little bit that went
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down to 25 to 30. So, we went ahead and
proposing to this body tonight for a
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single family and and two family instead
of 40% 30%. We still keep R1B at 60%.
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that that robust nature for the smaller
lot dwellings is still going to remain.
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We were adamant that that was a design
feature that we wanted to keep. um this
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body weighed in on that and developed
the 60% on R1 engagement um was
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consistent what we're looking at based
of course off some of the tours some of
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the feedback we're seeing but we did
feel that it was um in good nature to
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reduce
30% mir still exceeds
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many or if not most of the jurisdiction
metro area for single them So we're not
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really
um reducing unacceptably too much. It's
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just more of something where we met with
stakeholders.
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We keep [clears throat] still a lot of
the main restrictions the body was
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looking at. We don't really want to see
along front. We look to eliminate the
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old backward which tends to um
break down. It's a little too easy.
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That's a maintenance nightmare. Those
things were still but we decided on the
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heavy materials which is the bottom
level of main street and we went down
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30%
um
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accessory structures
it's been we've been running parallel
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this on staff and just in reading the
architectural design it was felt through
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special counsel that we should probably
address the siding in this document
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instead of with the design district
standard
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because we already have accessory
structure mention
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now we're asking that we do not have a
metal bar
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must look like the primary structure
match exact what we're looking for
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building looks
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it's a lot like when we
nature they they don't want whatever the
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new edition and stuff to stick out like
they don't want to be blended as the
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same but they want they do not want it
to look so
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that's one of the things that we have
been looking at across the metro that
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many many development communities have
that language where structure should
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look like primary
um we added that in that was presently
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presented at this bond.
There was a couple other um roofing
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materials
and the only reason we've added roofing
[24:27]
materials not that we're going to say
you can do fiber glass
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some of the old standards just there are
so many modulations of new materials
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coming out but our examples were not um
all in so we just left u we left that it
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will not be applied to
projects like Sundanc you you would be
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looking at the director wouldn't approve
that that would come this a single panel
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is something type of look
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and lastly
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we have a three door minimum maximum on
some of our voting districts
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but we also council has some emphasis by
some of the elected body to have more
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garage type parking effect building. So
this would be that would have been a
[25:29]
conflict. So instead, what we've decided
to do is council help guide me through
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this is leave the restriction on more
than three doors, but allow the director
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um some latitude for these large back in
where architecturally
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they can have four or five. What I will
tell you is what we will look for at
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that kind of installation is some kind
of architectural deviation. So we're not
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looking at a wall of garages plus
recessed or extended or some
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architectural variations between the
doors even maybe a door with glazing
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that door with architectural trim
something to break up the head of the
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pattern. That's why that's in there.
Normally I I looked back and some of the
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emphasis back well over 20 some odd
years ago. Um, I understand what they
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were talking about, but
if you go look at there's one on
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accident
really nice job
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and it doesn't look repetitive and like
you're all over.
[26:42]
Other than that, this document is almost
exactly like this. And so basically
[26:47]
summation is it allowed the director to
approve some material differences,
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garage doors, walls without windows,
architectural um and then we did the the
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two other
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sign
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and you have any questions I'm seeing
that we
[27:18]
We should take a motion.
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» Yes.
[27:38]
» Do we have anybody who like to speak?
Do we have anybody online?
[27:48]
I'll make a motion to close public
hearing.
[27:55]
» Yes.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
>> And I guess the public hearing is
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closed.
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» I'm curious who provided
most of the opposition to the board.
[28:13]
The question builders
>> mostly build mostly builders and mostly
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builders of our two largest sub.
Um they really were not opposed to it in
[28:28]
the sense it's just that they have some
architectural fronts that
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would not meet their plans of 40%.
2530
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wood
but 40% would be a little difficult and
[28:44]
why I say that is in our architectural
design standards we tear it in three
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levels heavy the medium level and top
level the top level is generally wood
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wood type of treatments the middle level
would be something like
[29:00]
metal panel or stuckco and then the
bottom this industry, but it was mostly
[29:07]
gold. Our two most active subject
are currently
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historic information.
>> Great. That's a great question.
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After the meeting, I wanted to go see if
this was true or not. And they have a
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few
kind of
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did not meet the full 40%. But the but
the rest of that was spawned
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against they were uh there's already
concrete look that looks like stuckco.
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They were using that above the next
level. Um then others were using
[29:47]
architectural wood patterns. So those
weren't meeting the 40%. They were
[29:53]
pretty close to the 30% and I think
looking at their designs of their fronts
[29:59]
that they can easily meet the 30%. Um I
think they wanted to go lower than I
[30:04]
felt that a after touring that they
could. The other subdivision clearly
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they could meet the 30%. They weren't
meeting the 40% not because they
[30:15]
couldn't they just weren't they just
weren't installing.
[30:19]
They couldn't they would their design of
their fronts was such that
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architecturally they couldn't add more
stone. And by the way, everybody's doing
[30:28]
pretty.
There's almost no brick or real or real
[30:33]
stone being installed right now. We do
have an applicant coming in the city
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that does use real brick. So I'm going
to see how that goes whether that's
[30:42]
something desirable
to home service. But to answer your
[30:49]
question that most could meet the 40%.
So, so if they if they weren't they
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didn't meet the 40% or didn't meet the
30%.
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Let me back up. If they didn't meet the
40%. And they just ignored it.
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How are we holding them accountable to
meet the 30%. If we go to 30%, they go,
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"Well, okay, we're going to just shade
it down to 27 and 25 and 23."
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» I I that's another great question
because that's what we asked on staff is
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how are we going to manage this? So, our
plan review now will be uh we'll be
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conducting a facade plan review and
they're going to have to show us the
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percentage on all their building because
that's you're spot on, Mr. That's that's
[31:36]
a great comment. We we've talked to the
staff. We don't want to do this in the
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field. That's impossible that you're
asking find out in the field or varies
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out that's impossible to um be able to
calculate the open versus the surface
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material. So we're doing it by interview
and we we feel pretty confident we could
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achieve this. That's you're I'm glad
you're asking that because it was
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even if let's say we do go 30% doesn't
matter what percent we were questioning
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how are we going to start making sure
that was one we so changed our plan view
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we've actually started notifying some of
the builders that we will be looking at
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this on
start to submit be ready for the
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percentage of
>> that's just human nature when you put on
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future was an egg. So, a kid walking and
dog
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and I think the builders are going to
want to do the same. So,
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» it's excellent. No, I appreciate that.
And that's I think you're you're well in
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tune with everybody on that one. That's
why we the easiest method for us would
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be do it at the planner so they they
acknowledge it so they can't come to us
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later and not be held accountable when
we
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Yes, sir.
Anybody
[32:57]
else have a question?
>> I do.
[33:01]
What you in your presentation earlier
you mentioned that single family homes
[33:07]
have literally four elevations which are
the answer to my question. He said on
[33:13]
page 57
uh the actual paragraph
[33:19]
on the page
[33:24]
wall
building elevation
[33:33]
that
each building elevation would be front
[33:39]
two sides and back. And we're only
really talking about the front elevation
[33:45]
or the street facing elevation.
So it says each building elevation and
[33:52]
there are four elevations on any single
family.
[33:58]
And so what council said was leave the
planning director's approval paragraph
[34:04]
at top and keep that for other buildings
besides single thing.
[34:10]
» Yeah.
>> Yeah. So that was and I'm glad you're
[34:12]
bringing that up. That was that was one
of the major um roadblocks for us to
[34:17]
because the idea was to not just have
this document when they brought this
[34:23]
plan back in 2010 was this is planning
developments but and this city was
[34:28]
seeing project developments but now
we're seeing more straight zoning. That
[34:32]
was the emphasis of bringing R1 and R2
into this document. Um but by doing so
[34:40]
um that was a little bit of a push back
that that's with the larger loss and the
[34:47]
way they were building they didn't want
to have to do foresighted. So the
[34:52]
council just advises certain that
staff
[34:58]
we want to leave that in there when we
bring bigger projects to this body
[35:03]
you'll have that in there too.
There was documents also for you to set
[35:08]
this for the planning commission on the
project.
[35:12]
I've never been involved in
building
[35:19]
this like single family homes any
commercial building
[35:24]
through the
specification
[35:28]
every word something misspelling
someplace.
[35:33]
you'd be going back and forth with your
cheese and seas for a week or two to
[35:38]
make sure that every that you had every
word right had lawyers looking all over
[35:45]
everything. So was an important thing in
the commercial industry that I was at.
[35:51]
Uh, also on page 58,
um,
[35:57]
this isn't one of the
red letter things, but in that box it
[36:03]
says field painted
or prefinish standard
[36:09]
say I think that
field.
[36:18]
» No, I don't. So that we'll we'll work
with that when we do the final doc and
[36:24]
that's actually still in the old 2010. I
appreciate that. Thank you.
[36:29]
» Yeah. Yeah. It's from my from my
commercial building
[36:35]
that you know every letter word every
[36:43]
also in the fall of last year.
Eur
[36:56]
changing it from 1200 square foot
minimum to a a 1700 square foot minimum.
[37:04]
Where are we on that? Well, we have not
revisited since that discussion. um our
[37:12]
staff emphasis been on like R1B
developments and trying to um work on
[37:19]
other standard levels of design. Um I'm
sure that's going to come up again soon.
[37:26]
What really brought that forward was um
a couple of our applicants were coming
[37:32]
in under maybe R1 and deputy probably
not going to build what this community
[37:39]
standard was used. So that's what
initiated that conversation was to keep
[37:43]
that from happening. But um since then
there's been some alteration changes to
[37:48]
the conversation we're having with at
this point we don't see anybody coming
[37:54]
in for very minimum
not being what this
[38:01]
body
so I'm sure that's going to come up
[38:05]
again because we would like to revisit
that table anyway.
[38:09]
It's it's confusing between split
levels, buy levels, dry level. It's very
[38:14]
confusing. So, we'd like to come back to
this and put that up. That's probably
[38:18]
going to happen later next.
Appreciate that. Okay. And on back on
[38:25]
page 57, that red paragraph
for R1,
[38:31]
there'll be 60%
masonary. I I get the impression from
[38:39]
audience participation we've had in the
past that people look at our might be as
[38:45]
you know car paper shacks that were
allowing to be built on
[38:51]
trailer park size lots and stuff like
that. I remember we had a field trip I
[38:57]
think was earlier this year where we had
some houses which I think fit we are one
[39:03]
category that were on lots smaller than
10,000 square feet but they were
[39:10]
primarily the houses that we looked at
were primarily upscale houses with
[39:16]
prices in the upper floors by 500,000.
That is kind of where we're going on R1B
[39:25]
isn't it a smaller lot but a
more upscale house
[39:32]
maybe a smaller house but but with more
masonry and and things like that. Am I
[39:40]
am I missing the vote on
>> that's actually that's exactly the
[39:44]
emphasis from this body and the
governing body and we'll be talking to
[39:48]
you next month about landscaping
enhancements too that very same
[39:52]
principle
we're down to what
[39:56]
it's hard because landscaping's more on
subjective side than anything we do but
[40:02]
yes we want and I say that strongly want
to make sure these are what we our lots
[40:09]
are enhanced above normal lots because
we're allowing a smaller lot most likely
[40:16]
smaller volume doesn't mean a cheaper
volume but we do want with that smaller
[40:20]
building more advanced sweets
[40:26]
and by smaller dwelling
I would argue that our R1 is well
[40:33]
minimum 1200 square ft R1 minimum 1200
square So not necessarily the smaller we
[40:42]
right now I don't think we're with the
one RB R1 body move forward I don't
[40:49]
think we're going to see small very
small houses in the development field
[40:54]
right now there are there are two really
big costs to developers land and the
[41:00]
infrastructure system storm sewer
sanitar those are really what are
[41:04]
driving up um cost so it is that All
houses the interest rate are one thing
[41:10]
those they can save their
I really feel you don't see
[41:17]
houses above 12
just because it's a small lot doesn't
[41:22]
mean what you see
below average temperature and and we're
[41:28]
helping that by adding the standard
store address
[41:37]
Thank you very much. You can answer that
question. Yes, sir.
[41:42]
» Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll be quick
just a couple questions and and
[41:46]
comments. My first comment, however, is
kudos to staff. Uh this is a phenomenal
[41:50]
document. It it it as a growing
community, we need that professional
[41:55]
standards, but I also love it that it's
not just cookie cutter approach. I love
[41:59]
the the antiot
standard. That's great. I love that. Um,
[42:06]
couple other
things on page 51 on 5.2. Building
[42:12]
character.
[42:16]
I like the fact I like what it's talking
about. Uh, exterior material colors
[42:21]
should be similar to other building
colors within each phase of the
[42:26]
development. But then right underneath
it, it says don't do this. And I I get I
[42:32]
get the general gist of that.
color palettes change over time. Um,
[42:39]
what if someone wants those interesting
colored houses, rainbow colored houses?
[42:46]
This the intention for this document is
at the construction.
[42:54]
This this wasn't intended for
years down the road. We may come back to
[43:00]
this body to address that comment. In
fact, I had talked about that, but this
[43:05]
was mostly intended for the building
from its stage. We wanted to stay away
[43:09]
from creating pallets and subdivisions.
So, the only way we could do that is to
[43:17]
put something language to where you just
don't have that stark contrast. still
[43:21]
allows the ability to have freedom of
color selection without staff being
[43:26]
heavy-handed, but it also prevents
somebody that does that that sore thumb
[43:32]
next to a bowl up or field or wherever
they are. So, but but you're you raised
[43:37]
a really good point. We have thought
about that. We're not sure yet. This
[43:42]
document is just for the building
process now existing. We can address the
[43:47]
property maintenance code or we can
back.
[43:54]
That's a nice segue. My last point on
page 57.
[43:58]
It talks about the planning director.
Just one of those little slight things.
[44:05]
Are they talking about your position?
And if so, is it your position director
[44:10]
of planning and zoning? Shouldn't that
be in there? you
[44:15]
talking just
you you just say something that aligns
[44:21]
itself to the position that's okay
because I don't know if three years from
[44:26]
now if uh Leslie wants to call this
maybe she wants to call this
[44:33]
but the planning director will probably
always be in some kind of title and
[44:38]
that's why we that generic
>> and then here My big question um to that
[44:45]
specific sentence who holds that
physician accountable someone comes in
[44:52]
and they want to do
you know it's 30% but someone wants to
[44:56]
do 27%.
And you know who that position starts to
[45:01]
allow that. So who holds that position
accountable to say no, you know, you
[45:06]
have a position has a little bit of
latitude, but it's it's been a very very
[45:10]
tight latitude and we got to maintain
these standards. That's excellent
[45:15]
because that was another thing we
discussed. I ultimately I'll work for
[45:18]
Leslie, our city administrator, and we
also work for the governing body and
[45:23]
also I don't want to rule out this body
too. Um it's it's an important um
[45:29]
organization within, you know, we're
kind of
[45:32]
» [clears throat]
>> tripod and since all three um work
[45:35]
together holding up city standards. Um
so I I I tell everybody I I have a
[45:42]
pretty good record. I've never really
made some kind of outlandish decision
[45:46]
not knowingly folks I report to can see
it too. The things we decide are not
[45:51]
hidden. And so I I I take that very
seriously. This mostly game I I just
[45:58]
give the world a beat. [clears throat]
Um he kind of helps guide myself and
[46:02]
sometimes Alex we were we just left the
two open for what if they want to
[46:07]
modulate a couple material but it's
structured here. Well, they may not be
[46:11]
able to. So he said we'll just put in
some language
[46:16]
to make modifications.
I I going to ask some little real little
[46:21]
scenarios just there.
[46:28]
» This is just a curiosity question. So,
so
[46:33]
as Greyhawk has continued to be built
out,
[46:38]
how does an HOA get formed
and because I I know some of the
[46:43]
standards are changed from city
standard, city standards and
[46:47]
construction, but then HOA standards and
what color you can repaint for house and
[46:52]
that kind of how does that happen?
>> So, the HOA is formed through the deed
[46:56]
to the developers deed in that process.
They actually greathawk I believe has an
[47:01]
HOA now. Um so that organization
create their own standards. They're
[47:08]
autonomous of the city in the sense that
we don't enforce theirs. They don't
[47:13]
enforce the city standards. Um but
they're welcome to create um standards
[47:19]
as long as they're not in conflict
because this is actually will be a legal
[47:23]
document um first through this body and
then the governing body. But they can
[47:29]
create their own standards
to where they can talk about balance. So
[47:36]
that's what we did. We stayed away from
that and they can't say everything has
[47:39]
to be forms of
we don't say that. We just say a
[47:45]
neighbor next to neighbor can have
a checker board rather than
[47:52]
totally distinctly. So, but HOAs are
formed, you know, for list on the D the
[47:58]
subdivision lots and then it's just
Kansas law and how they operate as HOA
[48:05]
forms
>> and they understand
[48:09]
that HOAs
are subject to city law.
[48:15]
» That's correct.
>> Right. So the HOA can't say, well, you
[48:19]
know, we're going to cut the street back
to 5 ft from the house and go, "Yeah,
[48:24]
that's not going to happen."
>> That that's that's great conversation
[48:27]
that that's exactly right. And we
actually so far I'm very fortunate in
[48:31]
this community that the His
[48:36]
very active yet they consult us quite
often before making decisions. I know
[48:41]
they've worked with Alex. Alex has done
a great job on helping them make
[48:47]
decisions on the legisl
[48:52]
we do not cover your free app.
[48:58]
» The other question about architectural
standards is the architectural standards
[49:03]
address solar on the bus at all. No, no.
We have we have a well there's there's
[49:09]
state law on how what you can and can't
restrict on solar panels and then we do
[49:15]
have our sex code that talks about solar
pan don't have it incorporated
[49:21]
directly
[49:25]
the law has changed a little bit on
where you a lot of communities said that
[49:29]
you can't have it in certain cases well
there's been case law where city's been
[49:34]
overturned
You have to be able to allow
[49:39]
we decided we need
adjustments to that also
[49:52]
question.
>> Yes.
[49:57]
» I move to text amendment to
architectural design Sanders.
[50:02]
» Second.
>> Take a vote. Jim Hans,
[50:05]
» yes.
>> Dennis,
[50:06]
» yes.
>> Tom,
[50:07]
» yes.
>> Janice,
[50:08]
» yes.
>> Jim Owen,
[50:09]
» yes.
>> And I vote yes. That motion passes.
[50:16]
» Reports for special committees.
I'll take the motion to the regular.
[50:23]
» Make a motion to return the regular
meeting.
[50:27]
» Those in favor, Jim.
>> Yes.
[50:30]
» Yes.
>> Yes.
[50:33]
» Yes. And I vote yes.
[50:44]
Okay, I'll open our work session
consideration of amending art of the
[50:51]
regulations
areas.
[50:58]
Assistant directors
are a good reminder to the rightest
[51:09]
[clears throat]
um under consideration for today just a
[51:13]
work session item regarding parking.
This will address both residential and
[51:16]
commercial parking. As a reminder with
all of our work sessions, this is no
[51:21]
formal action will be taken. So at any
point during the presentation, if you
[51:24]
have a question, please feel free to
interrupt me at any time. Um I will be
[51:29]
starting and just kind of going down the
list off of page 91 through the rest of
[51:32]
the packet.
Starting with 2301,
[51:37]
the existing section mostly addresses um
if a vehicle is left um is just left at
[51:47]
a lot, it's you know has four flat
tires, it has no engine in it. Um that
[51:54]
the enforcement and the guidelines for
that are addressing the code of
[51:57]
ordinances and talking with police and
code enforcement. They don't use this
[52:01]
section for enforcement. They use
various other parts of the code. So it's
[52:05]
it's redundant and not necessary and not
encouraged for that kind of language to
[52:09]
be in the zoning code. You don't
typically see a lot of you know police
[52:13]
timelines and punishment and
enforcability within the zoning code.
[52:17]
That's all up to the ordinance. So
that's why that first section is taken
[52:20]
out. Instead, it is still necessary to
um to outline what is encouraged and
[52:28]
what's required in terms of storage for
vehicles. And generally for for this
[52:33]
section and the rest of the sections
that we'll talk about today at least
[52:36]
some portion or majority portion was was
looked at from other cities that
[52:40]
surround this as well as some good model
ordinances from around the country. So
[52:44]
this isn't something that is being
introduced really certain times in the
[52:47]
city. So um under the the first
subsection of that is parking of other
[52:52]
motor vehicles. This is largely to
prevent um fields from being turned into
[52:58]
storage of of cars. Um we see it in a
few of our larger lots where um for
[53:05]
whatever reason they hold on to older
cars that are never driven again have
[53:10]
you know weeds and trees growing through
them. Um this is largely to to prevent
[53:14]
that from happening or requiring cars to
um be kept on an improved surface um be
[53:23]
e either readily used or available to be
used. Subsection two is largely the same
[53:28]
as the first but for nonmotorized
vehicles as as listed there as well as
[53:34]
marine equipment. The first three are
mostly for safety and that both the
[53:38]
vehicle is supposed to be usable as well
as to be tied down if not used. That way
[53:43]
it doesn't blow away in the storm in a
swarm. Um subsection D has been added
[53:49]
largely for the
>> Yes, you said I could interrupt. Please
[53:54]
I'm so sorry. back up under one a
>> free and frequent
[54:00]
» defined and frequently and who who
defines so that would be um a delivery
[54:07]
service um someone coming in to drop off
uh like construction materials or or
[54:14]
construction um it would be largely left
up to state staff if we receive a
[54:19]
complaint that um you know a certain
vehicle is is staging outside for many
[54:25]
hours a day that we make sure we go and
check up on it. So, it would be up to
[54:29]
city staff to determine a brief
infrequent.
[54:34]
» Um on subsection two on um the
subsection D talks about no travel
[54:40]
trailers or or any type of trailers are
allowed to be lived in on a residential
[54:44]
lot or conduct business. This is largely
for city staff's verification as we
[54:50]
start to relay information to the
public. We've received an increase over
[54:53]
the last year um and a half of calls of
people wondering if someone can live in
[55:00]
the driveway on a trailer. We currently
have another section of our code that
[55:04]
outlaws accessory dwelling units, which
would be like a a outouse or something
[55:09]
that's built um for living in that we've
been using to tell people no. This just
[55:14]
makes it much more clear um in the
intent. And there's also on subsection E
[55:20]
there's some exceptions for when parking
would be allowed in these in these
[55:25]
areas.
Jumping ahead to 230201.
[55:31]
Uh the first is to apply this to our new
zoning district of R1B as well as R2. Um
[55:36]
and the the gist of what has been
crossed out is that previously we've
[55:42]
been allowing gravel driveways. Um we've
seen an influx in infill development and
[55:47]
infill lots um that are taking the large
lots that have been left by a few of
[55:53]
these developments and with with a
requirement to put in gravel driveways
[55:58]
and more or less a residential
neighborhood where you don't currently
[56:02]
see that. This would not require anyone
who currently has a gravel driveway to
[56:06]
take it out and repave their driveway.
Uh but we've we've seen a a concerning
[56:12]
influx of homes that have busted gravel
driveway and with the current language
[56:16]
it allows them to do so after a certain
point which is very visible from the
[56:20]
roadway the source character in the
neighborhood. So this gets rid of of
[56:24]
that requirement. um this gets rid of
that ability um and as directed by the
[56:31]
the director to approve.
Um that the the rest of the section for
[56:37]
the most part will go into commercial.
Um so if anyone has any questions over
[56:42]
the existing residential I can take a
stop here.
[56:52]
says
private property. So what if it's less
[56:57]
than
[57:01]
less than 100 under the current
circumstances they would have to use a
[57:06]
driveway
in the future. If this were to be
[57:09]
adopted as such, they would have to be
paved as well or under
[57:20]
moving on to um the commercial. The this
first section that we'll talk about more
[57:26]
in in O4 um removes a lot of specifics
out of out of the the section. The 23.03
[57:34]
Note three largely has to deal with if
you have something like a church that's
[57:38]
mostly only used two days out of the
week and there's a commercial business
[57:42]
that you can have a legally binding
agreement with that you can share and
[57:46]
fully utilize that parking space and
that this section encourages you to do
[57:50]
so. The current language talks about the
businesses that would be eligible to do
[57:54]
so. It mentions bowling alleys, dance
halls.
[57:59]
The getting rid of this would just allow
any any business that is realizes that
[58:04]
they're not fully utilizing their
existing parking to reach a legal
[58:08]
agreement with another party nearby. Um
and as required at the bottom of this
[58:13]
section, it is to be presented by the
city um and is to be a legally binding
[58:18]
agreement. Taking out the specifications
just allow any business to do so more
[58:22]
fully equal as a parking.
2304 um is a a complete relative of the
[58:30]
parking minimums which currently exists.
Um the the language in there you'll see
[58:35]
is also completely new and there's
current parking regulations. There's
[58:39]
only a chart with no existing language
of how to interpret that chart. Um what
[58:45]
to do if there's a rounding
it's to be constructed. The language
[58:50]
just goes into detail of how to better
interpret the chart and come up with any
[58:54]
details and any specifications if
needed. The the big change is that there
[59:00]
are currently parking minimums in place
that if a business comes to the city,
[59:05]
they usually have a building footprint
and then they use that footprint to
[59:08]
determine how many parking spaces are
needed are required for their business.
[59:14]
Uh just for in reference, Fairway
exceeded their parking minimum by about
[59:19]
40 spaces. Um and the McDonald's site
plan exceeds their um their requirement
[59:25]
by about 12 spaces. So the current
minimums are being exceeded by current
[59:30]
businesses that are developing. But the
other side of minimums is that it it has
[59:36]
the city tell an incoming business how
much parking is required. In many
[59:40]
circumstances, that can be a detriment
to businesses. The biggest example is a
[59:46]
coffee shop um of you know a certain a
small business may come in find a lot
[59:51]
that they really like. It would fit
their building. It would fit what they
[59:54]
see best fit for their business and the
amount of parking that's required. But
[59:58]
the parking requirements tell them they
need an additional 15. Those 15 may not
[1:00:03]
fit on the lot. Then they have to go
find another lot that costs 100,000 more
[1:00:07]
and their business doesn't ultimately
work out. So what this would do is
[1:00:11]
rephrase it from a parking minimum to a
parking maximum. The table has been
[1:00:17]
largely reworked and all the numbers
that you see on any categories have been
[1:00:21]
very much inflated. So it's not just a
one one word we're calling what our
[1:00:25]
minimums were now maximums. These are
far exceeding what they traditionally
[1:00:29]
were.
The goal of this is to avoid empty
[1:00:33]
parking lots for 364 days out of the
year. I'm sure many of us have driven by
[1:00:38]
malls, large box stores where the
parking lot is 75% empty for most of the
[1:00:44]
year. This is to in attempt to avoid
that as more and more businesses come to
[1:00:49]
the city. So what's what will be
required is that they show how much
[1:00:53]
parking they intend to utilize um and
why that will be enough for their
[1:00:58]
business. If there's a business that
comes to the city that needs to exceed
[1:01:01]
this, um, number seven, I believe in the
text allows them to submit a parking
[1:01:06]
study to do so and exceed any of these
numbers. Um, but these are are very
[1:01:10]
generous numbers that should not need to
be exceeded by any type of any type of
[1:01:16]
commercial businesses. Um, but the
intent is to limit the amount of excess
[1:01:21]
parking that would be currently required
under code.
[1:01:31]
So the single family dwelling
[1:01:36]
there's a max
someone has a garage
[1:01:41]
in there
[1:01:45]
why are we governing they have a
[clears throat]
[1:01:48]
40 foot
then are we
[1:01:53]
two cars and explain
>> yeah That's a great question and
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unfortunately the only residential
section that appears after this is later
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in 07 which will get to defining parking
spaces for residential as garage.
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So that this will limit it to four
garage spaces per dwelling unit. Um that
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that is that is an amendment that we
thought about and that we certainly
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don't want to eliminate you know long
driveways or anything is that in terms
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of parking spaces that are required and
how to classify this table. It'll look
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at garage spaces.
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I sure did misread this because I just I
I I saw the word maximum and just in my
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mind thought minimum because that's what
the old chart said as well. So I'm
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completely confused now. Um um on other
all other commercial and retail uses and
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I wrote down a note doc's
office.
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Correct.
>> Uh correct. Yeah, there there is a
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separate for hospital but for like
deposition care. Yeah. Um, so the old
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one said
five parking spots per do
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» and now this one is saying a maximum of
three phases just
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so and part of the reason that I was
mentioning earlier of this goes into
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more generalities is because in in some
other cities it gets into
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um you'll see they tried their best to
be most specific in have a four page
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long table where they'll talk about four
spaces max four minimum of four spaces
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for a bowling lane and a bowling alley
and and stuff like that where it's
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impossible for city staff to keep up
with the trends of what so it it goes
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into generalities of what's required. So
in in this scenario if there's a
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doctor's office that feels like they can
get away with with three spaces in their
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entire parking lot they can run a
successful business that would allow
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them to do so. And it does not
necessarily require them to provide
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parking. It it sets a limit of of how
much parking they can provide to avoid
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having, you know, five doctors and 100
spaces. So, it would it would shift from
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the city requiring x amount of parking
spots per use to now leaving it up to
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the business to to determine what they
know is needed to run a successful
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business. and providing that kind of
part.
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» Thank you. I don't know if I agree with
that. Thank you.
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» So, yeah, I sound like
so we go to KU Medical Center on
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occasion more occasionally
like they do great jobs
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majority about them, but the ability to
art there is
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non-existent.
So, um, you know, I think that we really
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need to have some kind of minimum of
parking spaces for
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large businesses potentially like a
hospital or a big box store, whatever,
[1:05:13]
so that people can actually park there.
>> Yeah. And part of the reasoning for
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this, and this is a a trend um
regionally and especially nationwide, is
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that
there there's not going to be a hospital
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that's built that will provide no
parking spaces because they understand
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that they need to provide parking to
their patients, for visitors, etc.
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The issue that that we see across the
the region is that there's too much
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parking provided based solely on the
reason that it is required by the city.
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So there are businesses that would
suffice with let's just say 100 spots.
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They're required by the city to provide
150 and 50 of the spots go unused every
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single on every single day of the year.
that could have been used for
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landscaping but another business in
there for some other use other than 50
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extra parking spots every single year
and every single day. They have to be
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maintained by the business. They have it
has to be repaid, potholes filled, etc.
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So the the intent of this is not to say
let's have every business come in with
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that provides no parking and we
certainly encourage them to do so and
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it's it's shown by by Fairway and
McDonald's have us having a limit them
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able to provide even less than they have
provided and them still going over. So
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the the intent is that the the city is
not the one driving the number of
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parking. it's the business or operation
that understands their business model
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and will provide the amount of parking
accordingly. If that ends up not
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working, they get complaints, they're
they're out of, you know, they're not
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they're losing customers because of
parking, that's something that they may
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come back to later and revise the
parking estimates and require expand
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upon that. But but that's the intent of
of switching from minimum to a maximum.
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I will I'll add a few more points to
this chart, but again, feel free to to
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interrupt. Um, as we were kind of
talking about before that, um,
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Commissioner Alai pointed out, if you go
to other cities or even our previous
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chart, you'll see some specifics. This
goes into generalities to avoid having
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to keep up with trends of what
businesses are are doing are doing what
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required minimums or maximum for what
parking. Um and and a few of the spots
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it goes it says in accordance with the
permit or development plan that's
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especially for something like a park. um
you know the civic campus when it's
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attached to a civic use may require a
lot more parking when it has a splash
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plant something else then maybe a trail
head parking or tomahawk part. So on
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something as variable as that we left it
to the permitting process and the site
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plan review process um where for for
those larger developments this body
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would see it and be able to land on the
parking as well.
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Uh 23.05 is a new addition. There's
currently no language in our code that
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talks about pedestrian access. Um it's
it's very common for commercial
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businesses to be required to provide
pedestrian access. It's not something
[1:08:32]
that would ever stop a business from
from coming to a city or be a hindrance
[1:08:35]
to commercial development. All this
would would mean is that anytime there's
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more than two um double loaded aisles is
that there's required pedestrian access.
[1:08:45]
This allows people to access the
building easier. allows them to push
[1:08:49]
their cart out to their car without
having to squeeze between two and and
[1:08:53]
being a side mirror. Um they're be
required to use stripes accordingly. Um
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and just generally provide easier
access. Um as well, at least in my
[1:09:03]
opinion, there's both visually appealing
as well. It's a breakdown of the parking
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lot. Speaking of, there's also no
parking lot landscaping required for
[1:09:11]
commercial businesses at the moment. So
23.06 would be another addition to the
[1:09:16]
code. Generally, it just requires
parking lot that parking lot
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landscaping. It's not necessarily
overbearing, but it it talks about
[1:09:24]
landscape islands at the end of double
loaded parking aisles. This would avoid
[1:09:29]
cars going all the way up to the end of
an aisle. Um, and some of the, you know,
[1:09:34]
if you've been some of the parking lots
when there's a a really big car park at
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the end, you kind of have to inch out
and tug yourself into the aisle. a
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landscape island in addition to
providing landscaping which which looks
[1:09:46]
nice. Um it it provides a easy sideline.
Typically these are very low caliber
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trees with bushes in them that allow you
to see easier in the parking lot as
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you're making the turns um as well as
just bush.
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Um so what we're trying to avoid and
we've been lucky that we have had two
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very good developers um and developments
come in with fairway in McDonald's that
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are very agreeable and us asking them to
exceed our current minimums and and
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landscape their parking lot. What we
want to avoid is any big box work come
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in just have a sea of a parking lot of
just asphalt that you see on page 96 at
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the bottom. And what we'd like to see is
either a landscaping buff for that,
[1:10:27]
especially in the street view, or allow
the ability of of outer parcels and
[1:10:32]
outer buildings to to buffer that street
view. So you're not driving down the
[1:10:36]
road and all you see is asphalt in the
store. You may see some greenery as
[1:10:40]
well. Alex
issue of required handicap parking. Is
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that just does that state requirements
or does the city have c certain number
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of handicaps
parking requirements per as a ratio of
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general parking department that work?
>> Yeah, that's set by the ADA
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as is required. So that's not in our
parking requirements here. It's set by
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the federal ADA and that's what we
follow. Thank you.
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» Um 23 07 talks about as we were talking
about earlier that the garages are to be
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the residential units for parking are to
be served by garages and that um each
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new residential building shall have at
least one garage space. Um and the the
[1:11:38]
new the new language in um section four
of that talks about um the distance a
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parking structure can be from a building
a park the distance a parking structure
[1:11:52]
or units can be from a building for it
to be counted as serving that building.
[1:11:57]
So you can't have something across the
street or half a mile away and say it's
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serving a different building. So that's
what section four is is about.
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Um and the rest of the um the rest of
the changes are changing planning
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commission to director. Um the direction
we've seen from this body is that um
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you know areas such as um parking lot
screening um and and plantings and and
[1:12:25]
fencing materials are something that
would like to be done at the staff level
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be done a little bit more expedited
process. So that changes that language
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as well.
And that is it for my presentation. I'm
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happy to answer your questions.
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» Yes. Not many people want to hear me
ramble about parking minimums. And
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unfortunately, you all do not have a
choice.
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I suspect this kind of stuff is like
throwing Rob to the Tit
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facility that
These are the true standards right now.
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You said fairway, but I don't see any
>> uh in terms of landscaping.
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» Well, the whole
>> um I haven't done an inventory count of
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the
>> nailed it.
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» Yeah, I I can't think of any that meet
the the landscaping requirements of the
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islands and the pedestrian access. Not
to say that those don't, you know, the
[1:13:45]
fairway parking lot is is kind of
divided, so you don't see those five,
[1:13:50]
six, seven rows. Um, but I I can't think
of any of the current.
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» So, so you're looking at the the Walmart
in Bonner Springs that seems to have a
[1:14:03]
pretty broken [clears throat] up
divided, has some islands in it. you
[1:14:08]
know, when I go into there, I don't feel
like I'm even though it is a big huge
[1:14:13]
parking lot and it looks like broken up
quite well.
[1:14:18]
» Yeah. Um, and the goal is really to
break it up. So, it it encourages people
[1:14:22]
to use the pedestrian access that helps
pedestrians not have to walk in the
[1:14:26]
middle of the aisle, but also cars not
have to wait for people who's going to
[1:14:30]
wander and walk down the middle of the
parking aisle. Uh so it it is the right
[1:14:35]
deal both visually but there's also a
very big safety aspect of providing
[1:14:40]
no noted points for people to walk up
and down parking aisles where there's
[1:14:45]
vehicles backing in and out all the
time. They don't have to worry about
[1:14:49]
that. and and on through page 96
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I don't go to a lot of places that that
[1:15:05]
building
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it generally
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and Walmart example that they other
landscape but they they don't have the
[1:15:20]
pain. And when you go to other parts of
[1:15:27]
the area
of the Kansas City area where you do see
[1:15:32]
that
those ends take a beat,
[1:15:38]
you know,
[1:15:47]
it it is very common to see those end up
as multip maybe a tree or something,
[1:15:53]
which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In
this case, it it provides like I was
[1:15:58]
talking about earlier that the buffer of
the sight line so you're not having cars
[1:16:02]
all the way up as well as maybe a tree
or some bushes. But you're right, it is
[1:16:08]
very common for this to be buried
since you have so much service.
[1:16:15]
The trees don't come around.
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» Yes.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
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» [clears throat]
>> I'm going to