PLANNING COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING

MINUTES OF MEETING SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

 

CALL TO ORDER:

 

The Chairman called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m.   

 

PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

John Cunningham, Don Bergwall, Alan Seymour, Pete Griffin, Roger Yoder, Ken Kraus.    1 vacancy.

 

OTHERS PRESENT: None

 

ADMINISTRATION COMMENTS: None

 

CITIZEN COMMENTS:  None

 

DISCUSSION ITEMS:

 

General Issues

 

Mr. Cunningham stated the intent of the meeting tonight was to try and make the ‘To Do’ list more manageable.  He stated there are a few items that we agreed to wait on and once the city planner is on staff, have them tackle them. 

 

Mr. Kraus stated on the cul-de-sac issue, the current language gives us some flexibility.  If we are in agreement that it needs to be changed from “shall not generally” to “should”, do we actually need it on our list.  Mr. Seymour stated he agrees.  Mr. Cunningham stated in looking at that item there are a couple of other issues with the wording.  He stated he thinks it should be left on the list and let the planner take a look at it.

 

Mr. Cunningham stated Mr. Kraus has taken a look at a few of these items and Mr. Bergwall has taken on the managing HOA’s. 

 

Mr. Cunningham stated since we have information on the County Home Road Rezoning, Historic District zoning, HOA’s and Commercial/Industrial Signage lets try to get them off of the list.  Mr. Bergwall stated we also have information on Mobile Homes.  Discussion held.

 

Mr. Cunningham stated the five items previously mentioned should be listed at high priority.  He asked Mr. Cunningham asked Mr. Yoder were he was on the POD legislation.

 

Mr. Yoder stated he has some questions he needs answered first and once those questions are answered about which direction the commission wants to go with this he can start drafting legislation.

 

Mr. Kraus stated he is not sure the Mobile Home is ready to go.  Mr. Cunningham stated he would list that as medium priority.

 

Mr. Cunningham asked about the property at SR 736 and SR 38.  Commission agreed that it would be low priority.  Discussion held regarding the rezoning of this piece of property. 

 

Mr. Cunningham asked about the language for charging for special meetings.  Mr. Kraus stated he thinks it can be dealt with tonight.  He stated as he recalls from the last meeting Mr. Seymour and Mr. Griffin were opposed to this and after talking to administration and giving this further thought, so am I. 

 

Mr. Bergwall stated he wanted to under what the drawback was.  Mr. Cunningham stated he has sat on this committee for a long time and it has not been an issue not having this legislation.  He stated in creating this solution to a problem that doesn’t necessarily exist, it could create problems and become a problem within itself.  There are only a small handful of situations where this has come up. 

 

Mr. Kraus stated he doesn’t even want to put the idea there or a way in which a developer could control our meetings.  He stated if we have a special meeting 49 times out of 50 we are going to deal with items other than what the developer paid for and I have an ethical issue with that.  Mr. Yoder stated as Marysville continues to grow and more developments come along there will be more people wanting it and we would be compelled to have it.

 

Mr. Cunningham asked how many of the commissioners want to pursue this issue.  Mr. Bergwall was the only commissioner to raise his hand. 

 

Mr. Cunningham asked for a refresher on what Mr. Reams memo is in regards to.  Mr. Kraus read Mr. Reams memo.

 

Mr. Cunningham asked if everyone was comfortable with the prioritization.  Commission agreed.

 

Mr. Kraus stated he has some information regarding the County Home rezoning.  He stated he took the information the commission has brought forth at prior meetings along with taking into consideration the uses Mr. Lee stated their property would be used for.  Discussion held regarding what was permitted in the rough draft of the new zoning district.

 

Mr. Kraus stated on the Commercial/ Industrial Park Signage, he made changes which are in bold.  He stated he basically added is that they are allowed one freestanding ID sign for each primary entrance as determined by the commission. 

 

Commission discussing dates for a special meeting next month.  Decision made to have a special meeting on October 16th at 6:30 p.m. to discuss Mr. Kraus’s three items. 

 

Mr. Kraus read over the information provided to the commission regarding the Historic District zoning/Non-conforming lots. 

 

Commission decided to discuss Commercial/Industrial Signage, Non-conforming lots of record and County Home Rezoning at the October 16th special meeting.

 

ADJOURNMENT:

 

Chairman adjourned the meeting.