North Liberty
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
May 3, 2005

Meeting was called to order by Chairperson Sittig at 6:30 pm

MEMBERS PRESENT: Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader.

ALSO PRESENT: Brian James, Kevin Trom, Tom Salm, James Moody, Bill Sueppel, Mary Lou and Jim Poggenpohl, Chad Sands, Cindy and Jerry Kasper, Gerald Kuhl, Duane Musser, Chris Justice, Kevin Watts, Jim and Bev Seelman and other concerned citizens.

RESIGNATION OF JONES: Chairperson Sittig informed the commission on the resignation of Stefanie Jones and thanked her for her service.

PUBLIC HEARING: COMPREHENSIVE PLAN/CITY INVENTORY: Input and suggestions for the general public concerning the City’s updated Comprehensive Plan and corresponding City Inventory is intended to provide guidance to the City’s future growth and development. Public Hearing was opened at 6:31 pm. Chad Sands, ECICOG, explained that this document had been worked on for over a year with a committee made up of City Council and Planning and Zoning members. The document is done and will be available on the city’s website and at City Hall for anyone who is interested in reviewing it.

Public hearing was closed at 6:36

Osterholt moved, seconded by Shrader, to recommend to City Council approval of the Comprehensive Plan/City Inventory subject to the additional information being added to page 13 for completion. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST OF GLYNMOR, LLC DEVELOPMENT TO REZONE THEIR PROPERTY FROM ID (INTERIM DEVELOPMENT) TO RS-3 AND RS-4 (SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT). Public Hearing was opened at 6:40 pm. Neighbors from the area presented a slide show on their concerns that this ground’s land use needs to be upgraded. They are pro active but they believe that this needs to be returned to the developer to have their concerns addressed. In summary they feel that nothing has been offered indicating that this rezoning is in the best interests of North Liberty, and rezoning this property to RS-4 conflicts with the land use plan and the needs of the city. They feel no effort is being made to integrate this development into the existing city, thus actually decreasing the value of the neighborhood and the city individually and as a whole.

Gerald Kuhl, 1180 St Andrews Drive. Wants City Staff to research when this property was annexed into the city and copy the minutes. He believes that the city promised big lots at that time.
Kevin Watts would like the commission to consider having the lots on West Hauer Street have front yards on West Hauer Street.

Public Hearing was closed at 7:10 pm.

Brian James, City Administrator, told the commission that the current Comprehensive Plan does favor this zoning and city staff recommends approval.

Osterholt moved, seconded by Mausser, to recommend to City Council approval of the request. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Sittig, Osterholt, Mausser; nays—Shrader, Leick; abstain—Smith. Motion carried.

PUBLIC HEARING: LD EXPRESS, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT: to allow for a propane dispensing station located at 660 Nathan Avenue. Public Hearing was open at 7:19 pm. Osterholt moved, seconded by Smith to recommend to City Council approval of the request subject to the items on the Building Officials Memo being addressed and the height and type of the fence and location of the gate in the fence being submitted. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

FINAL PLAT: WEST LAKE ADDITION, PART ONE: Request of JDHP to approve the Final Plat located on the south end of Kansas Ave, north of 270th Street. Smith moved, seconded by Osterholt, to recommend to City Council approval of the Final Plat. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays-none. Motion carried.


PLANNED AREA DEVELOPMENT: WEST LAKE ADDITION, PART ONE: Osterholt moved, seconded by Leick, to recommend to City Council approval of the site plan subject to a variance to allow 24 dwelling units as applied for, label the 8 foot sidewalk east of Kansas Avenue on the plat and a variance for a 3 foot setback on the east side of the garages between lots 1 and 2. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

PLANNED AREA DEVELOPMENT (AMENDED) LOT 8, I-380 INDUSTRIAL PARK, located on the NE corner of Herky Street and Stoner Court. Osterholt moved, seconded by Shrader, to recommend to City Council approval of the Amended Planned Area Development subject to parking spaces being addressed with the Zoning Compliance Certificate and the tree legend being corrected, and to add four more trees to make up for the variance on the 40’ parking trees. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

FINAL PLAT: LIBERTY CENTRE DEVELOPMENT, PART SIX: approve the Final Plat which is located adjacent to Jones Blvd and extension of West Cherry Street. Leick moved, seconded by Osterholt, to recommend to City Council approval of the Final Plat. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

FINAL PLAT: WHITE PINES ESTATE located on east end of Winchester Lane: Smith moved, seconded by Shrader, to City Council approval of the Final Plat. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

SITE PLAN: LOT 8, WHITE PINES ESTATE located on the east end of Winchester Lane: Shrader moved, seconded by Mausser, to recommend to City Council approval of the Site Plan subject to both sections of the private drive being named per the Building Official recommendation. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none. Motion carried.

PUBLIC HEARING: CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, LOT 19, DEERFIELD 4TH ADDITION to install a fence on the south side of the property to block view of work trailers. Public Hearing was open at 7:35 pm. There were no comments and the Public Hearing was closed. Osterholt moved, seconded by Shrader to recommend to City Council approval of the Conditional Use subject to the trees trees on 240th Street being changed to evergreens. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none; abstain--Smith. Motion carried.

SITE PLAN: LOT 4, CORRIDOR COMMERCIAL located at the intersection of Ashley Court and Jordon Street: Osterholt moved, seconded by Leick to recommend to City Council approval subject to the 22 L.F. retaining wall located on the northwest corner be constructed out of keystone, driveway curb cut should line up with access at 1295 Jordon Street, and move handicap parking spaces to the ends of the building to accommodate the units in the back. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader; nays—none; abstain--Smith. Motion carried.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Jim Seelman voiced his concerns with the approval of the zoning for Glynmor, LLC Development. He feels with the number of concerned residences in attendance for the Public Hearing with concerns, that the commission should have deferred their vote until some questions could have been answered.

DISCUSSION ON OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT OF PENN STREET. The commission reviewed a draft of the proposed Overlay Zoning District for Penn Street. It was the consensus of the commission to have a special meeting with the Tree Board on May 17th to discuss specifications for an overlay on Penn Street and possibly more of the surrounding areas.

MINUTES: Osterholt moved, seconded by Smith, to approve the Minutes as amended. After discussion, the vote was: ayes—Leick, Sittig, Smith, Osterholt, Mausser, Shrader. Motion carried.

OLD BUSINESS: Osterholt reported that the Cahill Addition has been approved by City Council.

NEW BUSINESS: None.

ADJOURNMENT.