Planning & Zoning Meeting Minutes

February 17, 2009

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by chairman of the Planning Commission Larry Birnbaum .  Present for the meeting were commission members Larry Birnbaum , Kathy Meyer , Biron Wipson , Steve Kossett , Bob Whitmyer , Herb Dallum , building official Marty Paavola , supervisors Jeff Bachke and John Werner and deputy clerk Cammy Hansen.  Absent were supervisor Greg Andrews and clerk Patti Alander .

A motion to approve the January 20, 2009 meeting minutes was made by Steve and seconded by Biron.  All vote in favor except Bob who abstained as he was not present for the 1/20/09 meeting.  Motion carried with minutes placed on file.

An addition was made to the December 10, 2008 / January 27, 2009 Conditional Use Permit hearing minutes.   As clarification, Marty requested that the following statement be added to the last sentence of paragraph five under “Findings of Fact:”  “……former church building (a public facility renovation.)”  A motion to approve the minutes as amended was made by Biron and seconded by Steve.  All vote in favor except Bob who abstained as he was not present for the 12/10/08 meeting.  Motion carried.

CORRESPONDENCE: 

A memo from Marty dated 2/11/09 is attached to the minutes.  The memo is regarding St. Louis County’s GIS update. Some discussion was had regarding the 2000 engineering done by Salo Engineering, its accuracy and changes that need to be made.

OLD BUSINESS:

1.  John brought up the Arnold Road (Universal Properties, Inc.) proposed project.  It was his impression that the UPI owners would be coming back to the board regarding a different proposed use for the property.  Jeff agreed that there will probably be additional discussion on this property.

    

NEW BUSINESS:

1.  The date of March 24, 2009 was set for a public hearing for a Conditional Use Permit application for T-mobile.  The application is for a cell communications tower on the property at the Sunset Bar and Grill.  The members of the commission will meet on site to view the proposed location at 5:30 that afternoon.  The hearing will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the town hall.

    

2. The regular March 17, 2009 Planning & Zoning meeting was rescheduled for Monday, March 23, 2009 as Patti and Cammy will be out of town for training the week of the 17^th. (Note:  this meeting was subsequently rescheduled for Thursday, March 26, 2009.)

    

BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR:

1.  Bob passed out the attached document entitled Article V Land Use Controls.  He pointed out that he made the changes that the commission had decided on previously. One of the main issues that Patti had pointed out was that we make sure there are performance standards for each of the items listed.  Bob said that is not currently the case therefore that is something the planning commission should address.  Kathy stated that the document we currently use was taken directly from the county and why don’t they have performance standards?  Bob said that in his discussions with Scott at the county, he discovered that there were some inconsistencies within the county document.  John asked if it wouldn’t be more advantageous for us to establish our own performance standards rather than just using the county’s.  Bob concurred.  Marty pointed out that we do not have a FAM area, the MUNS area is already covered in our current ordinance, in the SMU area, all except the “water-oriented accessory uses” and “residential density transfer” are covered, we do not have SCO.  All other areas are already covered.  Marty recommends that these unneeded districts be removed.  Jeff asked Bob to email the document to Tom Brekke and Brett Ballavance for review.  Larry clarified that we need to make sure that Article VI Performance Standards, relates properly to Article V.  Bob would like to finalize this part at the next meeting and begin on the next section.

    

The commission was reminded that the Town’s Annual Meeting and Election will be held on March 10, 2009.

With no further business to be discussed a motion for adjournment was made by Bob and seconded by Biron.

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Camille S. Hansen,  deputy clerk                              Larry Birnbaum, chairman