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Planning Commission Minutes 05-12-1982 . MINUTES REGULAR MEETING - MONTICELLO PLANNING COMMISSION Tuesday, May 12, 1982 - 7:30 P.M. Members Present: Jim Ridgeway, Joyce Dowling, Ed Schaffer, and John Bondhus. Members Absent: Bill Burke. 1. Approval of the Minutes of the April 13, 1982 Meeting. A motion was made by Schaffer and seconded by Bondhus to approve the minutes of the meeting with all voting in favor. 2. Public Hearing - Variance Application - Q. L. Stanislau. . Mr. Q. L. stanislau, representing Cohen's Village, was present to present a request by Cohen's to be able to place a roof top sign on their building which is located at 124 West Broadway. This sign is proposed to be placed on the roof on the rear of the building. Mr. Stanislau presented a photograph of the rear of several of the buildings along that block and said that he felt that a sign which was less than roof top would not provide an adequate view of the sign from the parking lot and adjacent street areas, since the wall was not very high which the sign would be placed on. Scott Douglas from Golden Valley Furniture was present to state that he had no objection to the sign being placed on the proposed lo- cation as well as information being presented from Flicker's and Lindberg's Paint Center stating they had no objection to this pro- posed variance. A letter was also presented which came from the Masonic Lodge, stating that they felt that the ordinances should be adhered to. After discussing, at some lengt~ the topic of the variance, a motion was made by Schaffer and seconded by Bondhus to table this item for further study. The Zoning Administrator was directed to work with the property owners in the general area of this proposed sign and see if some compromise could not be worked out for some type of sign which would be uniform in size and height, possibly a ribbon type sign, upon which all of those people who are fronting on the parking lot could use to advertise their business locations. This proposal could possibly include something similar to double front- ing of a commercial use. . - l- Planning Commission - 5/l2/82 . 3. Public Hearing - variance Application - Reinert Construction. Bill pritchard, representing the Reinert Construction Compan~ was present to present a request for a variance to build an apartment building within l2 feet of a property line where 20 feet is re- quired. This property is zoned R-3 and described as Lot 3, Block l, Lauring Hillside Terrace. The Reinert Company's request is based on a dif- ficulty that they will have in complying with Monticello ordinances because of the irregular shape of the lot on which the new buildings will be built does not allow for construction of one of the two buildings to be built 20 feet or more away from the abutting property line. Mr. Roy Lauring, an abutting property owner, was present and stated no objection to this proposed development. . Mr. Wilbur Eck, an abutting property owner, was present and stated he had no objection to the proposed development, however, as a con- dition of the variance he would like to see the developer be re- quired to place a fence between his property and all of the property owned by the Reinert Company, in order to keep the residents of the apartment complex, both new complex and proposed complex, from utiliz- ing his property as a playground, etc. A motion was made by Bondhus, seconded by Dowling, with all voting in favor to approve this request contingent upon a fence of a design that is architecturally harmonious and which would deter ingress from outlying properties. This new fence was suggested to be erected at the expense of the developer of the Reinert property. 4. Public Hearing - Variance Application - Willard & Shirley Murphy. Mr. Bill Graves of the Intra-Financing Corporation, was present to discuss the request for the variances on behalf of the Murphys. Willard and Shirley Murphy are proposing to build a new motel on the property located between the VFW and the Perkins Restaurant. . The Murphys are proposing to build the first phase of their new motel as close as possible to the freeway, thus, they are asking for a twenty foot rear yard set back variance. On the southeasterly corner of their lot, the property line takes an unusual shape. and because of this unusual shape, the Murphys feel that it is necessary that they acquire a variance to allow the corner of the building to be closer than 30 feet to the property line in order to take optimum advantage of the exposure on the freeway and also to allow maximum amount of room for future expansion on the north end on the building. Also for consideration was a request by the Murphys to allow a pylon sign to be less than l3 feet from the property line on the south end of that property. Monticello ordinances require that all pylon signs be within the same set back distances as buildings. - 2 - Planning Commission - 5/l2/82 . Mr. Roy Lauring was present and objected to the variance for the setbacks based on his feeling that the City should adhere to its own ordinance requiring adequate setbacks. Mr. Vince Mayer, representing Bridgewater Telephone Company, was present and expressed concern that the new building might be built too close to a 1200 pair cable which the telephone company has located on the property which would be within 7 feet of the pro- posed new building if built. It was determined that the contractor and Bridgewater Telephone would work out the problem which could exist because of the 1200 pair telephone cable lying so close to the building. A motion was made by Dowling and seconded by Schaffer to grant the setback request for both the building and the pylon sign and to recommend to the Council consideration for vacating 15 feet of the easement as requested by the Murphys, provided the contractor and the telephone company can work out a satisfactory agreement between themselves on the location of the 1200 pair telephone cable and its relationship to the proposed new building. All voted in favor. 5. New Business. . Mr. Darrell Tindle was present and requested consideration for being appointed as a new member to the Planning Commission as a replace- ment for John Bondhus. The Planning Commission interviewed Mr. Tin- dle and delayed any action on a recommendation to the Council for a new Planning Commission member until such time as Mr. Jerry Baeyen, another applicant for the position, and any other persons which the planning Commission would choose could be interviewed at the June 8, 1982 meeting. Meeting Adjourned. ~~ [jJ :iu~ Loren D. Klein zoning Administrator - 3 - .