Planning Commission Agenda Packet 01-12-1988AGENDA
REGULAR !MEETING - MONTICELLO PLANNING COMMISSION
Tuesday, January 12, 1988 - 7:30 p.m.
Members: Richard Carlson, Jim Ridgeway, Joyce Dowling, Cindy Lamm,
Richard Martie
7:30 p.m. 1. Call to Order.
7:32 p.m. 2. Approval of Minutes of the Regular Meeting Held December 8,
1987.
7:34 p.m. 3. Public Hearing - A conditional use request to allow outdoor
sales in a B-3 (highway business) zone. Applicant,
Monticello Housing and RV Center, Inc.
7:49 p.m. 4. Tabled request for a preliminary plat review of a proposed
new subdivision plat. Applicant, Charles Ritze.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS
8:14 p.m. 1. A conditional use request to allow auction sales in a B-3
(highway business) zone. Applicant, Martie's Farm Service.
Council Action: Approved as per Planning Co®aission ,
recommendation.
8:16 p.m. 2. A variance request to allow construction of a building
addition within the front yard setback requirement.
Applicant, American Legion Post #260. Council Action:
Acknowledged Planning Commission's recommendation but
approved the applicant's variance request.
8:18 p.m. 3. A request for final plat review of a proposed new subdivision
plat. Applicant, City of Monticello. Council Action: No
action necessary, as it was tabled by the Planning
Commission.
8:20 p.m. 4. City of Monticello Annexation Update.
8:30 p.m. S. Set the next tentative date for the Monticello Planning
Commircion meeting for February 9, 1988, 7:30 p.m.
8:32 p.m. 6. Adjournment.
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REGULAR MEETING - MONTICELLO PLANNING COMMISSION
Tuesday, December 8, 1987 - 7:30 p.m.
Members Present: Richard Carlson, Cindy Lem, Richard Martie.
Members Absent: Joyce Dowling, Jim Ridgeway.
Staff Present: Gary Anderson
1. The meeting was called to order by Chairperson Richard Carlson at
7:32 p.m.
Motion was made by Cindy Lama, seconded by Richard Martie, to approve the
minutes of the regular meeting held November 10, 1987. Motion carried
unanimously.
3. Public Hearin- A conditional use request to allow auction sales in a
B-3 (nlgnway Lsiness) zone. Applicant, Martle-s Farm Service.
Zoning Administrator, Gary Anderson, indicated to Planning Commission
members Mr. Martie's request to have an auction sale on the site of his
existing business, Martle's Farm Store. Mr. Martie would like to conduct
auction sales one or two times per month over the next couple of months.
Mr. Lloyd Scheeler, auctioneer, was present to represent Mr. Martie's
conditional use request. Mr. Scheeler indicated the hay and straw
auctions which are proposed to be held at Martie's Farm Service site
would usually begin on or around the last week in November and end
approximately the first week in March. Depending on how the sales go,
the sales will usually be held once or twice a month.
Zoning Administrator Anderson explained to Planning Commission members
that not all of the conditions will apply in this case, as this property
does not abut a residential area. However, if Marvin Elwood Road to the
west of the Martie's Farm Service site does develop from a rural nature
to an urban type of street, some of these conditions would then apply.
With no further input from the public, motion was made by Cindy Lemm,
seconded by Richard Martie, to approve the conditional use request to
allow auction ogles in a 13-3 (highway business) zone. Also within the
motion was that the conditional use be granted for a period of one year,
at which time it would be reviewed by the Zoning Administrator. Motion
carried unanimously with Joyce Dowling and Jim Ridgeway absent.
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Public.Hearing - A variance request to allow construction of a building
acultion witnin the rront yard setback requirement. Applicant, American
Legion Post #260.
Zoning Administrator, Gary Anderson, explained to Planning Commission
members the location of the proposed variance request on the site plan
submitted. A public hearing notice stated that it would be a front yard
setback, and Zoning Administrator Anderson indicated that it was a
sideyard setback encroachment in that the shortest side of a building,
whether it's used for the front of the building or not, is always
considered the front yard. In this case, however, the front entrances to
this building are in the sideyard side of the property.
Discussion then centered around why the building addition footings and
foundation walls have already been installed, and now the applicant is
before the Planning Commission members with a variance request, kind of
like putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. Zoning
Administrator Anderson indicated to Planning Commission members that
Mr. Rick iiolfsteller, City Administrator, had talked to Mr. Floyd
Markling, representing the American Legion, indicating that Mr. Markling
had gone to each of the City Council members and got their approval to
commence with the construction of the building addition footings and
foundation wall and did not indicate that his variance request would be
approved should it tomo before the City Council at their December 14,
1987, City Council meeting.
Mr. Floyd Markling, representing the American Legion, indicated that he
did receive permission from each of the City Council members and also
made it very clear that his intent wasn't to get started with the
building addition footings and foundation wall until the request had gone
before the Monticello Planning mission and/or City Council meetings.
But due to the weather turning cold and the weather outlook would not
improve, Mr. Markling decided to see if there was an alternate way of at
least getting the building addition footings and foundation wall in.
Mr. Markling did explain that should the City Council not approve his
variance request that he would cover up the footings and foundation wall
already installed.
Planning Commission members felt very uncomfortable with the footings and
foundation wall already installed and then coming before the Planning
Commission members with hie request for a variance.
With no further input from Planning Commission members, a motion wan made
by Richard Martie, seconded by Cindy Lemur, to deny the variance request
to allow construction of a building addition within the front yard
setback requirement. Motion carried unanimously with Joyce Dowling and
Jim Ridgeway absent.. Reason for Denial: Starting addition construction
prior to Planning C—isaion meeting and failure to demonstrate the
hardship for the variance.
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5. Public Hearing - A request for final plat review of a proposed new
subdivision plat. Applicant, City of Monticello.
Zoning Administrator Anderson explained to Planning Commission members in
attendance that some conflicts arose and that the rough draft for the
final plat of the Oakwood Industrial Park Second Addition had not been
completed as of the meeting date time. Planning Commission members could
choose to act on the request or to table it until the next regularly
scheduled Planning Commission meeting.
City Public Works Director, John Simola, was present to explain'.to "
Planning Commission members some of the delays which have beed-'
encountered with the preparation of the final plat for this propos€d
Oakwood Industrial Park Second Addition subdivision plat. He indicated
to Planning Commission members that he had no problem with the Planning
Commission tabling this agenda item until the next regularly scheduled
Planning Commission meeting. _.
Therefore, motion was made by Richard Martie, seconded by Cindy L,emm, to
table the request for final plat review of a proposed new subdivision
plat until the next regularly scheduled meeting, Tuesday, January 12,
1988, 7:30 p.m. Motion carried unanimously with Joyce Dowling and Jim
Ridgeway absent. `
ADDITIONAL INPORMATION ITEMS
1. A request for general concept stage review of a planned unit development
to be known as Highland Heights One. Applicant, Rivera Pinancial and
.� Development Company. Council Action: Approved as per Planning
Commission recommendation.
2. A request for preliminary plat review of a proposed new subdivision
plat. Applicant, Charles Ritze. Council Action: No action• necessary,
as it was tabled by the Planning Conmission. .
3. A request for preliminary plat review of a proposed new subdivision
plat. Applicant, City of Monticello. Council Action: :,Approved as'per
Planning Commission recommendation.
6. A sketch plan review of a proposed new subdivision plat. Applicant, Tom
Brennan. Council Action: Approved as per Planning commission
recommendation.
5. Motion by Cindy Lemma, seconded by Richard Martie, to set the next
tentative date for the Monticello Planning Commission meeting for
Tuesday, January 12, 1988, 7:30 p.m. with Joyce Dowling and Jim Ridgeway
absent.
6. Adjournment. Motion by Richard Martie, seconded by Cindy Lemm, to
adjourn the meeting. The meeting adjourned at 8:31 p.m. with Joyce
Dowling and Jim Ridgeway absent.
Respectfully submitted,
Gert'/AnoeHim, 20ning AOministrator
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3. Public Hearin- A conditional use request to allow outdoor sales in a
B-3 (highway 9.siness) zone. Applicant, Monticello Housing and RV
Center, Inc. (G.A.)
A. REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND:
Mr. Ralph Hermes, owner of Monticello Housing and RV Cuter, Inc., is
proposing to create a sales lot on Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Commercial
Court Addition. On these lots, Mr. Hermes would like to have parked
recreational motor homes and mobile homes for display.
In the enclosed supplement, you will find the conditions for outdoor
rales in a B-3 (highway business) zone. Under condition number one,
outside sales can only take up 30 percent of the principal ucc of the
building. In Mr. Hermes case, 30 percent of the principal use of his
portion of the building which he uses is approximately 600 sq ft. Thirty
percent of this space in the building which P.r. Hermes has for his
business would accommodate only.18 aq ft of outdoor sales lot area.
Mr. Hermes is requesting to use the entire lot area on Lots 1 and 2 for
his outdoor sales area.
Under condition number two, outside sales areas are to be fenced or
screened from the view of neighboring residential uses or abutting our
zoning district. In Mr. Hermes case, we as a City staff feel unless
there is definite objection from the public that Mr. Hennes not have to
install solid screening or fence in the outside sales area from the view
of the neighboring residential property to the northeast of Mr. Hermes
business building.
B. ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS:
1. Approve the conditional use request to allow outdoor sales in a 8-3
(highway business) zone.
2. Deny the conditional use request to allow outdoor sales in a 8-3
(highway business) zone.
C. STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
City staff recommends approval of Mr. Hermes request to allow outdoor
axles in a B-3 (highway business) zone. We also recommend that condition
number one that the sales area be increased approximately 1,750 percent
to utilize the entire area for Lots 1 and 2 for sales area lot. We also
feel under condition number two that Mr. Hermes would not have to fence
or acreen the area abutting the view of the neighboring residential
property.
D. SUPPORTING DATA:
Copy of the location of the conditional use request# Copy of the
conditions under Subsection F, Outdoor Sales.
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(F] Open or outdoor service, sale apd rental an
a principal or accessory use and including
sales in or from motorised vehicles, trailers
or wagons provided that:
1. Outside services, sales and equipment rental
connected with the principal uses is limited
to thirty (70) percent of the gross floor
area of the psincipal'ase. This percentage
may be increased as a condition of the
conditional use permit.
2. Outside sales areas are fenced or screened
from view of neighboring residential uses
or abutting 'S• District in compliance
with Chapter 7, Section 2 (G] of this Ordl —ce.
]. All lighting shall be hooded and so directed
that the light source shall not be visible
from the public right-of-way or from neighboring
residancos and shall be in compliance with
Chapter 2, Section 2 [5] of this Ordinance,
4. 54108 area is grassed or surfaced to control
dust.
S'. Does not take up parkinq space as required
for conformity to this Ordinance.
5. The provisions of Chapter 22 of this Ordinance
are Considered and satisfactorily met.
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4. A tabled request for a preliminary plat-faview of a proposed new
subdivision plat. Applicant, Charles Ritze..(G.A.)
A. REFERENCE AMID BACKGROUND: -
Mr. Ritze's preliminary plat of Ritze Maih6i Second Addition has been
prepared in its entirety for your review. Mr. Ritze has run into a
stalemate with the adjoining property owner to the north, Mr. Reinhold
Yager, in obtaining additional easement of tAe road easement of Hilltop
Drive.
For the platting of a residential lot in the City of Monticello, the
minimum residential lot width being 80 feet, the minimum lot frontage a
residential lot can have on an abutting public right-of-way is 2/3 of the
minimum lot width or 53 feet of frontage on a public right-of-way. As
you will note on the enclosed preliminary plat, Mr. Ritze has only 15
feet of lot frontage on a public right -0f -wap.
The stalemate between Mr. Yager and Mr: Aitze is stemming from the actual
section line which is noted at the top part of this preliminary plat.
Mr. Yager, when he purchased the property, was led to believe the fence
which is highlighted in here was the actual. section line or his south
property line. However, Mr. Dennis Taylor, Taylor Land Surveyors, the
firm which is hired to do the preliminary plat 'for Mr. Ritze, has
discovered that the actual section line does not run parallel with the
existing fence line as Mr. Yager had indicated. With the location of
this section line or northerly property line, part or parte of some of
Mr. Yager's out buildings are within Mr. Rites's property.
The preliminary plat for the Ritze,_Mgnpr.Second Addition is before you
completed as far as it can be done.with_tbe exception of obtaining this
additional public right-of-way. Mr. Ritze has no other route to go with
this if there is an unwilling seller of acme property to deed back to the
City for additional street right-of-way than to apply for a variance to
be allowed only 15 feet of lot frontage on a public right-of-way.
B. ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS:
1. Approve the preliminary plat request for the proposed new subdivision
plat.
2. Deny the preliminary plat for the proposed new subdivision plat.
3. Table the preliminary plat request for the proposed new subdivision
plat.
4. Table the preliminary plat request for the proposed new subdivision
and have Mr. Ritze file a variance request for the next regularly
scheduled Planning Commission meeting.
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C. STAFF REOOMMENDATIONs
City staff recommends that you again table Mr. Ritze's preliminary plat
request for a proposed new subdivision plat. And if Mr. Ritze would like
to continue any further with this that he file a variance request with
the Zoning Administrator and if said variance request is filed before the
public hearing deadline that the variance request for less than the
minimum lot frontage an a public right-of-way be heard before the
lbnticel,lo Planning.Cammission at their next regularly scheduled meeting
on February •4, 1988.
D. a .a an...w DATA:
Copy of the location of the proposed preliminary plat; Copy of the
preliminary plat for Ritze !tenor Second Addition.
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4 Additional Information Item
4. City of Monticello Annexation Update. (G.A.)
The stage is finally set for the ural arguments section of the City of
!Monticello annexation request. After the long session from the_laitial
filing date to the public hearings which were held to the briefs that
were filed by both attorneys to what is now called the oral arguments
section in front of the Municipal Board, this meeting before the
Municipal Board is scheduled for January 15, 1988.
RESOLUTION OF THE MONTICELLO PLANNING
COMMISSION FINDING THE HOUSING AND
REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY'S MODIFIED
REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR REDEVELOPMENT
PROJECT NO. 1, MODIFIED TAX INCREMENT
FINANCING PLANS FOR TAX INCREMENT
FINANCING DISTRICTS NOS. 1-1 THROUGH
1-7, AND TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PLAN FOR
TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT NO. 1-8,
ALL LOCATED WITHIN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
NO. 1 TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY.
WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority's Modified
Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project No. 1, Modified Tax
Increment Financing Plans for Tax Increment Financing Districts
Nos. 1-1 through 1-7, and the Tax Increment Financing Plan for
Tax Increment Financing District No. 1-0 (the •Plans•), all
located within Redevelopment Project No. 1, have been submitted
to the Monticello Planning Commission, Pursuant to Minnesota
Statutes, Section 669.027) and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has reviewed said Plana to
determine the consistency of said Plans to the Comprehensive
Plan of the City.
' NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE MONTICELLO PLANNING
COMMISSION, that the Plans are consistent with the Monticello
Comprehensive Plan, and the Commission recommends approval of the
Plans to the Monticello City Council.
Adopted, p�Jt►IkR.t/ 3. Ate
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RESOLUTION MONTZCELLO PLANNING
COMMISS INDING Tl1Fi'HUUstnb ,u�u
ELOPMENT AUTHORITY'S MODIPIED
REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR REDEVELOPMENT
PROJECT NO. 1, MODIFIED TAX INCREMENT
FINANCING PLANS FOR TAX INCREMENT
FINANCING DISTRICTS NOS. 1-1 THROUGH
1-7, AND TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PLAN FOR
TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT NO. 1-8,
ALL LOCATED WITHIN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
NO. 1 TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY0`ZetrK�
WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority's Modified
Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project No. 1, Modified Tax
Increment Financing Plans for Tax Increment Financing Districts
Nos. 1-1 through 1-7, and the Tax Increment Financing Plan for
Tax Increment Financing District No. 1-8 (the "Plans*), all
located within Redevelopment Project No. 1, have been submitted
to the Monticello Planning Commission, Pursuant to Minnesota
Statutes, Section 469.0271 and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has reviewed said Plane to
determine the consistency of said Plane to the Comprehensive
Plan of the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE MONTICELLO PLANNING
COMMISSION, that the Plane are consistent with the Monticello
Comprehensive Plan, and the CommLesion recommends approval of the
Plans to the Monticello City Council.
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